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How to Activate a Yogurt Starter Culture {with Recipes}

By Jen Sharpin 6 Comments

How to Activate a Yogurt Starter | The Easy Homestead (.com)

Who’s all up into fermenting lately? That’s all I seem to want to do. Currently we are fermenting kombucha, water kefir, yogurt, sauerkraut, and sourdough starter. And… it’s official y’all. I have officially given Mountain Man an official winter project. To build me the awesomest fermenting/store my canning equipment/canned good storer EVAH! Why? One may ask…. 

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How to Prepare for Goats – The Necessities

By Jen Sharpin 21 Comments

How to Prepare for Goats | The Easy Homestead (.com)

I know you are totally begging/stealing/kissing whatever… …to totally get goats, right? Oh, wait. Was that just me? My bad, my friends. But it’s the truth. I had been wanting goats for over two years and Mountain Man was dead set against it.  He thought there were other things that we should be concentrating on…. 

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Filed Under: Farm Animals, Homesteading, How to / DIYTagged With: Around the Homestead, Goats

Essential Oils for Asthma

By Jen Sharpin 4 Comments

Essential Oils for Asthma | The Easy Homestead

I never really understood asthma…until Beau (my husband) had an asthma attack right in front of me. I was terrified.  See, he had childhood asthma. I didn’t know him as a child and his asthma hadn’t affected him since he was a child. Until that frightful night. He called me on his way home. He had… 

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Filed Under: Homemade Stuff, Homesteading, How to / DIY, Natural Home/Health/Body, Using Essential OilsTagged With: Illness, Medicine Alternatives, Natural Treatments

Natural Psoriasis Treatment

By Jen Sharpin 31 Comments

Natural Psoriasis Treatment | The Easy Homestead

***Warning…this post will contain images of psoriasis that I have suffered from. To me, they are embarrassing and gross, but I feel that they are necessary to share my story. Never in a million years would I have EVER thought that I would need a natural psoriasis treatment for some form of psoriasis. But, as we… 

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Filed Under: Homemade Stuff, Homesteading, How to / DIY, Natural Home/Health/Body, Using Essential OilsTagged With: Medicine Alternatives, Natural Treatments

DIY Fruit and Veggie Wash

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DIY Fruit & Veggie Wash | The Easy Homestead

I have gotten a few emails asking how and what I use to wash my veggies here on the homestead. I meant to write this post many many weeks ago, but I wrote it down and honestly I forgot about it. Forgetting is an everyday occurrence around these parts- at least for me anyways. I… 

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Filed Under: Gardening, Homemade Stuff, Homesteading, How to / DIY, Natural Home/Health/Body, Tips for the Home

Homemade Pedialyte and Freezer Pops

By Jen Sharpin 4 Comments

Homemade Pedialyte | The Easy Homestead

Your kiddo is sick. Sick with the latest cold, flu, stomach virus, or whatever that is going around. The first thing you remember is to keep your sick kiddo hydrated, right?  Right. Parenting 101. What is the first thing that pops into your head when you think of kids and hydration when sick? Yep…Pedialyte! Pedialyte… 

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Filed Under: Drinks/Dairy/Condiments, Homemade Stuff, How to / DIY, Natural Home/Health/Body, Raising Kids, Tips for the Home, Using Essential OilsTagged With: Illness, Medicine Alternatives, Natural Treatments

DIY Bathroom Cleaner {Two Ingredients}

By Jen Sharpin 3 Comments

Two Ingredient Bathroom Cleaner | The Easy Homestead

Okay…okay. Maybe the title is a little misleading. There are actually 3 ingredients in this bathroom cleaner. But, for cool title purposes, I didn’t count water as an ingredient {even though it is}.  So, I guess I lied to you-and I’m sorry for that {kinda}. I figured we all have water, sooooo…. I have tried so many homemade/diy/mix-your-own bathroom… 

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Filed Under: Homemade Stuff, How to / DIY, Natural Home/Health/Body, Tips for the Home, Using Essential Oils

How to Make Butter…in 5 minutes!

By Jen Sharpin 7 Comments

How to Make Butter...in 5 minutes | The Easy Homestead

Yep…I knew you were wondering. What are those pinkish red things in the picture of her butter?!  Well folks – that is what REAL SALT looks like ~ before it is refined into table salt. Lesson of the day: the process of refining salt – into table salt – removes all the minerals that are… 

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Filed Under: Drinks/Dairy/Condiments, Homesteading, How to / DIY, Recipes

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