The Scott Homestead

12/24/2025

It’s cold enough to make frost on my hat, neck gator and eye lashes! If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring them in and warm them up! lol 😂 One of our home raised turkeys getting ready for the heat!! 😋🤭 He just barely fits my momma’s roast pan! That means lots of turkey, sandwiches, soups and whatever else we can add turkey too lol.

12/24/2025

We just want to say how much we appreciate our customers, friends and family who have supported us this year! Ya’ll are loved beyond measure! We pray you all have a most Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!! May 2026 bring much love and new adventures! ❤️🥳

12/23/2025

🔥 Wood Ash: "THAT GREY DUST ISN'T WASTE. IT’S PURE MINERAL GOLD."
YOU CALL IT SOOT. FARMERS CALL IT "POTASH."

"All winter, you haul that heavy bucket to the trash can, thinking you're cleaning up. You aren't just throwing away dust; you're throwing away history's original fertilizer and nature's best traction agent. Wood ash is packed with calcium and potassium that your garden is begging for. And on the driveway? It bites into the ice without rusting your car like rock salt. Stop wasting the minerals you worked so hard to harvest."

📰 FIELD REPORT: The Chemistry of the Hearth
Angle: The original soil amendment.

[CHEMICAL EVALUATION] Wood ash is essentially a mineral concentrate. When wood burns, the nitrogen and sulfur burn off as gas, but the calcium, potassium, magnesium, and trace elements remain in the ash.

The "Potash" Origin: The word "Potassium" literally comes from "Pot Ash"—the practice of soaking wood ash in a pot to extract fertilizer.

The Liming Effect: Wood ash is about 20% calcium carbonate. It acts exactly like agricultural lime, raising the pH of acidic soils to make them sweeter and more fertile for vegetables.

THE UNSHOWN SIDES OF THE "FIREPLACE RESIDUE"
1. The Mechanics of Traction (The "Anti-Salt")
Grit vs. Melt: Rock salt melts ice but destroys concrete and rusts the undercarriage of your truck. Wood ash works differently. It provides traction (grit) immediately.

The Albedo Effect: Because ash is dark grey/black, it lowers the "albedo" (reflectivity) of the snow. It absorbs sunlight during the day, heating up and melting the ice beneath it naturally, without chemical runoff.

2. The "Acid" Warning (Credibility Check)
The Rookie Mistake: The only danger with ash is ignorance. Because it raises pH (makes soil alkaline), you must never put it on acid-loving plants.

The "No-Go" List: Do not put ash on Blueberries, Azaleas, Rhododendrons, or Potatoes (it causes potato scab). Put it on the lawn, the tomato patch, or the asparagus bed.

3. The Pest Deterrent
The Physical Barrier: A circle of dry wood ash around a plant stem is a nightmare for slugs and snails. The salts in the ash draw moisture out of their slimy bodies, acting as a natural, non-toxic deterrent.

THE MANIFESTO: "CLOSE THE LOOP"
"The tree feeds you twice."
The Cycle: The tree pulled minerals from the soil for 50 years. When you burn the wood for heat, you release those minerals. Returning them to the soil isn't just gardening; it's returning the loan.

The Economy: Bagged lime and potassium fertilizer cost money. Your woodstove produces it for free.

🤝 Our Duty: The "Cool and Scatter" Protocol
Ash is powerful, but it must be handled with respect.

The Action: Safety First.

The Cool Down (Critical): Never bucket hot ash. Coals can stay live for days buried in ash. Store ash in a covered metal bucket (never plastic) on a non-combustible surface (concrete) for at least 48 hours before using.

The "Dusting" Rule: Use it sparingly. For the garden, a "light dusting" (like sugar on a funnel cake) is enough. Do not pile it.

The Driveway Mix: For the best eco-friendly ice melt, mix your wood ash 50/50 with sand. The sand gives grip; the ash melts the ice.

Your fireplace isn't just a heater; it's a fertilizer factory. Treat that grey dust with the respect it deserves, and your garden will thank you in July.

12/20/2025

It’s a stormy day here in the north. A good day to stay home and bake and or watch Christmas movies lol.

12/18/2025

Please 🙏🏻 lol

12/06/2025

Know what’s in the products you buy. 👀
The big food companies only care about 💰. Pharmaceutical companies only care about 💰.
Personal care companies only care about 💰.
They lie. 🤥 To make more money 💰.
They pay “scientists” to lie and alter their data 🤥💰.
They don’t care about you. They lie with their fancy packaging and false commercials so you will 💰 their products.
Almost everything you buy has cancer causing ingredients. And THEY. DON’T. CARE. As long as they fill their pockets 💰💰💰.
🛑 Please, stop believing them. For hundreds and thousands of years, people made their own products and food from natural ingredients for their families. It’s not as hard as you think. 👩🏼‍🍳👩🏼‍🌾 And it’s WAY healthier for you and your family. ❤️

12/04/2025

How’s everyone doing today?
It’s bright and sunny here (haven’t seen the sun for quite awhile!) but it’s cooooold out there campers! 🥶☃️ So I’ll be inside baking and keeping warm lol.

12/04/2025

Looks like winter is here to stay lol. Brrrr. ☃️

12/03/2025

Hello Cochrane area peeps! It’s DECEMBER!! 🧑🏻‍🎄🎄
Time to get your orders in for your Chrismas goodies!! All made to order and out of non gmo flour, non gmo sugar and the yeasted breads have honey instead of sugar!! Colouring for the cookies are also non gmo. 🙌🏻

20% of the proceeds will go to Angels of Hope Against Trafficking (see link below)! ❤️

**cut off for orders is Dec 17** so don’t put it off!! 📅

Prices:

1 Decorated gift 3-4” sugar cookie (customizable) $4
1 doz custom decorated 3-4” cookies $40

•12 fully Decorated 2” Christmas sugar cookies $24
•12 Chocolate fudge 2” sugar cookies $24
•12 Award winning Gingersnaps $8
•12 Shortbread cutout cookies $8
•12 Unbaked chocolate macaroons $8
•1 Cinnamon Star Bread $12
•8 Cinnamon Rolls with (with cream cheese glaze) $16
•Sandwich bread $5
•8 White buns $5
•8 everything bagel $6
•Sourdough loaf $6
•Honey Whole Wheat bread (homeground fresh flour includes bran & wheatgerm) $10

Mixed assortment of cookies (family size box of approx 30 cookies) $35

Send me a message with your order ASAP!! ❤️🎄🧑🏻‍🎄

https://www.aohagainsttrafficking.ca

12/01/2025

🔔 Attention all my Cochrane area friends!! 🔔
From all my sales of baked goods from December 1 until December 23, I will be donating 20% of my profits to Angels Of Hope Against Human Trafficking.
So please, get in your orders now for sourdough and/or homeground whole wheat sourdough loaves, sandwich (white and homeground wholewheat) bread, buns, cinnamon rolls, cinnamon star bread, ginger snap cookies, decorated sugar cookies, chocolate fudge cutout cookies, shortbread cookies, edible fruitcake (for those who don’t like regular fruitcake lol) etc. if there is something not on my list, give me a hollar and see if I can make it for you!
Everything I bake has as much healthy, non gmo, organic ingredients as I possibly can incorporate.

Until then, click the link and learn more about this very important organization and what they do. 💞

AOH offers counselling, case management, court support, information resources, survivor-led support groups, workshops and youth compassion groups, presentations, and guidance, education, counselling, and support to survivors’ loved ones. We look forward to working with you.

11/29/2025

High doses of vit C and it E are very useful and non toxic to your system compared to vit’s A & D for example.

🚨 High-Dose Intravenous Vitamin C Is Rewriting Cancer Survival

History may soon record one of the greatest oversights in modern medicine: we had a near-miraculous, tumor-destroying therapy all along, and it costs pennies per dose.

A monumental new systematic review of more than 150 studies has delivered an unmistakable verdict.

When vitamin C is administered intravenously at true pharmacologic doses (75–100 g per infusion, 2–3 times weekly), it transforms from a simple nutrient into one of the most elegant and lethal cancer-killing agents ever documented.

At plasma levels of 20–30 mM, vitamin C unleashes a cascade of destruction that cancer cells cannot escape:

• It floods tumors with hydrogen peroxide at levels healthy cells shrug off like water

• It rewrites malignant epigenetics, forcing cancer cells back toward normal behavior

• It supercharges the immune system, turning exhausted T-cells and NK cells into relentless hunters

• It directly cripples the exact driver mutations (KRAS, BRAF, HIF-1α) that make pancreatic, lung, colorectal, ovarian, and brain cancers so deadly

• It magnifies the power of checkpoint inhibitors, chemotherapy, and radiation while slashing their toxic side effects

The human results are nothing short of astonishing:

• Stage IV pancreatic cancer patients achieving objective tumor regression (previously considered impossible)

• Glioblastoma survival jumping from 14.6 to nearly 20 months

• Ovarian cancer patients completing full chemotherapy with minimal toxicity

• KRAS-mutant colorectal cancer patients living dramatically longer without progression

This is precision oncology at its finest: selective, multi-targeted, synergistic, and backed by decades of mechanistic and clinical data that have been systematically ignored because the doses in earlier trials were simply too low to work.

High-dose intravenous vitamin C is safe, extraordinarily well tolerated, and cheaper than a single round of most targeted therapies.

It is the definition of a miracle waiting to be embraced.

The evidence is now overwhelming.

The era of dismissing this therapy is over.

🔗 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352304225002314?via%3Dihub

11/28/2025

Homemade chili and homemade wholewheat sourdough bread is a welcome meal after moving snow today! Still more to move but we will finish tomorrow… today is done and all the critters are safe and in bed. Time to rest and watch a movie. ☺️