Blackberry Pie Filling Recipe – The Taste of Summer in a Jar
Canned Blackberry Pie Filling Recipe from Scratch Not thorns in my finger tips or the 100-degree heat can keep me out of my blackberry patches this time of the year. Armed with a big straw hat, jeans, boots, a long-sleeve shirt I headed to the blackberry patch for a...
A day in the life of a homesteader
We love living in the country, on our little homestead, living as close to the land as our ancestors did. Sure, we have electricity, running water and most modern conveniences but we still work the land, tend to our livestock and grow most of our own food. ...
Homemade Orange Marmalade – Use up Winter Oranges
Use up winter oranges with homemade orange marmalade. I’ve never made homemade orange marmalade, but memories of my moms were all it took to give it a try. Not only had I never made it, I’ve never made a jam that didn’t call for pectin. I...
Fig Butter Recipe Made in a Crockpot
Fig Butter Recipe…Yum Yum! A friend of mine has a fig tree at her disposal and was nice enough to share a couple of small bags of ripe figs with me. Growing up in the north figs were not part of our diet, but since moving to the south we have fallen in love with this...
What to do with an abundance of fresh cilantro?
Extra Cilantro I am not a fan of cilantro as my hubby is but I still can’t stand to see something go to waste, so out to the herb garden I went to pick as much fresh cilantro as I could before it started to bolt. Once cilantro starts to produce flowers its leaves lose...
Hidden away in the Upstate of South Carolina is a little farm where we call home. Surrounded by century-old pecan and oak trees, we live on a 120-year-old homestead. By the grace of God, we were called to restore this 1890 farmhouse along with its barns, gardens and long-forgotten cotton field to its original working farm. Dedicating ourselves to reusing, recycling and making do we are living a very simple life building our backyard farm.