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Old Fashioned On Purpose — 414 episodes

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S19: E9: It Takes Guts to be Bad at Something

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S19: E8: My House Is Hot. Here's What We're Eating (and What I'm Learning)

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S19: E7: When Everything Feels Out of Control I Do This

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S19: E6: How I'm Building a New Life from Old Things

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S19: E5: My New Old House

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S19: E4: The Lessons I Learned From My Most Difficult Horse

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S19: E3: How I Unbecame a Homestead Influencer

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S19: E2: The Garden I Didn't Plan for: How I'm Starting Over in a New Space

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S19: E1: The Biggest & Hardest Transition of My Life

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S18: E16: When Good Identities Become Cages (and how to break free)

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S18: E15: Embarrassment is the Cost of Entry

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S18: E14: If I Were Starting a Business in 2026, This is How I'd Do It

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S18: E13: How I'm Cooking These Days

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S18: E12: These are the Books I Can't Stop Thinking About

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S18: E11: What I've Learned from Running a Business in a Town of 175

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S18: E10: Competence, Not Cosplay: How to Keep What Works, Drop the Rest

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S18: E9: I'm Not Planting a Garden This Year. Here's Why.

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S18: E8: What the Hell Happened to Homesteading?

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S18: E7: My Horse Journey (aka Finally Coming Home to Myself)

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S18: E6: The Magic of Not Belonging

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S18: E5: Why I Stopped Homeschooling

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E18: E4: Unfiltered Confessions of a Small-Town Restaurant Owner

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S18: E3: A Reintroduction, of Sorts

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S18: E2: How I Don't Balance My Life (And What I Do Instead)

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S18 E1: I’m Back! (Sorta) Why I’ve Been Quiet Lately...

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S17: E13: When Homesteading Takes a Backseat

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S17: E12: The Underground Reason Your Garden isn't Thriving (and What You Can Do About It)

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S17: E11: Raised Beds: Worth It or Overrated? A Deep Dive with Gardener Scott

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S17: E10: Freshly Milled Flour: Myths vs. Facts

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S17: E9: Too Many Eggs and Not Enough Ideas? We’ve Got You Covered

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S17: E8: Yes, You Can Grow Fruit & Nuts in Cold Climates! Here's How.

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S17: E7: How to Sync Your Body with Nature: Using Light & Temperature for an Old-Fashioned Health Boost

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S17: E6: How to Create a Water Smart Garden

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S17: E5: Mushroom Foraging for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know

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S17: E4: From Chaos to Calm: Decluttering Secrets for Homesteaders

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S17: E3: Yes, Home Cooking Matters. Here's Why.

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S17: E2: The Missing Piece: Mastering Nutrition for the Homesteader

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S17: E1: My Different Sort of Goals for 2025

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S16: E10: My Hard Won Lessons of 2024

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S16: E9: Ancient Wheat as Medicine: A Conversation with the Brilliant Bob Quinn

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S16: E8: How to Break Up with Sugar (and Not Lose Your Mind)

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S16: E7: The Truth About Glyphosate, GMOs, and Clean Eating with David Stelzer of Azure Standard

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S16: E6: How to Prepare Your Homestead for Wildfire

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S16: E5: How I Use a Planner to Keep Our Homestead on Track

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S16: E4: How to Break Out of the Modern Echo Chamber with Will Reusch

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S16: E3: Plan Your Garden with the Moon: How to Use History to Sync with Nature

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S16: E2: Fit for the Farm: Practical Fitness Tips for Homesteaders

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S16: E1: To Everything There is a Season: A Personal Update

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S15 E14: The Ultimate Tomato Episode: Preserving, Canning, Controversary, & More!

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S15: E13: How to Buy Homestead Land in a Challenging Real Estate Market

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S15 E12: Homesteader, Entrepreneur, Homeschooler: How I Keep All the Balls in the Air

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S15 E11: A Different Way to Home Dairy: Could SHEEP Be in Your Future?

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S15: E10: What I'm Using for Homeschool Curriculum this Year (and a Plea)

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S15: E9: My Half-Baked Plan to Never Buy Chickens Again

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S15: E8: NOW is the Time to Start Your Fall Garden. Here's How.

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S15: E7: A More Efficient Way to Sourdough

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S15: E6: The Art of Cooking for a Crowd

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S15: E5: The PERFECT Place to Homestead

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S15: E4: STOP Stressing Over Your Garden: My 3 Non-Negotiable Strategies

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S15: E3: Could a Working Dog Make Your Homestead Chores Easier?

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S15 E2: How to Become an Opt-Out Family

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S15 E1: Mulching Magic: Unlocking the Secrets to a Thriving Garden

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Why Meal Planning Doesn't Work for You (and what to do instead!)

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The Veterinary Herbalist's Guide to Holistic Animal Care

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S14 E19: How to Grow Bananas in the Snow

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S14 S18: Let Your Garden Be Easy This Year

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S14 E17: How to Tap Into Your Heritage for a More Beautiful Life

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S14 E16: Cracking the Code of Whole Wheat Sourdough

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S14 E15: Confessions of a Fun Hater

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S14 E14: How to Live Off-Grid in a Tiny Cabin

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S14 E13: How to Bring a Sourdough Starter Back from the Dead

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S14 E12: Why I Don't Live Like the Sky is Falling

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S14 E11: What You NEED to Know Before You Start Grinding Your Own Flour

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S14 E10: We Stopped Watching TV for 6 Months. This is What Happened

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S14 E9: The 7 Hour Business To Fund Your Backyard Farming

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S14 E8: We're Selling the Soda Fountain. Here's Why.

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S14 E7: The Inconvenient Truth About Building Community

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S14 E6: How to Create an Effective Homestead First Aid Kit

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S14 E5: The Hardest Thing We've Ever Done: The Charter School Tell-All

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S14 E4: The Wild & Wonderful World of Olive Oil (and why it matters to you!)

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S14 E3: The #1 Way to Save Money on Garden Seeds

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S14 E2: How to Recover from Last Year's Homestead Fails

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S14 E1: My Biggest (and Most Painful) Lessons of 2023

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S13 E21: What You Didn't Know About Starting Seeds

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S13 E20: How to Find Your Dream Property and Make It Pay for Itself

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S13 E19: The Resistance, Mental Toughness, & Developing an Old-Fashioned Mindset

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S13 E18: Q&A: What Religion Are You? And other personal questions

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S13 E17: How to Make Your Own Probiotics

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S13 E16: Don't Believe Everything You Hear: Homesteading Myths & Misconceptions

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S13 E15: Modern Life vs. Gut Health: What You Need to Know to Stay Healthy in Today's World

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S13 E14: Pasture to Freezer: What You Need to Know Before You Process Your Home-Raised Pigs

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S13 E13: How to *Actually* Make Money from a Small Farm

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S13 E12: How to Overcome Roadblocks as You Build Community

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S13 E11: How to Grow a Pollinator Victory Garden

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S13 E10: IT'S HERE! Listen to the First Pages of My New Book!

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S13 E9: Confused by Compost? This Episode is For You!

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S13 E8: 5 (Surprising) Lessons I Learned from Writing a Book

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S13 E7: Stop Playing Small: The Secret to Reinventing Yourself

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S13 E6: Picky Eaters, Intuitive Eating, & Organ Meat Magic

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S13 E5: How to Design an Old-Fashioned Home that Fosters Creativity

101

S13 E4: Weeds, Pests, & Herbicides: Overcoming Your Worst Organic Gardening Woes

102

S13 E3.5: Check out the Growing Joy with Plants Podcast!

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S13 E3: Your Body NEEDS Plants -- and Not Just for Food

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S13 E2: Creating a Timeless Home in an Instant Age

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S13 E1: Lessons from Chaos: Behind the Scenes of My Life

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S12 E14: How to Help Your Kids Discover their Passions with Ben Greenfield

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S12 E13: Movement Permaculture: An Old-Fashioned Approach to Moving Our Bodies

108

S12 E12: How to Feed Your Soil a Whole Food Diet

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S12 E11: Behind the Scenes at the Monsanto Cancer Trials

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S12 E10: How to Fall in love with your Soil

111

S12 E9: Take Your Chicken Keeping to the Next Level

112

S12 E8: The Un-Formula for a Sustainable Homestead

113

S12 E7: A Year of No Garbage... (Really!)

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S12 E6: Forging a Connection with Wild Waters with Conor Sullivan

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S12 E5: Creativity, Magical Ideas, and THE NEW BOOK!

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S12 E4: Pastured Pork IS Possible (Even on the Prairie!)

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S12 E3: Eyeballs, Roadkill, and the Ethics of Butchering Animals

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S12 E2: Love Your Place and It'll Love You Back

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S12 E1: When the Problem Becomes the Solution with Rob Avis

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S11 E16: The Rise of The Farmfluencer

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S11 E15: Building Old-Fashioned Community with Gary Chapman

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S11 E14: My Long Road Back to Whole Wheat Flours

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S11 E13: How I've Been Pruning My Life

124

S11 E12: How to Start Tanning Hides w/ Cher Reynan

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S11 E11: How to Find Nourishing Food WITHOUT a Farm w/ Liz Haselmayer

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S11 E10: Breaking Out of the Ag Echo Chamber w/ Natalie Kovarik

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S11 E9: The Great Egg Conspiracy (or not)

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S11 E8: First Generation Ranchers: Our Beef Story

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S11 E7: Thinking Outside the System with Matt Beaudreau

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S11 E6: Ancient Grains: Your New Best Friend in the Kitchen

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S11 E5: What if Your Spouse HATES Homesteading? With Christian Winger

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S11 E4: The Biggest Mistake a Homesteader Can Make with Marty Raney

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S11 E3: The Best (Non-Tacky) Homemade Christmas Gifts

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S11 E2: How to Motivate Your Homestead Kids

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S11 E1: Answering YOUR Questions: Family Guilt, Overwhelm, Microwaves, & More!

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S10 E15: My Biggest Challenge as a Homestead Mama Thus Far

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S10 E14: Ingenious Chicken Keeping with Harvey Ussery

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S10 E13: When Fertilizer Turns Toxic with Julie Lay

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S10 E12: The Mystery of the Poisonous Potting Soil

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S10 E11: Who IS Raising the Kids? with Susan Linn

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S10 E10: Busting Beef Myths with Diana Rodgers

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S10 E9: An Old-Fashioned Remedy for Depression with Dr. Kelly Lambert

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S10 E8: Could You Spend 1000 Hours Outside? With Ginny Yurich

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S10 E7: Stop Being Comfortable with Michael Easter

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S10 E6: The Magic of Play with Susan Linn

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S10 E5: The Incredible Gift of Failure with Jessica Lahey

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S10 E4: Pushing Back Against Consumer Culture with Shannon Hayes

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S10 E3: Rethinking an Old-Fashioned Life with Rory Feek

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S10 E2: Free-Range Kids: How & Why with Lenore Skenazy

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S10 E1: My Relationship with Homesteading is Changing

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S9 E12: Soda Fountains, Small Towns, and Life Lessons

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S9 E11: When Homesteading Doesn't Fit Any of the Boxes

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S9 E10: Homesteading with Chronic Pain & Health Challenges

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S9 E9: Homesteading in a Brutal Climate? Yes, It's Possible!

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S9 E8: The Magic of a Multigenerational Homestead

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S9 E7: Secrets of Successful Edible Landscaping with Ed Laivo

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S9 E6: Can You Grow Apples in the Arctic?

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S9 E5: What if I'm Alone? Homesteading as a Single Person

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S9 E4: Homesteading as a Teen

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S9 E3: On Homesteading in the Desert & Blooming Where You're Planted

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S9 E2 - Homesteading During the Golden Years: Is it Possible?

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S9 E1: Homesteading with Littles: Strategies from a Experienced Mama

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S8 E11 - Season Wrap Up

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S8 E10: Magical Animal Fats with Michelle Visser

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S8 E9: Solving Sourdough: The Science Behind What Works with Karyn Newman

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S8 E8: Are Vegetables Bad for You? with Justin Rhodes

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S8 E7: Demystifying Grocery Ingredients with Karalynne Call

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S8 E6: The Ultimate EGG Episode with Lisa Steele

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S8 E5: Down and Dirty Meal Planning with Lisa Bass

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S8 E4: Add Hunting into Your Homestead Strategy with Stacy Lynn Harris

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S8 E3: A Skeptic's Guide to Eating Offal with Ashleigh Vanhouten

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S8 E2: What Stage of Homesteading are You In?

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S8 E1: What do Grassfed Milk & Meat REALLY Taste Like?

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S7 E13: Systems, Groupthink, and Anarchy?

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S7 E12: How to Switch Out Your Store-Bought Veggies for Homegrown Ones

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S7 E11: How I’m Preparing Our Homestead for Supply Chain Hiccups

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S7 E10: How to Opt-Out of Toxic Mainstream Skincare

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S7 E9: Real Food is Expensive: Myths vs. Reality

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S7 E8: Should You Move to Wyoming?? Consider this first...

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S7 E7: How I Handle the Tension of Getting it All Done

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S7 E6: The Books I'm Reading Right Now

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S7 E5: What an Impromptu 1500 Mile Road Trip Taught Me About Personal Responsibility

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S7 E4: What if You Couldn't Buy Food at the Grocery Store?

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S7 E3: Saying NO to These 4 Systems Changed My Life Forever

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S7 E2: What We're Using for Homeschool Curriculum This Year

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S7 E1: I Need to Get This Off My Chest (A Reintroduction of Sorts)

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S6 E10: Sorting Through SALT: How to Pick the Right Salt for Your Preservation Projects

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S6 E9: How to Safely Push the Boundaries with Canning with Angi Schneider

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S6 E8: Dehydrating Powders: A Simple, Space-Saving Way to Preserve Fruits & Vegetables with Darci Baldwin

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S6 E7: Answers for Your Tricky Canning Dilemmas (Q & A with Jill)

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S6 E6: Hard Cheesemaking for the Rest of Us with Robyn Jackson

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S6 E5: How to Put Your Dehydrator to Work Around the Homestead with Jessica Spiers

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S6 E4: Fermentation: Beyond the Basics with Wardee Harmon

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S6 E3: Taking the Confusion Out of Egg Preservation with Carolyn Thomas

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S6 E2: The Homesteader's Guide to Preserving Meat with Derek Smiley

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S6 E1: How to Preserve Food the Colonial Way with Jonathan Townsend

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S5 E13: I've Owned a Restaurant for 60 Days. Here's What I've Learned

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S5 E12: How to Grow a Thriving Business in a Small Town with Dana Larson of Rural Revival

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S5 E11: Outside-of-the-Box Ways to Monetize a Homestead with Chloe Mackintosh of Boxwood Avenue

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S5 E10: How to Grow Your Homestead Business on YouTube with Tim Schmoyer

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S5 E9: Monetize Your Blog or Website the Evergreen Way with Julie Blanner

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S5 E8: Insta 101-The Basics of Using Instagram to Boost Your Homestead Biz with Ruthie Gray

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S5 E7: How to Start Your Own Microgreens Business with Laura Patterson

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S5 E6: What's Working for Social Media Right Now with Cris Daining

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S5 E5: How to Work with Sponsors (even if you have a small audience) with Michelle Visser

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S5 E4: How to Sell Products Online (and Deal with Competitors) with Nicole Gennetta

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S5 E3: What's the Best Business for YOUR Homestead

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S5 E2: How to Confidently Bring Your Product to Market (with CeAnne Kosel)

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S5 E1: A New Season and a Big Secret

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S4 E12: How to Build Your Natural Preparedness Cabinet with Essential Oils

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S4 E11: How to Cultivate Community You Can Depend On When Times Get Tough

212

S4 E10: Tricks for Storing & Using Bulk Pantry Goods (with Jessica)

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S4 E9: Make Your Own Homestead Medicine (with Amy Fewell)

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S4 E8: How to Use a Greenhouse for Increased Food Security

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S4 E7: How to Stay Warm (and Cook!) When the Power Goes Out

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S4 E6: The Simple Formula for Planning a Year's Worth of Vegetables

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S4 E5: Creative Off-Grid Water Systems with (Amber Bradshaw)

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S4 E4: Creating a Sustainable Off-Grid Homestead with (Amber Bradshaw)

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S4 E3: Closing the Loop with Dairy & Eggs (with Kate Schat)

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S4 E2: How to Never Buy Meat at the Store Again

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S4 E1: It's Time to Buck the System

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S4 Bonus: The 3 Biggest Mistakes I Made in my Homestead Business

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S3 E11: How to Recover After a Major Garden Failure with Cris Daining

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S3 E10: The Mysterious Winter Garden

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S3 E9: But Wait! There's More (Planning a Fall Garden)

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S3 E8: HARVEST: It's Coming... Ready or Not...

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S3 E7: The Truth About Chickens in the Garden with Lisa Steele

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S3 E6: The Magical Honeymoon Period

229

S3 E5: It's Go Time, Baby

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S3 E4: Dishing Up the Dirt on Dirt

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S3 E3: Seed Shortages & Basement Seedlings...

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S3 E2: Location, Location, Location

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S3 E1: The Victory Garden is BACK

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S2 E10: What the Future Holds

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S2 E9: Why the Heck Am I Doing This??

236

S2 E8: Building a Parachute on the Way Down

237

S2 E7: Never Say Never...

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S2 E6: The Messy, Mundane Middle

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S2 E5: Birthing Babies & Blogs

240

S2 E4: The Impulse Buy of a Lifetime

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S2 E3: Despise Not Humble Beginnings

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S2 E2: 1200 Miles Away from Everything

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S2 E1: Who Were You Before Life Told You Otherwise?

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171. Learning to Respect Seasons + An Announcement

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170. Why This Homesteader Finally Started Working Out...

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169. Doing This Gave Me 10 More Hours of Homestead Time Each Week

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168. Wanna Start a Homestead? DON'T Follow This Advice

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167. 3 Tricks for Storing Vegetables When You Don't Have a Root Cellar

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166. The Snow Killed My Garden, So I'm Planting This Instead

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165. How to Prepare your Homestead to go from Summer to Winter in 24 Hours

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164. It Took 10 Years, But We Finally Have a Greenhouse!

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163. THE Tomato Episode: Hacks, Myths, & More

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162. How I use a Planner to Simplify Homesteading

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161. Homemade Kraut & Fizzy Pickles: How to Make Your Own Probiotics

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160. A Lesson in Rolling with the Punches: Growing Fruit in Wyoming

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159. Curious about Fermentation? This One's for You

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158. My Garden Wins & Garden FAILS for 2020...

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157. How to Maximize your Micro-Harvests

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156. Getting Chickens for the First Time? This Is Your Episode!

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155. What a (Sorta) Typical Day in My Life Looks Like

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154. The #1 Thing That Will Improve Your Garden

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153. The Homeschool Curriculum I'm Using This Year

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152. Thoughts from a County Fair

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151. This is Your Year for a Fall Garden!

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150. What If My Kids Fall Behind?? (And other Homeschooling Questions)

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149. My 4 Favorite Ways to Preserve the Harvest

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148. The Ask Me Anything Episode!

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147. The Scoop on Growing Garlic

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146. How to Eliminate Project Overwhelm Once and for All

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145. Why We Built a Circus Tent Over Our Garden

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144. Your Canning Questions: Answered!

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143. Setting Goals & Chasing Dreams: How Big is Too Big??

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142. I'm Growing Something New in my Kitchen: Kefir!

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141. Why We bought a 100 year old House in a Forgotten Little Town

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140. How to Raise Your Own Freezer Beef

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139. Starting a Homestead From-Scratch: Unexpected Side Effects of Buying Your First Property

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138. What We're Eating for Supper this Summer

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137. How I'm Simplifying Our Life This Summer

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136. Your Definitive Guide to Growing Potatoes

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135. These 3 Tricks are Saving Me TONS of Time in the Garden

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134. How to Start Canning with ZERO Special Equipment

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133. Salt: The Unsung Hero of Your Homestead Kitchen (with Darryl Bosshardt of Remond's Real Salt)

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132. Why We Bought a Milk Machine After a Decade of Hand-Milking

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131. How I'm (Attempting) to Improve Our Clay Soil This Year

285

130. What We Did Differently for Our Best Meat Chickens Ever

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129. How to Put a Instant Pot to Work in your Homestead Kitchen

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128. The Emotional Side of Raising Your Own Meat

288

127. The 7 Lessons a Homestead will Teach Your Kids

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126. How to Find & Buy Local Food in Your Area

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125. Why Your Grassfed or Pastured Meats are Tough

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124. Our Biggest Homesteading Failures

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123. What to do When Your Friends & Family Don't Like Homesteading

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122. Why We Milk a Cow & Drink Raw Milk

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121. 9 Things Your Non-Homesteading Friends Don't Understand

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120. Why Small Businesses Matter More Than Ever Before

296

119. Why We Only Eat Grassfed Beef

297

118. My Current Favorite Homesteading Books

298

117. Tips for Growing Your Best Tomato Crop Yet

299

116. How We're Using Chicken Power on the Homestead This Year

300

115. How We Breed & Calve Our Milk Cows

301

114. Cold Frames, Greenhouses, High Tunnels...Which Do You Choose?

302

113. What We Learned from Having our Garden Soil Tested

303

112. When Homesteading Kicks You in the Gut

304

111. Plant These for a Quick Harvest

305

110. How I'm Surviving Quarantine

306

109. The Inside Story on Getting Chicks

307

108. What's Working for Blogs in 2020

308

107. Flour Shortages, Grain Mills, & Whole Wheat

309

106. You're Not a Homesteader if You Have a Microwave

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105. ALL Your Sourdough Questions: Answered!

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104. How I'd Boost our Food Security if I had NO Homestead

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103. We're Ramping Up Food Production This Year. Here's Why:

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102. State of the Homestead: Spring 2020

314

101. Is This Your Year to Raise Meat Chickens?

315

100. How To Can Dry Beans

316

99. What to do with an Excess of Eggs

317

98. Strategies for the Unexpected Homeschooler

318

97. What Covid-19 Means for Homesteaders

319

96. How NOT to Re-Season a Cast Iron Skillet

320

95. How I Learned How to Homestead

321

94. Is it Possible to Grow Food in a Shady Garden Spot?

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93. How to Start Your Own Seeds

323

92. How I Find Meal Inspiration When I'm in a Rut

324

91. Whats the Best Method for Starting Your Garden?

325

90. How to Garden in a Cold Climate

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89. My 5 Favorite Ways to Use Up Sourdough Discard

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88. Is It More Noble to Be a Broke Homesteader?

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87. The Scoop on Horses for Your Homestead

329

86. How I "Do It All"

330

85. How to Care for Your Wooden Kitchen Tools

331

84. What I'm Reading This Winter

332

83. The 4 Types of Homesteaders

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82. 7 Practical Ways We Save Time on the Homestead

334

81. What I'm Planting in my Garden This Year

335

80. How We're Staying Healthy This Winter

336

79. Why Canning Safety is Important

337

78. Why Aren't My Chickens Laying Eggs?

338

77. How Frugality Can Hurt Your Homestead

339

76. How to Start Your Very First Garden

340

75. Should You Use Nitrates in Home-Cured Meats?

341

74. How Do I Afford To Buy Land

342

73. Why & How I Use Heirloom Seeds in my Garden

343

72. How to Make Your Own Sourdough Starter

344

71. Homesteading with Kids: How We Do It

345

70. Are the Old Ways Gone Forever?

346

69. Your First Cast Iron Pan- What You Need to Know

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68. How I Shop for Organic Food in a Rural Area

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67. I'm Not Sure I Like the Name Homesteading Anymore

349

66. My Non-Fancy Homeschool Routine

350

65. What's In My Everyday Preparedness Pantry

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64. The Most Important Thing I've Taught My Kids

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63. I'm Not Hiding Anymore

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62. My End-of-the-Year Rituals

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61. Do You Need a Heat Lamp for Your Chickens?

355

60. How I Grew my Homestead Blog into a Full-Time Income

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59. Choosing Hard But Good

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58. How & Why We Heat Our Home with Wood

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57. Homesteading in Wyoming: Pros & Cons

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56. How We Care for Our Livestock in the Winter

360

55. My No-Fuss Cast Iron Care Routine

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54. How I Learned to Love Winter

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53. What I Learned from Making 27 Freezer Meals in 4.5 Hours

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52. 4 Ways to Make Money on Your Homestead

364

51. Behind the Scenes of Writing a Homestead Cookbook

365

50. The 5 Most Annoying Myths about Cast Iron

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49. 3 Home Dairy Recipes You Need to Make ASAP

367

48. 5 Meal Planning Tips from a Non Meal Planner

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47. How to Homestead in Suburbia

369

46. My Fool-Proof From-Scratch Thanksgiving Menu

370

45. How to Cook the BEST Thanksgiving Turkey

371

44. How to Start Using Einkorn Flour

372

43. Where to Start if You've Never Homesteaded Before

373

42. How to Make Homemade Butter for Your Holiday Meals

374

41. 3 Common Home Dairy Myths that are Holding you Back!

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40. A Day in My Life

376

39. All About Broody Hens

377

38. How Being Homeschooled Helped Me Later In Life

378

37. Why We Have Dairy Goats Again After an 8 Year Hiatus

379

36. 5 Things I Learned as a First Time 4-H Mom

380

35. How to Use Essential Oils for Cooking

381

34. How & Why to Cook with Maple Syrup

382

33. The 3 Fats You'll NEVER Find in My Kitchen (and what I use instead)

383

32. 5 Kitchen Tools I Can't Live Without

384

31. How We Found Animals for Our Homestead

385

30. Why Homesteading Matters (The Homestead Manifesto)

386

29. 4 Things to Consider Before You Buy a Homestead

387

28. How to Use a Crock for Fermenting

388

27. How to Extend Your Growing Season

389

26. Cover Crops: Your Garden's Best Kept Secret

390

25. How (& Why) to Can Apples at Home

391

24. How to Prep Your Garden for Winter

392

23. How to Dig Up & Store Potatoes for Winter

393

22. How to Preserve Fresh Herbs for Later

394

21. How to Pickle Any Vegetable

395

20. How We're Raising Our Kids Like It's 1955

396

19. How to Start a Homestead When You Feel Overwhelmed

397

18. How to Cook from Scratch When You Have No Time

398

17. How We Started a Homestead on One Income

399

16. Dairy Goats vs. Milk Cows: Which is Best?

400

15. How We Built Our Raised Garden Beds

401

14. Is Home-Canned Food Less Nutritious?

402

13. Our Biggest Homesteading Mistakes

403

12. 5 Canning Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make

404

11. Weed Control Tips for the Organic Garden

405

10. 5 Tips for Making Crunchier Pickles

406

9. Natural Fly Control Strategies

407

8. The Surprising Truth About Canning Tomatoes

408

7. How to Help Your Garden Recover from Hail

409

6. All You Ever Needed to Know About Compost Tea

410

5. Canning Safety: What You Need to Know about Botulism

411

4. How to Take a Vacation When You Have a Homestead

412

3. Why We Chose to Garden in Raised Beds

413

2. How to Can Jam Without Using Tons of Sugar

414

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