Urban Homesteading From The Ground-Up

01/10/2024

Sweet potatoes, a type of Morning Glory, are edible in salads as a leaf vegetable and also contain arthritis fighting, anti-aging hyaluronic acid as well as loads of cancer fighting vitamin A! Even the pets like them chopped into their food...but my little dogs favorite way to eat sweet potatoes is as sliced oven baked treats. I like them every way they come to me.... beautiful day 🎁💯👏🌿🙏🙌

01/02/2024

The only thing I have "re-solved" in a re-solution......is that I'm going to bump up the sugar (alcohol) content just a notch in my Ginger Beer, and add me some fresh strawberries!!! Totally organic brown sugar fueled Spirits!! YES, I CAN! I must admit, though, the wild-blueberry/Roselle is a definite 2nd favorite, so far!!! Yummmmm! I can't wait to make some exciting Easter stuff....the healthy Fudge was an ABSOLUTE winner!!!! Both kinds, peanut butter and choc. Peanut butter, were made using Swerve sweetener, coconut oil, pre and probiotic peanut butter powder, and vanilla. I plan to order some maple flavor and a few more specialty fudges!!! Time to dip strawberries and refrigerated wholesome goodness!!!

01/02/2024

Worm Farm? Why On God's Green Earth would I do such a thing?? And even more so, ask every one to??
Others might find us nuts, but I consider us worm Farmers the "nuts AND bolts". Care for the soil as if you would your own microbiome! They are one in the same! I cannot stress this valuable health nugget enough:

Our stomachs are nearly identical to a compost pile. Do you know what would happen if you threw a broad spectrum antibiotic into a plant? A worm bin? A baby??? Please put this obvious fact to full use for you and your family.

Learn to care for the Earth and the internal feelings of belonging in a caring environment....even if it's one bin! You can take it as far as you'd like- worms are considered "livestock" when housing and feeding!! (Hello, taxes....you can write off the portion of your home and electric/heating that is used 100% in business....(say....an entire spare room or basement...) And help rebuild our Earth and teach others!!!

Earthing is a REAL thing...it has so many physical benefits when we connect to the Earth- in all ways. The color green is recorded to have a vibrational frequency of 528Hz.....now that's love! However, it doesn't stop there! The frequencies flowing from the Sun, The Moon, and ALL of the planets is connected to our Earth...and our physical bodies respond the same way an Ocean would....we are mostly water, and when you add in the minerals and salts....and billions of life forms living within us, it's obvious there is a connection. Bring you awareness to the life within yourself!!! Your body is your anchor for this physical SPIRITUAL experience.....we stay connected to our Spirit no matter what we put in it, but if it's hurting what we came here for, our body reacts.

You can get back on track learning how the body rebuilds itself...say, like, the stomach can rebuild in a matter of days (and change your taste preferences!) And the brain rebuilds in about a year. The eyes and bones about 7. If I continue thinking positive, healthy thoughts while my body rebuilds (not wailing if I fast to kill off bad bugs faster)....my entire life and outlooks changed!

Don't take my word...oh, it's NOT my word....it's just how it is. Love and Peace....until someone poisons it.

12/30/2023

Okay, I said I'm fasting..... I'm attempting to make room for bounty in 2024! I can almost taste it! 💯👏🎁🥳🙌🙏🍷🌿💞🤤 I might eat a turnip stalk to symbolize "turning a new leaf" 🌿🙏🙌🥳

12/29/2023

12/27/2023

Cultured Food Life is the name of the book I got from the library...this is her site! Although I bought my cultures from Amazon from "Happy Gut", and by the way I just used them successfully in coconut cream lemon brown sugar pop!!!, I would trust this lady and her products based on her book! Anyone wanting healthier options....from cheese to soda, this is must have insight on how to do just that! Feel great about what you feed your family!!!!

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12/24/2023

This was started from a "Ginger Bug". Put 1 Tbsp of organic ginger in 2cups of spring water each day until it bubbles. Then add it to a gallon of water with 2 cups of sugar...I used brown organic cane. So light and crispy!

12/24/2023

Wow!!! This Ginger Beer was so easy and tastes absolutely amazing!!!

12/23/2023

Homesteading is all about running efficiently, effectively, with love and care for all living things...whether we can see them or not. I used to think that there were acids and protectors in my stomach and blood to handle the multitude of disgusting things on food labels that somehow they termed "food" during the industrialization of our food "supply"....
Well, I lived through the fact that up to 80% of people have leaky gut caused by dairy; I lived through being given a broad spectrum antibiotic while having undiagnosed leaky gut (they thought it might be my appendix...until after they cut me open...hosed me out, and of course gave me the "Cure All-Kill All" commonly prescribed horse-pill broad spectrum. Okay, that going directly through my 1-cell stomach lining which already was inflamed and ruptured from lectins and gluten and WHAAAAT....glyphosphate (w**d killer!)!!!
Okay- then they just send you home to die with C-Diff caused by their medical arrogance.

Word to the wise...research any term I mentioned if you have health issues! From depression to anxiety to cancerous symptoms waiting to spring forth, YOUR GUT HEALTH MATTERS!!!!

On that note, I made fudge using probiotic no-sugar peanut powder, Swerve confectioners, coconut milk, vanilla, and coconut oil (room temp until making fudge scores...) Please...make this year and next the turning point to HAPPY inside, HAPPY outside!

12/23/2023

Tomorrow is our day....today is always mine🥳🙌🎁💯

12/21/2023

My son called and had a chuckle after I sent this to him, his brother and sister.....WEEEE!

12/21/2023

Water Kefir: Brown Sugar Roselle

I start with 1Qt liquid from strained water kefir, this batch was done in 1/2 c. Dk. Brn. Organic sugar (for 1/2c kefir grains) in 1 qt water. It has fermented for 2 days and now it's time to make organic fizzy pop!

Boil one 3.5oz pkg Roselle in 2 quarts of distilled water

Put 2c. Dk. Brn. Organic sugar into a glass jar and strain liquid (if you use a plastic container wait for the liquid to cool before adding); stir until the sugar is dissolved.

Make sure the liquid is at room temperature before adding kefir liquid. This liquid has live microbes that are heat sensitive. The microbes will continue thriving in a sugar liquid. I will add another quart of water after adding the kefir...this gallon of pop is a healthy alternative for any party! It will be at its best taste in approximately 4-5 days when I will bottle and refrigerate.

Most care must be taken not to allow the carbonation to blow glass at every corner of the house.

In return for me allowing their life to thrive with love, they will provide these feelings to surround my Christmas gathering....and is so effervescent my kids are sure to get hooked on this healthy pop....and you can make it in so many flavors! I have Key limes for my next batch.

12/19/2023

I only ordered 16 liters to bottle 7 gallons of wine and ginger beer! I guess some of my kids might need to drink it, take it home, or dump it....but there is fun in the making it! Just try it! This simple method makes "green" wine (not aged) that is drinkable within weeks....and lets you create another tradition to be family fun!

12/19/2023

1983 casting defect I found in my laundry coins! Nearly ALL copper, raised rim, flattened face and eagle.

12/15/2023

This is exactly why my gardening....(and soon to be website!💯🙏🙌🍷👍🥳🌿)is named "Urban Homesteading: From The Ground-Up"!
Not only were my intestines ground up after being given a broad spectrum (antibiotic means anti-life!!) , but I am rebuilding my gut by way of Nature!!
Grow worms to nurture the soil, have good soil to nurture the plants, eat good plants to nurture your gut biome, ferment food to make it cancer fighting anti aging mind accelerated FUNCTIONAL FOOD...and have as much f-n fun as you can have living!!! Teach others what you know when you can....the world needs us and we need it! Help the Earth! Make a STAND!

12/14/2023

12/14/2023

Wow! I'm finally out of sugar and yeast...until Sunday.😂🎈💐🏩

12/12/2023

Dairy Free!! Coconut Greek Yogurt 💯🙏🙌🎉

My very first try at Greek yogurt!! Wild blueberry, mint, and Lakanto to sweeten and I'd swear it was whipped cream!! I used 2 packets of this stuff that was free from the food bank...oh, my gosh! Soo good. It did have a price on it...but since it did it's job, now all I have to do is put a few tablespoons in the next batch 🙏💯🥳🥳🎁🍰

12/12/2023

Look how pretty this coffee filter looks as a cover for the carboy...the holes are tiny on the cap, but the fruit flies cannot resist Mamma's Sweet, Sweet Jugs collection! Trust me, all three of my adult children (and community members as well!) all love the brand...only my kids know why.
This coconut cream yogurt is still fermenting after I'd removed it and set it in the fridge yesterday! I tasted it...not sour at all from the lactic acid yet, so it should be fine until Christmas Eve when I'll add flavors to make dips and spreads....

I definitely am going to make more Roselle wine...the next batch stronger...for the kids 🙏🎉🙌🥳

12/10/2023

My house sounds like I have several fish tanks bubbling...but way more vigorous! I'm so happy to find out that I will be throwing my very first Christmas Eve Party!!! Now I have salad greens in soil, water kefir pop that tastes absolutely amazing with Roselle; wines bubbling (grape, wild blueberry, strawberry kiwi, and Roselle); rejuvelac made from quinoa to attempt nut cheeses; a Ginger bug to make ginger kefir pop was started yesterday!!!
And I haven't even started on my homemade bread (I think I will make potato bread!) Dips, spreads, and yogurts!!! Weee! My oldest might stay the night so they don't have to drive so far to her Mom's and that works out perfect!! 🎁🥳🙌🎉💯💞🙏🌿

12/09/2023

Mint-Chocolate Fudge 🙌 Keto Friendly🎁

Now, I love making fudge that fits into my lifestyle and gut/mental health! Call it a Keto fat bomb if you want, but I put in some love with this ...and dropped 100 poynds while still eating candy! Why? The healthy fat in coconut oil reduces inflammation and dampens appetite, which is high voltage this time of year!
No sugar natural peanut butterwas another recipe I've tried and ate all of it...way at the top of my list!! I'll post the recipe later.

This is a new one for me 🎁💯🙌🤤🥳 Tastes great!

1/2 c. cocoa powder...taste and add if wanted
2 c Lakanto (I might try Swerve confectioners! I had to stir a lot to dissolve the sugar like crystals)
1/4 c. chopped fresh mint
1 tsp ground black pepper (optional)
7 oz coconut oil, liquid at room temperature
1/2 can Coconut cream, shaken first

Stir the ingredients well to dissolve ingredients; spread into small plastic bowls or glass pie plates; place in fridge and score (cut half way through)before it hardens all the way and finish cutting and storing when it is solid. Yum! Cocoa is healthy and known to be a uncoupling agent to release junk from our chromosomes according to Dr. Gundry (Keto Code). I made this recipe myself from "allowed" ingredients! 🙌🥳🎁🤤💯🎉💞🌿Enjoy health all year!

12/08/2023

I'm still finding a few sweet potatoes that I had in my bins from the balcony garden. I have some parsley, chives, and lettuce seeds going. I also have a few roots from the Asian market...does anyone know what these roots are?

12/06/2023

Worms galore! I have to shove everything aside and get down to business switching these worms into new bedding! Look🎁 At this stage, in this particular bin, there are many eggs and undigested organic material...just bits of eggshells and cardboard. This is still considered vermicompost, since even tiny eggshells and cardboard can hinder root growth in some plants.

I plan to continue sorting bins, putting compost with eggs into industrial strength bags and I will likely let it sit for 1 months and get any hatched eggs out before heating to 180° , cooling, and packaging. We'll see....I don't want to kill my Vermicast....I plan to make living compost tea! Very small scale since it would spoil extremely fast...

12/06/2023

Vermicompost or Worm-Castings??

I'm going to see how far down this composted cardboard and veggie scraps have been eaten down 🌿💞🙌💯🎉

Vermicompost is partial worm-castings (poo), mixed with bits of undigested organic material and could include worms and eggs, uncomposted seeds, tons of microscopic organisms... and varies in nutritional content and NPK values.

Worm-castings are created by heating up vermicompost to 180° or more, killing all worms, seedlings, bacteria, etc; or by allowing the worms to eat through their waste several times before dying.

🤔 Types and varieties vary by supplier. My vermicompost is full of teaming life, not all of it I want competing for grow space!

I mostly use separate bins for wild (lilacs, dandelion greens, wild grapes, bins which were outdoors under the treeline during summer, etc) and non-wild bins for my delicates (soil intended for microgreens , etc)
None of my soil here has ever been exposed to any sugar, salt, meat, or dairy (except homemade yogurt, occasionally) 💯💯🙏🥰🦖 I have added in store-bought roasted seaw**d, organic coffee grounds, wild Canadian Goose poo-pellets, loads of organic vegetable trimmings,etc., and today... I will unveiling this 2month old bottom bin to see what I have!

12/04/2023

Can you believe I made this dairy free coconut cream cheese using 2 cans of coconut cream and 1/2c of my mustard dill cauliflower relish brine??!!
Next, I will mix garlic and onion powder and perhaps some crushed fermented Thai peppers...the opportunities are endless! Pineapple....hmmm? Yesterday I had some of that delicious relish mixed in with a tuna fish, onion, and miracle whip - darn that was yummy!!

12/04/2023

As I was getting laughed at by one of my kids for having à vegetarian Thanksgiving, obviously not have eaten it....I explained that for one days notice, I think it was damn good! 🎉🤣🥳💞🌿🥤🥇I knew when my younger son said he was going to visit with his other relatives that he'd be full, so a light wine tasting and stir fry was perfect! About halfway through the meal I showed him the main course...and we all had a good laugh 😂💯🙏Those angel hair palm hearts are at Aldi's!!! Delicious 🤤🥳