Summer squash or winter squash – what side are you on? Personally, I love it all, as evidenced by my refrigerator’s vegetable bin. It is completely full of summer squash right now and I’m constantly checking my winter squash on the vine for readiness. I think we are going to be having … Read more
This post on how to make butter is part of the Pantry Revamp series here on 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. If you’ve been reading this blog at all … Read more
A post I wrote about growing great tomatoes was recently featured on the lovely blog Black Fox Homestead. Here are part one and part two of that post. Having that post be brought up again got me thinking. What if your tomatoes don’t turn out great? What if you put in a bunch of effort and … 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. I did a post early on in this series about replacing the goldfish crackers … Read more
There’s no doubt we’ve all done it. You pinned an image on Pinterest and thought to yourself, “Self – you are going to do that awesome craft/activity/recipe/diet/homeschooling-thing this week! That is just too cool to forget about. We just can’t live another day without doing that!” And then, lo and behold, the … Read more
It may come as no surprise that our baby chickens don’t stay small for long. In fact, you start out looking at fluffy chicks and with 6 to 8 days, they’ll begin to grow their first feathers. By 8 weeks, they’re fully featured and ready to move outside. When you realize your … Read more
This week’s recipe is all about those black bananas that you have sitting on your counter. I buy, on average, eight bananas a week. Some weeks we eat all eight and some weeks we don’t touch any of them. On the weeks that we don’t touch them, I usually freeze a couple … Read more
This week’s homemade pizza dough recipe is part of the Pantry Revamp 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. The pantry revamp post for this week is about … Read more
Today’s post on maple syrup popcorn is part of the Pantry Revamp 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. This week’s pantry revamp recipe is not for … Read more
As I’ve mentioned in the past, we moved to our new home last November. When we moved, we brought our raised beds and the dirt that we had been using in them with us. It wasn’t easy. It would have simplified our move if we had just left it all behind and … Read more