My grandma use to make the best pound cake ever. She would even make her regular cakes more like pound cakes because she enjoyed eating them plain without icing. My…
Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
A couple of years ago—after fighting with digestive issues that I couldn’t explain—I realized that I had a gluten/grain sensitivity. Not necessarily celiacs disease, but a major sensitivity to gluten…
Herbs for Homestead Bees
The buzzing of pollinators in a garden—it’s a sound every gardener loves to hear in the spring. It means healthy plants and vegetables will soon arrive, and our little bee…
Old Fashioned Mennonite Cinnamon Rolls
Cinnamon rolls. My goodness, you can make them so many ways. Regular, raspberry, blackberry, peach….help me, Jesus. These are my go to cinnamon rolls. I’ve tried so many other recipes…
Essential Oils and Herbs for Ear Infections
Essential oils and herbs for ear infections can be just as effective as antibiotics, but we’re often too scared to try them out. Ear infections are one of the most…
Homestead Fixer-Upper | Small Farmhouse Style Living Room
We set out on a journey to buy our first home in 2008, two years after we got married. We were ambitious little things, but we knew that the only…
