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DIY Square Foot Garden Modifications

I wrote a couple weeks ago about how you can make your own Square Foot Garden based on the designs by Mel Bartholomew. The following post is to serve as a companion piece and showcase some of the modifications I have done to improve my beds. You can see the original post by clicking HERE.

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DIY: Making Pectin

Pectin is a naturally occurring extract made by boiling apples. It is also the thing you add to jelly or jam to make it gel, otherwise you are just left with a fruity liquid. If you make your own jelly and jam then you probably go through a lot of pectin. If you are buying [...]

Easy Egg Salad Recipe

Here is my recipe for Easy Egg Salad. It is one of my favorites; good on lettuce, on a sandwich, with crackers or just by itself. Sometimes I like to double up this recipe at the beginning of the week and then make sandwiches from it for lunch as needed.

You will need: Medium sized [...]

Winter Homestead Projects

If you are like me, you find yourself climbing the walls in the winter for lack of things to do. It can be frustrating. The ground is too cold to dig, but you want to do something constructive on the homestead. So, I decided to just sit down real quick and make a list of [...]

DIY Square Foot Garden

I use the Square Foot Garden method for gardening for one reason. I am lazy. Pure and simple. If you haven’t heard of this method before, it is awesome! It is the no digging, no weeding method of maximizing garden space popularized in the book, All New Square Foot Gardening by: Mel Bartholomew. In fact, [...]

Easy Swedish Meatball Recipe

This is one of my favorite recipes and is super easy to make. I serve it a lot at parties with toothpicks as an appetizer, but it is also delicious as a entree served over rice. Every time I make this for people someone always asks for the recipe.

Swedish Meatballs cooking in the [...]

Reinforcing the Cold Frame

There is a reason we test things. LOL. I was fortunate to get my cold frame/mini greenhouse up before it got too cold. However, about a week ago it rained for about 3 days straight. Curious, how my cold frame would hold up, I went outside as soon as it was dry. Luckily, it had [...]

Easy Homemade Apple Sauce Recipe

My wife got me some apples from the local orchard so, I decided to make apple sauce in the crockpot. It was really easy and I though I would share the recipe. I actually have a really big crockpot and did double the ingredients below, but I figured not everyone would have that. I was [...]

Do It Yourself (DIY) Minnow Trap

A minnow trap or small fish trap can easily be crafted with nothing more than a knife, some cordage and 2 plastic bottles. Large bottles work best such as 2 Liter bottles, big Gatorade bottle or the big apple juice containers. Take the cap off one of the bottles and with your knife cut the [...]

Making a Coldframe

For most of my beds I just mulched them with leaves, but I decided to turn one of my 2 x 8 foot beds into a coldframe. I tried to keep things as cheap, semi-permanent as possible and of course it was all DIY work.Next year, I’ll try for something more permanent, but this year [...]

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