How Not to Struggle On a Homestead with Too Much Work
For four weeks on a row we were working our heads off. Trying to harvest all our fruit, make cheese, getting the fruit processed, cleaning the house, laundry, dishes it …
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Float Gardening in British Columbia
A guest post written by Margy Lutz. Margy describes her life on a float Cabin Home on Powell Lake in Coastal British Colombia. She has a very special float garden. …
5 reasons why we started our homestead
These are our 5 reasons why we started our homestead. There we go: The first reason: Space around us In Holland we had a two store house in a row …
Don’t waste food, for a more sustainable household.
Did you know that one third of all the food that is harvested on the planet is thrown away? One third of all the effort that was put into growing …
Want to know how to stop wasting food?
I found two interesting cookbooks that each have an interesting but different approach to solve the problem of wasting food in your kitchen. While Victoria Glass gives you lots of …
Fava beans with rice and eggs
In the south of Portugal this is the time of the fava beans. So now we are eating them almost every day. That is okay as long as we have …
Making Mayonnaise in 2 minutes!
Making mayonnaise is much easier than you think. It hardly costs anything and you can make it exactly as you like it. Once you know how to make mayonnaise, you …
Fresh Cheese Recipe
This is my Fresh Cheese Recipe. Before I made this cheese I had never made cheese in my life. So do not worry this cheese making recipe is easy. You …
Simple Savoury Cupcakes
This Savoury cupcakes recipe is simple and quick to make for those who love good food from their own ingredients and who don’t have much time to cook. These cupcakes I …
How to sterilize bottles in the oven.
Instead of buying bottles for bottling your home made juice, syrup, wine or whatever you have, it makes sense to reuse old ones. How to sterilize bottles is described below. …