Category: Homesteading

Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Let me ask you something. How much food do you already have sitting in your pantry, freezer, or cupboards that you completely forgot about? Come on, we’ve all done it! We head to the grocery store with a list of ingredients for meals we’ve planned, meanwhile there’s perfectly good food sitting…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Okay, Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming, and it’s time to make some dang good food. Maybe even show off a little! Imagine homemade buttery rolls for Thanksgiving, cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning, and fresh bread, pizza, bagels, and muffins whenever you want. That’s Bread Independence! Now here’s the crazy part. My…

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Laura Lawrence From Starter to Artisan Hi Reader Okay guys, I may have made this one a little ridiculous. My From Starter to Artisan: Sourdough for Everyday Life book is normally $45.99. I just put together the Everyday Sourdough: Complete Beginner Bundle for $48. Yep. $2.01 more. And for that $2.01, I’m giving you: The…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Money in the bank, y’all. I say this ALL the time around here. Grow garlic and save some to plant again next year? Money in the bank. Learn to save your own seeds instead of buying them again? Money in the bank. Learn to make bread, preserve the garden, grow dry…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader My garden currently looks like I gave up sometime in August. Brown bean pods. Bolted lettuce. Droopy sunflowers. Baseball-bat zucchinis. Weeds. Chaos. It’s beautiful. Okay…maybe beautiful is a stretch. But I’m leaving it that way on purpose. And perhaps you are doing it for the same reason as me 😉 Because…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Today I was removing seeds from a mammoth sunflower because everyone is doing that right now… right? Well, something VERY pokey got me right in the crook of my thumb where it bends. OUCH. I pulled it out and thought, eh, it’ll be fine. A few minutes later it had swollen…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader I have a confession. I don’t trust next year’s garden. I trust God. I just don’t trust my vegetables to cooperate. Case in point: one year my banana peppers went absolutely gangbusters. We had peppers coming out our ears. The next year? Zip. Zero. Zilch. Gardens are fickle little things. That’s…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Why do we need a different bottle for every single surface in the house? One for the counter. One for the mirror. One for the bathroom. One for the furniture. One for the dishwasher. And one mystery bottle shoved all the way in the back that nobody remembers buying. Your cleaning…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader The weather is changing around here, especially at night, and boy has it been moody! The clouds have been fabulous to watch—light, dark, constantly changing and bringing in these splashes of sunshine and darkness. It’s fabulous. And you know what else it means? SOUP SEASON. Click below to see all my…

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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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