Sourdough apple bread is versatile and can be made with either fresh apples, frozen or canned. During fall apple harvest it's great to make this recipe with fresh apples. You can snack on a few slices while making the filling. When winter hits and you want to bake a warm, hearty bread, grab some preserved apples and continue on with the recipe. It's great either way. I recently tried a recipe for Apple Pull Apart Bread by my friend Ann at A Farm Girl in the Making. One thing I never seem to … [Read more...]
Baked Venison Meatballs
I am all about quick dinner ideas these days, but I'm even more about healthy homemade meals. Often it seems the two of those do not go hand in hand. However, these venison meatballs were actually quick to put together. I'm lucky to have a husband who loves to hunt so we have a freezer full of venison. If you aren't as lucky, you can substitute ground beef and it will still be a delicious recipe! We had these meatballs with homemade sweet potato fries, but they would be great with spaghetti or … [Read more...]
Acorn Natural Dye for Wool – Fall Dye Projects
The latest darling in my dye pot is acorn natural dye. The acorns produced the perfect pewter gray shade for dyeing wool yarn. Gray is the perfect neutral shade. It pairs with almost any color, and can be used for baby gifts, toy elephants and dolphins. Gray is perfect for both men's and women's clothing and outerwear. Needless to say, I am quite happy with my latest experiments and glad to share my method with you. Preparing the Acorn Natural Dye Acorn natural dye is a fall dye that does … [Read more...]
Harvesting Natural Dye Plants
Fall is the perfect time to harvest natural dye plants and store for later use. While not all dye plants store well after being cut or gathered, quite a few will yield color just as well later, as they will fresh. You may have grown some of the plants on this list in your natural dye flower garden. If the plant contains the dye in it's roots, fall is the time for harvesting. Each dye plant has it's own specific way to harvest natural dye. When the plant, flower or nut are also food for the … [Read more...]
Three Things Chickens Don’t Need For Winter (and three that they do!)
When raising chickens naturally, there are three things chickens don't need for winter. I know it's hard to believe that chickens can and do make it through the winter months, even in very cold climates, without our interfering. How can a chicken possibly survive the cold and reach the warmer spring months healthy and happy? Because this happens over and over. Chickens all over the world weather the winter without these three things chickens don't need for winter. What are … [Read more...]
