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Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. Please see our Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement. Do you eat weeds? This sounds like a pretty crazy question doesn’t it? I’m here to tell you that weeds are not just for the grazing animals! There are so many wild edible plants out there that most people commonly…
I’m always looking for ways to make healthy, homemade snacks and one of my favorites was figuring out how to to roast pumpkin seeds and winter squash seeds with six different flavor variations. Roasted pumpkin and winter squash seeds are a healthy snack my kids love and they’re easy to pack along on our outdoor…
This Ultimate Guide to Hunting Morel Mushrooms will explain everything you need to know to learn how to find morel mushrooms. This guide will cover morel mushroom identification, where to find morel mushrooms, when to hunt for morels, cooking with morel mushrooms and several ways to preserve morel mushrooms. Morel mushroom hunting is one of…
I’ve been making and preserving garden fresh salsa for years and it is a family favorite. So delicious!! We grow a salsa garden every year so we can make huge batches of homemade, homegrown fresh garden salsa and preserve it to eat throughout the year. Not only is our homemade garden salsa more delicious than…
We are a family of bookworms so today I’m sharing the seasonal homesteading books we’ve been reading for adults, kids, tweens and teens. As we’re gearing up for spring gardening, beekeeping, foraging and chick season there are so many things to read and learn to inspire our homesteading and homeschooling adventures! We have an extensive…
As we are approaching the new year of 2019, I’ve been making a list of our homestead goals for the year. Making homestead goals is a process I do every year to help outline the projects we want to tackle on the homestead the next year. It is a great way to organize our projects,…
We love to forage for wild rose hips throughout the fall and winter to make home herbal goodies like delicious Rose Hip jelly. Rose hips are naturally high in Vitamin C and E so we can boost our family’s immune system when we eat our homemade Rose Hip Jelly. Foraging for Rose Hips Rose hips…
Making wild harvested Oregon Grape jelly has become an annual tradition in our family. We love to forage for wild edibles so we get really excited when we find a big enough patch of Oregon Grape berries to harvest. I’ve read that Oregon Grape berries are bursting with health benefits and can support the immune system….
We were so excited to finally have enough dandelions blooming so we could harvest some to make a batch of these delicious dandelion muffins! The first dandelions of the season started blooming a few weeks ago. At first there were only a few so we didn’t pick any so our honeybees had enough flowers to feed…
For the last month, I’ve been pining away for some wild chokecherry shrubs to harvest and make chokecherry jelly. Last year it seemed like everywhere we went, we spotted chokecherry shrubs along the road. They were all loaded down with ripe chokecherries just calling my name to harvest them. I figured that as often as we…
Fall and winter are the perfect times to go foraging for rose hips. During this time, the leaves have fallen off the rose plants so the rose hips are easy to see. We harvested wild rose hips while out in the mountains and we also harvested rose hips from the domestic rose bushes on our…
Did you know that September is National Preparedness month? It seems fitting on our homestead since we are in over our heads with garden harvest, orchard harvest, canning and preserving so we can prepare to feed our family for the next year. We’ve also been busy foraging for wild edibles to eat throughout the year…