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Healing Tallow Salve
Simple Tallow salve that is safe to put on your skin
Homemade Worcestershire Sauce
Homemade Worcestershire Sauce is fast and easy. It takes about 5 minutes if that! When trying to cut out processed food from my diet I...
Prairie Plants in Your Yard?
Native Prairie plants in your yard are beautiful and add diversity to your landscape.
Creamy Bacon-Cheddar Spread
This spread was an instant hit for our family. I mean it's got bacon in it. Of course it's going to taste great!
Easy to make Calendula Salve
You are probably already thinking that you don't have time to make a healing salve. I thought that too! Which is why it took me a few...
Maple Baked Beans
Maple syrup is very versatile. It's great on top of pancakes, waffles, and ice cream. It can be used as a substitute sweetener but is...
The Pork Side of Pork & Plants
I know that many of you have been coming to Pork & Plants ever since Eric was a little boy. Now he is running the show and he's training...
Let's Grow Sweet Potatoes!!!
How to start sweet potatoes at home. If I can grow them so can you!
My Family's Garden!
My Family's garden. Seasonal greenhouse, Homesteading, Regenerative farming raising heritage Red Wattle Pork & 100% grass fed heritage beef
Time to Prune!
Tips on how to prune fruit trees. Homesteading skills. Regenerative farming with heritage red wattle pork and 100% grass-fed beef
A Start of a Plan! Part 1
Last fall we were blessed to be able to build a house. With the construction, mud, and our black hills spruce windbreak dying, our yard...
Tomato Blight Buster
As many of you know, I'm pretty passionate about growing healthier foods. Whether it is the beef and pork we grow, the vegetables for...
Give Me Back My Marrow Bone!
It has been awhile now since I started transitioning my family's diet to be more natural and healing. Adding bone broth has had a great...
Old Fashion Flaky Pie Crust the Easy Way.
Flaky Pie crust using red wattle lard
A Garlic How-To: My Favorite Medicinal Plant
When a friend of mine gave me my first garlic bulbs to plant, I did not realize that garlic would become one of my favorite garden plants....
Easy BBQ or Sweet & Sour Pork Ribs
If you're like me, recipes that have a lot of steps or is time-consuming tend not to be made very often. But, pork ribs is one of those...
Oh, Dear, Deer!
Hungry deer this list of deer and rabbit resistant plants may help.
Don't Get Crabby at those Eggs!
Peeling hard boiled eggs is always a gamble. It seems the Fresh eggs are the hardest. Hard-boiled eggs are a great snack. It's hard to...
Why was Little Miss Moffet Scared?
It’s hard to get over the notion that not all bugs are bad. I mean they kill your plants and can destroy whole fields of crops. They eat...
Praise the Lard
In this day and age, it seems that people (including the experts) are confused as to what is a healthy fat. While coconut oil and olive...
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