I love canning. There, I admitted it. The feeling of opening jars of homemade goodness during the cold winter months is unparalleled. So today, let’s explore one of my favorite meal starters with “How to Can Dry Beans in a Pressure Canner”! You’re going to need a few things to get started: Pressure Canner (I…
Preserving Food
4 Ways to Dehydrate Herbs
It’s that time of year, when the herbs seem to be growing faster than I can harvest them! That’s why I’m excited to share “4 Ways to Dehydrate Herbs” with you! You might remember my post a while back “How to Design an Herb Garden“. Well, that little garden is cranking out some serious amounts…
113 Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas from the Kitchen
It doesn’t have to be the holiday season to think about gift giving. It’s the height of canning season, which is the perfect time to be thinking about home canned gifts! With more people turning away from consumerism and buying local, home canned gifts are always appreciated and will bring compliments for months to…
54 Ways to Be More Sustainable
In “54 Ways to Be More Sustainable”, you’ll discover big and small ways and ideas to promote sustainability in your home…no matter where you live! Creating more sustainability and self-reliance in your life brings more freedom from unfulfilling jobs, stress and debt. By becoming more sustainable, we gain confidence and freedom that we can indeed…
The Right Way to Freeze Strawberries
Strawberry season is right around the corner! Whether you pick your berries at a U-pick farm, grocery store or gather them from your own garden, you’ll want to know “How to Freeze Strawberries”. I absolutely LOVE to freeze strawberries, we use them all year round! We are big smoothie fans, but frozen berries are also…
13 Clever Ways to Manage Your Leftovers & Save Money
I think everyone struggles with what to do with leftover food. How do you get your family to eat leftovers? What are some ways to make them last longer? Can you plan meals around them? Absolutely! Let’s talk about “13 Clever Ways to Manage Leftovers & Save Money”! Leftover food management is nothing new…
