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: Water Glassing Eggs

One of the inevitable consequences of having a laying flock and spring time is the seasonal glut of fresh eggs! Water glassing eggs is just…

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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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How to Create the Self-Sufficient Homestead Pantry (pt. 2)

In part 1 of How to Create the Self-Sufficient Homestead Pantry  I addressed a low cost, easy to implement technique for stocking your homestead pantry…

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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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Nourishing Traditional Diets-Weston A Price Foundation (Video)

Healthy, nutrient dense food is the cornerstone of good health. Our ancestors knew this and there is a lot that can be learned from the nutritional heritage of our ancestors. No one is a bigger advocate for educating and promoting these traditional diets than Sally Fallon-Morel of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Enjoy the full DVD presentation here…

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Preserving the Harvest: Fermented Garlic

Garlic is one of those homestead staples that goes in just about everything around our place so we grow quite a bit.  With this season’s…

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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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Make Your Own Elderberry Syrup!

I couldn’t decide whether to go with a Homestead Health segment on this one or Preserving the Harvest….elderberry syrup can literally go into either category!…

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