Welcome to the March 2010 Frugal Homesteading Carnival! Garden Renee Benzaim presents What is Compost Tea? posted at Compost Tumblers & Compost Making. She notes, “One good way to make compost tea is to soak compost in water in a bucket for a few days and then strain the liquid. You can then dilute it [...]
We’ve progressed tremendously on our debt snowball since I first posted about using the debt snowball method to get out of debt. When we started using this method to pay off debt (very important for living a frugal, homesteading lifestyle), we owed more than $44,000 to banks, credit card companies, private student loans and a [...]
Many Americans are turning to gardening as a way to raise some of their own food over the summer and ease the strain of high grocery prices, which are affecting more and more families on tight budgets. Candace at Garden of Blessings suggests Gardening for Snowflakes, which those clued in to the Snowflake idea recognize [...]
On Saturday, we brought home six new laying hens — pullets, really, that will hopefully start laying in a few weeks. These particular birds are Rhode Islands Whites, like the Rhode Island Reds, I was told, just white. While they aren’t as cute as my sisters’ brown speckled Barred Rock mix hens, they will hopefully [...]
