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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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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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Is it Cheaper to Grow Your Own Food?
I was having a conversation with my brother about gardening, and he reasoned that gardening is not a money-saving venture. I’ve also seen memes and jokes about how expensive gardening…
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How to Make Hand Dipped Beeswax Candles: Candle Dipping Basics
Do you want to go back to simpler times? A time when people made their own candles and lived in cabins heated by firewood? Well, I can’t promise you that,…
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How to Make a Dried Citrus Wreath
Want to make a lovely, minimalist, wreath with dried citrus fruit to hang on your door and spread holiday cheer (or really any time of the year just to look…
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How to Dry Citrus: and What to Do With It
Deck the halls… it’s winter (almost). The days are short. It’s dark when I wake up. It’s dark shortly after the kids get home from school. Am I the only…
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How to Make Rolled Beeswax Candles
I don’t know when you will be reading this, but at the time of writing it, we’re right in the middle of the holiday season. I don’t know about you,…
