I’m in a new season and learning an exciting life skill – home canning! I wanted to share with you how I’ve started persevering food and what I’ve learned thus far. Since we have our first large country garden, as part of our baby steps toward homesteading, I knew my next skill to tackle was learning how [...]
I mentioned in my country garden tour post that we are blessed with an abundance of squash. Tonight alone we picked 14. I wanted to share an easy squash recipe that I’ve used to add a little flair to our squash infused lives. Squash Casserole Print Squash Casserole Author: Jamerrill Stewart Recipe type: Main Prep time: 15 [...]
This is our first year having a big vegetable garden and let me tell you – we are hooked! The most difficult part for our family so far was the actual test of getting our garden in the ground. Before we could till our garden we had to break up all of the ground with [...]
We’ve been growing things around here. NOT a new baby (as of yet ), but other babies – garden babies. Last night when Naomi and I went out bare foot to water the plants she said, “Mommy, this is just like being a garden angel.” I love that. These are the memories that I want [...]
Welcome to day-7 in our current series, Homeschooling for Free & Frugal. If you’ve missed any of these posts start here at the beginning of the series. Don’t forget to sign-up for your free eBook Homeschooling for Free and Frugal. Today’s post is from my dear mentor and friend, Carol J. Alexander. She is a veteran [...]
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I’m sticking my one big toe into the world of creating our own custom homestead. As a long-term goal I want to learn to raise and preserve our own food. The Lord is awakening a desire to educate myself on being more aware of what we’re eating, and cutting out carbs, sugars and chemicals. [...]
It’s been pretty normal around here. Learning abounds-we’ve been attacking the library and making a mess of our schoolroom. We also had an earthquake this week, that was something new. I took all five kiddos once-a-month grocery shopping without another adult helper. It had to be done. Hubby’s work schedule has been all over [...]
This week was a wonderful steady week at home. Here’s a rundown of some of the stuff we did. I think every week at home is a gift. *Finished reading “My Side of the Mountain” and completed copywork/notebook page for it, plus all of our normal school work. *Jumped on the trampoline – everyday! [...]
We’ve been on the road this week “Beachschooling,” which would explain this late post and lack there of. ~ Beachschooling ~ This week we hit our favorite beach in Hampton, Va—Buckroe Beach. It’s fairly unknown. Most locals snub it for Va Beach or the Outter Banks. Most out-of-towners are unaware of this treasure. For us [...]
