Back to Eden is a term by Paul Gautschi who developed a garden method that uses the natural growing environment, the way God intended. After watching the documentary and sharing it far and wide with friends, we decided we had to give it a try. Here’s how our first year went with the Back to…
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Using Simple Ingredients to Make Your Own Household Cleaners
Some of the very best all-purpose household cleaners can be made right in your own kitchen with simple ingredients that are easy and affordable to acquire. DIY household cleaners make for all-natural and toxin-free cleaning. Read on for the most common products that make for cleaning staples to keep in your home. This post contains…
Is Raising Turkeys and Chickens Together a Good Idea?
Birds of a feather flock together? Well, when your homesteading vision doesn’t exactly line up perfectly with your resources, you make do with what you’ve got. This year we raised two Bourbon Red turkeys with our backyard flock of laying hens and two Khaki Campbell ducks. Here’s how raising turkeys went for Johnson Home: This…
10 of the best kitchen tools that can help a from scratch kitchen work more efficiently
When you cook in a from scratch kitchen for most meals of the day, your kitchen sink will always be full. There’s just no getting around that. But take heart! Here are 10 of the best kitchen tools that can help a from scratch kitchen work more efficiently. You know, so we can have more…
9 Cozy Winter Hobbies that Offer Rest to the Homesteader
If you’re anything like me, it can be hard to rest. Resting feels unproductive but rest is essential. So essential, in fact, that God called for it on the 7th day of Creation. For the homesteader, farmer, grower; resting is for the winter. When the fields (gardens) are fallow, the pantry is stocked, and the…
This is the Easiest DIY Dish Soap With Only 2 Ingredients You’ll Find
For almost a year, I have been trying to perfect a recipe I found for non-toxic DIY dish soap. I bought the vegetable glycerin and the washing soda only for it to turn into a hard glob I couldn’t get out of the mason jar easily. I have played with that recipe for months now…
How does one become an accidental flower farmer?
How does one become an accidental flower farmer? With God’s help, to be sure! This is the story of how two years in a row now God has provided our farm with hundreds of gorgeous volunteer flowers. Only, it was this year that I decided to create more beauty from those already stunning blooms. One…
5 groceries you can stop buying today and how to do that!
Aht, aht. Before you start to argue you can buy these groceries cheaper and with less time than making them homemade, ask yourself to really look into those ingredients. Ask yourself if you can spare 5 minutes to make your own brown sugar. Ask yourself if you can use those chicken bones from wing night…
Is the Presto 12 Quart Electric Pressure Canner worth it?
When I put “pressure canning” on my yearly homesteading to-try board, I didn’t realize it would be ELECTRIC (or digital) pressure canning but here we are. Honestly, I couldn’t be happier with the decision! Here is my honest review of the Presto 12 Quart Electric Pressure Canner. DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated or paid by…
The Story Behind how the newsletter “Church Clothes and Chicken Toes” got its name
Recently, I dubbed my email newsletter “Church Clothes and Chicken Toes” based off a series of random Sunday afternoon posts I’d made on social media about me and my chickens. This is the story of where that name originated. Things that rhyme For starters, it kind of rhymes and I thought it was catchy. If…
