A Newly Expanded Edition—More Wisdom, More Recipes, More Handmade Living
Home and Hand Made is back—better than ever! This newly updated edition brings you even more time-tested wisdom and practical skills for creating a home filled with homemade meals, natural remedies, and simple living traditions. Including:
✔ 20 Brand-New Recipes – From wholesome meals to old-fashioned baked goods, discover fresh recipes to nourish your family.
✔ Expanded DIY & Handmade Projects – More step-by-step guides on crafting your own natural remedies, beauty products, and home essentials.
✔ Updated Food Preservation & Fermentation Methods – New techniques and troubleshooting tips to make fermenting, canning, and storing food easier than ever.
✔ More Money-Saving & Frugal Living Strategies – Learn how to stretch your grocery budget, repurpose ingredients, and make the most of what you have.
✔ Refined & Enhanced Content – Based on reader feedback, this edition includes clearer instructions, additional insights, and even more inspiration for embracing a simple, homemade life.
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A Return to Simple Living: Old-Fashioned Wisdom for Modern Homemakers
In a world that moves too fast, Home and Hand Made brings you back to the essentials—homemade food, homegrown goodness, and heartfelt traditions. Inspired by generations past, this guide is filled with practical wisdom to help you slow down, simplify, and fill your home with warmth and purpose.
Nourishing, From-Scratch Cooking
Wholesome meals don’t have to be complicated. Discover simple, time-tested recipes for easy skillet suppers, nourishing soups, and old-fashioned baked goods like buttermilk pie and Mom’s chocolate chip cookies—all made without processed shortcuts.
Fermentation & Food Preservation Made Easy
Learn the lost art of fermentation and natural preservation with step-by-step guides for making sourdough, cultured dairy, real sauerkraut, and fermented vegetables—so you can stock your pantry with nutrient-rich, homemade staples.
Natural Remedies & Herbal Medicine
Turn your spice rack and garden into a natural medicine cabinet. Grow and preserve medicinal herbs, then craft soothing salves, herbal tinctures, and nourishing lotions to care for your family the old-fashioned way.
Frugal & Simple Living
Take a page from the Great-Depression era with practical tips to stretch your groceries, repurpose leftovers, and declutter your home. Embrace self-sufficiency, save money, and create a home that feels both peaceful and purposeful.
Handmade Traditions & Gifts from the Heart
Celebrate life’s special moments with handmade gifts and old-fashioned holiday traditions. From molasses sugar cookies and spice mixes to beeswax candles and peppermint body butter, you’ll rediscover the joy of creating with your hands.
Home and Hand Made is more than a book—it’s an invitation to embrace a slower, more intentional way of living. Start your journey today and bring the beauty of homemade, homegrown, and heartfelt living into your home.
What Others Are Saying
What a fantastic read! I bought it for the tips and recipes, but the personal anecdotes and seeds of faith sprinkled throughout was such an added surprise! I didn’t want the book to end!
– Carolyn C.
I appreciate that you are so thorough in your tutorials for visual learners like me. Your posts and tutorials show your love of teaching others how to be more self sufficient, whether they are homesteaders, yard gardeners, or people like me who get their produce from local Farmers Markets. When I think about what I’ve learned and accomplished, I know this class is truly one of the best investments I’ve ever made in my family’s health and well-being. Thank you, Melissa!! fought blight in my tomatoes for years and after watching your video I've had less problems. I added the extra calcium when planting, kept my leaving trimmed from the bases, and just that alone made a huge difference. I've been asked by so many people what my secret was because they had no luck this year! Thank you!
– Kathy P.
Thank you for being such an influence in my life when I have no one around me to show me these skills. You are changing my life in ways you can’t imagine. Thanks again!!
– Jessica D.
About the Author
Melissa K. Norris doesn’t just talk about simple, from-scratch living—she lives it every day. As a busy working mom, fifth-generation homesteader, and founder of the Pioneering Today community, Melissa has spent years mastering the balance between modern life and the timeless skills of self-sufficiency.
Through her top-ranked podcast and blog, she reaches hundreds of thousands of people, teaching them how to grow their own food, cook nourishing meals from scratch, and create a home that thrives on faith, family, and hard work. Whether it’s preserving the harvest, making homemade remedies, or stretching a grocery budget, Melissa shares real-life, practical solutions that fit into busy schedules—because she knows firsthand what it’s like to juggle family, farm, and work.
Her expertise has been featured in Homestead Living Magazine, National Geographic, Epoch Times, and Forbes, and her passion is helping others rediscover the joy of a handmade, homegrown life—one simple step at a time.
WHO IS HAND MADE FOR?
THE FAMILY CHEF
Those who want to feed their families wholesome nourishing food, who refuse to sacrifice health with processed packages of convenience.
THE STRESSED-OUT MOM
You’re tired of trying to keep up with over packed schedules, a never ending to-do list, making sure the house is clean and every meal is picture perfect.
THE CRUNCHY HEALTHY NUT
You know who you are, you are all about living naturally, from your food, to your medicine cabinet, and everything else.
FANS OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER
Half pint is more than just a half-filled Mason jar, it’s a reminder of our favorite beloved pioneer family. Walk on into your guide for creating a modern home and kitchen with the best from the olden days.
THE MODERN HOMESTEADER
Our Mason jars are raised high, our chickens are scratching in the grass, and we love getting a new seed catalog in the mail like no other.
Anyone who wants real time-tested recipes, how-to guides for easily making your own spice blends, natural medicine with herbs, homemade hand creams, soaps, lip balm and more.
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