This year as the new gardening season kicks off I am using, for the first time, some seeds that I saved myself!  Seed saving starts with your initial seed choice,…

Yay!  Yesterday I got out and got my hands in the dirt.  It's pretty early here still for planting--unless you are a gambler the main garden crops don't go in…

I'm going to be adding some mending tutorials over the next few months here at Frugal Upstate.  While sewing from scratch can be expensive (seriously--check out the price of fabric!)…

This is a great tip to use when you need to hardboil eggs--be it for Easter Egg dyeing or for your summer picnic/potluck deviled eggs!

Basically it's the same process as…

Hurricane Sandy is on it's way and up and down the eastern seabord folks are scrambling trying to get themselves prepared.

But how do you actually prepare for something like this?…