Matsoni & Viili!

These two little babies are going to become active yogurt cultures!

Our First Milk Kefir Grains

We are using Organic Milk for now... 

Will hopefully start getting raw cow milk on Friday 

and then will switch to goats milk once our goatlings are producing.

Preserving Penny-WIse Organic Celery

At my last trip to the grocery store there was organic celery hearts on clearance for a dollar a bag! I bought two packages!  Nothing was wasted save the dried out tips I cut off.  The good parts have been diced and are in the freezer flash freezing to be preserved into freezer containers and used as needed for recipes such as my Gumbo. The butt ends have been frozen as well to be used in  a batch of stock!

A Pleadge: No More Paper Towels!

 

THIS $12.97 discovery at Sam's Club yesterday is going to save us a little more then $525.00 a year because it keeps me from buying my favorite paper towels every payday and on top of that... it keeps them out of the landfill and I'm helping to repair the world... which is priceless!

 

 

Penny-Wise Eco Friendly Clothes Drying

One of the things I hated most on my list of chores growing up, beside picking purple hull peas, was hanging up the wet laundry on the clothes line. I mean it was HOT, it was muggy, there were bugs, and all that reaching over your head with heavy towels and jeans! Uggg!


Before

Apparently at some point, one of the previous owners lined dried their clothes as evidenced by the rotted clothes line pole and the clump of cement in the back yard.

Well with our dryer being on it's last legs and the huge electric bill we got this month, we've decided, after much research, we are going to try to use the free solar energy of the very powerful Texas sun to dry our clothes.

There are many benefits to line drying. One of the best benefits of line drying your clothes is that they will last much longer than they would if they were just thrown in the dryer. All that lint you get out of your dryer after every load? Well, that is actually all of the worn-away fabric caused by not line drying. It's financially beneficial. Many of the articles I've read show a savings of up to $100.00 a month. Another benefit is the line dried clothes wrinkle less. And one of the main reasons is that fresh air scent that so many laundry product companies try to replicate but never ever match what you get by line drying your clothing outside.


Inspiration

One of the sites I came across while researching wasLife, In A Nutshell. One of the articles on the site titled 'Build your own clothes line. Right now.' was used as our inspiration to model ours off of.


All Finished