We use a lot of white vinegar in our house. Is that weird?Primarily we use it to clean with. It is a cleaning POWERHOUSE. We’re not sure at what point people decided that they needed to load the area underneath their kitchen sink with harsh, poisonous chemicals, but somewhere along the line … Read more
Here’s a short, but useful, post for your Sunday. You may be asking, “why do I need to peel my tomatoes? What a pain. Why would I go to all this trouble?” And the answer is, no one HAS to peel their tomatoes. You can definitely use them without peeling them. However, … Read more
I aspire to be a crafty person. I love walking the aisles of Michael’s and JoAnn’s. As you know from my posts, I love to pin images on Pinterest; this includes all manner of crafty goodness. So, when I started seeing yarn pom-poms sprouting up all over the place, I knew I … Read more
The Pantry Revamp is a series here on Five Little Homesteaders. To read more about it, check out the first post here. To read all the posts in the series, click the “pantry revamp” label to the right. For much of the afternoon yesterday, I was sick with some kind of stomach bug. … Read more
It seems that we are experiencing our first chicken conundrum here on our little homestead. As the girls keep saying, “Quack Quack is sick.” Quack Quack being one of our two year old Rhode Island Reds. It all started when the chickens stopped laying, which was about a week ago. … Read more
I dreamed about raising chickens in our backyard for a long time. However, I was intimidated. And though it is definitely gaining popularity, raising farm animals in an urban setting really isn’t a very common practice. Our first two chickens were gifted to us. They were already a year old, came with … Read more