Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Okay, Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming, and it's time to make some dang good food. Maybe even show off a little! Imagine homemade buttery rolls for Thanksgiving, cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning, and fresh bread, pizza, bagels, and muffins whenever you want. That's Bread Independence! Now here's the crazy part. My sourdough cookbook is $45.99, but for just $2.01 MORE, you get my ENTIRE Everyday Sourdough Beginner Bundle! My physical cookbook with 45+ recipes...
3 days ago • 1 min read
Laura Lawrence From Starter to Artisan Hi Reader Okay guys, I may have made this one a little ridiculous. My From Starter to Artisan: Sourdough for Everyday Life book is normally $45.99. I just put together the Everyday Sourdough: Complete Beginner Bundle for $48. Yep. $2.01 more. And for that $2.01, I'm giving you: The physical From Starter to Artisan sourdough book My dehydrated organic sourdough starter BONUS beginner digital guides BONUS favorite everyday sourdough recipes BONUS sourdough...
10 days ago • 1 min read
Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Money in the bank, y'all. I say this ALL the time around here. Grow garlic and save some to plant again next year? Money in the bank. Learn to save your own seeds instead of buying them again? Money in the bank. Learn to make bread, preserve the garden, grow dry beans, use an herb, or turn a pile of potatoes into the french fries your family would normally buy? Yep. Money in the bank. Because here's the thing— A jar of food eventually gets eaten. And a loaf of...
15 days ago • 1 min read
Laura Lawrence Hi Reader My garden currently looks like I gave up sometime in August. Brown bean pods. Bolted lettuce. Droopy sunflowers. Baseball-bat zucchinis. Weeds. Chaos. It’s beautiful. Okay...maybe beautiful is a stretch. But I’m leaving it that way on purpose. And perhaps you are doing it for the same reason as me ;) Because hidden inside all that ugly is next year’s garden. Those crispy bean pods? Seeds. That lettuce that shot up and looks ridiculous? Seeds. That tomato past its...
19 days ago • 1 min read
Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Today I was removing seeds from a mammoth sunflower because everyone is doing that right now... right? Well, something VERY pokey got me right in the crook of my thumb where it bends. OUCH. I pulled it out and thought, eh, it'll be fine. A few minutes later it had swollen up, turned a little blue and HURT like crazy. Immediately I was like... PLANTAIN. GET ME THE PLANTAIN. Because when something feels like a sting, that's exactly what I run to. Literally. I found some...
22 days ago • 1 min read
Laura Lawrence Hi Reader I have a confession. I don't trust next year's garden. I trust God. I just don't trust my vegetables to cooperate. Case in point: one year my banana peppers went absolutely gangbusters. We had peppers coming out our ears. The next year? Zip. Zero. Zilch. Gardens are fickle little things. That's exactly why I grow the way I do. Instead of trying to grow just enough for our family of five, I hedge my bets. Some crops fail. Others produce like they've got something to...
24 days ago • 1 min read
Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Why do we need a different bottle for every single surface in the house? One for the counter. One for the mirror. One for the bathroom. One for the furniture. One for the dishwasher. And one mystery bottle shoved all the way in the back that nobody remembers buying. Your cleaning cabinet is basically collecting dependents. That is one reason I started making my own cleaners more than two decades ago. I wanted simpler ingredients around my young children, but I also...
26 days ago • 1 min read
Laura Lawrence Hi Reader The weather is changing around here, especially at night, and boy has it been moody! The clouds have been fabulous to watch—light, dark, constantly changing and bringing in these splashes of sunshine and darkness. It’s fabulous. And you know what else it means? SOUP SEASON. Click below to see all my soup recipes! Which happens to come at the perfect time because there is still an abundance coming out of the garden that needs to be used up. That’s exactly what so many...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Laura Lawrence Hi Reader Our holiday weekend was spent doing what holiday weekends apparently look like around here—processing chickens and canning broth. I found 14 quarts’ worth of broth hiding in the freezer, so I canned all of that just in time to make room for the chickens we processed on Sunday. This was our second round of meat chickens this year, and luckily, the kids did most of the work. We’ll have to surprise them with a little extra money as a bonus because they did a boatload of...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read