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how to make easy grilled asparagus recipe asparagus spears in a grill basket on a gas grill with roasted char marks from grilling

How to eat seasonally and locally

How to Roast Pumpkin and Winter Squash Seeds

Spring Chores on the Homestead

How to Decorate a Blown Egg 7 Different Ways

The ultimate guide to hunting for morel mushrooms identifying harvesting cooking preserving handful of golden yellow morel mushrooms

How to Start Garden Seeds Indoors

How to Naturally Encourage Egg Laying in Chickens

How to start beekeeping a beginner's guide learn everything you need to know picture of a beginner beekeeper in a beekeeping suit holding a frame of honey bees from a beehive

How to make and Preserve Garden Fresh Salsa

The best homemade pizza dough recipe easy to make simple ingredients makes large batch with extra to freeze large pizza dough ball on wood cutting board

The Best Easy to Make Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe

How to Set up a Greenhouse Kit

Hello I'm Annie and welcome to our blog!

I was raised in an old farmhouse in the country and taught by three generations of women in my family to cook from scratch, can and preserve food, nurture plants to grow, craft with my hands, and live a simple, meaningful life. Now I'm teaching my own children these skills on our little homestead in Montana. I am a Master Gardener and a Master Naturalist and love helping others learn. I'm sharing these vintage skills here so you too can live a simple, more connected homemade life- one canning jar at a time!