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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Our holiday weekend was spent doing what holiday weekends apparently look like around here—processing chickens and canning broth. I found 14 quarts’ worth of broth hiding in the freezer, so I canned all of that just in time to make room for the chickens we processed on Sunday. This was our…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader What is taking over your kitchen counters right now? Zukes? Maters? Beans? Peppers? Herbs? Around here, it is a little bit of everything. The zucchini keeps coming, so we’re making creamy zucchini soup, zucchini spaghetti, chocolate zucchini cake, and shredding plenty for the freezer. The tomatoes are becoming fresh BLTs, roasted…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader If you’ve been wanting to try Azure Standard, I finally have a personalized discount code to share with you! New Azure customers can use: FOODPROOD15 You’ll receive 15% off your first order of $100 or more in products delivered to a local Azure drop. Azure is one of the ways I…

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Junior Cooking Club Hi Reader Have you started your homeschool year and suddenly realized: “Hmm…I think we need something else.” Maybe you need a break from textbooks. Maybe you want to add more practical life skills. Or maybe everyone is already tired of worksheets—and you haven’t even made it through September. I have a last-minute…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Zukes, maters, and herbs galore! That pretty much describes my kitchen counters right now. The zucchini keeps coming, so we’re making creamy zucchini soup, zucchini spaghetti, chocolate zucchini cake, and shredding plenty for the freezer. The tomatoes are finally rolling in too. Some are becoming roasted spaghetti sauce for dinner, while…

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Junior Cooking Club Hi Reader As we settle into another homeschool year, I keep thinking about the subjects our children will actually use for the rest of their lives. Cooking is absolutely one of them. The kitchen naturally teaches math, reading, science, planning, responsibility, and problem-solving—but it also teaches something even more important: “I can…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Preservation season is officially here—and it’s on like Donkey Kong! It is crazy busy right now. The garden is producing, herbs are ready to gather, vegetables are covering the kitchen counters, and there is always another basket coming through the door. Preserving the Harvest I’m canning purple beans and tomato sauce,…

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Laura Lawrence Hey guys! Anybody else’s garden looking a little wild right about now? 😂 By late summer, my garden is definitely NOT the perfectly manicured garden you see in magazines. Things are growing through fences. Squash vines are going everywhere. Zucchini are getting ridiculously huge. Beans are drying on the vine. Broccoli is flowering.…

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Laura Lawrence Hey guys! It’s almost tomato season! And around here that means it’s time to start canning like a mad woman. 😂 When you’ve spent months planting, tending, watering and waiting for those tomatoes, there’s something incredibly satisfying about finally seeing buckets of them coming out of the garden. But then comes the next…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader One of my favorite places to spend time this time of year is the herb garden. Everything is blooming. The bees are busy. And it’s finally time to start harvesting many of the herbs we’ve been waiting months to enjoy. In today’s video I’m taking you on a walk through the…

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