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Cleaning Up After the Mass Devastation from the Ice Storm in Northern Michigan
Cleaning Up After the Mass Devastation from the Ice Storm in Northern Michigan Homestead Clean-Up After the “Once in a Lifetime” Ice Storm The clean-up continues here in Northern Michigan after what they’re calling it our “once in a lifetime” ice storm. The devastation is overwhelming — massive trees down, fences crushed,and a to-do…
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Hoop House Salad Bar! 🥬 Self-Seeding Greens & Spring Cleanup on the Homestead
Hoop House Salad Bar! 🥬 Self-Seeding Greens & Spring Cleanup on the Homestead The hoop house is waking up for the season — and so is our self-seeding salad bar! https://youtu.be/arAUiEr5F8I In today’s video, I’m taking you inside our homestead hoop house for a tour, cleanup, and a look at how our salad greens return…
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Planting Seedlings in My Homestead Grow Room 🌱 | Starting the Garden Indoors!
Planting Seedlings in My Homestead Grow Room 🌱 | Starting the Garden Indoors! It’s that exciting time of year — garden season is kicking off indoors! Join me in the grow room as I plant seedlings for our homestead garden. https://youtu.be/woLKb-SVDSI 🌿 What You’ll See in This Video & Free Seed Starting Guide: My favorite…
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Beauty After Destruction | Foraging Post-Ice Storm | What I found in the Woods
Beauty After Destruction | Foraging Post-Ice Storm | What I found in the Woods Here in Northern Michigan, after a devastating ice storm, beauty is already springing forth from the forest floor. Nature is resilient—and so are these woods. Come along as we take a peaceful walk through the forest, see how the land is…
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How to Start Homesteading – A Journey For ALL
Join for the Videos- FREE! Welcome to “How to Start Homesteading” with Laura Lawrence of Food Prood! In this first video, you’ll meet Laura Lawrence, a passionate homesteader from Northern Michigan, and get a glimpse into her journey towards creating a sustainable, self-sufficient life. Laura will share her personal story, her challenges, and the lessons…
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🌸 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for the Home Cook & Gardener 🌿 All My Favorites – Handpicked with Love
🌸 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for the Home Cook & Gardener 🌿All My Favorites – Handpicked with Love This Mother’s Day, treat her to something she’ll truly enjoy — whether she’s happiest in the kitchen or out in the garden. I’ve gathered all my favorite finds: charming, practical, and made to bring a little more…
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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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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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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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- Cleaning Up After the Mass Devastation from the Ice Storm in Northern Michigan
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- Planting Seedlings in My Homestead Grow Room 🌱 | Starting the Garden Indoors!
- Catastrophic Ice Storm Aftermath | Massive Cleanup Begins!
- Catastrophic Ice Storm in Northern Michigan
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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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