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…
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,…
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…
This savory frittata recipe is a great way to use fresh eggs and veggies on the homestead. We make this every week, and it’s always a little different depending on what we have available. It makes a great base recipe with all sorts of variations. I’ll show you how we make this easy homestead breakfast…
If you are interested in foraging wild edibles, read on to learn some of the best ways we’ve found to harvest, prepare, store, and forage the wild morel mushroom. “That was just a detour, a shortcut.” ~Merry “A shortcut to what?” ~Sam “Mushrooms!” ~Pippin Morel mushroom hunting is highly anticipated each year during the spring…
This Wild Redbud Chocolate Cake is the perfect dessert to usher in springtime! It’s rich, moist, and delicious for all the chocolate lovers, plus has the added bonus of bright natural color and extra vitamin c in the redbud flowers. Don’t let the season pass by without trying this special cake! Can you eat flowers?…
This overnight soaked baked oatmeal recipe is one of our favorite breakfasts, and perfect for a busy morning. It’s simple to mix up the night before so that you can quickly put a hearty meal on the table the next day. I’ll show you some different ways to serve baked oatmeal for the perfect make-ahead…
Reading aloud together produces wonderful benefits including strong family bonds, close sibling relationships, and an all around good time.
Garlic is the unsung hero of the home garden, and one of the easiest crops for a beginner gardener. It has a long planting window, is quite hardy, and can tolerate much neglect. We have grown it for many years, and I’d like to show you how to grow and harvest garlic from seed. Why…
