Since our first big honey harvest, I’ve been looking at ways to use our pure, raw honey. My daughter-in-law, Jess Kowalski, requested honey spoons. Honey spoons are spoons covered with hardened honey candy. They are used to stir honey into your hot tea and are more portable because the honey is hardened. Due to the…
Over the next year, we will be preparing and practicing for our biggest project likely of our lifetime. We will be building our own home from logs harvested right here on Kowalski Mountain. They say building a house is one of the biggest tests of a marriage, most people bicker over fixtures. We will literally…
As fall fades into winter, hunting season on the homestead is slowly wrapping up. The change of seasons brings a slower pace of life and a time of rejuvenation for the homesteader. Since using the dehydrator or the oven heats the house, winter is the perfect season to make venison jerky. What is Jerky? Jerky…
As the Christmas season approached, I had resigned myself to the fact that our Christmas decorations are buried deep in storage. I had decided that we just wouldn’t have a large Christmas tree this holiday season. It would be fine, this is our first Christmas as empty-nesters, no big deal. However, Philip shared that he…
Our apiary has grown so fast! I look at some of these large apiaries and I can completely understand how they end up with so many colonies. Bees multiply faster than rabbits! As we move into fall, Philip has been preparing the bees for winter. He’s been trying to even out the numbers and ensure…
My family and I have always loved camping. Cooking over the open fire is something I have perfected over the years. There’s just something about a meal sizzling over a campfire that makes the food taste so much better! Dutch oven cooking has always been quite intimidating to me. I understand the science of it,…
As I have endeavored to improve the Kowalski Mountain website, I took a leap of faith and invested in a blogging course earlier this year. While I know I have a long way to go, I have learned so much and have worked so hard to improve our online presence at kowalskimountain.com. One of the greatest…
As with all projects on the homestead, our workcations are shorter than the time it takes to do a large building project. So we chip away at them little by little until we get them done. Well, that’s the goal anyway. As I think about that statement, all of our big projects have lingering aspects…
2021 has been full of life changes that have kept Philip and I hopping all year long! In a blink of an eye, hunting season is upon us, and extra freezer space is at a premium! Philip and I combined our households this year. We had a couple of scares where we thought we lost…
It’s finally fall and life on the homestead takes on a whole new focus. The hustle and bustle of the spring and summer seasons are slowing down, though Philip and I don’t know how to live any other way. We continue to hustle no matter the season! September brings the opening of archery season in…
