A Life in the Making

The notes app on my phone holds the contents of my life. From lists of what to get at the feed store, quotes I like to projects for the farm, it has everything.  Where it really comes into its own though is recipes.  Almost every recipe I have ever written has started out as a note in my phone. ...

The last two days have felt like spring.  The sun is out and the temps are almost in the double digits.  To say that I am delighted is an understatement.  Being able to do chores without 3 additional layers and in the daylight is an absolute joy. Spring cleaning has started here as well. We've d...

I read about these pancakes in a book. While I can’t remember the title, author, or even what the book was about, the memory of a barely outlined recipe made in a cold cabin by an Alaskan Homesteader stuck with me long after I finished the story (you’d think that the Alaskan Homesteader bit woul...

I put this in Instagram Stories the other day, but as we've made it a few more times since I've tweaked it a bit. This is what we are calling a porridge cake...sort of a cross between baked oatmeal and a cakey cake. It's stodgy and warm. Delicious served hot with butter or cold and on the move. I...

Every month, in our Farm School, we focus on a new skill or topic. January is all about natural cleaning. This weekend, we are making castille soap on Instagram and Facebook Stories. A good castile soap is a powerhouse of natural cleaning. Traditionally made just out of olive oil, it can come i...

Maybe you bought one of our kits or maybe you dehydrated a starter yourself or maybe you find yourself in possession of a crumbled off white mass proclaiming to be wild yeast…how then do you get from that to this?When you dehydrate a starter, all of the water is removed and the yeast and bacteri...