By Melissa Norris | Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Other , Podcast
Learning how to make apple cider vinegar at home is one of the easiest things to make and even if you’ve had trouble, I’ve got troubleshooting tips so your homemade apple cider vinegar turns out, because it’s one of those things that every homestead (and home) should have on hand.You know that saying an apple […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Frugal Living , Homestead-Life
Apple cider vinegar is one of the oldest foods and it’s been in use for thousands of years. Not only is it easy to make at home, but apple cider vinegar is one of the most versatile tools you have in your home and medicine cabinet. As a modern homesteader and natural living pioneer lifestyle […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Food Preservation , Podcast
Learn how to make fruit vinegar at home with one simple ingredient, a Mason jar, and a bit of time! My guest today, Autumn Rose, lives with her husband on a tiny farmstead in the mountains of southern British Columbia in Canada. She’s a full-time homemaker, whole food cook, avid gardener, food preserver, and lover […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
Vinegar pie is about as old-fashioned as you can get, it hails from the pioneer days and early settlers when they wanted a sweet treat and no fruit or other pie filling makings were available. This also has a relative shorter baking time than compared to apple pies, making it easier for a homestead cook […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Herbal Remedies , Natural Medicine Cabinet , Podcast
Traditional fire cider recipe & benefits guide is the topic today where we are talking all about herbal remedies and their history and place now within our modern lives and healthcare. Fire cider is a long held old fashioned remedy that is used to boost the immune system and to help aid the upper respiratory […]
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FOR A LIMITED TIME, GET THIS FANTASTIC RESOURCE FROMPioneering Today and Melissa K. NorrisApple Preserving & Use Mini CookbookWant to take advantage of the fall harvest when the fruit is in season? Believe it or not, preserving doesn’t have to be hard or complicated. Inside are easy canning (low sugar options), baking, homemade raw apple cider vinegar, recipes, tutorials […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | DIY Recipes & Tutorials , Frugal Living , Homestead-Life , Natural Medicine Cabinet , Recipes
Homemade natural vinegar cleaner recipes, especially easy homemade DIY ones, are my favorite. Who doesn’t want a cleaner that can be made from items you eat, can grow on your own land, and the best part, that actually work? Your hand better be raised high my friend. This is my favorite all-purpose homemade cleaner, and […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Dehydrating , Fermenting , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Food Preservation - Other , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Recipes , Water Bath
11 ways to preserve apples at home, because one should never have to pay full price at the grocery store and apples are so delicious, we need them year round, am I right? We’ve all heard the saying an apple day keeps the doctor away, but my apples don’t grow all year round. Our goal […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Dessert , Healthy Snacks , Recipes
My husband and I are on a gluten, dairy, and sugar free (except the kind found naturally in fruit) 24 day diet right now. We’re on day 10. And while I don’t miss the gluten so much (at least right now), I really miss the sugar. We did this diet last spring and over the […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Food Preservation , Homestead-Life , Recipes
Our blueberry bushes our producing wonderfully this year. In fact, it’s our biggest crop yet. I love to eat blueberries straight from the bush, when they burst with sweet goodness, warmed from the sun, there’s nothing better. We freeze them to use in homemade pancakes, waffles, muffins, pies, and cakes all year long.
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