Currants - Growing, Harvesting, and Uses
Currants are high in vitamin C, and they tolerate light shade. We'll share how to grow them, when to harvest, and how to use them.| Common Sense Home
Currants are high in vitamin C, and they tolerate light shade. We'll share how to grow them, when to harvest, and how to use them.| Common Sense Home
Queen Anne's lace plant (Daucus Carota) also known as wild carrot. Weekly Weeder #6 - Range and identification, food and medicinal use, craft uses.| Common Sense Home
This French bread recipe is perfect for bread bowls, French bread pizza, garlic bread, or accompanying soup or stew. Makes the best French toast!| Common Sense Home
Comparison of home food preservation methods, including canning, freezing, freeze drying, dehydrating, root cellaring, fermentation and more.| Common Sense Home
I enjoy a glass of hard cider now and then, but I can’t drink commercial stuff because of the sulfites. (They give me a headache. ) Thankfully, making homemade hard cider doesn’t have to be complicated. The simplest recipe is ready in just a few days, and creates a bubbly, low alcohol beverage. For long... The post How to Make Hard Cider (The Easy Way) appeared first on Common Sense Home.| Common Sense Home
Elderberry tea is a cozy, caffeine-free drink packed with immune-supporting benefits. Learn how to brew it at home, why it’s good for you, and the best way to source elderberries for healthy, affordable tea all year long.| Common Sense Home
Common Sense Home has helped millions learn about growing your own food and medicine, food preservation, emergency preparedness, & more.| Common Sense Home
Fresh peaches are one of the best summer treats — juicy, fragrant, and just sweet enough to feel like dessert without adding a thing. We usually get a case or two from local fundraisers or the Peach Truck. Some we enjoy fresh, some we preserve for later. Water bath canning peaches locks in that fresh... The post How to Can Peaches – Step-by-Step Guide with Video appeared first on Common Sense Home.| Common Sense Home
Common chickweed (Stellaria media) is a wild plant that pops up in gardens and lawns—and often gets pulled and tossed without a second thought. But this humble “weed” is surprisingly useful. From fresh salads to soothing skin remedies, chickweed is a nutrient-rich plant ally hiding in plain sight. We’ll cover common chickweed identification, tips for... The post Common Chickweed – Identification, Foraging, and Uses appeared first on Common Sense Home.| Common Sense Home
Let’s explore the best tips for staying hydrated in the heat—without commercial sports drinks full of dyes and sugar.| Common Sense Home
Deep Nutrition Book Review - Food has the power to epigenetically affect your children and grandchildren, as well as the power to heal or cause disease.| Common Sense Home
A complete guide to burn barrels—what they are, how to make one, how to use them safely, and what you can and can’t burn.| Common Sense Home
Creamy cucumber salad is one of our favorite summer side dishes. The sour cream dressing and fresh dill are a perfect compliment to the crisp cucumbers.| Common Sense Home
Learn about field pennycress — an edible wild plant that helps soil, feeds pollinators, & makes a beautiful filler in floral arrangements.| Common Sense Home
Welcome to Common Sense Home, your refuge of common sense in a crazy world. We share good food & good information to help care & provide for those you love| Common Sense Home
Teakhaus review - Sustainably & Organically Grown, Made to Last. Providing fair wages for workers, protecting the environment.| Common Sense Home
Water Kefir versus Kombucha - Comparison of water kefir and kombucha, their microorganisms, flavors, brewing techniques and effects in the body.| Common Sense Home
Answers to common kombucha questions from readers including kombucha storage, flavoring and avoiding kombucha explosions.| Common Sense Home
How to brew Coffee Kombucha with a kombucha SCOBY and sweetened coffee for a probiotic twist on your morning coffee habit.| Common Sense Home
How to mix holiday kombucha flavors - Cranberry Collins, Pumpkin Spice, Ginger Spice, Toffee Apple, Toffee Almond, Apple Cinnamon, and more| Common Sense Home
Maple macaroons are a light, crispy, easy to make cookie sweetened with real maple syrup. Gluten free, dairy free, and refined sugar free.| Common Sense Home
Make your own homemade mounds bars and almond joy bars with no refined sugar and natural coconut, coconut oil and cocoa powder.| Common Sense Home
These chocolate chip cookie dough truffles taste like raw cookie dough, but are safe to eat, since they don't have raw flour or eggs. Once you try these tasty little cookie bites, you'll be hooked.| Common Sense Home
This strawberry rhubarb crumble is gluten free (and dairy free if you like) and uses less refined sugar . So easy to make!| Common Sense Home
These easy to make sourdough brownies are a great way to use sourdough discard. With one bowl, one pan, and about 30 minutes, you have rich, fudgy brownies.| Common Sense Home
Our old fashioned Honey Caramel Corn Recipe is light, buttery and delicious! This snack is great for gatherings or an anytime treat.| Common Sense Home
The best homemade brownies I have ever tasted, plus you can make from scratch in minutes. Rich and delicious, enjoy with nuts or without.| Common Sense Home
This zucchini "apple crisp" is easy to make and uses a LOT of zucchini. We'll also share zucchini storage tips and more of our favorite zucchini recipes.| Common Sense Home
This yule log cake recipe has moist tender cake crumb, combined with lightly sweetened whipped cream filling and rich chocolate ganache "bark".| Common Sense Home
This flourless chocolate cake uses chocolate chips and cocoa powder, plus chocolate ganache, for a rich, delicious dessert. It's naturally gluten free.| Common Sense Home
Our favorite homemade baked beans recipe is economical and delicious. It combines savory bacon and sweet molasses, slow cooked to perfection.| Common Sense Home
How to Preserve pears using canning, freezing, drying, freeze drying or fermenting. Their natural sweetness makes them a delicious snack or dessert.| Common Sense Home
Phytophotodermatitis is caused by exposure to specific plant fluids and sunlight. We'll cover plants that cause phytophotodermatitis and how to treat it.| Common Sense Home
Meet Laurie Neverman, creator of Common Sense Homesteading, wife, mother, former engineer, herbalist in training and self-reliance guru.| Common Sense Home
Check out these easy DIY tomato trellis ideas with stakes, cattle panels, wood, wire and more, plus LARGE plant cages big enough for tall tomatoes.| Common Sense Home
My first experience with homebrew kombucha - step by step kombucha brewing instructions, plus a quick explanation of some kombucha health benefits.| Common Sense Home
The Best Way to Use Up Extra Zucchini - Create your own "Zucchini Swiss Army Knife" that makes a great addition to dozens of recipes.| Common Sense Home
These tigernut chocolate chip cookies are a delicious take on America's favorite homemade cookie. We share the recipe and give you the skinny on tigernuts.| Common Sense Home
This old fashioned rhubarb pudding cake has a delicate sugar crust, and rich pudding bottom. It's easy to make using fresh or frozen rhubarb, and can also be made gluten free.| Common Sense Home
Chocolate Chestnut Brownies - One bowl recipe for rich, cake-like gluten free brownies made with chestnuts or chestnut flour and sweetened with honey.| Common Sense Home
Easy baking tips and tricks for beginners to help you bake cakes, cookies, quick breads, pies and more with great results every time.| Common Sense Home
This easy bread recipe is our "go to" for sandwich bread, buns and more. This is one recipe that's turned out perfect every time.| Common Sense Home
How to Make Homemade Extracts - Vanilla, Lemon and Almond. Save money, create custom extracts. Includes printable extract labels.| Common Sense Home
This zucchini bread recipe is quick and easy, and you can use fresh or frozen zucchini. It makes two loaves, so you can enjoy one now and one later.| Common Sense Home
Queen Anne's Lace Jelly with Currants - The bright acidity of currants is a perfect compliment to the delicate floral flavor of Queen Anne's Lace jelly.| Common Sense Home
This easy low sugar raspberry jam recipe is bursting with raspberry flavor. It uses less sugar and can be made with fresh or frozen raspberries.| Common Sense Home
Make your own elderberry syrup with fresh or dried berries or juice and save money on this wonderful immune booster for kids or adults. Includes safety and storage tips.| Common Sense Home
This currant jelly recipe is safe for a water bath canner or steam canner. You can use red, black, pink, or white currants.| Common Sense Home
Two homemade elderberry jelly recipes - low sugar elderberry jelly thickened with Pomona's Pectin, and old fashioned elderberry jelly with Sure-Jell.| Common Sense Home
Identification tips, plus quick fixes and long term methods to get rid of aphids. Protect your crops without harsh chemicals and improve the health of your plants while protecting pollinators.| Common Sense Home
Schmaltz (rendered chicken fat or rendered fat from ducks or geese) is easy to make with fresh fat and adds a unique flavor and texture to many dishes.| Common Sense Home
Use this easy homemade chicken broth recipe to make the best chicken soup you've ever tasted, or as a base for other delicious recipes.| Common Sense Home
Easy Bread Recipes - Sandwich Bread, Sourdough Bread, Potato Bread using Leftover Mashed Potatoes, Crusty French Bread, Gluten free and sprouted bread and more.| Common Sense Home
Learn home food drying basics with this quick guide to food dehydrators, plus tips for food drying and safe storage. Includes printable fruit drying guide.| Common Sense Home
This easy homemade pickle relish recipe teams up your fresh cucumbers or zucchini with honey, apple cider vinegar and spices to make a delicious condiment.| Common Sense Home
A basic applesauce recipe, plus customization tips, the best apples for sauce, ways to use applesauce in recipes and storage tips.| Common Sense Home
This low sugar apple currant spread with a touch of cinnamon is a less sweet alternative to traditional currant jams and jellies.| Common Sense Home
From our kitchen to yours - canning and preserving recipes, main dishes, side dishes, breads, desserts, snacks, fermented foods, plus handy kitchen tips.| Common Sense Home
These low sugar peach jam recipes combine ripe, juicy peaches with other fresh ingredients to make truly unique homemade jams. Includes freeze jam option.| Common Sense Home
Learn how to grow blueberries in your home garden. We'll take you step by step through planting, fertilizer and mulch, care and harvest.| Common Sense Home
Maple apple jam combines the smoky sweetness of dark maple syrup, a hint of cinnamon and tart apples. It's great as a spread or a fruit filling.| Common Sense Home
This dried pumpkin fruit leather is an easy to make snack. Nutritious and portable, pumpkin leather doubles as a way to store extra pumpkin.| Common Sense Home
Easy to follow growing guide for garlic. Get two harvests from one plant with yummy garlic scapes. Includes storage tips and explanation of garlic types.| Common Sense Home
Ground beef jerky is easy to make and less expensive than store-bought jerky. You can make it with a dehydrator or dry it in the oven. Use your choice of ground meat - lean beef or venison.| Common Sense Home
Bay leaf is a common herb, but what's the best way to use it, and what does it do? We'll cover uses for food, medicine, and pest control.| Common Sense Home
Our simple recipe for cooking tender cow or beef tongue that can be served hot or cold. The easy way to prepare delicious ox tongue.| Common Sense Home
Quackgrass wine - Proof that you can turn just about anything into wine. Another interesting addition to the weed wine pantry for the adventurous fermenter.| Common Sense Home
How to make pumpkin wine. Classic pumpkin spices and a little creativity come together in an usual pumpkin recipe that's sure to be a conversation starter.| Common Sense Home
These simple elderberry wine recipes are perfect for beginning home winemakers. One uses natural yeast & the other uses commercial wine yeast.| Common Sense Home
How to make an easy, homemade dandelion wine that will warm you all the way to your toes, plus troubleshooting tips for safe brewing.| Common Sense Home
This zucchini gummy candy recipe is made without jello or pectin tastes like commercial gummy treats with no artificial flavors, colors or refined sugar.| Common Sense Home
A great use for overgrown zucchini, this zucchini apple pie (zapple pie) is a twist on the classic mock apple pie using sliced zucchini.| Common Sense Home
This chocolate zucchini cake recipe gets dressed up with easy to make whipped cream filling. Fancy enough for guests, easy enough for home.| Common Sense Home
Cheesy garlic zucchini bread is a savory quick bread made with zucchini or summer squash teamed up with cheddar cheese and garlic.| Common Sense Home
10 tips for a perfect pie, plus 6 different pie crust recipes (including gluten free options) - pastry, nut, coconut, shortbread, graham cracker and cookie.| Common Sense Home
The maple syrup adds delicate caramel notes to this easy maple pear jelly recipe. Just a half a cup of maple syrup sweetens the entire batch.| Common Sense Home
This easy homemade pear wine recipe combines just a few simple ingredients to turn an abundance of ripe pears into delicious homemade wine.| Common Sense Home
Because of their natural sweetness, dehydrating pears makes them taste like pear candy - without added sugar. These tips help preserve their color & flavor.| Common Sense Home
Cranberry Pear Jam - traditional & low sugar recipes. Tart cranberries team up with sweet pears and a hint of cinnamon to create this memorable autumn jam.| Common Sense Home
Home Canned Almond Pears - Light almond syrup and blanched almonds pair well with the natural sweetness of perfectly ripe pears.| Common Sense Home
Pomona's Universal Pectin is a "must have" in my kitchen. I'll share what makes it unique & how to use it for jams, jellies, & spreads.| Common Sense Home
Blueberry pear jam pairs up the sweetness of the pears with berries, lemon and a touch of vanilla for a unique flavor combination.| Common Sense Home
Use fresh or frozen blueberries to make this easy, low sugar blueberry jam recipe. Includes blueberry tips and answers to some common jam questions.| Common Sense Home
Solving two tomato flower problems - no flowers at all, and tomato flowers but no fruit. We look at common causes and tips to get your tomatoes producing.| Common Sense Home
How to Can Food at Home - The difference between water bath canning and pressure canning, basic equipment for home canning, canning tips and recipes.| Common Sense Home
This tomato soup recipe is easy to make and kid friendly. The soup is condensed, so it takes up less storage space. Soup may be canned or frozen for storage.| Common Sense Home
This salsa recipe for canning uses fresh tomatoes and other produce to get an "Awesome!" rating from friends and family. We also cover canning salsa safely.| Common Sense Home
We're sharing how to can tomatoes in their own juice for maximum flavor. These are great for soups, stews, or sauces.| Common Sense Home
2 Homemade Ketchup Recipes - One homemade ketchup canning recipe made with fresh tomatoes, and an easy probiotic recipe made with tomato paste.rn| Common Sense Home
Step by step guide with photos to help you learn how to make homemade spaghetti sauce from scratch with fresh or frozen tomatoes.| Common Sense Home
Sharing my own problems with toxic skin wouldn't be complete without some background information on my mom's skin story.| Common Sense Home
An overview of doctor recommended topical psoriasis treatments and different home treatments I've tried for plaque psoriasis.| Common Sense Home
Psoriatic Skin Causes - Mainstream and Alternative Viewpoints, including lifestyle, diet, toxins, injury and medication| Common Sense Home
This series explores how I developed plaque psoriasis and the different techniques I used to clear my skin and live pain free.| Common Sense Home
In this article, I'll share possible triggers for Palmoplantar pustulosis, plus how I healed the psoriasis on my hands.| Common Sense Home
In “Psoriasis Healing”, Laurie Neverman shares the mind-body-spirit approach that helped her heal psoriasis plaques covering nearly half of her body.| Common Sense Home
Meet Laurie Neverman, creator of Common Sense Homesteading, wife, mother, former engineer, herbalist in training and self-reliance guru.| Common Sense Home
The most important alternative psoriasis treatment for me was to change my state of mind with EFT and BodyTalk.| Common Sense Home
Health benefits of walking barefoot include pain relief, better sleep, improved relaxation, stronger feet, and more.| Common Sense Home
We'll share information on bird flu virus symptoms and transmission, plus five strategies for a healthier flock of backyard chickens.| Common Sense Home
