Tag: Gardening

• What is a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle?

  How does Homesteading and Self-Sufficiency go hand-in-hand? There has been a lot of talk about self-sufficiency and personal dependency, but what does that really mean? There are a variety of words being used to promote a lifestyle that is more in line with God, nature, the seasons, simple living, and using local resources. There is […]

  Homegrown Living

  July 10, 2021

  Food, Motherhood, The Home

  Canning, Decrease Waste, Disposable, Drying food, Gardening, Growing Food, Homegrown Living, Homemade VAnilla, Homesteading, Melissa K Norris, Minimalism, Old-Fashioned on Purpose, Save Waste, Self-Sufficiency, Simple Living, Support Small Businesses, Sustainability

• How to Live Seasonally

              It took me several years for me to truly grasp and accept the beauty of seasonal living. To live seasonally is to embrace the present moment, with both the positives and the negatives, which isn’t always easy to do.             As mothers, we know too well the seasons of life and oftentimes, we find […]

  Homegrown Living

  May 11, 2021

  Food, The Home

  Garden to Table, Gardening, God's Creation, Homesteading, How to Live Seasonally, Midwest, Midwest Blogger, Nature, Preserving Food, Seasonal Living, Seasons, Strawberry Plants, Wisconsin

• Small Successes of 2020 – “What the 2020?!?”

  It has been a year! A year since the shutdowns of 2020 and I am grateful. Interesting combo, right? Well, I didn’t realize how grateful I was for the past year, until I read a blog post by a person who wrote their “2020 Eulogy”. At first it was entertaining, then I realized how sad […]

  Homegrown Living

  March 11, 2021

  Design, Food, Liturgical Living, Motherhood, The Home

  2020 Lessons, 2020 recap, Book Club, Brideshead Revisited, Catholic Mom, Catholic Mom Community, Gardening, Grateful, Homemaking, Homeschool, Homesteading, Liturgical Living, Local Farms, Organized Simplicity, Shop Small, Small Successes, Sourdough, Theology of the Home

• Seedlings, Spring, and Heating Pads

  There’s something very uplifting about planting seeds. Even though it’s only the beginning of March, with still potentially freezing temps in Wisconsin, we have reached a new season. A season of growth and new life. It’s time to plant seeds! Onions are usually our first seeds to plant, but this year we made a big […]

  Homegrown Living

  March 3, 2021

  Design, The Home

  Azure Standard, Backyard Garden, Burpee, Garden Life, Gardening, Onion Seeds, Onions, Planting, Planting Seeds, Seedling Heating Pads, Siskiyou Seeds, Spring, Spring planting, Victory Garden