Teaching the Next Generation of Homemakers
5 Top Baking Bread Secrets
Homemade Baking Bread Secrets I've kneaded hundreds of loaves of homemade bread in my homemaker days, and along the, way I've developed some...
Collection of Old Fashion Mennonite Recipes
One of my favorite Mennonite recipes. I have an addiction to cookbooks and have my favorites, but when I was given a copy of the 65th...
Irish Herb Lore to Promote Good Health
I just love to read the Farmers' Almanac, I learn so many great things each time I pick up that little book. Much of what I read I remember...
4 Things to Learn from the Amish About Staying Healthy
Model Your Health After the Amish I have been reading a lot lately about how the Amish are much healthier than most Americans. They have one...
5 Homemade Sore Throat Soothers
It happens every year about this time, and as always I am ready with my tired and true homemade sore throat soothers. I don't get sick much, but...
Basic Homesteading Skills to Teach Your Children
Children are our future and the basic homesteading skills they learn will help them face the future prepared. More and more generations are turning...
How to Make Hairspray Homemade for Pennies
How to make hairspray - DIY recipe I love finding ways to make over some of my favorite health and beauty supplies. My latest quest was...
All Natural Face Cream – Bedtime Moisturizer
I have to admit that as I get older I spend too much time looking in the mirror checking for wrinkles! I know it is a bit vain on my part, but...
How many calories do you burn doing housework?
Old-fashion Exercise. I had been working pretty hard the last few weeks and low and behold when I stepped on the scale the other day I was surprised...
How to Make Hand Lotion – 5 Easy Steps
Homemade Beeswax Lotion. Living on a farm, and raising our own bees is a dream come true! I have always wanted to make my own health and...
How We Live Within Our Means with 5 Simple Questions
Mindful Spending. There are days when living on a budget can be challenge, and the simple idea of living within our means is questioned. ...
Is Grape Juice Good For You?
Grape Juice. Growing up in Pennsylvania my father always had grapes. It wasn't fall unless you could walk by those vines and pop a handful of...
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.
