Want to transform your backyard to a food producing garden that also attracts wildlife? Choosing from these 10 shrubs for a wildlife-friendly, edible landscape, would be a great start! Wildlife value and edible parts of each shrub are described.
Continue reading
Quick and easy, rich and creamy, absolutely delicious, and egg free. Pretty much sums up malted chocolate ice cream with crushed malted balls.
Continue reading
The survivalism trend is growing, but if taken to the extreme, the environmental impact could be disastrous. Ironically, modern technology can help us apply survival skills to sustainability causes. Here are some skills you can learn, and how you can use them to contribute to conservation.
Continue reading
Honey spiced dried apple rings are a nutritious snack and delicious addition to many other treats. Try a traditional or chai spice mix, or create your on spice mix.
Continue reading
An invasive plant becomes a delicious jam. This autumn olive jam is made the old fashioned way, so it doesn’t separate. It’s thick, substantial, deliciously sweet-tart, and laden with health promoting anti-oxidants,
Continue reading
Unsure if you want a single breed or a “rainbow” flock of hens? Most backyard chicken keepers will get more out of a mixed flock of heritage breeds. Here’s why.
Continue reading
Learn about identification, health benefits, and uses of chokeBerry, one of the less well known edible wild plants, in Foraging Aronia Berries. You will also learn not to confuse it with the better known chokeCHerry.
Continue reading
Learn how to select, prepare, and properly dry tomatoes, for excellent results and safe storage, in 6 Tips for Drying Tomatoes.
Continue reading
This delicious goat milk ice cream contains no cow milk products. Egg yolks make it rich and creamy. The egg whites are used in the oatmeal cookies which stay soft when frozen. They’re the perfect complement for Chocolate Goat Milk Ice Cream Sandwiches.
Continue reading
Great flavor from wild elderberries, and natural pectin from slightly under-ripe apples, blend perfectly in this old fashioned Seedless Elderberry Apple Jam. Delicious on toast, in pbj sandwiches, and mixed with plain yogurt. Try this one. It’s a winner.
Continue reading