Category: homesteading
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Turkey Trauma: What To Do With Your Leftover Thanksgiving Bird
So, we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, its not a thing in my home, but I do love me a good turkey.. Now that Thanksgiving is over for most, you’re finding yourself staring at your fridge wondering how a single bird could have so much meat left after Aunt Carol’s third helping. Rest assured, the overwhelm is…
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Pickle-Pocalypse: Why $6 Jars Are for Suckers and How to DIY Your Way to Brine Glory
You’ve seen it. That pitiful jar of pickles on the grocery shelf with a $6 price tag, looking smug like it’s the artisanal gold of cucumbers. SIX DOLLARS for water, vinegar, and cucumbers that have been hanging out together for a few weeks? I mean, I love pickles, but not “skip-a-week-of-gas” love them. Let me…
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Hens Gone Wild: How I’m Handling an Eggplosion Without Losing My Mind
So now I have more chickens than I know what to do with, and here I am, knee-deep in eggs. Let me tell you, no one warned me about what would happen. I started out with a dream: fresh eggs, some adorable hens pecking around my yard, maybe a cute chicken coop for Instagram—#homesteadinggoals, right?…
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The Truth About Homesteading That No One Tells You
Ah, homesteading—the idyllic life of raising your own food, living off the land, and finding peace in nature, right? Yeah, not quite. Let me just rip that fantasy away from you before you’re neck-deep in mud, cursing your life choices, and wondering why you didn’t get that nice condo in the city with the HOA…