by Barefoot Acres | May 31, 2018 | In the Kitchen
The temperature is getting hot down here in Texas, Y’all know what that means? Summer, tomatoes, and salsa that’s hotter than the Texas summer heat! Our tomato plants have been giving us an abundance lately so what else would you do than make salsa? We...
by Barefoot Acres | May 25, 2018 | In the Kitchen
Who doesn’t love an amazing fresh, warm, loaf of bread straight from the oven? As we set out learning more and more about nutrition, we have realized how much convenience has made us unhealthy in many ways, but food especially. Prior to the 1900 most bread baked...
by Barefoot Acres | May 22, 2018 | Family Life
Groceries. It’s a hot topic with a lot of people, especially families. How do we afford to eat the way we want with growing grocery prices? Our diet goals It’s been a long and slow change as far as how we eat. 14 years ago when we had two kids, versus now...
by Sal | May 14, 2018 | Family Life
Every journey has a beginning, middle, and of course an end. We’re still writing the middle part of our journey and learning so much along the way. At the time of writing this post, we’ll have been on our property for two years. But where did this journey...
by Sal | May 8, 2018 | Game
That’s a pretty dramatic statement isn’t it? Let me put it this way, sometimes we have really good success in this homesteading life and sometimes we have losses and the losses end up being the life of an animal we’re raising here on the homestead....
by Barefoot Acres | May 1, 2018 | Recipes
It’s April and that means strawberries!! (Or being in Texas, it could mean March, or February, HAHA). We had 20lb of beautiful organic strawberries begging to be preserved. I wish I could say they were from our own land, but no. We’re working on...