As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Nicole Caldwell’s book Better: The Everyday Art of Sustainable Living is billed as “one part memoir, one part theory, and one part DIY manual,” which describes it well. It tells her story … Read More
by Beth Hedrick photo credit: Ball Mason via photopin (license) If you are like me, you are drawn to candles. It’s not necessarily the scent, but more so the peacefulness and calmness that a candle or two can bring to a room. Many … Read More
by Victoria Redhed Miller We live in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains in northwest Washington state. At our elevation of about 1000 feet, we typically get a fair amount of snow between November and February. An average winter would … Read More
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. When I started reading about how to make soap, I noticed that everyone said I needed to have a digital kitchen scale. Why do I need a scale to make soap … Read More
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Today we’re visiting with Pam Dawling, author of Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres. Pam was born and raised in England and moved to the U.S. when … Read More
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres by Pam Dawling answers most of the questions I’ve heard from aspiring market gardeners and even some established market gardeners. Whether you are … Read More
Do you think you spend too much time online or on some websites? Do you check your email every ten or fifteen minutes? Is your smart phone within three feet of your body 24/7? Does your two-year-old play with your … Read More
Not only can you use mayonnaise on salads and in pasta salads or potato salad, it also is a necessary ingredient for ranch dressing, which you can make with homemade buttermilk. Mayonnaise falls into the “you can make that … Read More
When you raise goats, it’s easy to forget that bucks have needs too. Since does are the ones producing the kids and the milk, it’s obvious that they need special attention. Because bucks are only producing sperm, it seems like … Read More
A lot of people new to goats think a kid is “fat” when it has a big belly. However, a big belly — sometimes called “hay belly” — is a sign of malnutrition, either from a parasite overload or not … Read More
Thrifty Homesteader was created in 2012 after the publication of my second book, Ecothrifty. The name was coined by one of my followers because I said that I didn’t want anyone to think that they had to be rich to homestead or live a greener life....
