Knotty Oak Homestead

I stumbled on this site when I was looking for corn syrup alternatives in recipes and they have a  lot  of "DIY " recipes. I am t...

I am totally appalled that tomato season completely passed me by and I didn't even notice. I didn't hear anything about it, I was...

We got back late Saturday night from this year's Mother Earth News Fair in PA. We left our kids with some friends, which was a very good...

Whoa, it's been awhile! Sorry about that. I was able to arrange it to have a babysitter come and watch the kids once a week so that...

Have you ever noticed that some houses look like a big eye sore, no matter how beautiful the house itself, just because it doesn't fit w...

After the panicked peach pitting party (don't you love  alliterations?!), I've gotten the canning bug again. Thank goodness! The ...

We were very blessed and have come through the storm unscathed. We fell asleep to the wind and rain beating our house (which strangely remin...