Creating a Homegrown and Homemade Life
Have the tomatoes from your garden taken over? My tomatoes seem to have taken over the garden, the fridge, the counters, the sink, and my table. Let’s try to can tomato sauce this year! It is a simple way to get the tomatoes processed and out of the way.
Don’t waste all of the chicken broth! Learn how to can chicken broth so that it is ready to use in soups at a moment’s notice. You’ll never go back to store bought stock when making your own can is this easy. Grab the pressure canner and the mason jars!
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.
Did anybody else that adored the Little House books grow up to be a homesteader? While the books do romanticize many parts of traditional homesteading, there are many homesteading lessons from Little House that still apply today. The books might have been embellished, but the things learned in the little houses hold true.
