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  • How to Can Meat
    In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to can meat safely at home. Canning meat is a great way to store it at room temperature. It frees space in the freezer and the meat is ready for serving or using in any recipe. Hunting season is in full swing here in the south and I am… Read more: How to Can Meat
  • Canning Chicken Step by Step
    Canning chicken meat at home is simple. It is ready to be used as a main dish or can be added to many other dishes. In this post, I’ll show you how to can chicken step by step. Over the years, I’ve gotten so much better at meal planning, shopping for what I need instead… Read more: Canning Chicken Step by Step
  • Israeli Red Cabbage Salad
    This Israeli red cabbage salad is an Israeli classic! It’s very easy to put together, affordable, and delicious… it’s fresh and garlicky. You know those dishes that every bite you take makes you feel like a child again? The kind of meals that remind you how it felt to sit at your mama’s table, a… Read more: Israeli Red Cabbage Salad
  • How to Tan A Rabbit Hide
    In this post, I will show you how to tan a rabbit hide. You can use this method to tan any small animal hide. This is fur-on tanning, which means we are leaving the fur on the hide. Let’s do this! I have ruined eight rabbit hides in the past year. Do you know that… Read more: How to Tan A Rabbit Hide
  • Freezing Garlic Scapes
    Freezing garlic scapes is very easy and a great way to preserve the scapes. They last for months in the freezer and are very easy to use. Garlic scapes is that special bonus crop that ends up being the highlight of the garlic growing journey! We harvest scapes from hard-neck garlic plants. A scape is… Read more: Freezing Garlic Scapes

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Hi! I’m Lee Traister, a.k.a Lady Lee. I help homesteaders simplify their homesteading journey while still producing a ton of food! I am a single mother of four, I was born in Israel and raised in an agricultural commune called a Kibbutz. Now I homestead in central NC.

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