gardening

How to Start Vegetable Garden Seeds Indoors in 7 Easy Steps

How to Set up a Greenhouse Kit and Strengthen it for Wind and Snow

How to Start a Raised Bed Vegetable Garden for Beginners

How to Grow Seedlings in a Greenhouse

Learn how to know when to plant garden seeds in your area

How do I Know When to Start Garden Seeds

20 free seed starting pots from reused and repurposed items

20 Free DIY Seed Starting Pots

How to Test Seeds for Viability and Germination

Death in the Garden and the Woes of Gardening in a Drought

Death in the Garden: The Woes of Gardening in a Drought

Deciding how much to plant in a garden to feed your family

Deciding What to Plant in a Garden

Gardening With Toddlers

Green Thumb Thursday weekly blog hop link up

Best Medicinal Herbs to Grow and Green Thumb Thursday

Garden Planting Schedule and Green Thumb Thursday

Hello I'm Annie and welcome to our blog!

I was raised in an old farmhouse in the country and taught by three generations of women in my family to cook from scratch, can and preserve food, nurture plants to grow, craft with my hands, and live a simple, meaningful life. Now I'm teaching my own children these skills on our little homestead in Montana. I am a Master Gardener and a Master Naturalist and love helping others learn. I'm sharing these vintage skills here so you too can live a simple, more connected homemade life- one canning jar at a time!