By Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food , Vegetables
The Ultimate Seed Starting Guide- planning, starting, and mistakes to avoid to successfully grow your own food. Never ask again why did my seedlings die? What seeds should I start? Do I have to have a grow light? Seriously, when done right, seed starting can be an amazing way to increase the amount of crops […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Main Dish , Recipes
Healthy chicken broccoli casserole recipe that tastes as good as it is for you… and best part, topped with biscuits. If you’re doing low carb, gluten-free, or keto, rest assured my friends, you can still eat this bad boy. If you’re not worried about low carb, never fear, this is delicious topped with my Flaky […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Homestead Life , Lifestyle , Podcast , Preparedness/Survival
Learn 7 tips to organize and build your homestead food storage and kitchen in this Episode, #129 of the Pioneering Today Podcast. Let’s talk about organization, your kitchen, and food storage and how all of it ties together for a huge impact on your time management, budget, and health. Pretty big statement, I know, but […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Homestead Life , Lifestyle , Podcast
If you’re looking at how our ancestors ate, when the foods they could grow, hunt, or forage were available, you’re looking at a very seasonal diet. For the winter months, the ketogenic diet is very similar to what we would have ate in an ancestral time, when you ate the fats, moderate protein and smaller […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Instant Pot/ Pressure Cooking , Main Dish , Recipes
Learning how to cook a whole chicken in the Instant Pot (aka pressure cooker whole chicken) is life changing. For reals, if you’ve not joined the Instant Pot craze, aka electric pressure cooking, you my friend are about to. And apparently, aka is my favorite thing to say today, so let’s rock it. I must […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Homestead Life , Lifestyle
13 steps to the simple life your Great-Grandparents knew but in today’s day and age, we seem to have forgotten. Some people say that this is the best time in all of history to be alive. After all, we live in a time of more abundance than we’ve ever known. As a society, we want […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Homestead Life , Lifestyle , Podcast
Learning how to find your trigger foods or what foods you have sensitivities is life changing. Here’s how to find out what foods are bothering your system, including food testing, what I’m eating now after finding out my results, and if the Ketogenic diet is right for you, all in Part 2 of Healing Your […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Main Dish , Recipes , Vintage
This fish chowder recipe comes from a 1931 cookbook that belonged to my husband’s Great-grandmother and was gifted to me this Christmas. Tucked inside the yellowed pages are handwritten recipes from both her and her mother, making some of them from Great-great-grandma’s kitchen. When I shared this on my Facebook page many of you asked […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Homestead Life , Lifestyle , Podcast
How to heal stomach acid naturally should be the first thing we look at, but if you’re anything like me, the first thing recommended to you (or a family member) was to take an antacid or a heartburn pill. If you’ve ever suffered from heartburn, stomach acid, acid reflux, or stomach ulcers, you know how […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Breakfast , Dessert , Recipes
This easy blueberry cake recipe comes straight from Grandma’s kitchen. Michelle made a small adaptation from the original version, because this version only uses a natural sweetener, made straight from her homestead. From scratch cakes baked in cast iron, with a generations old recipe, and blueberries and maple syrup straight from the homestead makes this […]
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