Tag: woods
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🌱 Living Sustainably: Choosing All-Natural, Homemade Products Over Commercial
Happy autumn, friends! I hope this beautiful season finds you enjoying the spoils of harvest and soaking in the colors and scents of nature’s grand finale. The trees are performing their yearly ritual of dazzling transformation—from green to glowing golds, rustic browns, and deep oranges—and I can never get enough. Autumn always sparks my creativity.…
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Midsummer Dreams and Nightmares: Growing Food in a Changing Climate
Realizing dreams and accepting failures while building a food forest Summertime, and the living is indeed easy—especially this year, after our horrendous winter. Beginning in March, the sun’s position realigns with my solar panels, and my generator use plummets. By May, I can turn off the propane heater and use the wood stove for those…
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Winter 2025 Just Never Stopped
Surviving an Extreme Winter as a Solo Lady Living Off-Grid (Part 2) I hadn’t planned for this to be a follow-up to my January post, but here we are. Thankfully, I made it to spring! I can’t tell you how relieved I am to see temperatures above freezing and life getting back to normal. I’m…
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Chainsaw Confidence: Tips for Women on Buying, Using, and Maintaining Chainsaws
Chainsaws are powerful handheld tools primarily used for cutting through wood. They can be intimidating if you haven’t used one before. I was very nervous the first time, but with a little guidance and practice, it became a worthwhile skill to have. Since my introduction to the chainsaw when I moved onto my homestead, I…
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15 Truly Essential Essential Oils
Do you remember when you first fell in love with essential oils? Completely acknowledge my age here, but I was in high school and living in England when The Body Shop was the coolest, most awesome shop. I never missed a chance to stop in one. I especially loved the lavender and eucalyptus blend, and…
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Nothing I wouldn’t do for a fire in the wood stove
A cabin without a wood stove is just unthinkable. Without the warm glow of a wood stove to keep you company during long winter nights, the cabin feels dark and dreary . A wood stove warms up the 450 square foot cabin quickly with its intense dry heat, killing the damp and mildew that is…
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Wintering
Maybe you have seen this, but I love this idea of wintering. As women naturally prone to being productive and busy, we can feel guilty for sitting still. It is during winter when I finally get the time needed to dedicate myself to my crafts. So I wasn’t too happy when I needed to stop…