Homestead Hack: Use All Of Your Spray Cleaner

by Texas Homesteader ~ Cleaning – we’ve all gotta do it #amiright??!! My favorite cleaner is much simplified from my younger days.  Back  then I’d prance down the highly-scented cleaning aisle picking up whichever cleaner spray had the most eye-catching label. But I recently wrote about how cleaning has become complicated.  So my cleaner of […]

Homestead Hack: MYO Low-Waste Chicken Feeder

by Texas Homesteader ~ Did you know you could make a chicken feeder from a repurposed coffee can? Yep, it’s true. You know what I say: “Use Whatcha Got!”. Check out this Homestead Hack & see how we easily (and with NO out of pocket) repaired our chicken feeder for many more years of service.

Homestead Hack: Reusing Plastic Bags In The Garden

by Texas Homesteader ~ I.  Hate.  Plastic. In our area of NE Texas, plastic bags are not recyclable. So I’m always looking for a repurpose use for plastic bags for times when they make it into our home. Let’s take a bag of potatoes for example. When that bag of potatoes is empty it still […]

Homestead Hack: Cute Container For Herb Cuttings

by Texas Homesteader ~ The herbs are going well in my Edible Landscape so I thought I’d take a few cuttings & try to root them in my kitchen window. I have a repurposed short, squatty, wide-mouth glass jar that I can use.  But I’ve always heard that when you’re rooting cuttings, a see-through jar […]