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Learning to Mill Your Own Wheat Berries
Learning to Mill Your Own Wheat Berries     Grinding (aka milling) your own wheat berries provides an excellent source of nutrition. Once something is milled it starts to lose its nutrition, it’s best to store milled wheat/flour in the fridge until your ready to use. I typically mix half and half of freshly…
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The Amazing Plant that Flavors Our World- Vanilla
Behind the Vanilla I recently read an article in “Living Magazine” by doterra called “Vanilla Dawn” and it was so powerful and interesting I knew I just needed to share with you the amazing species of an orchid- the Vanilla plant. Specifically it’s about the Madagascar Vanilla- you guessed it – it’s from Madagascar. The…
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Deep dive into Yogurt Making + Choosing the Best Milk + Why is Milk Pasturized?
Health Benefits of Fermented Dairy Products Cultured dairy products contain probiotics and we all know that the more probiotics we consume, the healthier our gut is. A healthy gut will consist of a large diversity of flora and fauna which equates to better digestion, a healthier immune system, and so on.  Where &…
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How to Videos – New Recipes – Night to Shine & More
Learning Old Fashioned Ways in a Modern World A homesteading newsletter by Laura Lawrence We’ve got a lot today folks!!! Videos Over the last few days I’ve uploaded to my YouTube channel some Homemade Goodness that will show you some tricks I use to create delicious food at home. English Muffins Amazing Soup Chicken Pot…
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Pasta All Day Every Day – Pasta, Sauce, Homemade & More
Pasta All Day – Every Day I don’t know about you but pasta, noodles, ramen, spaghetti, carbonara, olive garden, make me drool. Thin noodles, thick noodles, flat noodles. Sauce, butter, garlic, tomato. ALL make me drool! The great thing about Pasta aka noodles they are versatile with so many different shapes, sizes, textures, grains, gluten…
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Recreating Favorite Kid Meals
All About the Kiddos Ok I say this is for the kiddos, but if I”m honest these meals are for me….a big kid apparently. I happen to love these simple dishes, they remind me of my childhood. So really they are for everyone, but of course with a twist. They are not from a box…
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Starting the Day off Right- Breakfast Time
Starting the Day off Right I’ll admit I’m not the biggest breakfast fan, I personally like to wait to eat till 10am (that’s when my body says it’s hungry typically unless I create a habit of eating with the kids in the morning) However the troops as I like to call them are hungry and…
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Keepin’ it Simple + A Reminder You Don’t Have to DO IT ALL- You Just Need To Do IT!
Today’s all about simple Soups, NOT from a can. Please NOT from a can. Most soups are loaded with fillers, including MSG and we’ve recently discovered how awful MSG (Mono Sodium Glutamate) is. If you need a reminder or your reaching for that can with the red label, READ HERE NOW. I’m sharing with…
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Why I don’t Meal Plan
Meals from Scratch- Meal Planning- NOT! Today my friends I”m going to talk to you about Meal Prepping, however it is not your typical meal prep talk with the exact ingredients, recipes and everything laid out. From my personal take on it – it just adds to much pressure. Like a checklist starring at me…
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Staying Home Instead of Eating Out + How You Can Make Everything for Your Pizza
Staying Home Instead of Eating Out So my goal here with this post is to give you resources of the normal “take out” and “restaurant” food but staying home and cooking those items from scratch- with wholesome, not microwaved, no msg, fillers, junk, etc in your meal. However I understand for the restaurant owner this…
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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.
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