Homesteading is a wonderful way to teach your children valuable life skills, responsibility, and the importance of self-sufficiency. By involving your kids in various tasks around the homestead, you can help them develop a strong connection to nature and a deep appreciation for the world around them. Here are 15 tips to get your kids excited about homesteading. Encourage your children to help you plan, plant, and maintain a family garden. Let them choose some of the vegetables and fruits they want to grow, and teach them about the importance of healthy soil, watering, and sunlight...… Homesteading is a wonderful way to teach your children valuable life skills, responsibility, and the importance of self-sufficiency. By involving your kids in various tasks around the homestead, you can help them develop a strong connection to nature and a deep appreciation for the world around them. Here are 15 tips to get your kids excited about homesteading. Encourage your children to help you plan, plant, and maintain a family garden. Let them choose some of the vegetables and fruits they want to grow, and teach them about the importance of healthy soil, watering, and sunlight...WW…

Living and working on a homestead means enjoying the great outdoors, but it also sometimes means encountering plants that can cause skin irritation. Knowing which plants to watch out for helps keep yourself and your family safe from uncomfortable or even harmful reactions. Also known as spurge nettle, bull nettle is notorious for its painful sting. The plant has fine hairs that, when touched, inject toxins causing intense pain and irritation. It typically grows up to 2 feet tall and has white flowers. The leaves are deeply lobed and covered with stinging hairs. One of the most toxic...… Living and working on a homestead means enjoying the great outdoors, but it also sometimes means encountering plants that can cause skin irritation. Knowing which plants to watch out for helps keep yourself and your family safe from uncomfortable or even harmful reactions. Also known as spurge nettle, bull nettle is notorious for its painful sting. The plant has fine hairs that, when touched, inject toxins causing intense pain and irritation. It typically grows up to 2 feet tall and has white flowers. The leaves are deeply lobed and covered with stinging hairs. One of the most toxic...WW…

When it comes to survival, water is the most crucial resource. While storing clean drinking water is essential, it’s also important to know how to find natural sources of water in case of emergencies. Here are 15 surprising places you can find water in the wild that could save your life. Certain trees, like maple and birch, contain a watery sap that can be tapped and collected. You can harvest water from pipes in your home and even the liquid from canned fruits and vegetables can be a valuable source of water. Tying a plastic bag around a leafy branch can collect water through...… When it comes to survival, water is the most crucial resource. While storing clean drinking water is essential, it’s also important to know how to find natural sources of water in case of emergencies. Here are 15 surprising places you can find water in the wild that could save your life. Certain trees, like maple and birch, contain a watery sap that can be tapped and collected. You can harvest water from pipes in your home and even the liquid from canned fruits and vegetables can be a valuable source of water. Tying a plastic bag around a leafy branch can collect water through...WW…

If you don’t know how to dry herbs for tea, you’re left with over-priced herbal teas from the store that don’t taste of much and don’t have many beneficial properties, or you have to pay for fresher dried herbs in larger quantities to make your own blends. I much prefer to dry my own herbs. Most of which I grow or forage myself. As you know, I’m a master herbalist. And one of my favorite things to do is make herbal tea. It speaks to that little girl deep inside who used to make “potions” in the garden from sticks and leaves and flowers. She was a smart cookie – it seems she...… If you don’t know how to dry herbs for tea, you’re left with over-priced herbal teas from the store that don’t taste of much and don’t have many beneficial properties, or you have to pay for fresher dried herbs in larger quantities to make your own blends. I much prefer to dry my own herbs. Most of which I grow or forage myself. As you know, I’m a master herbalist. And one of my favorite things to do is make herbal tea. It speaks to that little girl deep inside who used to make “potions” in the garden from sticks and leaves and flowers. She was a smart cookie – it seems she...WW…

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Click here to read my affiliate policy. Blackberry jam is insanely easy to make, mostly because it already contains a lot of pectin, so it sets quickly and reliably. Most blackberry jam recipes (and other fruit jams) require equal parts fruit and sugar, which produces a cloyingly sweet jam that’s really more like candy and the fruit flavor is lost behind the deeply, intensely unpleasant sweetness. But with my no sugar blackberry jam recipe, you can really taste the fruit, and, because I add a little honey to the mix, it’s beautifully...… Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Click here to read my affiliate policy. Blackberry jam is insanely easy to make, mostly because it already contains a lot of pectin, so it sets quickly and reliably. Most blackberry jam recipes (and other fruit jams) require equal parts fruit and sugar, which produces a cloyingly sweet jam that’s really more like candy and the fruit flavor is lost behind the deeply, intensely unpleasant sweetness. But with my no sugar blackberry jam recipe, you can really taste the fruit, and, because I add a little honey to the mix, it’s beautifully...WW…