My 5 Garden Goals For This Year
Oh hi. It’s Shaye here. Sharing with you my 5 garden goals for this year. Now that I’m not so desperate to just learn how to grow things (there were plenty of…
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It’s not always glamorous or clean, but at least life on the farm is entertaining, beautiful, and oh-so-delicious. Follow along with recipes, dreams and confessions, and garden growing here.
Fireside Flatbreads with Olive Oil
Today, I want to invite you to try a recipe that I go back to time and time again – fireside flatbreads with olive oil. This is all purpose flatbread…
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Meat Pie with Sage
I’m in love with this Meat Pie with Sage recipe – and it’s not only because I first learned of it from my 60-year-old-British-love Monty Don. It’s because I feel like…
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Spaghetti with Sun Dried Tomato Pesto and Tomato Confit
It’s easy too long for spring and sun-kissed summer skin. It’s much harder to endure the cold, dark days ahead of us. To keep our chins up this winter, I…
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Bounty Table
Come the dark, cold days of January that seem to number far more than 31, I have to play tricks with myself to pull my mind through. It’s not that…
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Green Potatoes
You know I like to talk about food, but I’m currently revolting against the food blogs that ramble on for a hundred paragraphs to give you a simple recipe so that they…
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Cleaning and Organizing the Kitchen Pantry
I’m genuinely trying to be the type of adult who doesn’t wait for things to completely explode before dealing with them. My kitchen pantry has been giving me gentle nudges letting me…
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Lamb Meat: Cutting, wrapping, and how to cook it
As with most tasks on the homestead, I find it far easier to do the task than to do the task while documenting it. I find it fairly easy to do things… I find…
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A Rustic Farm Breakfast Over Fire
I spent the entire day reorganizing, cleaning, and checking on all of our root cellar produce. A few onions every now and again will bolt or rot in the bins…
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A smaller world.
I’m not going to beat a dead horse. (Lord knows I don’t have the extra energy to spare, really.) Suffice it to say that we all know the pitfalls of social media….
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New Goals & Lessons Learned.
One of these years we’re actually going to have more goals than lessons learned. At least, I hope so. Homesteading is the perfect lifestyle for those of you our there…
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Roasting Coffee at Home
YES, we roast our own coffee beans at home. YES, we go rid of our espresso machine that uses said beans. YES, we found something equally wonderful (and way, way, way…
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