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The Farm Family Table⏐Homesteading, Homemaking, Christian Mom
by Jocelyn Jennings
The Farm Family Table⏐Homesteading, Homemaking, Christian MomNew Do you desire a simpler, healthier lifestyle for your family but just feel stuck in the hustle of busy mom life? Do you wish there was an easy way to start homesteading without immediately feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or not good enough? Hi, I’m Jocelyn, and I’m so excited you’re here at The Farm Family Table. I remember when I became a new mom, I wanted to set my child up for their best, healthiest life, but often I felt exhausted and discouraged. I wanted to provide the best food, from-scratch, and be more self-reliant, but it felt impossible to balance learning new skills, taking care of my home, and spending quality time with my kids. I felt overwhelmed by all the things I wanted and needed to do, and felt guilty when I couldn’t keep up. I compared myself to picture-perfect farm life on social media, only to feel like I’m not doing enough but not sure how to do more. This was not the life God had planned for me.
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116. What We’re Planting in Our Container Garden This Summer
Are you dreaming of a summer garden but worried about limited space or not wanting to dig up your whole backyard? I know space can feel like a huge limitation when it comes to gardening, but what if you could grow food for your family with just some pots or containers on your patio, porch, or…
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115. Making Time for Outdoor Play Without Falling Behind on Chores
Do you ever feel like you're caught in this endless tug-of-war between the laundry piling up inside and those nice sunny days calling you outside with your kids? I totally get it. There's dishes to wash, meals to prep, and that nagging to-do list taking up all your time and attention, but deep…
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114. 5 Things You Can Grow in Your Backyard to Feed a Family
If you want to grow real food for your family right in your backyard without having to slave away in a huge garden, today I'm sharing five easy crops that deliver a big harvest and make your time and effort worth it. Plus they are small space friendly, so even if you are working with a tiny yard…
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113. Simple Evening Routines for a Peaceful Home
Evenings can either leave us feeling frazzled and behind, or calm and ready for a new day. And there are many days that the default in motherhood feels like the first option. But today, I want to share the simple evening routine that's brought some peace to our home, finding a balance of getting...
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112. Choosing Backyard Apple Trees for Organic Homegrown Fruit
When fall comes around it's apple time—apple crisp, pie, applesauce, baked apples, all those yummy treats I can't get enough of. But if apples are a fall treat, why are we talking trees now? Because spring is the perfect time to plant them. And yes, you won't pick fruit this year, but like I've...
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111. Easy Homemade Kefir and 5 Ways to Use It
If you’re interested in eating more fermented foods and enjoying the benefits of probiotics for your family, one of the ways that we have started eating more probiotics is through homemade kefir. In this episode I share my super simple process for making kefir and 5 ways that we use it so the…
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110. Feeding a Growing Family Without Living in the Kitchen
If you're feeding a growing family and feel like the kitchen's taking over your life, you are not alone! I have been there, but I have found ways that I can simplify, and that’s what we're talking about today. Easy systems to feed everyone well without having to live at the kitchen counter. Let's...
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109. How to Enjoy the Journey When You're Not "There" Yet
Have you ever felt like you just wish you could be “there” already? And I know for some of you, when I say “there”, you already have a picture in your mind. “There” is being home full-time with your kids, homeschooling at the kitchen table instead of rushing out the door. “There” is a little more...
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108. Handling Bedtime Solo, Strategies to Get Kids to Bed Alone (And Keep Your Sanity)
We've all been there. Your husband is working late, traveling, sick... whatever the case, it's all on you to put the kids to bed. Does the marathon of putting multiple small children to bed alone leave you too exhausted to even look at the dishes in the sink afterwards? I know I have been there,...
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107. Homestead Life Hacks for Busy Moms: Saving Time Without Cutting Corners
Today we’re talking about something that I think every homestead mom quietly wrestles with… how do you save time without lowering your standards? Because while homestead life can be beautiful and meaningful. It’s not always easy or for the lazy. There is laundry that multiplies, bread to bake…
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106. Cooking From Scratch: Expanding Your Recipe Box Without the Stress
I think almost every mom who is trying to cook more from scratch runs into this at some point: you get comfortable with a handful of meals… and then you kind of stall out. You have some great recipes, but when it comes to trying something new? It can feel mentally exhausting or just plain risky....
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105. When You're in a Season of Loneliness in Homesteading
Something that doesn’t get said out loud very often is there can be loneliness in homesteading and homemaking. Not the kind of loneliness that comes from needing a night out with friends, but the kind that shows up when you’re choosing a slower, more intentional life and realize not many people...
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104. Bringing Back Old Fashioned Winter Meals
Let’s bring back old-fashioned winter meals, meals that are hearty and comforting, the kind of meals many of us remember from our grandparents’ tables. There’s a lot of confusion around food right now: what’s “healthy,” what to avoid, what to limit, and winter meals often get caught in the middle...
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103. Eating More Protein on a Budget as a Family of 5
One thing I don’t think we talk about enough is how much protein moms actually need and how many of us aren’t getting nearly enough of it. Between pregnancy, postpartum, breastfeeding, chasing kids, managing homes, and carrying the mental load of family life, our bodies are doing a lot of work...
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102. Winter Family Time Without Screens
We are in the thick of winter right now and you might have found yourself reaching for your phone or your remote a little more often. Winter has a way of stretching our evenings long and making screens feel like the easiest option to entertain us, pass the time, and keep the kids occupied. When...
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101. A Gentle Start to the New Year: Preparation without Overcommitment
A new year means a new calendar, fresh goals, and all the pressure that seems to come with it. Everywhere you look, it’s “new year, new you,” and sometimes that can feel exciting and sometimes it can feel exhausting before the year has even really begun. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by...
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100. A Simple Garden Plan for Busy Moms - 100 Episodes Giveaway Celebration!
If you’ve ever looked at beautiful garden pictures or listened to other homesteaders talk about everything they grow and thought, “That sounds nice but there’s no way I can keep up with all of that right now,” then this episode is for you. We talk about a simple garden plan for busy moms that…
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99. Serving Joyfully at Christmas (Without Burning Out)
Christmas is such a beautiful time of year. We talk about peace and joy… But as moms, there’s a lot of weight on us to make Christmas special, and sometimes it’s hard to feel that peace. If you’re the one doing most of the cooking, planning, wrapping, cleaning, and hosting, it can also feel like...
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98. Why Less Meal Variety Can Be a Good Thing
One thing that I never thought about before kids is how much time and effort it takes to feed everyone and put 3 meals on the table each day. There are times when meal planning can feel like a full-time job all on its own. As moms, we’re already juggling chores, kids, and all the little details…
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97. Homestead Hospitality: Making Your Home a Cozy, Welcoming Place to Be
It’s one thing to grow your own food, take care of animals, and cook from scratch, but it’s another thing entirely to open your door and invite people into your real, lived-in home. Yet hospitality has always been such an important part of homemaking and biblical community. It’s a ministry we get...
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96. Struggling to Find Time to Homestead? Reclaim Your Time in a Distracted World
Have you ever tried to add one more thing to your homestead but felt like there just aren’t enough hours in the day. I am willing to bet that at one point or another you have looked at your to-do list, glanced around at the dishes, the laundry, your garden outside, and the kids asking for a snack...
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95. How to Keep Kids Healthy This Winter: Simple Tips to Boost Your Family’s Immune System
Whether you like it or not, winter is just around the corner. Once the true cold sets in and the snow hits, that means the balancing act begins, trying to keep everyone healthy while staying indoors more and battling the never-ending runny noses. I know as moms, it can feel like we’re constantly…
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94. Easy Ways You Can Start Making Money on Your Homestead
I know so many of us dream about getting to stay home more, being with our kids, digging deeper into the slow and intentional life, but then reality hits, and the question comes up: “How do we afford it?” The good news is, there are ways that you can start making money from your homestead with a...
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93. Creating Holiday Traditions Around Real Food
When you think back on the holidays growing up, I’m willing to bet, the thing you remember most is not the decorations, not the presents, but the thing you remember most is the food. The smell of scalloped potatoes and ham in the oven, have half a dozen choices for pie, the treat tray of homemade...
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92. Homemade Slow Cooker Meals for a Busy Season
If you’re anything like me, this time of year can feel like your plate is full. Besides chores, school, kids’ activities, there’s everything that comes with changing seasons and holidays approaching. I know the days can get long and the to-do list even longer. And while putting healthy homemade...
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91. What You Need to Know Before You Buy Half a Cow for Your Freezer
I am always a huge advocate for buying food in bulk when it saves you money. And with the price of meat at the grocery store, buying half a cow can be a great way to save a lot of money on beef. In the process, you are also able to stock your freezer and know exactly where your meat comes from…
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90. Finding Joy in Your Day to Day When You Feel Burned Out
I know sometimes this homesteading, homemaking, mom-life thing can feel a lot. Between homeschooling, cooking from scratch, keeping up with the garden, and trying to make sure everyone has clean clothes, it’s easy to lose sight of joy in the middle of all the doing. Maybe you’ve been there too,...
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89. 30 Things I Don't Buy to Save Our Family Thousands of Dollars
The further I get in life, the more I realize, life is expensive. Groceries, household supplies, kids’ stuff—it all adds up so quickly. And sometimes it feels like no matter how careful you are, there’s always another thing you’re supposed to buy. But here’s the thing: one of the biggest ways our...
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88. Sourdough Basics, Favorite Discard Recipes, and More for the Complete Beginner
Sourdough is one of those things that can seem super complicated from the outside but is actually fairly simple once you understand the basics. If you’ve been curious about starting sourdough but aren’t sure where to begin, this episode is for you. We are going to cover the foundational steps of...
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87. The Secret to “Doing It All”
I think every mom wrestles with this at some point—the pressure to “do it all.” You know what I mean, keeping the house clean, cooking healthy meals, homeschooling or running kids to activities, looking put-together, maybe even working or having a side hustle on top of it, not to mention...
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86. 7 Convenience Foods to Stop Buying and Start Making No Matter How Busy You Are
Have you ever been in a rush to get supper on the table and cracked a box of mac n cheese or pulled a pizza out of the freezer, and thought, well this isn’t really what I wanted to serve my family, but it is what it is. I just don’t have the time or the bandwidth to do something different. And I...
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85. Beginner's Guide to Milling Your Own Grains
If you’ve ever wanted to bake bread that’s not only delicious but truly nourishing for your family, milling your own grains might just be the next step in leveling up your baking. Grinding your own grains might sound intimidating at first, but it’s actually one of the most practical and…
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84. Want to quit your job and start homesteading? How to Escape the Dual-Income Trap When All You Want is to Stay at Home
Have you ever found yourself daydreaming at work, wishing you could just walk away from the grind and be home — home with your kids, home with your garden, home doing the things that actually matter to you? I think a lot of us know that tug in our hearts. But then reality hits, the bills, the...
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83. Food Scrap Ideas for Your Zero Waste Kitchen
Have you ever looked at how much food is in your trash and thought, there’s got to be something else I can do with this? To me, the idea of wasting food feels discouraging, especially when we’re working so hard to feed our families quality food and stretch our grocery budget. The good news is,...
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82. 4 Homesteading Skills to Learn BEFORE You Have Land
One of the biggest misconceptions about homesteading is that you need land to get started. But the truth is, some of the most important homesteading skills don’t even require a backyard. Today, I want to share with you four foundational skills you can start learning right now—whether you’re in an...
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81. 5 Hacks for Eating Healthy While Saving Money
We all want to eat healthier, but sometimes grocery prices these days can make it feel impossible. The good news is, it doesn’t have to be that way. In today’s episode, I’m sharing my five favorite hacks for eating healthy while actually saving money. I’m going to share practical tips that you…
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80. Truth: The Perfect Homestead Life Doesn't Exist - Are You Letting Perfectionism Hold You Back from Your Homesteading Goals?
Have you ever found yourself stuck because you’re putting some of your homestead goals on hold for the perfect time, the perfect setup, or to be the perfect mom? Today we’re talking about something that I think a lot of us wrestle with, especially when we are trying to juggle family…
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79. My Morning Routine with 3 Under 5
If you’re in the season of raising babies, toddlers, or preschoolers, especially more than one at a time, you know that mornings can feel a little… wild. And some days, just getting everyone dressed and ready before noon feels like a win. In this episode, I want to give you a peek on what my...
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78. Tips for Canning with Little Kids
If you’re knee-deep in summer produce and trying to preserve as much as you can, with toddlers climbing the counters or babies on your hip, this episode is just for you. Canning with little ones around can feel chaotic, overwhelming, and downright impossible some days. But I want to encourage…
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77. 5 Ways to Improve Your Energy and Get More Done as a Busy Homestead Mom
Do you ever find it hard to have enough energy to get you through your day? When you’re a homestead mom, the home is a busy place. There’s a lot to get done, and it can be hard to get it all done when you are dragging in the morning, having a mid-morning crashes, or afternoon slumps. I know when…
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76. How to Freeze Any Vegetable in 15 Minutes or Less!
If your garden, or let’s face it, your last farmer’s market haul, is bursting with fresh veggies right now, you might be wondering how on earth you’re going to use it all before it goes bad. The good news is you don’t have to! In today’s episode, I’m going to walk you through how to freeze just...
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75. Quick & Healthy Homemade Lunches for Traveling and On-the-Go
Right now, summer is in full swing—which means longer days, more time outside, family trips, park playdates, and probably a whole lot more running around than usual. And when you’re busy and out and about, mealtimes sneak up fast. But, even if you want to avoid the drive-thru and typical car...
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74. Natural Ways to Make Your Home Smell Amazing
You know that feeling when you walk into someone’s house and it just smells good—warm, inviting, clean, maybe even a little like fresh-baked cookies? Well, after I decided to ditch artificial fragrances with two toddlers running around, that is NOT how our house smelled. But since then, I’ve...
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73. Creating a Simpler Life and More Time Making Family Memories
Do you ever feel like life is moving too fast? The calendar is always full, the to-do list never ends, and somehow, the moments that matter most are slipping through the cracks. If you've ever caught yourself saying, “I just want more time with my family,” or wondering why this homesteading life...
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72. My #1 Tip for Getting Chores Done with a Baby
If you are anything like me you’ve got a baby in your arms, or on your hip, and a to-do list a mile long. Baby #3 is 2 months now, and I know firsthand how tricky it can be to get anything done when you’ve got a little one who needs you 24/7. The laundry piles up, dinner still has to be made, and...
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71. How to Get Your Kids to Eat Healthy Homemade Meals, My Strategy for Picky Eating
If you have a picky eater, you know that this can be one of the most maddening things about littles, especially if you are going to the work of preparing homemade, from-scratch meals or if you are spending money on quality ingredients just to have it end up in the trash. In this episode, I’m...
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70. Annual Azure Haul - What did I just buy for the whole year?
If you’ve ever been curious about how to buy in bulk, what’s actually worth stocking up on for a whole year, or how I plan it all out for our growing family—you are in the right place. In this episode, I dive into my annual Azure haul. And yes, it’s a big one. This is my stock-up that fills my...
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69. 8 Benefits to Raising a Homestead Family
Have you ever found yourself questioning if the whole homesteading thing is worth it, especially when you have little kids in tow? It can feel like a lot sometimes, and maybe you are tempted to push things off until the kids are older. But in this episode, I want to inspire you why the time is…
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68. 5 Cheap Meals to Make with What is In Your Pantry Right Now
Have you ever stood in front of your pantry, staring at the shelves, and thought, “What in the world are we going to eat for supper?”—even though there is food in there? I think we’ve all been there a time or two. But the truth is, with a few basic staples, you can whip up delicious,...
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67. 3 Easy Steps to Growing Your Own Food
Have you been dreaming of growing your own food but feel overwhelmed by where to start? Gardening can seem complicated, but the truth is—you don’t need a perfect setup, a huge backyard, or do a ton of research to start producing fresh, homegrown food. In this episode, I break it down into three...
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The Farm Family Table⏐Homesteading, Homemaking, Christian MomNew Do you desire a simpler, healthier lifestyle for your family but just feel stuck in the hustle of busy mom life? Do you wish there was an easy way to start homesteading without immediately feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or not good enough? Hi, I’m Jocelyn, and I’m so excited you’re here at The Farm Family Table. I remember when I became a new mom, I wanted to set my child up for their best, healthiest life, but often I felt exhausted and discouraged. I wanted to provide the best food, from-scratch, and be more self-reliant, but it felt impossible to balance learning new skills, taking care of my home, and spending quality time with my kids. I felt overwhelmed by all the things I wanted and needed to do, and felt guilty when I couldn’t keep up. I compared myself to picture-perfect farm life on social media, only to feel like I’m not doing enough but not sure how to do more. This was not the life God had planned for me.
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