Preserving the Harvest: Morels

Sun Dried Morels! It’s been a long wet spring this year and there’s still snow in patches her on the Traditional Catholic Homestead, but we…

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Preserving the Harvest: Lacto-Fermented Kale

Kale is one of those polarizing veggies that you hear so much about!  You either love it or hate it, most folks have an opinion…

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Seed Saving on the Homestead

Homestead Seed Saving The knowledge and ability to save your own seeds from one season to the next is one of those homesteader skills that…

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Homemade sourdough from the homestead!

Homemade Sourdough: From Starter to Loaf!

  For years I’ve wanted to delve into the world of bread making.  I’m a bread lover at heart.  But the task of making the…

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Preserving the Harvest: Homestead Chicken Sausage?

It’s a bit overdue, but we butchered a few of our meat chickens yesterday.  We didn’t harvest them all, just the roosters and one gimped…

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Intoducing the Farmstead Meatsmith & Homestead Scale Butchery!

If you guys have never heard of Brandon & Lauren Sheard of Farmstead Meatsmith fame you are really missing out!  For those of you who…

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Pastured Turkey Basics….

I know it’s not really the time of year to start your hol(y)iday turkeys out on pasture, but it is the time of year to…

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Real Chocolate Pudding — Spirited Rose Homestead Dairy Farm

Here’s a bit of homestead dairy goodness sourced from a farm here in the Inland Pacific Northwest that I thought I would share with you…

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Why and When to Thin Your Apples….

Well now that Spring has finally arrived up here on the homestead in North-Central Idaho the grass is growing and the apples are finally starting…

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Homestead Harvest….Using the Whole Chicken!

It’s one of those sad realities of life on the homestead that the day will come when Little Red Hen will out stay her welcome…

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