Food Articles

Homemade Butter: Our First Experience

Homemade butter is much easier than you think. It can be made several different ways, is a great project to do with children, and yields a delicious product!

A Real Food Fridge

Our refrigerator is packed with real, healthy food. Ditch the diet fad and retrain yourself to purchase, process, cook, and eat real, healthy food.

How to Use Your Garden Greens

Garden greens are and oft forgotten and much overlooked staple of traditional health. Rediscover their frugal wealth, versatility, and delicious taste.

Homemade No Sugar Added Popsicles

Follow this popsicle recipe and learn how to make popsicles that are healthy, sugar free, and delicious! Your family will think you’re a genius.

Be Kind – We’re All On A DIY Learning Curve

The DIY Learning Curve applies to everyone, beginners and expert alike. It’s okay to not know, but it’s not okay to not try. We all start somewhere.

Raw Food Dog Diet

The raw food dog diet may not be something you have heard about, but if you’re a dog owner it is something to meditate on and consider for your dog.

A Delicious and Healthier Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

Use this homemade strawberry shortcake recipe and ditch the store bought imitations that fall far short. Make your own from scratch and eat healthy dessert!

Creative Gardening [Repurpose and Save]

Creative gardening will help you utilize what you already have so you don’t spend a bunch of money on planters and other garden needs. Be creative and save.

Simple Homemade Peanut Butter

Homemade peanut butter is not difficult to make. Create you own peanut butter based on this age-old, grandmother proven recipe focusing on healthy food.

Homemade Baking Mix Recipe

This baking mix recipe is a healthier, homemade replacement for Bisquick. Make biscuits, pancakes, and more with this reworked old time favorite.

A Few of Our Favorite Amish Things

Amish made products like bar soap, cheese, raw honey and maple syrup, spices and seeds, and cookware are some of our favorites to purchase and use.

Benefits and Tips for a Vegetable Garden

Start a vegetable garden and use these tips to have success growing great food and providing for your family. There are a lot of benefits to growing food.

Sustainable Kitchen Appliances for the DIY Fanatic

A list of sustainable kitchen appliances for a DIY lifestyle. A Vitamix, pressure canner, bread machine, crock pot, and food processor are a great start!

Powder Mix Recipe for Daily Homemade Chai Lattes!

This Chai Latte Recipe makes homemade chai lattes easy. It yields one quart of powder mix so daily coffee shop chai lattes are simple and affordable again!

Homemade Pizza and Sauce Recipe

We love making homemade pizza and have done a lot of experimenting with homemade pizza sauce and crust, which allows us to pass our lessons on to you!

10 Easy Vegetables to Grow

Here are 10 easy vegetables to grow in your garden. Grow them to save money, eat healthier, and teach your loved ones about eating local and natural.

Find The CSA Farm For You [CSA Part 2]

We recently wrote about what CSAs farm shares are, now let’s focus on helping you to find a CSA that is local, inexpensive, and right for you.

What is a CSA and What Are The Benefits [CSA Part 1]

This article answers the question, “What is a CSA?” and tells you the benefits and reasons to join including supporting local farms and eating healthy.