10/07/2026
STOP THROWING THOSE KITCHEN SCRAPS AWAY! 🍲
One of the easiest ways to save money and make your own food from scratch is to make your own chicken, beef, or vegetable broth.
Here's how we do it at One More Farm:
1. SAVE YOUR BONES 🦴
After cooking chicken, steak, roasts, etc., save the bones. Put them in a freezer-safe bag and keep adding to it until you have enough for a batch.
2. SAVE YOUR VEGETABLE SCRAPS 🥕🧅
As you're cutting vegetables throughout the week, save the clean scraps—carrot ends, celery pieces, onion ends, and even clean onion skins. Keep them in a separate freezer bag until it's full.
3. MAKE YOUR BROTH 🍲
For chicken or beef broth, put your bones and vegetable scraps into a crockpot or roaster.
For vegetable broth, simply use your vegetable scraps.
Fill with water and slow cook for 8–12 hours.
4. STRAIN IT
Strain out all the bones and vegetables, and you've got homemade broth ready to use!
BUT DON'T THROW THOSE VEGETABLE SCRAPS AWAY! 🐔🥕🌽
Once they've finished making your broth, let the vegetable scraps cool and give them to your chickens! Our chickens absolutely love picking through the leftover vegetables.
It's one more way to get something useful out of what would have otherwise gone into the trash. Nothing goes to waste around here! 🐔❤️
5. PRESERVE IT 🫙❄️
You have several options for preserving your homemade broth:
❄️ FREEZE IT: Use wide-mouth Mason jars, leaving plenty of room at the top for expansion, or use freezer-safe containers.
🫙 PRESSURE CAN IT: If you're a home canner, broth can be pressure canned for shelf-stable storage. Because broth is a low-acid food, it must be processed in a pressure canner using tested canning directions.
❄️ FREEZE-DRY IT: If you have a freeze dryer, you can turn your broth into homemade bouillon powder for soups, sauces, gravies, rice, vegetables, and so much more.
Season with salt to taste. I prefer a good-quality mineral salt for its flavor and less-processed character.
It's simple. It's inexpensive. And it's one more way to get the most out of the food you already bought.
That's what self-sufficiency is all about. 🌱
Would you try making your own broth this way?
