Creating a Homegrown and Homemade Life
When the thermometer creeps up and the sun peeks out from behind the clouds, it starts to feel like garden season. So although it’s not warm enough for tomatoes, there are plenty of early spring crops to plant. Nothing like tiny sprouts to lighten your mood.
Are you looking for the perfect gift for the homesteader in your life? I’ve made a list of the perfect last minute gift ideas for homesteaders. Whether they are apartment homesteaders or complete-with-dairy-cow homesteaders there’s a gift idea for all types.
So you want to can tomatoes, but you haven’t got a garden full of tomatoes? You can get started preserving food without a garden. Just because you didn’t grow it, doesn’t mean you can’t preserve it. Actually preserving is a good place to start.
You’ve harvested all of your onions, but now what? I can teach you how to freeze onions, so that you can have onions from your garden all year. Or simply keep those store bought onions from going bad before you can eat them up.
I love gardening, but I hate all of the pests. And even more than the pests, I can’t stand all of the chemicals used to get rid of them. The whole point of growing vegetables at home was to avoid chemicals. So I’ve been using essential oils for pest control in the garden.
