Throughout the Winter, and into the Spring, if you have a wood burning fireplace, or a wood stove, you have to clear out the ash to make room for new wood. In this post I’ve collected 12 unique ways you can re-purpose that wood ash. If you’re anything like me, however, you know things on …
I love having a variety of colors in my backyard chicken eggs, and that means white as well! In this post I’ll cover 5 breeds of chickens that lay white eggs. Traditionally the eggs found in the grocery store were always white. The modern egg producers use hybrid White Leghorns or sex-linked hybrids that lay …
Whether you have electric heat, oil, or use wood, there are things you can do to stay warm AND lower your heat bill. Winter is coming. No really. Luckily, unlike in Game of Thrones, Winter only comes once a year. Living in an off-grid homestead, you begin looking at your resources in a different way. …
Whether you’re looking for a more natural (and delicious!) fat for cooking with, or want to make candles, lotions or soaps, in this post we’ll go over how to make tallow from beef fat. What is Tallow? Tallow is simply beef (or lamb) fat that has had the impurities removed. When you find fat during …
There is absolutely nothing like homemade maple syrup. In this post, we’ll cover how to tap trees for syrup. Tapping trees for syrup is a fun and rewarding homestead project that you can do in late Winter, early Spring, when most other homesteading chores are done. It was one that I tried, just for the …
