As a mom with a teen aged daughter still at home, and with all the distractions of Facebook, and time commitments to school work, and  music activities, I have despaired of coming up with a viable scripture memorization plan for my daughter, Mary.  Now I have a FREE solution I would like to share with [...]

“I have been making bread for years. Yesterday I wanted to find a recipe to use with my Montana White Wheat, and I found your website. My husband and five children could not believe how excellent your recipe turned out! It is the whole wheat miracle I have always searched [...]

About five years ago I was introduced to the politically incorrect nutrition classic Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Dr Mary Enig and the Weston A Price Foundation.  The first myth they busted for me was that healthy fats do include butter, beef tallow, coconut oil and unrefined olive oil and of course [...]

While we at The Urban Homemaker don’t recommend complicated, elaborate, or expensive holiday plans, we do offer a way to break down the steps into smaller more manageable steps starting the first week of October.  The newly revised planner has lots of new information, recipes and ideas.  There is a link to a 14 page [...]

As the gardening season winds down, you might want to try fermenting some veggies instead of canning them. It is so much easier and less time consuming.

Basically a dill crock is a variation on fermented veggies. If you don’t have dill or a grape leaf you can still make the fermented [...]