Do y’all make your own cleaning products? I do and there are so many benefits! Low cost: instead of spending a few dollars on a bottle of all-purpose cleaner, I buy one giant jug of vinegar that gives me several spray bottles full of homemade cleaner Low waste: When your…
put it in a jar!
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I’ve been incredibly lax with my beekeeping this spring. I can blame the weather (we seriously had rain every Saturday and Sunday in April and May), but I also don’t care that much about honey. And when you don’t care about honey, bees are incredibly easy to keep. Most of…
Fruit butters are super-easy to make. You just puree some fruit, cook it with sugar until it’s the right consistency, and then can it. Simple, inexpensive gifts. Right? Well somehow I made a batch of apple butter that tasted great but looked really bad after I canned it. Light beige…
Since my sweet banana peppers turned out to be mislabeled hot banana peppers, they haven’t been picked as much as I had hoped. Usually my peppers just get eaten straight off the plant by my mother when she comes by to visit, but she doesn’t do that when they’re this…
So we’re at the point of the year where I’ve made so many batches of tomato sauce that I’m actively searching for other things to do with all my tomatoes! I could keep making sauce, but I’m kind of bored with that right now (I type as I’m sitting here…