Tired of dangerous chemicals in your fly repellent? Me too. Want a natural alternative? Cool, I have one. It’s a dilemma we have every summer – do we suffer the flies and other pesky insects or load ourselves with questionable chemicals? There was a time when we would use any fly repellent that worked –…
Right now, we have zucchini and chevre cheese coming out of our ears, and I’m scrambling for new and interesting ways to use it. Dahlia has started producing much more milk than we can consume so I’ve been preserving it as a cheese – mostly chevre, to be exact. https://instagram.com/p/3ZvX9Ti860/?taken-by=thefrugalchicken Flavor is big with me, and if a…
Of course most people are interested in feeding their chicken flock a homemade, organic, non-gmo feed – you are what you eat, after all – but if you’re anything like me, the expense is a big factor. Until now. I’ve cracked the code on creating a homemade organic feed recipe your chicken will love, and your wallet will love…
If you have kids, you likely have a lot of banana peels floating around. Trashing them seems like kind of a waste so why not recycle them instead – in your garden. Did you know banana peels make one of the best fertilizers out there? I didn’t until I started researching it. Turns out, banana…
Once you make the switch to using raw organic coconut oil as a body butter, you won’t look back. Add in lavender for a soothing touch, and you’ll be converted. This organic body butter has become a house staple because not only is it easy to make, but it requires only 2 raw ingredients: organic coconut…
Using every bit of something is satisfying, rather than letting it go to waste, isn’t it? On our homestead, we try to use every bit of an item or find an alternative use for it before tossing it in the trash. We’re frugal like that. Here’s 5 items you might otherwise throw away that you…
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