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Welcome to our blog! Here, you’ll find recipes for herbal remedies, chicken keeping, gardening tips, DIYs, and all the tips, tricks, lessons, and skills you’ll need to manage a homestead and become more self-sufficient. Whether you’re new to this lifestyle or you’ve been doing it for years, we hope you find our content entertaining as well as educational.
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How We Wildcraft: Our Approach to Ethical Foraging in Colorado
At Byers Ranch Apothecary, every product begins with respect — for the land, the plants, and the cycles that sustain us. Our ingredients...
Jun 245 min read
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Summer Skincare Reset: 5 Things Your Skin Needs This Season
As the temperatures rise and the days stretch long, your skin’s needs shift with the season. Between sun exposure, sweat, wind, and time...
Jun 114 min read
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Gifts to Give - Lavender Lemonade Cocktail Kits
As we get closer and closer to Christmas, the time for DIY gifts is running short, but there is still time to put together these lovely...
Dec 16, 20243 min read
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Natural Crystalized Holiday Decor
I love the look of frosted or crystalized holiday decor, but I hate the chemicals and sometimes unsavory ingredients used to create that...
Nov 12, 20242 min read
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DIY Boot and Shoe Deodorizer
As winter boot season draws near so too does smelly shoe season. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that when your feet spend all day...
Oct 25, 20243 min read
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DIY Spooky Halloween Eyeball Orbs
Halloween is sacred at my house. Every year, I spend months (sometimes longer) turning every inch of our home into a spooky, witchy...
Oct 3, 20243 min read
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Our Autumn 2024 Botanical Anthology Feature
The Botanical Anthology Autumn 2024 issue launched yesterday! This is the second time we’ve been included in this beautiful publication...
Sep 3, 20244 min read
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Preserved Dandelion Puffs
Making preserved dandelion puffs has to be one of my favorite spring activities. I have done this project every year since we moved to...
May 10, 20243 min read
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Orange Cinnamon Chicken Coop Cleaner
We use all-natural homemade cleaners  around our homestead. I set time aside each month to whip up big batches of everything from pine...
Mar 14, 20243 min read
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DIY Canning Ring and Lid Holder
Between our new Apothecary Business, canning, and general food storage, the bottles, rings, and lids in our house were starting to get...
Jan 29, 20242 min read
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5 Ways to Add Self-Sufficiency to 2024
More and more these days, thoughts of self-sufficiency are becoming top of mind for more people. When I look back on what feels like a...
Jan 5, 20245 min read
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Keeping Your Homestead Productive This Winter
The chill of winter is setting in here on our mountaintop homestead, and with cool temps comes a familiar shift in our everyday activity....
Nov 21, 20235 min read
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Farm, Hobby Farm, Homestead, Farmstead, What's the Difference?
I was scrolling through one of my Facebook homesteading groups the other day and I saw a post from a girl who said something along the...
Jul 8, 20226 min read
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Are You Concerned About Potential Food Shortages?
I’m going to deviate today from my normal content and take a little time to talk to you all about the possibility of coming food...
Apr 6, 20225 min read
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