Category: Homesteading

Laura Lawrence Hey guys! Anybody else’s garden looking a little wild right about now? 😂 By late summer, my garden is definitely NOT the perfectly manicured garden you see in magazines. Things are growing through fences. Squash vines are going everywhere. Zucchini are getting ridiculously huge. Beans are drying on the vine. Broccoli is flowering.…

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Laura Lawrence Hey guys! It’s almost tomato season! And around here that means it’s time to start canning like a mad woman. 😂 When you’ve spent months planting, tending, watering and waiting for those tomatoes, there’s something incredibly satisfying about finally seeing buckets of them coming out of the garden. But then comes the next…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader One of my favorite places to spend time this time of year is the herb garden. Everything is blooming. The bees are busy. And it’s finally time to start harvesting many of the herbs we’ve been waiting months to enjoy. In today’s video I’m taking you on a walk through the…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader If you want Fire Cider in your cupboard this fall — NOW is the time to make it. 🌿🔥 Fire Cider takes about a month to infuse. Which means this is one of those homestead projects you don’t want to remember when cold weather is already here and think… “Shoot. I…

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Laura Lawrence Hi friend, If your house smells like fresh bread… You’re probably doing something right. 😊 This week I’m sharing one of our family’s favorite sourdough recipes… Cinnamon Swirl Bread. It’s lightly sweet, soft, beautiful toasted, and makes incredible French toast if there’s any left the next morning. In the video I’ll show you…

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Laura Lawrence Hi friend, If you’ve been around here very long… You already know things don’t always go according to plan. Well… This year’s pig story is no exception. What started as trying to keep everyone separated turned into one very unexpected surprise… Piglets! In this week’s video I’m sharing the whole story, introducing you…

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Laura Lawrence Hi friend, Come take a walk around the gardens with me. This time of year is one of my favorites because everything starts telling its story. Some things are thriving. Some things are struggling. Some things are making me wonder what on earth happened. And honestly…that’s gardening. Every season teaches us something. In…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Planting the garden is exciting… But then comes the question almost every gardener asks: “Now what?” Should you fertilize? Should you weed? How often should you water? What if something doesn’t look right? In this week’s video, I’m walking through the simple things I do throughout the growing season to help…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Well… The preserving season I warned you about? It arrived. 😅 My famous purple podded pole beans are starting to come in, gardens are producing, and before long we’ll be doing what feels like endless preserving. And honestly… This is one of my favorite times of year. The messy counters. The…

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Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Look not all gardening is pretty and front news worthy. I like to teach both sides of the coin, there’s the good, the bad and the ugly. Today is some ugly, because gardening is not perfection. It’s learning to see the ugly, perhaps try to help it. Some you win, and…

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