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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 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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Filed Under: HANDMADE, HOME & HOMESTEAD, RECIPES, SEASONAL, uncategorizedTagged With: BEGINNER, HANDMADE HOLIDAYS, PRESERVING FOOD, SUMMER

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 Strawberry Sauce {Using the Tops!}

May 13, 2021 by Kristi Stone 27 Comments

How to Make Strawberry Sauce {Using the Tops!} - Stone Family Farmstead

It seems such a shame to throw away some of the kitchen scraps we generate. If you are a gardener, chances are that you throw yours into the compost pile, or if you have chickens, to them. But have you ever thought of eating some of them? This recipe will teach you how to make strawberry sauce out of the scraps you may have leftover from canning or dehydrating! There is ...

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Filed Under: RECIPES, SEASONALTagged With: PRESERVING FOOD, SUMMER

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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How to Process a Fresh Mint Harvest

April 16, 2021 by Kristi Stone Leave a Comment

fresh mint

Springtime is prime time for harvesting herbs for medicines and teas. The temperate weather allows delicate and not-so delicate herbs to grow abundantly in the garden, and if you are growing mint, plentiful harvests of fresh mint are sure to follow. Mint plants produce and multiply like crazy and trying to figure out all the ways we can use it can be pretty tricky. ...

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

How to Know What to Feed Chickens

April 8, 2021 by Kristi Stone 22 Comments

woman hand feeding chickens - How to Know What to Feed Chickens - Stone Family Farmstead

Keeping chickens is one of the easiest ways to grow nutritious food on your homestead. These feathered friends don't need much if they have space to graze, a place to sleep and lay eggs, and of course, proper nutrition. Here is some info on what to feed chickens, including specific things you can do to feed them well, and inexpensively. What Can Chickens Eat? Chickens ...

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

How to Make a DIY Rabbit Feeder

April 8, 2021 by Kristi Stone 1 Comment

DIY Rabbit Feeder - Stone Family Farmstead

Sometimes, you just need a vacation, amiright? But with animals to care for, it's sometimes hard to get away. A diy rabbit feeder can be a great help for those times you need (or want) to go out of town for a few days. When we first got our rabbits, we never realized how tied to our home we would be, caring for them and making sure they had all of their needs met. While ...

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Top 10 Things to Bring Home with Your New Pet Rabbit

April 8, 2021 by Kristi Stone 9 Comments

brown rabbit and white rabbit

Every time we bring a new animal home, it's the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. We will now share a relationship with a new small creature. We think of all the possibility of owning and befriending our new pet rabbit. Our hearts soar at all the prospects of play time, binkies (if we know what they are!), and cuddles. It was such a great day on December 10th, 2011. ...

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

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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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