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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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Dinner – Done in less than a half hour- Lots of Noodle Recipes
Dinner – Done in less than a half hour- Lots of Noodle Recipes Here are three fabulous noodle recipes! Best thing- done super easy, quick & delicious. I don’t know about you guys but I LOVE noodles, especially thin noodles- like ramen noodles. NO not the one’s the college kids eat in their dorm room…
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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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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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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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Gardening Requires Patience
Gardening Requires Patience And I will admit it’s running thin this year. The weather has been up, down and all around like a Dr. Seuss book. Nothing is making sense and it certainly is not following what typically happens, which is pushing my buttons and requiring my inability to be patient to be pushed. Do…
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Summertime Means BBQ Season is Upon Us
Summertime Means BBQ Season is Upon Us Oh I don’t know about you but I like to spend so many hours outside during the spring, summer and fall. Basically whenever the sun is shining I want to be out in it doing just about anything. I do think that has something to do with why…
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Redefining Perfect + New Recipes (Take your fake bread and shove it)
Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World A homesteading newsletter by Laura Lawrence Redefining Perfect + 3 NEW Recipes Below! Living in a world where chewy stick to your teeth white bread is perfect and homemade bread is hard, complicated and not worth it is difficult for me. And it’s not actually real world…
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Baby Chicks + New Sourdough Recipe + How To Raise Your Own Poultry!
Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World A homesteading newsletter by Laura Lawrence Raising Your Own Food I’m really excited to announce a new video series all about Raising Meat Birds in Your Backyard where I”ll be sharing and showing you how we raise all our own organic poultry. I’ll introduce you to the…
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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.