Basil Recipes
Basil straight from the garden tastes completely different to anything you buy in a shop. These are the two recipes we make most often at Monchique Homestead — a simple …
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Homesteading Is More Than Growing Food: Building a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle
When people think of homesteading, they often picture a big vegetable garden, jars of preserves, and maybe a few backyard chickens. While food production is part of it, real homesteading …
4 Easy to Learn Homesteading Kitchen Skills for Starters
When you want to start your own Homestead (or just started one) you can feel overwhelmed with all the things you need to learn. This is how we tackled the …
The Advantages of Dehydrating Fruit and Vegetables
Don’t you know what to do with an overload of fruit and vegetables in summer and fall? Do you only have little time for preserving your dear harvest? Is your …
Why using a Steam Juicer is a good idea.
Do you have a lot of soft fruit at once in your Orchard? Do you find it hard to process it all at the same time? In that case using …
What You Need to Know About Canning
Do you want to learn easy Homesteading skills? Don’t you have a Homestead yet? No problem. You don’t need to wait, you can start right now. This is what you …
Learning Easy Homesteading Skills: Seasonal Cooking
Do you want to start your own Homestead one day? Is that day still some years ahead? Here is something you can start doing right now. Why it is Important …
A Homestead in The Late 19th Century
Do you want to know what it was like to run a Homestead in the late 19th century? Do you like to read a reality novel to learn something from …
Enjoy Working on Your Homestead Again
Don’t you enjoy working on your Homestead anymore, because it is so overwhelming? Does it make you wonder whether other homesteaders have the same trouble and why on earth somebody …
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 …