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I jokingly refer to our yard as the ‘Botanical Hole of Death’ since I struggle to get plants to live right around our home.
But I’ve found scrappy plants that thrive even in our difficult growing conditions!
by Texas Homesteader ~
I’m constantly repurposing glass jars for food storage. Sometimes I use jars that come with the food we buy, sometimes empty canning jars. But having unlabeled food in the pantry or fridge is a problem waiting to happen.
I need to label the food in those jars. But I don’t want to buy disposable labels. Check out today’s Homestead Hack.
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When our garden is producing extremely well I like to preserve as much as I can from it. Oftentimes our tomatoes are producing like GANGBUSTERS and I’m making Tomato Sauce and Pasta Sauce from it Sometimes I dehydrate them into Tomato Powder or just Dried Diced Tomatoes to drop into my wintertime simmering soups.
But one of my favorite ways to preserve tomatoes is by dehydrating it into tomato leather. That way I can roll it out directly on top of my pizza crust & just start piling on the toppings. The cooking process and the moisture in the toppings rehydrates the leather for me.
But I didn’t get many tomatoes this year so I find myself purchasing pasta sauce until I can make it myself again. (sigh…) But recently I had leftover pasta sauce and wondered what to do with it. Since we’ve recently discovered tortilla pizzas I decided to make some tortilla-sized tomato leather!
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Did you know you could get chicken food for FREE??! Over the years I’ve learned a thing or two about feeding our hens. I’m always looking for ways to get chicken food for FREE! Thankfully it’s pretty easy to do.
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I repurposed those plastic mesh bags that produce is often sold in and fashioned them into a handy cleaning tool. Check out today’s Homestead Hack, y’all!
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I really want a few shade trees in our yard. And serious bonus points are added if I can get those shade trees for FREE, #amiright??!!
After spending way too much money trying to get shade trees that would actually live in our yard, a lightbulb went off. Hummmmmm… What if…
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When we lived in the city I bought a *2-line extractable laundry line. I loved that thing – it gave me up to 98 feet of drying! RancherMan put a nail in a fence post so when I was doing laundry I’d bring out that extractable line & hang it on that nail. The lines pulled all the way to a nearby tree where I’d hook the two lines on the branches.
But when we moved here to our piece of paradise there were no privacy fences, nor any trees in our back yard. So we used a tether-ball pole as the anchor, and placed two decorative cast iron plant hooks on either side of the garage window.
But the tether-ball pole was… I dunno – UGLY! It served the purpose for several years but I wanted something a little more in step with our natural surroundings. It was replaced recently and you know my battle cry: Use Whatcha Got! (Almost all our Homestead Hacks use that battle cry.) Come see what we did.
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Tortilla pizza bakes fast – only about 5 minutes in my standard air-assisted oven. So pizza night just got quicker! 