Do you know healthy it is to eat bugs? To be a little more specific, crickets are super healthy for you. I understand it can be considered quite “taboo” to eat crickets in a lot of areas, and I’m ...
24 Newbie-Friendly Vegetables You Can Easily Grow Indoors
Do you get the ‘wintertime blues?’ You know what I mean. That time of the year when your garden begins to wind down, and you head indoors with nothing growing and no fresh food for months on ...
13 Easy Steps on How to Butcher a Deer and Get the Perfect Venison
Venison is very healthy meat for your consumption. It is leaner although it is considered red meat. Another great thing about venison is that often it is free if you hunt it yourself. Which is what ...
Growing Peanuts: Planting Guide, Care, Problems and Harvest
Would you like to take a guess what the biggest ‘go-to’ snack option is around my house? It isn’t potato chips or cookies - it's everything peanut-based. Sometimes I will eat a big spoonful of peanut ...
19 Absolute Healthiest Meats to Choose (and 6 Meatless Protein Source)
Do you ever have those deep dark confessions that you feel like you need to make from time to time? Well, as a homesteader I have one. Most people assume that all homesteaders are big ‘meat people.’ ...
Growing Squash: The Complete Guide to Plant, Grow, & Harvest Squash
One of my fondest memories is being out in the backyard and picking squash with my mother-in-law. As many of you know (I wrote about it here), we lost my mother-in-law almost 5 months ago. It has been ...
9 Best Ways to Store Apples to Make Them Last for Short & Long Term
Apples are a common staple in most people’s diets, and we rely a lot on the local grocer to provide them. They can be expensive when they're not in the season. Even for people who do grow apples, we ...
Bottle Feeding Goats: 10 Important Points You Need to Consider
‘Goat Mom’….if you ever see this sticker on the back of a pick-up truck, you’ll know that you probably just passed me on the highway. Yes, I get a lot of strange looks, and it makes a lot of people ...
5 Ways to Dehydrate Bananas (and 4 Delicious Recipes to Use Them)
I love bananas. I love how inexpensive they are to purchase. I love how easy they to just throw in your bag for a healthy snack on the go. But I especially love the fact that my children will eat ...