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How To Make Soap From Homemade Lye Water

Have you ever wanted to try making soap the way your grandma used to? I’ve wanted to for a long time. After all, what’s a …

If you’ve ever made soap, you may be wondering, “Can I make soap more sustainably?”. Well, I have exactly the solution for you! You can …

Have you ever ground your own flour? If you have a simple grinder, you can easily grind wheat into flour. For this edition of the …

Now that spring is here, our chickens are laying eggs like crazy again. We get about 6 dozen a week right now, and that’s more …

Did you make tallow with me the week before last? Why not try making tallow candles with me? This is an easy project for anyone …

Here on our farm, we have raised meat rabbits for about 3 years. But so far, I hadn’t done anything with the hides. I’ve always …

We had company from the city last weekend, and we had an interesting conversation. I told them that I was going to render tallow from …

In the last episode of the Self Reliant Skill of the Week, I made flour tortillas. They were a lot harder to make than I …

My family eats tortillas all.the.time. In fact, we almost use tortillas more often than we use bread! We sometimes use tortillas to make a sandwich …

If you haven’t noticed, I’m on a bit of a fermenting kick right now, which is a really new thing for me. It all started …