Before my husband plowed up this year’s garden, he found a little patch of volunteer collard greens from last year. I was pretty excited...

I am crazy about finding uses for wild flowers and plants. I noticed the little purple violets all around our property. That same day I...

I first heard of souse meat when I was reading Aunt Arie, A Foxfire Portrait. The students/interviewers were visiting Aunt Arie for the...

Pork backbone, heart, kidneys. This is what I used for stew meat. (Can also use tongue, ribs, ears, tail…just the leftovers.) Before...

This post idea came from my mother. We, along with several of my friends, have always been obsessed with making things at home, instead...

My potatoes that were dug out of the garden last summer were on their last leg. They’d lasted pretty long in storage, but it’s almost...

I know you can type in kale chips on Google and probably get 1000+ recipes. We have a winter garden where our Siberian kale still grows...

I’ve mentioned in other posts that every year we butcher our own chickens. We get about 30 Cornish rock chickens, raise them for a few...

I love using weird ingredients. Maybe some of you already incorporate ghee into your cooking. I’ve been using it for years and I love it....

It is the middle of February. We have no fresh veggies coming in this time of year, but I still used our produce from the summertime! I...

It seems to me that in recent times, bone broth has become a buzzword in health circles. People are realizing how amazing it is for our...

My mother, Joy, has made this bread ever since I was a little girl. I have proof of that, because years ago I drew a lovely picture on...

For years we have experimented with different ways to peel boiled eggs. Fresh eggs are notorious for being hard to peel. I’ve messed up...

Well it has finally snowed in our part of East Tennessee. We woke up to a beautiful sheet of snow, white covered everything. The boys and...

Sounds fancy, right? I love using guinea eggs because they are so unique. The shells are really hard to crack, even though they are...