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Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. Please see our Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement. Have you ever wondered what to do with all your beet greens? They’re so good for you but one can only eat so many beet greens in one week before getting sick of eating them. Beet greens are full of…
When we started beekeeping this spring, I knew one of the benefits would be harvesting our own beeswax. I looked forward to the day I wouldn’t have to buy beeswax to use in our homemade lip balm and dandelion salve. What I didn’t know this spring was exactly how we would harvest or process the beeswax….
Fruit flies are such a pain to get rid of once they’re in your house but what do you do if your vermicomposting worm bin has fruit flies? Sure we could always keep the worm bin outside, but when the temperatures are in the upper 90’s outside the poor worms will cook in our worm…
Cooking on an open fire in a cast iron pan conjures up images of rugged old west cowboys sitting around a campfire under the starry Montana sky. Cooking on an open fire isn’t just for old west cowboys and isn’t a thing of the past! In fact, it is quite easy to do and adds an element…
Last weekend we embarked on a new adventure in vermicomposting, or becoming “worm farmers” as Little A likes to say! We bought a large bin of approximately 4,000 Red Wigglers worms. I’d been thinking about getting worms for the last few months, but it wasn’t on my priority list so didn’t give it much thought….
Learning how to make dandelion infused oil and dandelion salve is so easy! We’re only about a month into our gardening season here in Montana and already my hands are dry and chapped. I’ve been using a variety of lotions and skin creams to replenish the moisture in the rough skin on my hands but…
Have you ever felt really excited about something, only to have your hopes dashed? We are really excited about our adventures in modern day homesteading, but I have to tell you that it is not easy. I think there are a lot of folks out there with an idealistic view of what modern day homesteading…
Since this is our first year as beekeepers, we have been documenting every step of the process. We’ve read about how bees make honey and the life cycle of a bee. But reading about it and seeing it in person is a totally different experience. Each time my husband goes out to check on our…
We just finished planting plum trees in our orchard and we’re already dreaming of biting into a homegrown juicy plum in a few months! The last few years we picked plums from a friend’s tree in town. Our friend doesn’t like plums and happens to have several large trees in his backyard. There are a…
If you use as much garlic in your cooking as we do, then planting garlic in your vegetable garden is a must! I was taught that the best time to plant garlic is in the fall. Unfortunately, I get so caught up in fall harvest and hunting season that I almost always forget to do this….
Learn how to make homemade elderberry syrup with fresh or dried elderberries. This easy DIY recipe is a great way to naturally boost our immune system. During cold and flu season, I regularly make a large batch of elderberry syrup that our family takes daily to stay healthy. Elderberry syrup is a natural daily supplement…
What better way to spend a cold, sunny Montana winter day then on a frozen lake ice fishing! Ice fishing is another way our family harvests wild food. In the fall we hunt. In the winter we ice fish. In the spring we harvest wild mushrooms. In the summer we harvest wild berries and herbs. Prior…