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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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It’s NOT time to give up now! Lessons learned. Can you relate? (Garden + Life)
It’s NOT time to give up now! Lessons learned. Can you relate? (Garden + Life) On my video that I recorded middle of August you’ll hear the sadness & desperation as I cling to the hope that the garden will be bountiful. However this year it will something I will have to let go and…
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Beans- The Musical Fruit – Why YOU Need to Be Planting Them Every Year
Beans- The Musical Fruit – Why YOU Need to Be Planting Them Every Year Beans Beans the Musical Fruit- The More You Eat the More You Toot! Below you’ll find out Why Plant My Favorites Seed Saving How to Grow & Setup Dry Beans Growing Several Videos How to Pressure Can the Beans…
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How to Pressure Can Fresh Beans using the Raw Pack Method
How to Pressure Can Fresh Beans using the Raw Pack Method Using the Raw Pack method let’s learn how to pressure can fresh beans.  If you haven’t noticed how much I love my Purple Podded Pole Beans you’ll want to find out all about them by clicking HERE If you’ve grown your own beans or your able…
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Creating an Apothecary – Tour of my NEW setup + Herbal Medicine
Creating an Apothecary – Tour of my NEW setup + Herbal Medicine See below for my full tour! But 1st….. Come check out my new setup of my Apothecary – there’s been an upgrade to what you last seen before at https://youtu.be/SzeRhvyqdjE a year and a half a go. But you gotta start somewhere…
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Let’s Harvest Broccoli & Cauliflower together shall we
Let’s Harvest Broccoli & Cauliflower Together Shall We Yay finally getting some goodies from the back garden (aka shade garden) so join me as I show you how and what to harvest. So when is the perfect time? When the buds are tight and right before they start to open up. After you let…
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The Herbs are Rollin in’! Grab my Freebies + Resources
The Herbs are Rollin in’! Grab my Freebies + Resources The Herbs are Here, the Herbs are Here!! Yay summertime those healing herbs are here and I’m here for it. Boy I just used the word “here” a lot didn’t I? Well I am that excited because it’s time to restock the Apothecary! I’ve gone…
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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.