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…
Read More On the Homestead: Farm
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.
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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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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Merry Christmas from the Elliotts!
Merry Christmas from the Elliotts! We are so grateful that you’re a part of our story and that we get to share in this coming year with you, our readers…
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Homemade Ricotta Gnocchi
After visiting a Sicilian sheep dairy, and making homemade ricotta alongside the shepherd in a 600 year old courtyard, I came back home ready to make homemade ricotta gnocchi. It…
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Thinking backwards in the garden…
It may seem a bit, well, backwards… but sometimes before we plant something, it’s best if we’re thinking backwards in the garden. Ultimately, what we plant and grow will end…
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“Every recipe should have the handprint of a family.”
You know those live experiences that you never are the same after? That was me meeting Melissa Muller of Feudo Montoni in Sicily. I don’t think I’ll ever see food,…
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Perfect Cheeses for your Homemade Cheeseboard
There’s a lot of perfect cheeses for your homemade cheeseboard. BUT IF I HAD TO CHOOSE only one cheese to put on my cheeseboard, it would be Parmesan Reggiano. What…
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