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Learn how to Dehydrate to preserve your harvest
Preserving the Harvest Sharing my Favorite Methods to Preserve the Harvest Dehydrating Dehydrating is a great way to preserve certain food, save space in the freezer and on the shelf! I use my dehydrator for herbs, jerky, onions. garlic, and peppers. I really enjoy my Cosori Dehydrator because the trays are stainless steel and…
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Preserving the Harvest- Learn how to water bath can & pressure can
Preserving the Harvest Sharing my Favorite Methods to Preserve the Harvest Now you might be thinking “I don’t grow enough to harvest so why am I looking at this?” BUT let me talk to ya for a minute – You may not be able to or just don’t grow enough to “preserve” or “Put up”…
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Learn how to Grow, Prune, Harvest, & Use Tomatoes
In the Garden with my Favorite Vegetable err Fruit Tomatoes Today I”ll be sharing with you how I grow Tomatoes, Peppers, Broccoli & Cabbage in my gardens that I’ve been doing for many years and absolutely love. Let’s dig in and grow together! If your interested in learning all things gardening including Seed Starting- Growing- Harvesting –…
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Ultimate Gardening Bundle – Learn Seed to Preservation
Ultimate Gardening Bundle Grab My Ultimate Gardening Bundle to Gain Freedom in Food! Over a $300 Value for Only $179!! We won’t even mention the the life changing experience that you and your family will have by growing your own food. Planning Your Garden Growing Your Garden Seed Starting Indoors Seed Saving for the Future…
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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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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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