Author: Veronica Sparks

Veronica is a freelance writer, avid gardener, and suburban homesteader. She loves writing about home DIY, gardening, and self-sufficiency, and on any given Saturday, you can find her rewatching New Girl for the 100th time.

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Cooking from Scratch Raising Animals

What To Do With Excess Eggs: Ideas to Use Up Your Hens’ Surplus

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Green Living

Energy Saving Tips for Summer: 8 Ways to Lower Utility Bills During the Hottest Months

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Cooking from Scratch

6 of the Best Homemade Salad Dressings You Need to Try

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Natural Living

Try Our Favorite Homemade Sunburn Remedy!

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Cooking from Scratch Series: How to Make Homemade Pantry Staples

How to Make Homemade Coffee Creamer

Coffee and creamer on a dark table next to coffee beans
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Prepping

Are Cattails Edible? A Plentiful Wild Food

Brown cattail heads among long slender leaves
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Preserving Food

How to Preserve Chicken Eggs: Don’t Let Your Hens’ Hard Work Go to Waste!

Farm fresh eggs in a cardboard caarton
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Growing Food

What’s Wrong With My Tomato Plant? 12 Possible Issues

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Cooking from Scratch Preserving Food

What to Do With All that Basil: How to Make Homemade Pesto (And Preserve it For Months)

Homemade pesto sauce ina jar next to fresh basil leaves
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Prepping Preserving Food

How to Build a DIY Solar Dehydrator

DIY solar dehydrator with pieces of banana