Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow Their Blogs Natasha – Houseful...
Have you checked out my new shampoo bar recipes? Click here or the picture below and get started. Really, if you haven’t tried making your own soap then now’s a great time. It’s very fun to choose your own scents and make your own creation, plus it’s so much more healthy! Welcome to the Homestead...
I often get asked for more shampoo bar recipes. I have a few that are my favorite that I use for our hair type. Organic shampoo bars are easy to make. If you can follow directions to make a cake, then you can follow directions for making soap or shampoo from scratch. Don’t rely on...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow Their Blogs Natasha – Houseful...
I love getting new ideas from other crafters and homesteaders. These homestead blog hops help me improve my gardening, give me great weeknight meals, and even health tips. Make sure to leave a comment below and say hi so that we can get to know each other a little more. Here’s one of my favorite...
We have great features this week! Well, we always have great features. We have such a great group of bloggers who share their expertise with us each week. People who sew, make and share great recipes, garden, and so much more. I feel really blessed to get to know some of you over the years....
How has January been treating you? It started off freezing and has become more mild for us. That makes a HUGE difference when taking care of farm animals. I had to even leave them in the coop with a small heater on for a few days there. I tried opening the door a crack and...
I hope you’ve have a wonderful week. Before we get to the Homestead Blog Hop, I wanted to pass on a few of my favorite January projects. When it’s cold outside and I hibernate inside, I like to think about Spring and make new plans for the coming garden, what new chickens or ducks I...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Before we get started, check out what’s new at Simple Life Mom: 10 Best Herbs and Essential Oils of the Year. These are recipes that were top tier and what a lot of people found helpful last year. Check them out and add a few home remedies to your...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow Their Blogs Natasha – Houseful...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow Their Blogs Natasha – Houseful...
I’ve put together so many amazing Fall soap recipes over the years. I wanted to put them all together for you. Even I didn’t remember all of them that I’ve made over the years so this was a fun reminder and inspiration to make some that I haven’t made in a while. These soap recipes...
We had three blessed years with chickens before having any problems. During those three years we had to butcher mean roosters, but we didn’t have any ailments. No sicknesses, no sores, no parasites. No need to study and use herbal remedies for chickens. It was great! If you’re wanting to get started with backyard chickens...
Goat milk soap is a classic handmade soap that is sought after for a reason. The milk added to soap makes such a moisturizing soap that it’s a traditionally THE soap to buy from artisan soap makers. It can make a hard soap bar that’s long lasting, especially when made with tallow, and so wonderfully...
I recently wrote all about how to get started making maple syrup. I discussed what equipment to use, what type of trees to tap, and when to tap them. You can learn all about how to get started here. Today I’m going to discuss how to make maple syrup from the sap that was collected....
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