We have several 250 gallon water tanks on our homestead as well as two 1500 gallon tanks; each one is painted black. The reason is really quite simple. If you deprive the water of sunlight, the water will

I made a promise to make a post about spinning yarn and it has been on my mind ever since. Now I'm spinning again so I thought I would make that post, but it won't be just one post. There's to much to

We LOVE harvesting our concord grapes every year from our backyard. When God gifts us an abundance, we pick them by the pounds and make good, juicy JAM! This year, after we picked, sorted and cleaned them,

This past week we had about 100 guests over at An American Homestead for our fall feast. Among the classes and demonstrations that we set up was a short class on canning. Jaimie had some red kidney beans