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Beginner’s Guide: Starting Your First Winter Garden

Bymiranda September 5, 2024September 5, 2024

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…

Gardening

Garden Update: August

Bymiranda September 2, 2024

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…

Cooking/Recipes

Egg Foo Young – Retro Recipe

Bymiranda September 2, 2024September 2, 2024

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…

Gardening

Garden Update- July

Bymiranda September 2, 2024September 2, 2024

This heatwave has put quite the bump in the road for my garden. At first, i noticed it was just my little flower sprouts that didn’t like it. That I could understand, I started them pretty late. But then I noticed my zucchini wasn’t enjoying it, my blooms were starting to slow down drastically. My…

DIY | Life

$185, Food Stamp, One Income.

Bymiranda September 2, 2024September 2, 2024

Times are tough; you can either spend your time crying about how stressed you are, or you could look for a solution. I decided instead of ‘surviving’, I was going to find ways to use everything I do have to their greatest potential. What can I do to make things last longer? What combinations of…

Cooking/Recipes

End of the Month Quesadilla’s

Bymiranda September 2, 2024September 11, 2024

It’s the end of the month. You got a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Maybe you could do tacos. But maybe you don’t’ have all the toppings you really like on them. In my case, that was it. I had one pound of hamburger in the fridge, Some Corn Tortillas…

DIY | Gardening

Garden Tea

Bymiranda September 2, 2024September 7, 2024

You don’t have space for a compost, or maybe you don’t have the patience. I can relate to both reasonings. I was in a similar predicament until I saw a Facebook video while scrolling my feed. They soaked banana peels in water for 8 hours and it was a great fertilizer for their house plants….

Cooking/Recipes | DIY | Gardening

Fresh Tomato Cucumber Salad

Bymiranda September 2, 2024September 2, 2024

Well, the heat is here to stay for a while, so prepare yourselves for my Summer Food Series. This recipe is a new one in my book, thanks to my Aunt. It was under sad terms, a death in the family, but it was a memory I’ll never forget. We got into town in the…

Gardening

Garden Update-June

Bymiranda September 2, 2024September 2, 2024

Its June, and my garden is doing Amazing things! I’ve even started harvesting a bit! Its been so exciting how well its been doing so far. But I can already tell the heat is going to be a struggle. Now, you might wanna go read my other posts about my gardens so you know what’s…

Cleaning | DIY | Gardening | Storage and Organizing

DIY Lavender Fabric Softener: A Simple Guide to Fresh, Natural Laundry

Bymiranda September 2, 2024September 15, 2024

When I saw this recipe in my homesteading book, I saw the measurements and at first was like ‘man, I don’t think I have enough at the moment’ . I was fully prepared to go out to my lavender plant, which, I don’t think is really enjoying this Redding heat, and grab some more lavender…