You asked for it, now you got it! Here’s a review and tutorial of me showing you how to mill wheat into flour using my Vitalmill grinder. I use hard winter white wheat. If you are not sure which kind of wheat to get, you may want to revisit my …Read More
Homesteading Skills
Making Pumpkin Puree
I made some pumpkin puree this evening to freeze for making pies and mostly pumpkin bread and I thought I’d post a how-to. It’s actually fairly simple to make the puree but I try to do it as easily as possible.
Unique Ways To Save Money
Many of my readers I’m sure are already the homesteading type. As I mentioned in my last post, I have been trying to get really intense on little ways to make or save a little money here and there so we can put it towards our goal of living on …Read More
The financial state of the USA and preparing
Something that I wanted to share and maybe it’s just me wanting to put thoughts to paper. I work at a credit union as a lead, which means if there are any big problems with people’s accounts I get to muddle it all out. Given that, and also the fact …Read More
A nice sunny weekend! Part 1
Hi everyone! Well this last weekend was great! Sorry about the long absence… no promises that it won’t happen again, either I just don’t have time while I’m still working but the good news is we probably only have another 6-9 months to go before I can officially be a …Read More
The Piteba Oil Expeller – Making Hand Pressed Pumpkin Seed and Sunflower Oil
I got myself a nice new Piteba oil expeller and this post will show me using to to make hand pressed pumpkin seed and sunflower oil. Here’s the machine. It’s imported from Holland… oddly enough this sort of tool is not easy to get a hold of here in the …Read More
Making cold-pressed vegetable oil with a hand-cranked expeller
Hi everyone! Long time no see, eh? OK well the truth of the matter is that my job basically sucks the life out of me these days, leaving me listless at the end of the day and no energy to do anything creative usually, especially not blogging. The light, however, …Read More
Dehydrating
Sorry about the long absence, all my faithful fans There was a small IE problem at work and when it was “fixed” for some reason I can’t get blogger to come up, and since that was where I did most of my posting… well.
SO disappointed… they took my milk away :(
Well, not fully away, but mostly. We get WIC from the state which helps us a LOT right now. We go through probably 3-4 gallons of milk a week. I was so excited last month when I posted that there is now local fresh milk in the stores from the …Read More
Milky goodness
The other day I was at the grocery store and I needed to get milk. I was walking through the aisle and as I was approaching the milk section I noticed something different. A strange new brand of milk was next to my normal Darigold. As I walked closer, I …Read More
I'm
a thirty-something wife and mother of two and I firmly believe that people
should be living life on their own terms. My terms involve
lots of domestic things, animals, and teaching my daughters to drive a
tractor. We're not on our property yet, but so far I've made it from
working city mother to country housewife. Follow along my journey with
me! I blog here at Uncle Dutch Farms and I also have another site at 
