The Home I Tend

09/25/2025

🍊🍊Homemade orange peel cleaner is a great natural cleaning solution that offers so many benefits.

It is easy and super inexpensive to make using just 2 ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen.

The natural oils in orange peels offer a fresh, pleasant scent that will freshen up your home.

Orange peel cleaner is gentle on surfaces, making it a safe and effective solution for cleaning a wide range of household surfaces without causing damage or leaving behind harmful residue. And it has a fresh citrus scent.

It’s a great way to reuse peels that would otherwise be thrown out

1. Eat an orange, saving the peels
2. Put peels into a jar
3. Fill jar with vinegar
4. Leave the jar in a cool dark place for 2 weeks.
5. Strain the orange peels from the vinegar. Discard the peels
6. Dilute the orange vinegar by adding equal amounts of water and put into a pray bottle.

Shake before use. And enjoy

Check out thehomeitend’s video.

09/07/2025

Lots of chicken feet going into the dehydrator for the dogs. 🐕 they already got their nails trimmed.

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10/24/2024

The fall garden is sprouting. What are you growing this season?

07/03/2024

05/31/2024

Me in the garden

05/16/2024

Have you wanted to make your own laundry soap?

This recipe is super simple. I use to make the liquid recipe, but the dry version is simpler and faster to make. This recipe lasts us a full month. It smells amazing and no soapy residue left behind. The Zote soap bar leaves a fresh clean scent.

All these ingredients are easily available on Amazon and at Walmart.

You will need to
1 box Arm and hammer washing soda
1 box Borax
1 stick Zote
Optional 1 stick Fels- Naptha
2 cups Baking soda

Instructions:
1. Find yourself a cute jar or container
2.Grate your soap sticks ( I use a food processor) you can use a cheese grater as well.
3. Add all your ingredients and mix well with your hand.

It’s that simple! I use 1 small scoop per load in my HE washer.

Fels -Naptha can also we used as a stain remover by wetting the bar and rubbing it onto the stain.

05/16/2024

05/14/2024

Providing your chickens with additional treats and growing nutritious salad ingredients is simple and enjoyable with wheatgrass and coconut coir.

05/07/2024

Teach your children to grow their own food. They will never go hungry. Teach them life skills and they wont have to depend on others to have their needs met. Let them fail and not be chosen first in every situation and watch them learn resilience. Show them love and kindness, but also show them discipline. Life skills and lessons learned are the best education a child can receive.

05/06/2024

Grow your chickens wheatgrass! They love it and it’s super nutritious.

It’s so Simple add some coconut coir to the biotin of the tray. Add water until moist. Sprinkle seeds and cover with a wet paper towel.

Keep the paper towel moist but not drenched. Set near light. And keep the coconut coir moist. This is day 6

05/05/2024

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