Everyone has a guilty pleasure. Mine is butter. I like it salty, sweet, herby, garlicy, with a bit of cinnamon and honey perhaps on some warm bread. I have a butter keeper that I love and it sits on my counter and I look for excuses to scoop out of it. I love the grass-fed…
This is a recipe for Homemade Sauerkraut to Improve Your Gut Health, but it is also a story of why I want you to have it. I spent much of 2017 getting my health on track. I was lucky to be raised by parents who believed in Nature's healing powers, eating foods we grew, and…
For a few years now, we've been growing horseradish at Tulipwood. The odd thing though is that we haven't been harvesting it. It just keeps growing and growing, and we keep adding a bit of chicken manure on there which it loves, but we have never really stopped to enjoy the fruits of this particular…
Honestly, if there is one thing we all love it's a good bottle of wine. There is definitely no gift anyone appreciates more at "Friendsgiving." We have put together a few ways to jazz up a wine bottle for gifting purposes, to make your hostess smile. Keep reading for a DIY Wine Gift Bag + Free Printable Wine…
One of my favorite parts of touring for speaking engagements and book signings is that I go to some wonderful cities where I've met so many of you wonderful people. There have been fancy gift bags, fancy food and drink, Q&A's where we chatted, a lot of colorful sharpies that I used to draw in…
Have you ever made homemade candles? I grew up making them from time to time, but it entailed dunking a wick into a pot of melted golden beeswax, letting it cool slightly, and dipping again. This went on and on until I had a nice fat candle. This version which I did last weekend is…
I'm so happy to share this video version from my new Modern Pioneering series. Fruit roll-ups were a big thing when I was growing up. There were so many iterations at one point that I was in pure fruit candy bliss. Then there were the healthy versions that we'd always find at the health food…
There are a few more things still to harvest at Tulipwood, and my favorite are the red pepper plants still ripening next to the wood pile. We had quite a lot of them, but the deer decided they liked them too, so the harvest wasn't quite as abundant as we were hoping. But I gathered…
The start of fall is my family's favorite time of year to preserve fresh food we've grown in our backyard garden. We've been canning food for several years, but have never tried or even thought much about pickling. Last year, we received a jar of mouthwatering, homemade pickles as a gift. The brine and ingredients…