By Melissa Norris | Podcast , Preparedness/Survival
Off grid living, many are intrigued by it and some dream about it. How about you, ever dreamt of living off-grid? If so then today’s topic is for you my friend. We’re talking about just what it takes to go from city life to off-grid living, and here to talk about all of this are […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Natural Medicine Cabinet , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Medicinal herbs and their uses for growing an herbal tea garden, more specifically eight of my favorites! You ready? Today we’re diving into a fun subject, and that is how to grow herbal tea at home. Growing an herbal tea garden is fun because it’s really easy, and at the end you can dry your […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | DIY Recipes & Tutorials , Gardening , Natural Medicine Cabinet , Raising Your Own Food
How to grow an herbal tea garden at home, because if you’re a tea drinker (and who isn’t at least once in a while), then why not grow your own herbal tea garden at home? You’ll save money, you’ll KNOW it’s all organic and you can make your own blends tailored to your specific tastes. […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Maximize your garden yield and beat overwhelm, almost sounds too good to be true, huh? When it comes to gardening, it can be really easy to fall behind and feel overwhelmed with everything that needs to be done, or even to miss important windows for planting certain crops or fertilizing for maximum production. And then […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Tomato growing tips for a disease free harvest, can I get an amen! Today we are talking all about growing tomatoes; specifically, how to grow healthy tomatoes and how to avoid many of the common things that plague them. Because, as the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
How to start beekeeping, because honey bees offer us so much besides the delicious liquid gold we love to sweeten our foods. Even though when we typically think of livestock on the homestead, we tend to think of raising chickens for eggs and meat, cows for milk and grass-fed beef, maybe even goats and pigs, […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
A fried donut recipe, no yeast, and about as old-fashioned homemade donut recipe as you can get when it hails from the Little House Cookbook. This is our second recipe in our Cooking Like Ma Ingall’s series! Back in the early pioneer days, there was no Dunkin Donuts, or Krispy Kreme to grab a snack […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast
Natural weed control and heirloom flowers in the garden. Can I get an amen? How to create beauty using flowers, not only in your homestead flower beds, but also in the vegetable garden so that you can create a haven wherever you look on your homestead. I do not have a ton of experience with flowers. […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Herbal Remedies , Natural Medicine Cabinet , Podcast
Traditional fire cider recipe & benefits guide is the topic today where we are talking all about herbal remedies and their history and place now within our modern lives and healthcare. Fire cider is a long held old fashioned remedy that is used to boost the immune system and to help aid the upper respiratory […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Main Dish , Recipes
Want the secret to making delicious homestyle fried chicken using even older birds? This crispy fried chicken is a crowd pleaser! Back in the pioneer days, wasting food was unheard of. If you raised it, you used it in every way, shape, and form. Older birds that were done laying became dinner themselves, cows went […]
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