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…
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 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…
Philip and I travel frequently to Kowalski Mountain. While we do have an RV in place, there is still a degree of planning necessary for our trips. Philip usually handles preparations for work projects. He ensures we have the tools and supplies we need to accomplish the tasks we intend to complete while we are…
Preserving food on the homestead can be a full-time job! We are not to the point of producing all our own food or even a big portion of it, but we are headed that way. Our goal while we live in Florida prior to full-time living on the homestead is to use this time as…
Philip and I are in the empty nest stage of life. While one of my daughters live close by, all the rest of our children are scattered across the United States. My youngest daughter, Faith Hardy and her new husband, Stephen came down from Tennessee to spend the weekend with family and friends. While they…
Harvesting the first zucchini of the season calls for breaking out my recipe collection to use this much-anticipated harvest in a very special way. No, I didn’t grill it, or roast it or even pickle it. All likely much healthier options to utilize this organic, homegrown zucchini fresh from the garden. The very first recipe…
During our most successful year of gardening, I found myself with so many peppers. I was bringing them in a sink full at a time! As my garden has just been planted this year, I’m salivating at the thought of delicious venison stuffed peppers in our very near future. This recipe is even more rewarding…
It seems that most everyone loves bacon and eats it in excess, but when we made bacon the first time, I was amazed at how much bacon you actually get from a single pig, it’s not near as much as you think. Which is true for all cuts of meat. We live in a society…
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