Why and How to Let Kids Make Mistakes As parents, of course we want to protect our children — from danger, from upset, from things not turning out how they hoped. But we also need to realize that it’s not just okay, but essential, to let our children make mistakes. We kind of need to give …
MAKE YOUR OWN LAUNDRY DETERGENT! If you’re looking for new ways to cut costs, you can make your own laundry detergent! Homemade detergent gets your clothes just as clean and is less toxic to the environment. Read on to learn how to make either powdered or liquid detergent. Even though it may sound daunting, making your …
Make Your Own Homemade Butter You can easily make much better butter at home in your kitchen than you can buy in the store these days. Up until the early to mid 1900’s, most farm wives were expert butter makers. Butter sales were very local and produced on family farms. If you have a cheap and plentiful …
Make Your Own Herb Infused Oils The process of making your own herb-infused oil is similar to making tea, but instead of extracting the herb’s medicine into water, you’re using oil. Medicinal Oils can be used alone, or can form the basis of salves and balms. The general principal is simple: Oil + heat + herbs …
How to Make Dried Fruit (Using Your Oven) If you are going to be fruit dehydrating in future then buying a food dehydrator makes sense. Using one is more energy-efficient than slowly baking fruit in a low oven, and the results are more consistent. BUT if you just want to make the occasional batch, to …