a fiber farm and artisan studio passionate about teaching you self-reliant skills for backyard homesteading.
The utopia of living off the land, isn’t. When you approach the homestead lifestyle, eager to raise your own food, adopt a more self sufficient lifestyle, and embrace a saner, slower pace in life, you will meet with adversity. Your market sales drop. Animals die. The garden fails. You run out of wood in January [...]
Yesterday I talked about the basis for deciding what you need to stock up on for the winter. If you’ve never thought about stocking up for winter before, I hope you won’t be discouraged at the task. Today I’m inviting you into my home to have a look through my food storage room. So grab [...]
This is a series on Food Preservation — taking summer’s bounty and preserving it for winter’s scarcity. Dehydrating fruits and vegetables is one of several methods of food preservation that should be in your arsenal to allow you to enjoy the benefits of fresh, vitamin rich, chemical free food year round and at the lowest [...]
Resilience is defined as elasticity — the ability to absorb energy or an event and return to the original form when the energy is removed or the event is over. The opposite of resilience is rigidity. Rigid things break when a force is applied — energy or a collision event. Wool has resilience. Its what [...]
Virgin Coconut Oil, Gold Label - 1 quart
