Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World
Helping families grow food, cook from scratch, preserve the harvest, and build practical homesteading skills—one lesson at a time.
Whether you’re planting your first tomato, baking your first loaf of sourdough, preserving your harvest, or building a more self-reliant lifestyle, you’ll find practical guidance, real-life experience, and plenty of encouragement here.
Where Would You Like to Start?
Choose where you’d like to begin. One skill at a time, one season at a time.
I’m Laura Lawrence-
— a Midwest homesteader, educator, and author of Seed to Plate: A Homesteading Gardening Guide and Cookbook and Sourdough for Everyday Life: From Starter to Artisan.
Over 24 years ago, my journey began with one small garden box and a handful of tomato plants in Michigan. What’s funny is, if you’d met me back then, you probably wouldn’t have guessed I’d end up here. I wasn’t dreaming about livestock, gardens, or pressure canners.
Today, my family and I homestead in Northern Michigan, above the 45th parallel, where we grow food, preserve the harvest, raise animals, and teach practical skills that help families build more confidence and freedom at home.
Today our family grows and raises much of our own food — and I’m here to help you start where you are. Read My Story->
