If you enjoyed my last post on our root cellar, then you’ll love this one! I started a YouTube channel in conjunction with this blog site. Please go ahead and check it out! Here’s a quick tour of our root cellar where I store root…
Category: Emergency Preparedness, Food Preservation, Food Storage, In The Kitchen, Our Home, Pint-Sized Paradise YouTube Videos, Sustainable Living, Take A TourTags: Cold Room, food and drink, Food Preservation, Food Storage, Grow Your Own Food, home canning, Homestead, Root Cellar, Self Sufficient, Sustainable Living, tour, Urban Homesteading
Posted on November 24, 2018
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Welcome, to what is probably my favourite room in our house! I always call it the root cellar but I should probably use the more appropriate term, which would be a cold room. It’s warmer and drier than a traditional root cellar should be, but…
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Posted on November 16, 2018
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This non-dairy alternative yogurt is incredibly easy to make! It’s so creamy and SO yummy! All you’ll need is: 2 – 400ml cans of full fat coconut milk 4 – probiotic capsules OR 1/2 cup of non-dairy yogurt from a previous batch A quart…
Category: Dairy Alternatives, Fermenting, Food Preservation, Recipes, Sustainable LivingTags: bake your own, Coconut Yogurt, domestic badass, Fermentation, Fermenting, Food & Drink, Food Preservation, grow your own, half-acre homestead, home grown food, make your own, pint-sized paradise, Probiotics, Recipes, Self Sufficient, Sustainable Living, Tutorial, Urban Homesteading, Vegan, Yogurt
Posted on November 14, 2018
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If you follow me on Instagram or know me in person, you probably already know that I’m a big fan cloth diapers. Don’t get me wrong, it’s had its fair share of challenges, but the pros WAY outnumber the cons. Here are a handful…
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Posted on November 7, 2018
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Kombu-what?? Kombucha is a fermented/cultured beverage that boasts some pretty wonderful health benefits. It starts out as sweetened black tea and with the help of a SCOBY (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) and a little time, it turns into a deliciously tangy, fizzy drink…
Category: Fermenting, Food Preservation, Sustainable LivingTags: bake your own, cook your own, domestic badass, Fermented Foods, Fermenting, Food & Drink, Food Preservation, grow your own, half-acre homestead, Health & Wellness, Kombucha, make your own, pint-sized paradise, Probiotics, scoby, Tutorial, Urban Homesteading
Posted on November 4, 2018
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Today I want to talk about one of my all-time favorite things to dehydrate – MUSHROOMS! They’re SO easy to do, easy to cook with, store wonderfully, re-hydrate very well and they’re super yum. No big prep, no peeling, no blanching – just wash them,…
Category: Dehydrating, Food Preservation, Food Storage, Sustainable LivingTags: bake your own, cook your own, cooking from scratch, cooking from the pantry, Dehydrating, Food & Drink, Food Preservation, Food Storage, grow your own, half-acre homestead, make your own, Mushrooms, pantry, Self Sufficient, Sustainable Living, Tutorial, Urban Homesteading