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Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV)

(this post contains affiliate links, see the details in my affiliate disclosure) Do you process apples come fall time and have lots of scraps leftover that you just hate to throw out? Let me introduce you to a super easy, low work project that will reward you with and amazing and useful product, apple cider vinegar! All you will need to do this is: A clean container (I used a five gallon food grade bucket) Read more…

Homemade Vanilla Extract

(this post contains affiliate links, see the details in my affiliate disclosure) Don’t you just LOVE the smell of vanilla extract? Growing up my mom would refuse to use anything but the real vanilla extract, preferably some she bought in Honduras on one of their mission trips. It is substantially cheaper to purchase real vanilla extract in Honduras or Mexico. When we lived in California we would always attend the different swap meets or cross Read more…

Water Glassing Eggs

(this post contains affiliate links, see the details in my affiliate disclosure) So, we are something of chicken farmers. Our flock expands and shrinks throughout the year, some growth is planned, e.g. broilers or quail for meat and some is not e.g. run into Bomgaars or Tractor Supply and can’t resist the cute floofy balls of cuteness! I’m not sure if myself or my husband is worse about that…either way, between friends giving us birds Read more…