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Summer on a Nebraska farm is beautiful — and buggy. With three kids who want to be outside from sunup to sundown, I needed a bug spray I could actually feel good about using. No harsh chemicals, no warning labels about children. Just a simple, effective DIY recipe we’ve used for years on our kids, our dogs, and everything in between. Here’s exactly what goes in it.

Memorial Day weekend is supposed to be restful—but for farm wives, it often just feels like regular life with a Monday tacked on. Here are 10 low-cost, real-life ways to lower the stress and actually make memories this weekend, even in the middle of a hard season.

Some evenings, after the chores are done and the house finally goes quiet, all I want is something sweet and simple. These flourless peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are naturally gluten-free, dairy-free, and made with ingredients most farm kitchens already have. They come together in 15 minutes — and they never last until morning.

There’s a moment every farm wife knows. You’re standing at the edge of a field — or sitting at the kitchen table at 11 p.m. staring at a spreadsheet — and the thought creeps in: This is so much harder than I thought it was going to be. I’ve been there. I am there. And here’s what I’ve learned about doing hard things when the mountain turns out to be higher than you expected.