I know how frustrating it can be to boil up a farm fresh egg, just to have it fall apart in a mess when you start to peel it! Here is a quick and easy way to have easy-to-peel fresh eggs! When we first got chickens 10 years ago I could hardly wait to boil […]

The Best Way to get Farm Fresh Eggs to Peel!

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These easy paper bag stars were a huge hit last year. In this tutorial I’ll show you how we make our fun paper bag starts! Once a holiday hits and the kids are home, we love putzing with easy homemade decorations to make our home feel, really, like OUR home. Finding things we already have […]

How to Make Easy Paper Bag Stars

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brown paper bag star hanging in a window

There is comfort food and then there are these Homemade Caramel Rolls! Growing up my mom made two different kinds of homemade cinnamon rolls. The kind with the white frosting and these- made with the Watkins Vanilla and Cinnamon that she would bring home from work when she worked for Watkins. And because nothing in […]

How to Make Mouth Watering Caramel Rolls

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Cinnamon rolls

Planting Garlic can easily become a plant-it-and-forget-it type of crop. It’s one of those plants that can grow year after year! This Post May Contain Affiliate Links. Please Read Our Disclosure Policy. After years of experimenting with many different growing areas and making tons of mistakes like planting the garlic bulbs in the spring :/ […]

How to Grow Garlic | An Essential Guide to Successfully Planting Garlic

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hearty sol sitting on the edge of my raised bed, holding a red bushel basket of garlic cloves

Braiding garlic can be both pretty and functional. If you properly harvest, dry, cure and store your garlic, they have the potential to last up to 6 months! This year we harvested lots of garlic out of our raised beds. It’s always a treat to harvest something that was planted way back in the fall. […]

How to Braid Garlic for Storage

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braided garlic

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