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Easy Bread: 3 Limited Ingredient Recipes

April 8, 2020 by Homestead Lady 2 Comments

Are you out of flour? Yeast? Only have wheat kernels but no grinder? Here are three easy bread recipes for beginners and seasoned bread bakers alike. Each recipe allows for a key missing ingredient from classic bread recipes. If you can’t get to the store before you need to make bread, don’t worry! You can make easy bread recipes with these tutorials! different breads with butter

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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Ferments, Gluten Free, Health, Healthy Grains, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Make it Yourself, Medicinal Food

Grow Food Fast – Kitchen & Garden

March 21, 2020 by Homestead Lady 6 Comments

Sometimes you just don’t have time to wait for spring, or you’ve waited too long to get the spring garden started. Other times, you’re stuck at home with illness or pregnancy but still need to feed your family. Ah, quarantines! Here are six ideas for foods you can quickly produce – grow food fast on your counter and in the garden (including pots)!

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Filed Under: Prepared Tagged With: Family Time, Ferments, Gluten Free, Green Living, Grow Your Own, Health, Healthy Grains, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Homestead Question, Kids on the Homestead, Make it Yourself, Medicinal Food, Spring Project

How to Make and Use Milk Kefir

March 19, 2020 by Homestead Lady 15 Comments

Have you heard of milk kefir? Maybe all you know is that is has some connection to probiotics and everyone seems to pronounce it differently. Well, here are the basics on how to make milk kefir, along with the benefits and ways to use it. milk kefir grains on a wooden spoon
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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Ferments, Gluten Free, Health, Healthy Grains, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homestead Question, Make it Yourself, Medicinal Food, Preserve, Raw Food

Instant Pot Grape Juice Recipe

November 11, 2019 by Homestead Lady 18 Comments

Here’s how to make a healthy grape juice recipe the easy way in the instant pot. You can drink the grape juice fresh, make jello or prepare it for canning. In just minutes you can be drinking your own fresh, grape juice!

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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Fall Project, Gluten Free, Health, Healthy Treat, Homemade, Homestead Question, Make it Yourself, Medicinal Food, Natural, Preserve

How to Plan and Plant a Medicinal Herb Garden

September 14, 2019 by Homestead Lady 28 Comments

Learn how to simply and easily plan a medicinal herb garden for all your plant-based wellness needs. Aren’t sure what herbs are traditionally considered medicinal? We can help with that, too! You CAN grow wellness, or medicinal, herbs wherever you live, in whatever space you have. …

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Filed Under: In the Garden Tagged With: Green Living, Grow Your Own, Health, Herbs, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homestead Question, Medicinal Food, Natural

3 Bedtime Bath Teas for Kids

September 8, 2019 by Homestead Lady 8 Comments

Would you like to help your children detox from  a long day of school and homestead work with a nice, hot bath? We show you simple, herbal bedtime bath teas to use daily or give as gifts. (Tip: these bath teas are great for the grown ups, too!)  Here are three combinations for the best bedtime bath teas from herbs you can purchase or even grow!
Don’t forget the FREE printable gift tags at the bottom of the article – they may just have a special coupon inside.
Also below are 23 more Quick Homemade Gift Ideas!

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Filed Under: The Hearth Tagged With: Family Time, Green Living, Grow Your Own, Health, Herbs, Homemade, Homestead Craft, Homestead Holidays, Kids on the Homestead, Natural, Traditions

The Keto Garden: Best Low-Carb Vegetables to Grow

December 17, 2018 by Homestead Lady 18 Comments

One thing you may have noticed about a plant-based diet – it’s expensive! Growing your own Keto garden and these five low-carb vegetables can save money while providing you with fresh, local produce for your family. After all, you can’t get more local and fresh than your own backyard! Tips for growing in container-growing, too, for you small space gardeners. Plant a Keto Garden l 5 low-carb vegetables to plant in the garden or in containers l Homestead Lady.com …

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Filed Under: In the Garden Tagged With: Green Living, Grow Your Own, Health, Homestead Question, Medicinal Food, Natural

Dehydrated Paleo Hash Browns

December 12, 2018 by Homestead Lady 8 Comments

You may think that because you’ve gone Paleo or even Keto that you can never enjoy your favorite breakfast foods again. No, ma’am! Try this method for making dehydrated Paleo hash browns from Paleo and Keto approved veggies. Dehydrating them before you use them is the secret to keeping them perfectly moist, without being a soggy mess.

Dehydrated Paleo Hash Browns Recipe l Make perfect hash browns each time l Homestead Lady.com

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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Gluten Free, Health, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Kids in the Kitchen, Preserve

Holiday Keto Fat Bomb: The “Sugar Plum”

November 24, 2018 by Homestead Lady 2 Comments

Who says Keto can’t be festive?! Here’s a simple recipe for a modern twist of the traditional confection, the sugar plum. Using coconut and pomegranate, this holiday Keto fat bomb recipe is sure to please. …

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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Festive, Gluten Free, Health, Healthy Treat, Homemade, Homestead Holidays, Make it Yourself, Medicinal Food

Calendula Earache Oil

November 2, 2018 by Homestead Lady Leave a Comment

Calendula Earache Oil l Herbal oil for earaches in adults and children l Homestead Lady.com

Calendula is a very useful herbal flower and very easy to grow, even for non-gardeners. Here’s a recipe for calendula earache oil from flowers we gathered clear into autumn. Be sure to check out all the other things you can make a do with calendula after the recipe!…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health Tagged With: Book Review, Fall Project, Foraging and Wildcrafting, Health, Herbs, Homemade, Homestead Question, Kids on the Homestead, Make it Yourself

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