By Melissa Norris | Podcast
How to tackle the pre-holiday de-cluttering and organization tips to set yourself up for a great new year and save yourself some headache and troubles this Christmas season. Keeping a homestead running takes some work and the winter season is when I have time to focus on the house, when the garden is in stand by mode […]
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12 baking substitutions every kitchen, especially a homestead kitchen, needs to know about. One of the things I pride myself on is not running to the store and having a well-stocked larder to cook and bake things from scratch. But even with the best of intentions, you know it happens. When you start a recipe […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Canning , Canning , Food Preservation , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes , Sides , Water Bath
Homemade spiced cranberry sauce put those tinned canned jelled versions to shame. And you wouldn’t expect anything less than from scratch cranberry sauce pioneer woman style on a homesteading blog and podcast entitled Pioneering Today, am I right? You’re in for a treat today because Anna is sharing her best homemade cranberry sauce recipe today […]
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Knowing the best flour for baking is important so you can start out with the correct flour for your baking recipes to begin with. Especially when it comes to fresh ground flour and knowing what type of wheat to purchase when you first start milling your own flours. In this flour guide, I’ll walk you […]
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If you want to have an old fashioned Christmas, where the focus is on things being handmade, more on relationships with others, cutting out the stress factor, not being in huge long lines, or running around crazy when it comes to the holidays, then you my friend are in the right place. We are talking about […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Homestead Life , Podcast
The biggest homestead mistakes we made and what to avoid on your homesteading journey… or another way of putting it, things I wish I had known to do differently. Hopefully, with my sharing these homestead tips you will not make these same mistakes so your journey goes a bit more smoothly than ours did. I […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Homestead Life
To some, it might sound crazy to prepare for Christmas now when fall has just barely begun. But for most modern homesteaders, preparing for winter is something we do from the last frost to the first. So why not prepare for Christmas too? In fact, I start preparing for Christmas on Boxing Day (the day […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food
Grow more food next year with these 5 fall gardening tips, yes please. These tips apply if you are doing raised garden beds, container gardening, regular in the ground gardening, or any type of growing your own food, aka, universal no matter where or how you’re growing. Learn how to analyze this year’s garden for […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Homestead Life , Podcast
Seasonal living is about as old-fashioned and pioneer as you can get, where families are in touch and plan their lives (and kitchen) around the seasons. Even if you don’t live on a full homestead or have distinct seasons, you can use these tips as we move into the fall and winter season. Specifically today […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | DIY Recipes & Tutorials , essential oils , Natural Medicine Cabinet
A homemade wound healing salve is something everyone should have a recipe for and on hand, and this is the perfect all purpose healing salve to fit the bill. One of the beautiful things about a homemade natural salve recipe is you can customize it for your specific needs (anyone else a bit of a […]
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