Gardening, Cooking & DIY Living
The Rustic Outdoor Kitchen Project With the barn party deadline looming for a party when we first built the barn – we needed to come up with a plan for our finishing our outdoor kitchen. It became a mad rush to finish up
Nothing will quite make you finish up projects like hosting a party. The barn table project has been on the “to-do” list for sometime and was one of our “TOP 30 GOALS” to accomplish for the farm this year. So,
100% nuts! Looking back – that’s what we were! The idea came with a simple pencil drawing over the winter of 2010-2011. It was what we hoped would someday become the barn to our little farm. I’m not even sure
It’s one of my favorite times of the year – Harvest Time! We are starting to pick baskets of vegetables out of the garden each day, and we don’t let anything go to waste. We love to eat fresh veggies
Over the last 6 months or so – it seems that we always have a comment or two to the blog on our canning cabinet that we built out of old shipping crates and pallets – to the point that
For us – nothing can beat the taste of a Garlic Dill Pickle! In fact, it quite simply is one of our all-time favorite canning recipes, and one of the reasons we grow so many cucumbers each year! The key is
Remember the old commercial from Paul Mason? : “We will make no wine before it’s time”. Well – theses days…I certainly have a whole new appreciation for that saying! There are some things that just take time, and grapes, grapevines
A big Thank You to Karen Thompson and Lil’ Suburban Homestead for selecting our blog to be their featured blog of the week. You can check out the story at http://lilsuburbanhomestead.wordpress.com/. Lil Suburban is a great blog based out of North Carolina
It’s getting to be that time of year – CANNING! When we built the canning pantry cupboard last year – I don’t think we realized how much we would use all of the goods stored from the garden. The cupboard,
We have used pallet wood and the left over barn wood from the two barns we tore down to do just about everything. This past week – Mary came up with one more great idea. We wanted a way to