Have you seen those amazing wreaths you can buy for hundreds of dollars? Why not make your own fancy pants wreath!? If you follow the Countryside Romantic Instagram account (/countryside_romantic/), you know that I’ve been obsessing over my lambs ear. I can’t stop petting it! If you’ve never heard of lambs ear, as I hadn’t […]
How we went from only being able to grow peppers to growing 8 different types of vegetables for less than $40! In fall of last year I was frustrated by my growing season. We had used small wooden wine boxes and managed to grow a crazy abundance of hot peppers. Virtually every single other […]
This is a for all of you out there who think that yogurt is just okay. It’s also for those of you out there who refuse to try yogurt, because you ate it one time and it was too this or that. And for those of you who already love yogurt, stick around … because […]
Use up that stray wax, and make some magical, glitter candles! What to do with all that leftover candle wax? Y’all know about the 5 R’s, right? All together: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recycle! This is a pretty new concept for me, honestly. As I discussed before in my Homesteading As A Renter […]
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The Best Darn Udder Balm Your Hands Will Ever Meet In the winter I worked for an equine rescue. Between the freezing cold temperatures at night, and the super hot water we offered to the horses, my hands were left a wreck. Though that may sound low and petty, it’s pretty hard to do […]
Sometimes I brood. Having any background with chickens will probably make you laugh at that sentence. But, of course, I mean it in a human sense: pining, wishing, wanting, not having. I want some land, but wantin’ ain’t gettin’. So, I make do in my 900 sq ft home surrounded by about an acre of […]
The garden can become stressful. All of your tomatoes turn red at once, and birds dance above you waiting for you to leave so they can peck more holes through those luscious red skins. A whip cracks above your back as you try to bring in all of the ripe zucchini, cucumbers, summer squash […]
Purpose: everyone’s got one. It’s like having a dog. You feed it, you tell it (and yourself) that it’s the best one that’s ever existed, you strut it out in public so everyone can see you and your purpose, and getting one is an obvious step in any serious American adult’s life. But what […]