Making pie crust at home is so much easier than you think, and so much cheaper than buying store bought! When you realize just how easy it is to make pie crust I bet you'll find a lot more pies in your future. You don't need a dozen ingredients or professional tools—just four pantry staples and one simple secret to get those bakery-style flakes every single time. Why You’ll ...
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Easy One-Pan Cheesy Tex-Mex Skillet (30-Minute Meal)
This Easy Cheesy Tex-Mex Skillet is the ultimate one-pan weeknight dinner. If you grew up loving Hamburger Helper, this homemade version is just as quick but much healthier, you can swap out regular rotini for whole wheat pasta and add your own fresh seasoning. Why You’ll Love This Tex-Mex Skillet This is a really simple meal for a quick weeknight dinner. It's one of ...
20+ Things We Don’t Buy at the Store Anymore: How We Reclaimed Our Grocery Bill
Have you been dreaming of a homestead, or maybe you just need a solid list of reasons to convince your husband it’s time for goats and chickens? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve been homesteading for five years on just three acres, and every season we move closer to total sustainability (and the majority of those 5 years I was either pregnant or we had a newborn.) With 5 ...
My Go-To Sweet & Smoky BBQ Pork Rub for Perfect Pulled Pork
Our family loves BBQ, and slow cooker pulled pork is a go-to around here, especially in busy seasons. Between everyday life and adding a newborn to the mix, quick, low-effort meals are essential. This sweet and smoky BBQ pork rub has become a staple, and I can honestly say it’s so easy I’ve mixed it together one-handed while holding our newborn little guy. To make the best ...
Homemade Coffee Creamer
Let’s talk about homemade coffee creamer. I love coffee, I can’t start the day without a cup, but I need coffee creamer. I’m definitely not one of those die hard coffee drinkers that can drink it black, but I’m also not exactly a “I’ll have a little coffee with my creamer kind of person either.” I’m definitely a happy medium when it comes to coffee. I know I couldn’t keep ...
Favorite Packaging Supplies for our Farm Stand
I knew when we started our farm stand that packaging was something I really wanted to focus on. I know I'm way more likely to buy a product, and probably even share a product on social media if the packaging is cute. Plus, it makes my job of advertising our products online so much easier when I have cute products to sell. Our farm stand currently sells produce, eggs, our famous ...
What we learned from our farm stand’s first year
This was our first year with a farm stand and we learned so much. Our farm stand sold eggs, produce, cookies, and bread. Here's what we learned and how we're taking that knowledge to tweak some things and have a successful season this year. Which products sell the best at a farm stand We had success selling eggs, we would be sold out incredibly fast. Some days there was a ...
Old fashioned french toast recipe
Homestead french toast recipe Growing up french toast was as simple as it gets, just milk and eggs (a splash of vanilla if we were feeling fancy) and call it a day. When I had my first apartment with the teeny tiniest kitchen ever I was so ambitious, I was always cooking and baking complicated meals. Even though we didn't even have a full size oven, no counter space ...
Homemade chocolate syrup for homemade chocolate milk
Homemade chocolate syrup for homemade chocolate milk It isn't morning if my toddlers don't have a chocolate milk in their hand. They call it their "coffee" and I have no idea where they got the whole idea of needing coffee to survive in the morning, definitely, 1000% not from their mother. It was definitely from me. Ingredients in store bought chocolate milk are more than ...
Cheesy Funeral Potatoes (Made with Fresh Real Potatoes)
If you're from the Midwest you probably know and love funeral potatoes. They're a staple at every church potluck and family gathering. They probably got their name from, well, appearing at every Midwest funeral ever. Most funeral potatoes recipes' make these with frozen potatoes, but it makes it impossible to mix, it takes forever to bake, and you're using frozen potatoes ...
Homeschooling on a homestead schedule
Homeschooling on a homestead schedule. Homeschooling and homesteading is kind of like choosing to do life on hard difficulty, our schedule is always swamped. So how do we fit homeschooling into our homesteading schedule? Homeschooling on a homestead schedule It's important to remember that homeschooling doesn't have to match a public school schedule. Formal homeschooling ...
4 Simple ways to make extra income for the homestead online
We're farming in the age of the internet, we don't just have to make our money on roadside stands (we do have one though!) and locally. We can make some supplemental income online too. As a stay-at-home farm mom it definitely helps to have extra income, even if it's just to feel a little less guilty when getting a coffee at the drive-thru or to buy little essentials like new ...
Heat wave on the farm
We've had a summer of mostly cool temperatures. So imagine it being almost September, a Monday of course and dealing with a heat wave on the farm. Heat waves are hard to deal with, but today has been extra. It's always constantly checking to see if the livestock is staying cool and that their waters are full. Hosing off hot pigs, pigs love getting hosed off with hot water, ...