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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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There’s only 3, ONLY 3! The bottom dropped out
There’s only 3, ONLY 3! The bottom dropped out. How this lesson refers to our current world right now. There’s HOPE Friends, there’s only 3 jars. There’s suppose to be 14, 11 are missing. Ugh what happened? Well let me tell you what happened. After HOURS and HOURS of washing the tomatoes, chopping the tomatoes,…
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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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As the pendulum swings from summer to fall…. (new recipe + videos)
As the pendulum swings from summer to fall can you feel the difference? Do you feel the pull between long summer days full of sunshine, exhaustion and fun to the slower cooler days of fall? I know I certainly do! Trying to fit in those summer activities, enjoy the dwindling bright sun, harvesting and preserving…
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Taking Care From the Outside In
Did you know that your skin is your largest organ? Have you ever thought about all the products that goes on our skin and how our largest organ absorbs those ingredients? Ya know the lotions, sun screen, makeup, ointments, rubs, and the list goes on and on. You might be slathering your skin (largest organ…
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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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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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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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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.