Cicadas! Homestead Blog Hop 342

Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! This week at Ridge Haven Homestead and around our area, we’ve been stormed with the deafening song of the 17-year cicadas! Our property actually doesn’t have as many as our friends in town have, but they’re out there! I’m amazed to see the phenomenon of an animal that can…

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Homestead Blog Hop 340

    Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Good morning and happy day to you!  Currently, every time we drive to our driveway, we are blessed to be greeted with lovely flowers in full bloom!   The Mountain Laurels are out, plus we still have native Flame Azalea dotting the hills!  It’s worth a hike…

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Homestead Blog Hop 339

Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! When it rains, it pours! That’s what the old saying goes, right? Thankfully, here in upper East Tennessee, that means literal rain. On our homestead, we don’t mind the rain. Not too much! Rain is watering our little potatoes, which are popping up all over. Also, I planted some…

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Healthier No Bake Cookies

Did you eat No Bake Cookies growing up? They have always been hard to resist for me! So gooey and sweet and chocolatey! Some people call these boiled cookies, or Novaks. I always wondered if “Novak” was just a local version of NoBake. If you say it fast a few times they start to sound…

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