About
My Indiana Living is a plain-spoken guide to cooking from scratch, keeping a pantry worth having, growing a Zone 6 garden, and being ready when Indiana weather does what Indiana weather does.
What you’ll find here
- From Scratch Kitchen: recipes, Hoosier classics, canning and preserving.
- The Deep Pantry: stocking, rotating, and storing food and water.
- Weather Ready Home: power outages, ice storms, tornado season, and car kits.
- Zone 6 Garden: what to plant, when to plant it, and how to keep it alive.
- Hoosier Almanac: what’s in season and what to do this month.
The neighbor’s promise
- Tested recipes only. Canning and preserving recipes follow tested guidance from sources like the National Center for Home Food Preservation and Purdue Extension, and each post says which.
- Written for Indiana. Zone 6 gardens, ice storms, tornado sirens, and persimmon season.
- Practical, not panicky. Being ready means getting through a week without power, not the end of the world.
- Honest recommendations. If a link earns a commission, the post says so near the top.
New posts are on the way this fall. Pull up a chair.