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Easy Root Vegetable Storage Ideas That Need No Root Cellar

May 26, 2021 by Kristi Stone 3 Comments

various root vegetables - Easy Root Vegetable Storage Ideas That Need No Root Cellar - Stone Family Farmstead

As a gardeners, one of the goals of growing your own food is to achieve good nutrition to put on the dinner table. Most crops are preserved by some sort of food preservation method like canning. However, if you have a root vegetable storage plan, you can cut out a lot of extra work for yourself! Root Vegetable Storage Made Easy The benefits for storing root vegetables ...

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Filed Under: HOME & HOMESTEAD, SEASONALTagged With: FALL, PRESERVING FOOD, WINTER

How to Make Fruit Leather from Any Fruit

May 26, 2021 by Kristi Stone Leave a Comment

rolls of fruit leather - How to Make Fruit Leather With Any Fruit - Stone Family Farmstead

If you have your own fruit trees or partake in loss leader deals at the store, you may find yourself with lots of extra fruit on hand during the summer. Rather than letting your overripe fruit go into the compost pile, why not take advantage of the sweetness of fruit at this stage and learn how to make fruit leather? It's nature's candy! So you've made your strawberry jam, ...

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Filed Under: HOME & HOMESTEAD, RECIPES, SEASONALTagged With: FALL, FRUIT, HOMEMADE, PRESERVING FOOD, SUMMER

How to Make a Delicious Peach BBQ Sauce {+ Canning Instructions}

May 24, 2021 by Kristi Stone Leave a Comment

fresh peaches - How to Make a Delicious Peach BBQ Sauce {+ Canning Instructions} - Stone Family Farmstead

Whether you are purchasing peaches from the store or using your peach harvest, you may not have thought of making something savory with them. After you've made your jam, fruit leather, and wine, make sure to save a few lbs to make peach bbq sauce! Barbecue is some of the best food on earth, thank God it's so easy to do! Todd and I ran across this recipe when we were trying ...

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Filed Under: HOME & HOMESTEAD, RECIPES, SEASONALTagged With: FRUIT, PRESERVING FOOD, SUMMER

How to Make Fig Wine at Home {Step-by-Step Instructions}

May 19, 2021 by Kristi Stone 20 Comments

Summer is the season when many delicious fruits are harvested. Sometimes the windfall more than provides more than enough jam, frozen fruit, fruit leather, and other fruit products until next harvest. A great way to use up all of your extra figs is to learn how to make fig wine at home. A few years ago, we were invited to a friend's farm to harvest figs from her huge tree. ...

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Filed Under: HANDMADE, HOME & HOMESTEAD, RECIPESTagged With: BEGINNER, HANDMADE HOLIDAYS, PRESERVING FOOD, SUMMER

How to Make Strawberry Wine Step-By-Step

May 18, 2021 by Kristi Stone 3 Comments

glasses of strawberry wine and a bowl of strawberries - How to Make Strawberry Wine Step-By-Step - Stone Family Farmstead

There's little more satisfying than filling your plate or glass with something you made with your own hands. Even better if it's something you have grown on your homestead! Making fruit wine is one of those satisfying activities, and this one yields the best flavor. This post will teach you how to make strawberry wine with store bought, or home-grown berries. If you ...

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How to Use Diatomaceous Earth in the Garden

May 17, 2021 by Kristi Stone 5 Comments

These days with all of the concern over food quality, widely used chemical pesticides are viewed askance by those wanting to live more naturally. If you are among this group, you will want to find ways to grow your own food without harmful pesticides. Learning how to use diatomaceous earth in the garden can help eliminate some of the chemicals you'd prefer not to have on your ...

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Filed Under: FEATURED SEASONAL POSTS, HOME & HOMESTEAD, SEASONALTagged With: GARDENING

How To Make Your Own Herbal Materia Medica Journal

May 17, 2021 by Kristi Stone 14 Comments

herbs and a notebook - How to Make a Materia Medica - Stone Family Farmstead

As an aspiring herbalist, you are likely already making your herbal materia medica journal, where you can keep records of which herbs are most accessible to you, how to use them, and how effective they are with each member of your family. Your husband has a cold, how can you help him get well? Your child has a stomach ache, which herb will help with that? You are ...

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Filed Under: HOME & HOMESTEADTagged With: HOME REMEDIES

How to Easily Correct GI Stasis in Rabbits

May 10, 2021 by Kristi Stone 9 Comments

brown rabbit - How to Easily Correct GI Stasis in Rabbits - Stone Family Farmstead

If you’ve ever gone out to your rabbit hutch only to find your sweet bunny’s food dish full and hutch tray empty? It's a good chance that your are seeing what GI stasis in rabbits looks like. Time is of the essence. Keeping our rabbits GI system in tip-top shape is dependent on us feeding proper food, in the right amounts. In addition to the pellets you add to her feeder, ...

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Filed Under: FEATURED SEASONAL POSTS, HOME & HOMESTEAD, SEASONALTagged With: RAISING PETS AND LIVESTOCK

How to Make Chicken Feed for Layers {17.5%}

May 4, 2021 by Kristi Stone 39 Comments

chickens eating feed - How to Make Chicken Feed for Layers - Stone Family Farmstead

There are plenty of choices for layer feed that we can purchase from our local farm supply store that your flock will thrive on. However, not all of them can boast a lack of genetically-modified ingredients, and the ones that do are pretty pricey. There's only so many foods we can give our chickens from our kitchens and without the right foods protein levels won't be met, which ...

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11 Fantastic Health Benefits of Owning a Dog

May 3, 2021 by Kristi Stone 6 Comments

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It is a proven fact that dogs can work wonders for your well being. Bringing home a new puppy can prove to be a spirit-lifter, of course, but the health benefits of owning a dog can improve our lives long term. If dogs have been a large part of your life growing up and into adulthood, you'll know the value of having a dog-friend. When go awry or feel out of control, there ...

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Filed Under: HOME & HOMESTEADTagged With: RAISING PETS AND LIVESTOCK

Natural Pest Control That Doesn’t Cost the Earth

April 22, 2021 by Kristi Stone Leave a Comment

hornworm on a tomato plant - Natural Pest Control That Doesn't Cost the Earth - Stone Family Farmstead

When you are going to a lot of effort to grow a beautiful garden, there is nothing quite so frustrating as an animal ambling in and trashing the lot. Whether it’s a slug who thinks it’s okay to trail slime all over the place or a deer who thinks that being cute is enough to get away with chomping through your foliage, you need to have a few defenses in place. This is where ...

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Filed Under: HOME & HOMESTEADTagged With: GARDENING

How To Eliminate Food Waste When You Harvest

April 16, 2021 by Kristi Stone 17 Comments

food waste being thrown into the trash bin

Gardening is a lot of work, and throwing any part of the harvest away can feel excruciating. Learning the ways to use more of our harvested produce will put more food on the shelf and eliminate food waste in the kitchen. Love finding ways to use up every bit of what you harvest from the garden you work so hard on each season? I get you! For some reason, I feel a ...

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Filed Under: HOME & HOMESTEADTagged With: GARDENING, PRESERVING FOOD, SUMMER

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Hi, I’m Kristi!

A little about me….For the past 6 years, we have lived on a scant acre in Southern California. I am the wife of the greatest guy ever….also a veteran ex-homeschooling mom of 3, grandma of 1, and fur mom of many!

Besides writing, my hobbies are gardening, herbs, crafting, scratch cooking, food preservation, goat breeding, and teaching all of these things here, to you, on Stone Family Farmstead’s website.


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