For years I have read that it is all too easy to romanticize the simple life. You know, the life where you haul water, live without electricity, and have to drive at least fifteen minutes to town. Kind of like our life right now. The thing about homesteading, from what I can tell, is that…
This past week I started up I delved into a variety of topics in my articles at Saving Money Plan and Saving Naturally. I continued our Saving at Home series with a post about the frugal and natural cleaners I have used over the past few years: Saving at Home: Cleaning Products Then I delved…
This past year I decided to go out on a limb and share my recipes, photos, thoughts, and dreams with you all in the form of a cookbook. When I released Simple Food {for winter} in December I didn’t know what to expect. Since then I have been overwhelmed by the response and so…
Two things we’ve learned since we moved off-grid are that everything happens at a slower pace and sometimes the smallest completion of a task can mean more than you realize. Take, for instance, the day we moved our bed from the camper to the cabin. My husband built a bed frame into the cabin and…
