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Top Five Canning Mistakes (and solutions)
Have you ever gotten your hand on a perfect batch of green beans, decided to can them and spend hours of work dealing with jars and lids, only to have it turn into a big, soggy, cloudy mess? So have...
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67 Uses for Lavender Essential Oil
Lavender is the most versatile of all essential oils. Most commonly known for its relaxing effects on the body, lavender has been highly regarded for the skin. It may be used to cleanse cuts, bruises...
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How to: Freezing tomatoes in 3 easy steps!
Sure, canning is fun and all, but sometimes it can be a little time consuming. Try freezing instead. We talked to Robin Seitz, the nutrition specialist and Extension Agent at the Onslow County (NC)...
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How to: Fermenting Foods – The Joy of Fermentation
For a few thousand years now, people have been fermenting foods. Many of the foods — even the highly processed ones — we all (guiltily) enjoy are fermented: Chocolate, soy sauce, coffee, olives and...
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5 Ways Essential Oils Can Improve Your Life
What Are Essential Oils? Join the Oily Homestead Facebook Group to learn more about Essential Oils. The world of essential oils is huge. There are SO many uses for essential oils, learning about them...
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Quick, Easy, and Inexpensive Ways to Decorate the Home on Your Homestead
As homesteaders we garden, we care for our livestock, we bake from scratch, we sew, cook, and can leaving us very little, if any, time and resources to focus on the inside of our home. But the home...
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Preparing Food for Storage
For a gardener, nothing stings more than spending all season growing your own food only to have it rot in the refrigerator. It happens all the time. That’s why it’s best to clean or prep veggies right...
View ArticleRead the October/November Issue of From Scratch Magazine
Check out coverage from Farm Aid 2014, a great meal planning strategy for busy families looking for home cooked meals, herbal teas to improve your health and find out how to win a $150 gift certificate...
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13 Things about Pumpkins that You didn’t know
Most parts of the pumpkin are edible, including the flesh, the seeds, the leaves and even the flowers. Pumpkins are part of the cucurbit family of plants, related to squash, cucumbers, gourds and...
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Sustainable Ag Conference Coming To Greenville, SC
The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association is celebrating its 29th Sustainable Agriculture Conference in Greenville, SC this year on Nov. 10-12. The conference is a chance for farmers, vendors,...
View ArticleAmazing Bloggers work to cover Sustainable Ag Conference
Several amazing bloggers are working with the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association this year’s Sustainable Agriculture Conference. Find out more about them below: Brendan Buttimer Brendan Butter is...
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Mushroom Revolution: The benefits of raising up a fungi
Photo courtesy of CFSA Editor’s note: The following is a excerpt from Chris Senters’ blog posted on The Sweet Potato, the Carolina Farm Stewardship blog. Senters was one of several bloggers covering...
View ArticleListen to a Radio Show about the Sustainble Ag Con
Missed the Sustainable Agriculture Conference in Greenville, SC? Don’t worry: Lisa Almaraz, of Eartheart Network Radio, by way of Living Webs Farm, covered the event. Listen to a recording from the...
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Cotton Inspiration
Every year around this time my family that lives in the Midwest and up north send me photos of the snow that is falling. They talk about snow suits and chains on tires and shoveling the driveway…...
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Growing a Greener World with Theresa Loe
Photo from growingagreenerworld.com This article originally appeared in the Oct/Nov. Issue of From Scratch magazine. It was written by Chris McLaughlin, From Scratch gardening editor. She’s also the...
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Top 7 ways to market your farm
Editor’s note: A version of this story originally appeared unabridged on the Sweet Potato Blog. It was written by Maya Jackson of Jaxton Creative Group. Jaxton was one of the bloggers charged with...
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How to winterize your tiller
While we tend to use a tiller year round, we know some people don’t have that option due to freezing temperatures and frozen ground. For those poor souls, this means you’ll be putting your tiller up...
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Remembering Silent Spring – Anniversary of the ban of DDT in the US
November 20 is the day that in 1971 DDT was banned in the US. DDT was used during WWII (and in some countries still used today) to combat malaria and typhus and it was also used as an agricultural...
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Winterize your garden beds
If you haven’t already, now’s the time to get your garden beds all tucked in for winter. Here’s our methods for winterizing your garden bed. If you follow these tips, your beds will be all ready for...
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The Herbarium
The Herbal Academy of New England has launched an amazing new resource that you MUST take advantage of! “Inside these digital walls, we’ve transformed the traditional herbarium, a collection of dried...
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