This past week I started making my own sourdough starter from scratch, using freshly ground whole wheat flour and well water. And I’m so excited to see that it’s maturing beautifully. In the past, my daughter maintained a sourdough starter that she/we inherited from our neighbor, who led a class on sourdough breadmaking in our barn a few years ago. While I made bread with that starter a time or two, it was my daughter who typically cared for it and baked/made all sorts of goodies with it — along with bread. And now she’s living up in the mountains full time. This year, since I’m back on the homestead,…

I started getting my physical house in order on the homestead last week by shining my sink. A few years ago, I shared how my way of life evolved into something rather unique over a decade and a half. And I revealed a valuable guide that helped me manage it all along the way: The FLYLady. One of My Favorite Guides Marla Cilley, aka the FLYLady, published a book in 2002 called Sink Reflections, where she revealed her home management system. Discovering her work nearly 25 years ago and implementing what she taught helped me to overcome the CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome) in my previous home and played…