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Weekly Dinner Ideas
Help is On the Way! Weekly Dinner Ideas Two weeks so far to choose from. Each PDF will have clickable links to each of the dinner ideas. And might I add these are yummy idea dinners that we make here on our homestead. I hope you enjoy!
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Chasing Fall Colors + New Recipes + New Videos
Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World a homesteading newsletter by Laura Lawrence Welcome to the homestead – Fall Edition! ​ Today I have two new wonderful recipes, how to save cucumber seeds, and chasing the fall colors. It’s been beautiful here in Northern Michigan watching the colors fade from green to brilliant reds & oranges.…
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Learn how to Seed Save from Cucumbers – Fermentation Style Seed Saving
Learn how to Seed Save from Cucumbers – Fermentation Style Seed Saving Full Step by Step Directions Below!  Something about watching the garden grow in such amazement will never grow old to me. With seed saving the cycle continues and life goes on. You start with a single seed, in some cases…
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There’s only 3, ONLY 3! The bottom dropped out
There’s only 3, ONLY 3! The bottom dropped out. How this lesson refers to our current world right now. There’s HOPE Friends, there’s only 3 jars. There’s suppose to be 14, 11 are missing. Ugh what happened? Well let me tell you what happened. After HOURS and HOURS of washing the tomatoes, chopping the tomatoes,…
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A tour of my nitrogen jungle, aka back garden- come check it out with me!
A tour of my nitrogen jungle, aka back garden come check it out with me!  Here we are, it’s fall ya’ll!! Take a look at my nitrogen jungle aka back garden! It’s crazy green still. I currently have to walk on all the vines just to be able to get through to make…
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People are always asking….what do I actually buy from the stores? pt 1
People are always asking….what do I actually buy from the stores? Good Question my friends! Part One In the beginning…. just kidding. But I gotta start somewhere, so here we are. I get the question often “what do you buy from store since you raise & grow most of your own food” I estimate…
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Never Give Up- Your Garden & Our Society Needs YOU – Piggy Poop & Weeding
Never Give Up – Your Garden & Our Society Needs You After several months of gardening chaos, crazy weather and the feeling of a doomed garden it taught me something I would like to pass onto you. Never Give Up on YOUR Garden Never Give Up on Gardening Remember the reasons on WHY you…
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As the pendulum swings from summer to fall…. (new recipe + videos)
As the pendulum swings from summer to fall can you feel the difference? Do you feel the pull between long summer days full of sunshine, exhaustion and fun to the slower cooler days of fall? I know I certainly do! Trying to fit in those summer activities, enjoy the dwindling bright sun, harvesting and preserving…
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Dinner – Done in less than a half hour- Lots of Noodle Recipes
Dinner – Done in less than a half hour- Lots of Noodle Recipes Here are three fabulous noodle recipes! Best thing- done super easy, quick & delicious. I don’t know about you guys but I LOVE noodles, especially thin noodles- like ramen noodles. NO not the one’s the college kids eat in their dorm room…
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It’s NOT time to give up now! Lessons learned. Can you relate? (Garden + Life)
It’s NOT time to give up now! Lessons learned. Can you relate? (Garden + Life) On my video that I recorded middle of August you’ll hear the sadness & desperation as I cling to the hope that the garden will be bountiful. However this year it will something I will have to let go and…
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Welcome to my Blog- I’ll share with you what our Homestead looks like and how we raise 80% of our food, all organically, sustainably, naturally and beautifully.
I’m hoping to inspire you that you can do this as well! God has provided our family with all the things, but the big thing He has given us is the drive to get ‘er done! We didn’t start out with all this, we started very slow, replacing one thing at a time, learning one thing at a time.