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Home » Homestead & DIY

Homestead & DIY

We have our own little urban homestead and we are so excited to share our homesteading endeavors with you! This is where I will be talking about things like storing and preserving and dehydrating food,  harvesting rainwater, and DIY projects like making a homemade apple press, an herb and flower drying screen, or even your own beeswax food wraps!

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Gift Guide for Fermenters and Homebrewers

This gift guide for fermenters and homebrewers will give you all kinds of ideas for the holiday and Christmas season. Find ideas for fermenting kits and jars, kefir and kombucha starters, brewing supplies, books, and more. You’ll find the perfect holiday gift for the fermenter or home brewer in your life. Fermenting is a huge…

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Canning Apple Pie Filling Without Thickener

Canning apple pie filling is a perfect way to make year-round pie making super simple. Using an easy water bath method and no thickening agent, you can enjoy healthy and delicious apple pies any time you want! Is It Pie Season Yet? ‘Tis the season of pies for all events, and you won’t see me…

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Chunky Applesauce with Spices: Canning Recipe

Chunky applesauce is comfort food for me, especially this version with a glow-up of warming fall flavored whole spices. What’s better is this canned applesauce is here to stay and is on the shelf, ready to enjoy no matter the season. Glow-Up Your Applesauce The best way to give your applesauce a glow-up is to…

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How to Freeze Zucchini: Three Ways

It’s the season of zucchini over-abundance! Freezing zucchini is a great way to store it long-term, and these are three great ways to do it so you can preserve and enjoy zucchini at its best all year. A Zucchini Summer If you’ve ever experienced a “zucchini summer” in your garden, you understand the wild abandon…

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How to Freeze Berries: Two Ways

Freeze berries this summer to keep them fresh and usable long past their short ripeness window. Each berry has a freezing method that works best, it’s not one-size-fits-all. When done correctly, freezing is a great way to store fresh summer berries! Summer Berries At Their Best I basically live for summer berries. Their ripe sweet…

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Homemade Raspberry Jam: Low Sugar or No Sugar

Summer is abundant with berries, and homemade raspberry jam is a must! This low sugar raspberry jam recipe is a breeze to make, and keeps the deliciousness of raspberries on your table long after summer’s peak. Easy Raspberry Jam I love summer berries and am always looking for the best way to use and preserve…

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Homemade Deodorant with Lavender and Sage

This homemade deodorant stick is a simple recipe that actually works! Using DIY deodorant is a great way to support your health, reduce waste and chemicals, and smell good! When I first began delving into making herbal bath and beauty products myself many years ago, it all started with homemade herbal deodorant. It’s the perfect…

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Green Tomato Recipes: Cook & Preserve

These green tomato recipes will help when you have unripe tomatoes to harvest as the weather cools down before fall. If you’re buried knee-deep and wondering what to do with the abundance, try some of these methods to use and preserve green tomatoes! What to Do with Green Tomatoes By the time late summer and…

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Refrigerator Dill Pickles (Quick Pickles)

Refrigerator pickles, sometimes called quick pickles, are a fast and easy way to preserve cucumbers, especially when you don’t have enough produce to justify canning several batches. Learn how to make refrigerator dill pickles! About Quick Pickles While fermenting is one of my favorite forms of preserving foods, every once in a while I crave…

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How to Preserve Cucumbers: Ferment, Can, Freeze and More!

Knowing how to preserve cucumbers is an important skill set if you’ve got an abundant cucumber plant. Pickles, of course, are a top choice for preserving cucumbers. But there are many ways from freezing cucumbers to infusing to dehydrating that will add delicious variety to your pantry! When it’s cucumber season, sometimes you’re knee-deep in…

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Hello there! I’m Colleen.

I want to inspire you to live seasonally, become more self sufficient, and protect your health. I share information on foraging and wildcrafting, fermenting and preserving, cooking whole foods from scratch, permaculture gardening, and making herbal products. And that’s just the beginning! Learn more.

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