18 Everyday Home & Garden Items You Should Make Instead Of Buy
Take a good look around and open your eyes wide. It appears that modern technology has us pressing a lot of plastic buttons and swiping screens at lightning speed. From …
Take a good look around and open your eyes wide. It appears that modern technology has us pressing a lot of plastic buttons and swiping screens at lightning speed. From …
Edible ornaments for birds? Yes, you read that right. Currently you are about to embark on a tutorial on how to make bird cookies. And healthy ones at that. There …
Beguiling wild mushrooms flourish at various times throughout the year, generally 1-3 days after a generous rainfall. However, their distinct flavors and potential risks of misidentifying them are not agreeable …
Call them hazelnuts in raw honey, honey-marinated roasted nuts or simply nuts in honey; the end result will always be a spoonful of pure yum. When making hazelnuts in honey, …
If you find that you’re jumping in the car to go shopping far more often than you’d like, or are relying heavily on products with brand names that you recognize …
Learning how to successfully save zucchini seeds can only mean one thing: even more zucchini next year! But wait, there is more. Especially if you are willing to search a …
At the peak of every autumn apple harvest, one quickly begins to search for clever ways to preserve bucketloads of apples. Then the thought eventually bubbles up – is apple …
Mint is a reliable perennial herb that needs little attention in the garden. That’s in part what makes it such a wonderful plant to grow. It is one of those …
Sawdust, otherwise referred to as wood shavings, is a beneficial by-product of working with wood that has many applications on both urban and countryside homesteads. The further you get from …
Have you ever seen a simple and elegant wreath at a craft show and thought “I could do that!”? Some people pick it up straight away, while others stumble through …
For many people, the start of fall is signified by an eventful and colorful change in the leaves, as well as darkness arriving earlier and earlier each evening. One of …
Behind the woven garden fence, where the pumpkins are blushing with bright orange cheeks, the beets and chard are still standing up proudly – demanding attention in the dwindling sea …
It’s officially autumn, and the leaves are turning colors before our very eyes into beautiful shades of yellows, reds, and oranges. Some of them have already been dipped in beeswax …
Fried green tomatoes are in season! It seems that every fall, without fail, you will end up with a certain amount of green tomatoes. That is, if you have grown …
Once you learn how to make applesauce at home, I guarantee that you will never want to get store-bought again. Not for fresh eating, and not for canning either. Why? …
While there are several ways to preserve fresh table grapes, making grape juice tops the list of most delicious ways to make those fragrant bunches last well into the winter …
When the warmth of summer suddenly comes to a halt, will your garden be ready for cold nights and beautiful, sparkling frosty mornings? Many gardeners know the feeling all too …
With a bountiful apple season on the way, are you prepared for the work – and joy – that comes with preserving a hundred apples? Or a hundred pounds of …
We are always on the search for easy canning recipes that are not only delicious all winter long, but those that store well for several months too. As sweet as …
Outside of the coldest months, there is always something to do in the garden, whether it be planting, weeding, dealing with pests, saving seeds, drying herbs, amending the soil or …
Perennials are more than just beautiful and useful landscape plants – they are the future of a sustainable food supply. Likely you have already come to that important realization – …
Every backyard chicken enthusiast longs for the day when they have an overabundance of farm fresh eggs to collect from the backyard. That means, it is time to make delicious …
Zucchini has a tendency to just grow and grow (as long as you don’t make these growing mistakes!), often leaving you with the feeling that there is no end in …
When life hands you 30 pounds of sun-ripened peaches, you must say “thank you” and get straight to work. You simply cannot refuse such a sweet gift! Being prepared is …