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Hobby Farm Ideas and Projects

Life on the farm is full of ups and downs, projects and delicious recipes. We’re all about hands-on living here at the farm and enjoy sharing special Hobby Farm Ideas and Projects, including yummy recipes like homemade fruit leather to home helpers like how to clean cast iron.

Whether you’re trying to figure out the best way to water your new chicken flock or need to learn how to freeze fruit and vegetables from your garden, you’re in the right place. This blog is all about sharing fun, creative, and useful ideas to help you enjoy the hobby farm life!

A glass jar of pickled cauliflower with carrots and dill sits above a close-up of a cauliflower head growing in a garden, showing how to preserve cauliflower. The website BLESSTHISMESSPLEASE.COM is at the bottom.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cauliflower

A hand holds freshly picked, dirt-covered carrots; above, glass jars filled with pickled carrot sticks show how to preserve carrots on a kitchen counter. Text at the bottom reads blessthismessplease.com.

Preserving Food

How To Preserve Carrots

A whole cantaloupe melon grows on the vine above, while fresh slices of ripe cantaloupe garnished with mint rest on a wooden board below. Find tips on how to preserve cantaloupe at blessthismessplease.com.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cantaloupe

A close-up view of a healthy green cabbage plant growing in a garden, with large, overlapping leaves forming a tight, round head in the center—ideal for those interested in how to preserve cabbage at its freshest.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cabbage

Brussels sprouts being prepped on a paper towel showing how to preserve brussels sprouts, with some whole and some trimmed or halved, a knife and a white bowl nearby. A green label at the bottom reads blessthismessplease.com.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Brussels Sprouts

A frying pan filled with fresh broccoli florets sits on a wooden surface next to a wooden spoon, with more broccoli for how to preserve broccoli and a website label blessthismessplease.com visible.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Broccoli

Freshly harvested beets with vibrant red-purple bulbs and long striped stems, surrounded by green leaves. The roots are still attached, making them perfect for learning how to preserve beets straight from the garden.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Beets

A close-up of fresh snow peas for how to harvest green snap beans piled in a woven basket, with bright green pods and a few stems visible.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Green Snap Beans

hand holding a bunch of asparagus for post teaching how to preserve asparagus.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Asparagus

Bowls filled with ripe apricots are placed on green grass. The apricots have a vibrant orange hue, and the bowls are white with blue rims. The sunlight casts soft shadows on the fruit and grass featuring how to preserve apricots guide.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Apricots

A large assortment of red, yellow, and green apples with leaves floating in water, partially surrounded by a black crate edge.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Apples

A colorful collection of small, round beads in various shades organized in bins, alongside a display of bracelets featuring the beads. There are also letter beads, gold charms, and white cords included.

Hobby Farm

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Caprese Salad on a round plate.

Salads

Caprese Salad

square slices of zucchini cornbread stacked on a round plate.

Cornbread Recipes

Zucchini Corn Bread

Farmhouse egg bake recipe in triangle pie slices on round plate.

Egg Recipes

Farmhouse Egg Bake

small mason jars with green celery juice.

From Scratch Recipes

Celery Juice

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