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Learn raw honey healing + cook outside like a pro (join us this month!)

Homesteading members learning how to laura Lawrence Food Prood seed to plate
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🥣 Cozy Soups, Garlic, and Garden Goodbyes

Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World with Laura Lawrence Hi Reader It’s that time of year again — when the air turns crisp, the wood stove starts calling, and soup just feels right. 🍲 I’ve been spending my evenings finalizing the last edits of my upcoming cookbook — Seed to Plate: A Homesteading…
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What a Day! Resources + a Special Thank You for Attending 🌾

Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World with Laura Lawrence Hi Reader What a wonderful event on Saturday at the 1st Annual Homesteaders Expo in Gaylord! It was so lovely to meet you and connect with so many like-minded folks passionate about Faith, Family, and Food. 🌿 You’re now signed up for my regular…
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From Vegetarian to Chicken Processor (in Flip Flops!)

Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World with Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Join me this Saturday for a day of learning, laughter, and good old-fashioned homestead inspiration in Northern Michigan. I’ll be sharing how I went from being a vegetarian to processing chickens in flip flops — and how that journey led me to…
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🌱 It’s Time! + A Thousand Pounds of Potatoes!

potato harvest, homesteading, herbs for medicine, releasing of my book, garlic training call, learn how to homestead, michigan, patreon membership
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Free Composting Lesson + A Peek at Life on the Homestead

Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World with Laura Lawrence Hi Reader We’re about to welcome in October, and goodness, there’s so much to wrap up here on the homestead! The warm days are stretching the season (I’m not complaining), and with homeschooling back in swing, our days have been full. Between canning outdoors…
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A long season – NEW Cookbook – New Video & More

Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World with Laura Lawrence Hi Reader A lovely long season has been upon us to reap the rewards His blessings, hard work and pig poo. Yes pig poo! (Fertilizer is KEY to a fabulous garden) – not the chemical kind, the real kind. Enough about poo, let’s talk…
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🌱 “Worth every penny” — why members love these homesteading lessons

Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World with Laura Lawrence Hi Reader I just received a wonderful testimonial from a student who joined my gardening and homesteading classes, and I couldn’t resist sharing it with you: “Laura provided GREAT information along with her own experiences, hands-on fun, humor, and built up my confidence to…
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It Wasn’t My First Crop… But It Changed Everything

Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World with Laura Lawrence Hi Reader By the time I started growing garlic, I’d already had my hands in the soil. Tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs — I’d grown things before. But garlic was different. It didn’t need me to hover. It didn’t ask for constant checking or second-guessing. And…
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Don’t Overdo It — Garlic Doesn’t Like That

Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World with Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Most beginner gardeners mess this up — I sure did. When it comes to garlic, the biggest mistake I see is this: 👉 Overtending. You don’t need to hover, fertilize every week, or second-guess everything. Garlic loves to be left alone. Plant…
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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.
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