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Make Your Own Clay Using 3 Household Ingredients

June 9, 2020

Making your own clay is a very simple process. In this post, we are going to use 3 household ingredients: Water, Baking Soda, and Cornstarch, to make an easy clay recipe that you can use to form...

Trash Tutorial: Fire Starter

May 18, 2020

We’ve got another trash tutorial for you! Toilet paper seems to be a hot topic these days, but what do you do with the roll when you finish? If you find yourself throwing away these little...

Trash Tutorial: Coffee Hand Scrub

May 11, 2020

With the current pandemic, many of us are reducing the number of trips we take to the store, and trying to stretch our resources as best we can. But what about food waste? Did you know that many of...

Fermenting with Wildcraft Kitchen: Sauerkraut

May 7, 2020

Join Cara-Lee Langston of Wildcraft Kitchen as she delves into the world of fermentation. This week, Cara shows us an easy method for fermenting cabbage at home. Sauerkraut only requires a few...

Gardening with Foxfire: Square-Foot Gardening

April 25, 2020

As promised, we’ve put together a little video about square-foot gardening and have aggregated some resources for you here. This approach to growing food is especially designed for garden...

Simple Homemade Cloth Napkins

April 29, 2020

In this day and age, disposable items have become a way of life. So much so, that when there is a shortage of items, it becomes a major inconvenience for us. We often don’t stop to think about how...

Upcycled Yarn

April 24, 2020

Looking for a weekend project, but your craft stores are still closed? Try recycling those pesky plastic grocery bags into yarn! These plastic strips can be used like any other string in knitting,...

Foraging with Wildcraft Kitchen: Forest Tea

April 20, 2020

Join Cara-Lee Langston of Wildcraft Kitchen on a foraging adventure at Foxfire. We went into the woods and harvested (sustainably!) edible spring plants to infuse in a homemade tea. We blend...

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