Category Archives for "Lifestyle"

How to Earning a Living from Your Homestead

By Melissa Norris | Frugal Living , Homestead Life , Lifestyle , Podcast , Raising Your Own Food , Skills

One of the most common questions asked when someone is first embarking on their homesteading journey is “How can I earn a living from my homestead?” Listen in below to the full podcast, Episode #187 Earning an Income from the Homestead, of the Pioneering Today Podcast, where we don’t just inspire you, but give you […]

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Tips for Homesteading Off-Grid & Life w/out a Fridge or Running Water

By Melissa Norris | Lifestyle , Podcast

Tips for homesteading off-grid, living without running water or a refrigerator, and how to get creative using old-fashioned pioneer skills to preserve your food. Learn how one family is using solar power to live off grid in a one room cabin without running water or a refrigerator, just like the pioneer families of old, and […]

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Best Real Food & Food Storage Deals from Unlikely Sources

By Melissa Norris | Frugal Living , Lifestyle , Podcast , Preparedness/Survival

Best real food and food storage deals from unlikely sources… or at least, or not where I typically think of going when I first started building up our food storage and moving to a real food kitchen. While our goal is to grow as much of our own food as possible, we still go grocery […]

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Homesteading for Beginners- 9 Transition Tips from City Life

By Melissa Norris | Homestead Life , Lifestyle , Podcast

Homesteading for Beginners- 9 Transition Tips from City Life on Episode #131 of the Pioneering Today Podcast Anyone can learn the skills to be self-sufficient and a modern homesteader. Today Anna shares with us how she went from being a raised a full city girl, not even knowing how to cook from scratch to a […]

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8 Essential Skills for The Modern Homesteader

By Rhonda Crank | Homestead Life , Lifestyle

I was blessed to be born into a family with generations of farming or homesteading experience.  Just because someone like me is a “lifer” doesn’t necessarily mean we know all there is to know on the subject. As my Papa always said, “There’s as many ways of gettin’ a farm job done as there’s farmers. […]

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7 Tips to Organize & Build Your Homestead Food Storage & Kitchen

By 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 […]

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What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Healthy & Cut Out Sugar

By 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 […]

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13 Steps to the Simple Life Your Great-Grandparents Knew

By 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 […]

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How to Find Your Trigger Foods – Part 2 of Healing Your Stomach Naturally

By 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 […]

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How to Heal Stomach Acid Naturally – My Story Part 1

By 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 […]

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