Favorites from the week
Here are a few of my favorite posts from this week:
- Amy speaking a beautiful truth.
- Carrie shows us how to get more sea vegetables into our diets.
- I’ll be making this for dinner this week.
Here are a few of my favorite posts from this week:
“Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.” Psalm 40:5 We welcomed sweet Emily Rose into our family over…
I don’t know if rhubarb is still available further south, but here it’s still hanging around. So I thought I’d share my latest post from the Plan to Eat blog: lacto-fermented rhubarb chutney. You can head over to read the full recipe plus more photos. I highly recommend this ferment as an addition to homemade…
This video shows a sample of the types of projects you will find in The Doable Off-Grid Homestead. Moving water around is such a critical task on a homestead that it is nice to have a way to do this in an efficient manner. One way to reduce the cost is to put together a…
It came late last week, that sweet sound of raindrops on a tin roof. It was a slow, scattered rain that fell on bare, dry soil and so was all the sweeter for its gentle return. The tanks behind the house hold a bit more water, I don’t over-analyze every sink full of dishwater, and…
About five weeks ago I threw in the towel on the garden. It was nearing a hundred every day and the rain completely stopped, as it does almost every summer, and somehow, painlessly, easily I just let go. That’s never happened before, me surrendering to the hot and the dry with a simple shrug of…
This post is originally from August, 2009… back when I was actually preserving food. More on that soon, but now a recipe for those overwhelmed with cucumbers. This past weekend we picked up a few treasures at the farmer’s market, namely 1/2 bushel of pickling cucumbers and a huge bunch of dill taller than my…