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 […]
Read MoreBy 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 […]
Read MoreBy 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 […]
Read MoreBy 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. […]
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 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 | 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 | Homestead Life , Lifestyle , Podcast , Skills
Learn how to make maple syrup in our homemade maple syrup guide. From learning how to tap your trees, boil down the sap into syrup, and our baking guide on using maple syrup in place of sugar in your recipes for delicious taste, but added health benefits! Whew, that’s a whole lotta awesomeness coming at […]
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