Category: Homesteading

Making your own grape juice

Making Your Own Grape Juice

As the grapes are getting ripe, I thought this would be a good time put  on a recipe for making your own grape juice. It’s a fun do-it-yourself homesteading sort of thing, and it...

Water Witching

Even with all our modern technology, the folk method of water witching is often still used to find the ideal well spot.

Making Lye

Homemade Lye

Lye is one of the ingredients used in old-fashioned soap making. I usually make the glycerin soap because it’s safer and pours into a mold more crisply, but once in a while someone puts...