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In the Garden- Back Garden Transformation & Update
I love me a good transformation and when I’m able to get out to the gardens and really spend a lot of time weeding that’s a great transformation to me! Below you’ll find the follow up the the transformation of said weeding in the back garden. I call it the back garden well because…
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Garden Maintenance – Midway Through the Growing Season
Garden Maintenance – Midway Through the Growing Season Here is a tour of my Front Garden (this one get’s all the sun) where I’ll show you what’s going on, how I’m handling issues and maintaining the garden. This garden was planted about 6 weeks prior to this video, we are in between the planting and…
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Launch of Piggy Soap!
The Soap is Here, The Soap Is Here!! Get ready to enjoy a rich lather soap made with 100% all natural ingredients Each bar is carefully crafted using lard (no you won’t smell like a pig) that I’ve rendered here on the homestead from our amazing Pigs that we raised on OUR land where we…
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Gardening Requires Patience
Gardening Requires Patience And I will admit it’s running thin this year. The weather has been up, down and all around like a Dr. Seuss book. Nothing is making sense and it certainly is not following what typically happens, which is pushing my buttons and requiring my inability to be patient to be pushed. Do…
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How to help your Herbs, Lettuce & Spinach Types BEAT THE HEAT
How to help your Herbs, Lettuce & Spinach Types BEAT THE HEAT It’s a scorcher out there folks and in order to maximize our hard work of planting all those lovely seeds here are some of my tips to help Beat the Heat! Hey Friends- it’s hot out there and we need to save our…
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This breaks my heart
This breaks my heart As I’m writing this blog post my sprinkler is running in the main garden to reach the plants that I was unable to cover. Frost. The 5 letter word that gardeners shudder at. I pride myself of knowing a lot of gardening stuff and teaching others gardening however nature can out…
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Summertime Means BBQ Season is Upon Us
Summertime Means BBQ Season is Upon Us Oh I don’t know about you but I like to spend so many hours outside during the spring, summer and fall. Basically whenever the sun is shining I want to be out in it doing just about anything. I do think that has something to do with why…
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Redefining Perfect + New Recipes (Take your fake bread and shove it)
Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World A homesteading newsletter by Laura Lawrence Redefining Perfect + 3 NEW Recipes Below! Living in a world where chewy stick to your teeth white bread is perfect and homemade bread is hard, complicated and not worth it is difficult for me. And it’s not actually real world…
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Baby Chicks + New Sourdough Recipe + How To Raise Your Own Poultry!
Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World A homesteading newsletter by Laura Lawrence Raising Your Own Food I’m really excited to announce a new video series all about Raising Meat Birds in Your Backyard where I”ll be sharing and showing you how we raise all our own organic poultry. I’ll introduce you to the…
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Spring Planting in Northern Michigan
What I’m Planting in the Springtime in a Northern Climate This post is brought to you by Azure Standard – Learn how to order HERE – use code “NEW15” if your a new customer with an order of $100 or more! They have plants if you have not started your own yet as well! It’s…
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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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