How To Make A Floral Spring Wreath With Dried Flowers
If you’re looking for a way to bring spring cheer to your home, try making a dried flower wreath! This is an excellent way to add pops of colors to your fireplace mantel or living room for the spring season – before fresh flowers are available. I’ll show you how easy it is to make…
How To Cook Winter Squash The Easy Way
Winter squash is one of my favorite things to grow in our garden. It has an excellent shelf life and stores wonderfully with minimal effort. It’s healthy, delicious, and there are many different ways to use it in recipes. Learn how to cook winter squash with this simple method that is also a great way…
Refreshing Herbal Mint And Clover Tea Recipe
Spring and summer are the perfect times to forage mint and wild clover to make this herbal tea! Brew up a batch with fresh ingredients, or dehydrate to make later. Enjoying a glass of ice tea after working out in the garden is a refreshing treat! This recipe is super simple, and our younger children…
Cultivating A Love Of Learning In Children
Raising children to have a lifelong love of learning is one of the central goals of homeschooling. Like other great ambitions, it’s challenging to know how to do this when you are first starting out. I’d like to share some of the best ways that we’ve found to cultivate a love of learning in children,…
Healthy Blueberry Melon Smoothie Recipe
This refreshing blueberry melon smoothie is a great way to use fresh garden produce in the summer, or add frozen fruit instead and enjoy it anytime of the year! We grow a lot of melons in our garden, and love incorporating them in smoothies. One of our favorites is this blueberry melon recipe because it’s…
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Hi friend, I’m so glad you stopped by! I’m passionate about being a keeper at home, growing healthy food, home education, learning old-fashioned skills, cooking from scratch, and building family culture. I’m married to a firefighter, and together we’re raising 7 wild ones on our mountain homestead. I hope I can encourage you here whether you’re looking for homesteading inspiration, homeschool encouragement, simple recipes to feed a crowd, or ways to create a cozy home.
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