Author Archives: Slocum's Creak

Dehydrating is a great way to not only store food but to also have good wholesome food from your harvest or sales at your local stores or farmers markets available when your ready to use it. Food that may have otherwise spoiled months earlier can easily be saved and stored as it will take upContinue reading “Dehydrating Foods”

If your working towards self sustainable living milling your own grains can be rather satisfying. I have provided a link to purchase the mill shown below. It may be more than you want to spend, then again it may be just exactly what your looking for. When I bought my first mill I went onContinue reading “Milling Grain”

Want to homestead but not real sure where to start? Here’s an affordable book that could help you on your journey. The link below is an affiliate link and if you purchase this or other items after following the link I may earn a small commission that adds nothing to your cost but helps meContinue reading “Back yard Homesteading.”

So today I finally decided to make bread from scratch. It’s not real pretty but it’s tasty! I Googled the recipe and you can find plenty of recipes online easily as well and so I won’t put it on here, it was real easy and I won’t be buying bread from the store anymore!

I often see these books being highly recommended on the homesteading groups I belong to on Facebook. These are the Firefox books and yes, this is an affiliate link as I had mentioned before. It cost you nothing to use for follow link and if you purchase something I make make a little something.

The other day someone came into the shop eating pinion pine nuts. Some were dropped and I found a couple the following day. I’ve decided to try and sprout them, yes I know it will take a long time for them to grow to a size that will produce more nuts but I figure ifContinue reading “Pinion Pine Seed”

Today I’m showing you my kiwi plants and will explain a bit about how we started them. I had come across a video on growing kiwi from seed on YouTube. So the boys and I decided to give it a go. First thing I did was cut a thin slice from the fruit and thenContinue reading “What’s Growing?”

I spend more and more time at my makeshift desk these days. I have recently started an online business course that I am hoping one day will be a big chunk of my income freeing up more time to do the things I want to do. The boys and I are working on what theyContinue reading “What’s on my desk”

My planner is one of those simple $1 binder journals you can pick up from any dollar store. White paper. I’m an obsessive note-taker and fill pages to the margins About one hundred pages or so and contain to do lists, rough sketches, and ideas for blog posts. Often times things are not written downContinue reading “My daily planner”

There are millions of tips out there for homesteading by those more qualified than myself and can be found on Facebook groups and Google searches. I plane on sharing things I have found helpful over time and encourage you to share things you have found helpful as well!