Candied Nuts
Candied nuts are a great way to use up surplus production. This is a general candying recipe. Feel free to change around ingredients, and...
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Tara Wright
Sep 27, 20221 min read
Making Nut Butters
The whole reason I bought Hazelnut trees was so I could have my own Hazelnut butter. You can make butters or spreads with various seeds...
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Tara Wright
Sep 20, 20222 min read
Fruit Butter
Fruit butter is an excellent way to use up some of your surplus fruits. You can use fruit butter to add flavor to oatmeal, pancakes, or...
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Tara Wright
Sep 13, 20221 min read
Freezing herbs for future use
Nothing is better than fresh herbs, but that's difficult to come by mid-winter sometimes. One way to try to preserve some of that...
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Tara Wright
Aug 2, 20222 min read
Infused Oils
Infused oils are oils that have been marinating in herbs and/or vegetables, which create amazing cooking flavors. Equipment dark bottles...
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Tara Wright
Jul 5, 20221 min read
Drying Produce
Nothing is better than fresh spices and produce. But as much as I love basil, I can't always use 6lbs of it before it goes bad. There are...
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Tara Wright
Jun 28, 20222 min read
Making Jams
You can make jams out of anything really. I'm referring back to a previous statement I made, that just because you can doesn't mean you...
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Tara Wright
Jun 14, 20221 min read
Freezing
There are some foods that I am just not crazy about how they taste canned, in those cases I prefer to freeze. Equipment baking sheet...
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Tara Wright
Jun 7, 20222 min read
Canning
One of the most shelf stable ways to save your bounty is through canning. I am going to review some basic information on how to can with...
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Tara Wright
May 23, 20222 min read
DIY Fire-pit area with outdoor Movie Theater (for under $2000)
My big project idea in 2021, was to make an outside fire-pit movie theater area. I have bigger ambition than I do a bank account,...
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Tara Wright
May 18, 20224 min read
Milking Goats
One of the Reasons I wanted goats, was for increased self-sufficiency. Not only are they adorable, but they are also milking animals....
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Tara Wright
Apr 22, 20222 min read
Meeting the Girls
This is Lucy and Mina, two very sweet Nigerian Dwarf goats. They are half-sisters, sharing the same father, but different mothers....
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Tara Wright
Apr 5, 20223 min read
Getting Started With Chickens
There are 3 Basic ways to get started with chicks. You can order eggs, and incubate and hatch them yourself, you can order day old...
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Tara Wright
Mar 25, 20223 min read
Ordering a Pack of Bees
I am a new beekeeper, trying this out for the last 2 years or so. I have failed with 2 hives and learned some things not to do and am...
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Tara Wright
Mar 1, 20223 min read
Planning your garden
When I start thinking about my garden plans (usually in the cold of winter) I figure out where everything is going to go, and how I am...
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