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What Are Heirloom Seeds?
It’s late winter, early spring, or fall and you’re thinking about starting some seeds for your garden. You’re not sure what kind of seeds to buy, but you’ve been told…
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Chainsaw Milling for Women
Chainsaws and chainsaw mills tend to be a male dominated field, but that doesn’t mean that women can’t join in and slab up some logs. Women can absolutely run chainsaws…
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Should Christians be Preppers?
This is a question I have been wrestling with for some time. Should Christians be preppers? There are a lot of things to be fearful of in the world. Turn…
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Homesteading Kitchen Essentials
The Making Life kitchen has been in full swing lately baking bread, making homemade tomato sauce, freezing fruits like strawberries, blueberries, peaches, and watermelon, and making tasty treats like cinnamon…
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How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract
The holiday season is upon us and for a lot of us, that means baking! There’s one ingredient you know you’ll probably need for your baking needs and that is…
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The Making Life Partners and Affiliates
Hey everyone! There are a few brands and businesses that we are partnered with and we wanted to let you know about these businesses! In no particular order, let’s get…
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How to Freeze Watermelon
This has been a strange growing season here in Pennsylvania in 2022. We had a lot of hot humid days and we also experienced drought. The deer and other critters…
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Car Camping Checklist For Your Next Big Camping Adventure
Here are some of the top items that we recommend for going on a camping trip. These are the things that if they broke, we’d buy them again. They are…
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How to Freeze Blueberries
We went blueberry picking today and we picked a LOT of blueberries. We picked eighteen pounds of blueberries between two adults and four kids. It ended up being a fairly…
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5 Day Camping Meal Plan for Families
We have a large family (four kids and two adults). We also enjoy camping and we also enjoy saving money. Recently we went on a long trip out west. We…