Lemke Homestead

A homesteading momma wanna be trying to learn a thing or two.

  • Beginner’s Guide: Starting Your First Winter Garden

    Beginner’s Guide: Starting Your First Winter Garden

    This is my first year where I’m going to try and do a winter garden. I don’t have much to add to it at the moment, so a lot of what I Want to plant might not get planted with everything else. But we’ll see how it goes. What’s my Zone? Its important to know…

  • Organize Your Groceries with an Innovative Hanging Bag Holder

    Organize Your Groceries with an Innovative Hanging Bag Holder

    When I was a kid, my grandma loved crafting things for her craft fare. Every year she tried to learn and provide a new craft at her fares, Whatever was left over, she’d also use as Christmas gifts too. Recently, I’ve been wanting to work on my sewing skills. I feel like its an important…

  • My Miscarriage Weekend

    My Miscarriage Weekend

    A few posts back, I mentioned about how I was going through another miscarriage. Well, since that post, nothing has actually processed. I’m still pregnant, with a fetus that isn’t growing. Until Monday. See, on Monday, If nothing happens naturally, they have given me a pill to take, to flush my system, since my body…

  • Hearty and Delicious Beef Stew

    Hearty and Delicious Beef Stew

    Recently, we went from temperatures of in the 90’s, to flash flood warnings, and overcast colder days that make you want to make a big batch of soup. Or in this case, Stew. While the Sunday I made this stew, it turned out to be warmer that typical stew weather, still, it didn’t turn out…

  • PCOS Diet: Transform Your Health with These Essential Tips

    PCOS Diet: Transform Your Health with These Essential Tips

    When I was diagnosed with PCOS back when I was trying to conceive my son, everything I felt started making since. My doctor was wonderful, and told me ways I could help my PCOS, ultimately the best route being a diet change. My problem was though, I was (still am) a very picky eater, so…

  • Garden Update: August

    Garden Update: August

    Would you believe I’ve written this dang post 3 different times? Three! Huge thanks to WordPress for not saving the draft like I told it too. Some my garden updates for this month aren’t so depressing this time, YAY! My yellow squash plant, which was only producing male flowers for 85% of this summer, finally…

  • Essential Items for Managing a Miscarriage

    Essential Items for Managing a Miscarriage

    One blog post ago, I wrote about my experience with Infertility, and you now know this is my 5th pregnancy loss. This time around, I was given, a “Miscarriage Kit” What is in this kit? We’ll I’ll tell you. This kit, is made by Anora. And it has everything you need to send in your…

  • An Infertility Journey

    An Infertility Journey

    Growing up, I always knew two things. 1. I wanted to be happily married and 2. I wanted more than one child. Being an only child was great at times, but other times it sucked. I didn’t want my child to have the same loneliness growing up that I had. I watched my husbands relationship…

  • Bacon Cabbage Rice

    Bacon Cabbage Rice

    July 28th marked my husbands 32nd birthday. And its a long standing tradition that you pick dinner on your birthday. Daniel has a favorite I make, and its called Bacon, Cabbage, Rice. I learned the recipe from a friend of mine, and it was THE recipe that got Daniel eating rice again (for those who…

  • Egg Foo Young – Retro Recipe

    Egg Foo Young – Retro Recipe

    Yet another recipe from my old cookbooks. This one I marked because I remember this dish fondly. Every year for birthdays or special occasions, we had a restraunt we would frequent as a family. And one thing we’d always get was the Egg Foo Young. It was my dads favorite, and he always wanted to…