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S20: E3: When Your Life Has Too Many Moving Parts (and what I do about it)

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S20: E2: How I'm Healing My Dust Bowl Yard (on a budget)

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S20: E1: Why I Don’t Drink Alcohol (and Other Thoughts on Being a Countercultural Weirdo)

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S19: E19: The Real Story Behind My New Cookbook: Easter Eggs & the Elephant in the Room

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S19: E18: Why I’m Paying Attention to the 2027 Food Shortage Warnings

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S19: E17: Can I Save My Horrible Garden Soil? My Conversation with a Soil Scientist

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S19: E16: Data Centers & Dead Soil: What Are We Willing to Sacrifice for Progress?

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S19: E15: What I'm Doing Differently on Homestead #2

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S19: E14: How My Books Actually Happened: Writing, Agents + Book Deals

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S19: E13: How Running a Restaurant Taught Me to Spend Less on Groceries

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S19: E12: Midlife Skincare: What ACTUALLY Works

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S19: E11: The Worst Garden of my Entire Life

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S19: E10: A Different Way to Buy Groceries: Inside Azure Standard

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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: I Quit Homeschooling. And It Was Hard.

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S18: 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