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Soap Making 101 – Nysia's Homestead Journey
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Nysia's Homestead Journey. I have been making soap for my family for years! They love my soap. I also sell my soap online (but mostly to friends and family! I first started selling. My soap as a fundraiser. For my daughter’s trip to Europe with People to People. Several people purchased soap and some still buy from me. First, What is soap? Why does soap work? Basically, the soap molecules form a pocket, called a micell, around the dirt molecules allowing them to be washed away. Both the cold process and ...
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Canning 101 – Nysia's Homestead Journey
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Nysia's Homestead Journey. What you need and why. I want to talk a little bit about canning. You can’t live on a self sustaining, off grid homestead without learning how to can. You need to be able to put up enough of your hard earned harvest to survive the winter. Here is a list of things you should have to begin canning and why they are needed or useful:. Tested preserving recipe book. Such as the Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving. Common kitchen utensils, such as wooden spoon, and ladle. Most new jar...
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Canning Recipes – Nysia's Homestead Journey
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Nysia's Homestead Journey. Michael and I have recently been buying up butter when it was on sale. Last time we canned butter (around 2010) it was $1.50 per pound normal price. The butter we recently purchased was $2.50… More. Canning Eggplant “Tapenade”. The best use of eggplant I have found so far. I found the recipe here and boy am I glad I did. We recently harvested 15 gallons of eggplant with more on the plants growing! Last weekend we harvested 15 gallons of veggies from the garden (again! These are...
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Evaluating the Bathroom | Living Lighter in Atlanta
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Living Lighter in Atlanta. Losing the baby weight, anxiety, and other heavy things. Jan – March. December 15, 2016. February 21, 2017. Today I’ll be evaluating how economical and eco-friendly I am in the bathroom. I would love any and all input from you on how you save money and/or make green(er) choices for. Bathroom. Let me know in the comments! No, I just can’t. So we buy whichever brand of tissues are cheapest. We use Kirk’s natural bar soap for washing our hands as well as in the shower. I...But the...
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Best Garlic Dip Ever… and More | Farmer Hick's Homestead
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Farmer Hick's Homestead. Homesteading, off-grid and natural living, gardening, herbs and more. Best Garlic Dip Ever… and More. With the abundant, fresh garlic at my disposal it makes sense to use lots of it in my cooking and food preparations. I love using garlic and my favorite recipe is a garlic dip. To begin, you’ll need 3 garlic. And an onion. Cut off the very tips of the garlic bulbs, like so. While the garlic is cooling you can prepare the rest of the dip. You’ll need:. Hope you try it. So many way...
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Merry Christmas! | Maria Jansson Photography
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Empowering Photography. Hello at: MariaJanssonPhotography@gmail.com. December 25, 2016. By Maria Jansson Photography. I wrote this motivating post about achievements, and goals, almost a year ago. With 2017 quickly approaching, it’s time to look over my long term goals, and see how they are progressing. Am I on the right path? The updates of my longterm goals are written in red, directly after the goals. And relate to my story? To others sometimes means that I am saying no. To myself, and vice versa....
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Damselflies | Little Wild Streak
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Species List – Birds. Species List – Butterflies. Species List – Dragonflies. Species List – Reptiles and Amphibians. What I Saw Today. November 24, 2016. Damselflies are easy to sort into groups by their silhouettes and by how they hold their wings, but within the groups, it isn’t easy to tell the species apart. There are about 30 species I could expect to see in my part of Texas (77 throughout the state) so there is a possibility I will learn them all. You can click on the images to see a larger version.
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Real or Fake? | Little Homestead Adventures
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December 11, 2016. The Most Wonderful Time. The Time is Now. Salty Little Homes…. On Real or Fake? On Real or Fake? Kim black on Real or Fake? On Real or Fake? Besides being my favorite time of the year, when the seed catalogs come. It is of course, also the Christmas season. I like to keep things simple during this season, but it is looking like Christmas around the Little Homestead. The stockings are hung. This week the temperatures dropped, and today it snowed almost all day. Perhaps there are studies...
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