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Making your favorite store-bought drinks from scratch is the ultimate control over ingredients and spending, while also enjoying a new skill!

Skip the hard to pronounce additives and reach for drinks you know and love, made by your own hand, with fresh ingredients.

Quart sized jars of freshly canned cranberry juice.
Canning | Drinks | From Scratch Food | Homestead Holidays | Preserving

How to Can Cranberry Juice – Easy Canning Recipe

A glass gallon jar of chicken bone broth.
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Bone Broth Recipe: How to Make Nourishing Bone Broth

A small mug of hot coffee with homemade french vanilla creamer being added before enjoying.
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Homemade French Vanilla Creamer Recipe: DIY Coffee Creamer

a glass of chocolate milk with a jar of chocolate milk and two straws.
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Best Chocolate Milk for Toddlers: Chocolate Milk Recipe

Finished cup of hot chocolate bone broth on a counter dusted with cocoa powder
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How to Make Bone Broth Hot Chocolate: Unexpected Recipe

Jingle Juice Recipe (Alcoholic + Non-Alcoholic Options)
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Jingle Juice Recipe (Alcoholic + Non-Alcoholic Options)

Peppermint Mocha Creamer Recipe
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Peppermint Mocha Creamer Recipe

How to Make Pumpkin Coffee Creamer
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How to Make Pumpkin Coffee Creamer

I think it’s safe to say the 2025 growing season I think it’s safe to say the 2025 growing season is officially under way. Tired, but more than that, deeply fulfilled. This is what we live for 🫶🏼
It’s good to be back in milk… and iced coffee It’s good to be back in milk… and iced coffee 🥛
Welcome to the farm, Dolly. She was given her name Welcome to the farm, Dolly. She was given her name, before coming to us, after the great Dolly Parton; manifesting an impressive udder for milking 🤣🙌🏼
Having dairy animals is one of my favorite homeste Having dairy animals is one of my favorite homestead things. Every part of their gifts to us, the milk, is used. 🥛 milk to drink 🥛 cream for butter, ice cream, whipped cream 🥛 mozzarella, cottage cheese, cream cheese 🥛 ferments like kefir 🥛 raw milk yogurt 🥛 whey for fermenting chicken feed 🥛 fertilizer for the garden Not to mention SO much more. The possibilities really feel endless. There are recipes on the blog on my recipe index for dairy if you want to learn more. A whole year later and we are still enjoying the fruits of our labor. If you’re local to me, check out @sandyslopesfarms for some herdshare opportunities while we are taking this summer off from all the milk things 🐮
Chicks are peeping, seeds are sprouting, lambs are Chicks are peeping, seeds are sprouting, lambs are feasting, sun is shining, freezers full, cows are chewing, dogs are resting from the watch they keep. Spring is really springing here. I really do thrive in winter, but I LIVE during spring and summer 🫶🏼
Adding apple cider vinegar to your chickens water Adding apple cider vinegar to your chickens water might sound a little strange, but this simple addition can boost flock immunity, as well as a few other benefits! Head over to the newest blog post to learn more about how and why you might want to use apple cider vinegar for your chickens.
Save money on feed costs and grow happier, healthi Save money on feed costs and grow happier, healthier birds by raising chickens on pasture. Pasture raised chickens provide the BEST eggs an meat, and you can learn how to do it on your homestead, too! Check out my newest blog post for more info.
If you want to bring home baby chicks, but feel in If you want to bring home baby chicks, but feel intimidated by them, dive into my newest blog post on Raising Baby chicks. Everything you need to know, and everything you need to buy is all there in the post! We are getting ready for a new batch of layers and meat birds too - they add something so special to the homestead. The blog is always linked in my bio if you want to check it out.
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