Teach Important Skills with a Summer Scavenger Hunt
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Teach Important Skills with a Summer Scavenger Hunt

A summer scavenger hunt is not only fun, they’re educational, too! It’s easy to get creative to make up your own, or modify any of these to make it fit for your area and the age of your child. For older ones you will want to make it harder and for younger children make it…

World Water Day ~ Tips on Conserving Our World’s Most Valuable Resource Around The Homestead
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World Water Day ~ Tips on Conserving Our World’s Most Valuable Resource Around The Homestead

Our planet’s most precious resource is water. Over 70 percent of our earth’s surface is covered in water with 97.5 percent of that being salt water. Less than 3 percent of the earth’s water is defined as fresh water and only 3/1000 of this is either too deep in the earth to retrieve or locked…

In the Homestead Garden~July 2016
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In the Homestead Garden~July 2016

How are those homestead or kitchen gardens looking? Mine is looking quite……green! Well with a sprinkling of color from those little nasturtiums. There are quite a few yummy edible plants (peas, kale, lettuce, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumber, zucchini and a few more I can’t remember right now!) BUT there are a lot of weeds too….