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Learning how to make lip balm is the entry “drug” to making our own cosmetics, deodorants, tooth powder, hand lotion, eye serum, face moisturizer, bath salts, Foot balm, and massage bars. The techniques used in making lip balm are similar to making most other cosmetic products, except soap.

How to Make Lip Balm for Summer

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How to make a summer time lip balm It’s summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.  It should mean that this longest day is also warm, inviting you to play in the garden or splash at the lake.  And ... Read More about How to Make Lip Balm for Summer

The wheel hoe prepares the rows for planting easily. In a deep mulch system, the mulch is raked aside, exposing the soil, before the wheel hoe passes down the garden bed. In early spring, much of the mulch that was laid down the previous fall is already decomposing, so there is only a light mulch to move aside. I used the cultivator teeth on the double wheel hoe to move the dirt and get the bed ready for planting. Any weeds that had managed to germinate under the thin mulch were nipped off with the cultivator teeth. Then I switched to the right and left plow blades to create a shallow furrow

7 Benefits of a Double Wheel Hoe in a No-till Garden

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Wheel hoe or rototiller My rototiller isn’t getting much use lately. It was necessary at first.  The forest doesn’t give up its own easily.  There were deep tree roots that needed cutting through, ... Read More about 7 Benefits of a Double Wheel Hoe in a No-till Garden

How to Make Gjetost from Whey

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We have an abundance of goat’s milk for the first time since getting goats 16 years ago.  While we’ve been milking goats for all those years, it was rare for us to have more than just a little milk ... Read More about How to Make Gjetost from Whey

You can grow herbs in your zone 3 garden in June

The Zone 3 Garden in June — Growing Herbs

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If you came for the Garden Tour you are in the right place.  The zone 3 garden is all about growing herbs in June.   Later in the season the annual vegetables will dominate the ... Read More about The Zone 3 Garden in June — Growing Herbs

Dulce de leche (sweet made of milk) is a caramel sauce made with sweet milk and heavy cream. In this Dolce de leche recipe I’m using whey left over from cheese making and condensed with slow cooking to create the caramel. Whey contains most of the sugar found in milk, in the form of lactose. Therefore making dulce de leche from whey, after cheese making, is an economical and efficient use of your homestead milk. The final caramel sauce has a complex flavour that is reminiscent of salted caramels. It requires patience as the whey is cooked very slowly much like maple syrup is cooked down from maple sap. It is reduced over low heat by 80%, while the lactose in the whey caramelises. Use dulce de leche as a topping for ice cream, pour it over cheese cake, spoon it into pecan tarts or pour it over custard. Cook it a little longer and you will have fudge or toffee. Whey candy is a treat!

Dulce de Leche Recipe from Whey

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Dulce de leche (sweet made of milk) is a caramel sauce made with sweet milk and heavy cream.  In this Dolce de leche recipe I’m using whey left over from cheese making and condensed with slow cooking ... Read More about Dulce de Leche Recipe from Whey

This is a soft goat cheese that is cubed in salads or spread on crackers. It's served in fancy restaurants as an appetizer. But if you make your own it will taste a thousand times better than any that you find in restaurants or grocery stores.

Goat Cheese Chevre Recipe

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And a review of Home Cooked by Anya Fernald Homemade goat cheese, grass fed beef and lamb, and fresh seasonal vegetables and fruit, these are the ingredients that make for wholesome meals.  I've been ... Read More about Goat Cheese Chevre Recipe

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