HeyJaredSeasons of a Simple Life
I share the real work of a home-centered life through motherhood, homesteading, gardening, and from scratch living, offering hard-earned guidance to help you grow your skills and confidence.
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The Guardrails of the Seasons (opens the original)
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The workload of a homestead in September is heavy. Probably the heaviest it will be all year. I’ve taken the last few weeks off of writing out of pure necessity, due to the weight of this time of year.Since the beginning of September, we’ve processed eight-four chickens, helped track and dress out a black bear for a friend, harvested three pigs, canned over a hundred pounds of tomatoes, canned five gallons of chicken stock, picked a truckload of apples, made applesauce, canned fifty pints of pic
Maybe We Weren’t Supposed to Live This Way (opens the original)
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I know I’m not alone in feeling increasingly disenchanted with the world we have built. With every year that passes, I’m starting to see how much of modern life we’ve unwittingly accepted as part of the routine- without examining whether any of it is actually improving our lives.Take subscription culture: every gosh darn thing has become a subscription. We no longer buy things once and own them (remember videos? DVDs? CDs?). Instead, we pay rent to access them- forever and ever, amen. Just anoth
Before the Harvest: Preparing the Kitchen, Pantry, and Home for Preservation Season (opens the original)
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As I write this, I’m acutely aware that I’m in the eye of the gardening storm. It’s no longer the frantic prepping of beds, planting, watering, nurturing, and all of the things that go into the early part of the season. Nor is it yet the point in which I have hundreds of pounds of tomatoes that need processing, or green beans that need snapping, or a mountain of corn that needs shucking and cut from the cob.But I know that it’s coming. And as someone who depends on a space that is clean, organiz
The Best Time to Plan Next Year's Garden (opens the original)
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I could wax poetic for days about the June garden. Everything is still so fresh and so new. I have that spring energy, so much hope and optimism, fueled by sunshine and sheer determination.But there comes a time every summer when things start to get overgrown, start to die back, and I’ve pretty much tapped out with the weeds. That time usually comes around the end of July/beginning of August. It’s where I start to notice what was worth my time- and what wasn’t.It’s time to make note now of what
What I Freeze Every Summer Instead of Canning (opens the original)
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After so many months of planning, prepping, planting, watering, weeding, and fighting pests, the heavy months of harvesting are now upon us. But if you’re like me and don’t have air conditioning and therefore don’t like heating up your house with canners, there’s some good news: a lot of what’s coming in from the garden right now can be preserved by freezing, or- in the very least- frozen until later when you have the time to deal with it.Here’s a list of my favorite things to throw in the freez
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