Hi, I’m a homesteader in Northern Michigan with nearly 30 years of hands-on experience in self-sufficiency, natural living, and traditional skills. Over the years, I’ve built a life rooted in growing, making, and doing — and I love sharing what we do and how we do it to help others create their own empowered path.
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Food Prood - Laura Lawrence
Hi, I’m a homesteader in Northern Michigan with nearly 30 years of hands-on experience in self-sufficiency, natural living, and traditional skills. Over the years, I’ve built a life rooted in growing, making, and doing — and I love sharing what we do and how we do it to help others create their own empowered path.
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...
Laura Lawrence Hi Reader If you’ve been wanting to try Azure Standard, I finally have a personalized discount code to share with you! New Azure customers can use: FOODPROOD15 You’ll receive 15% off your first order of $100 or more in products delivered to a local Azure drop. Azure is one of the ways I stock up on the foods and supplies I don’t grow or produce myself. Because even though I grow a ridiculous amount of food, I have yet to find the rice paddy or sugarcane field hiding on our five...
Junior Cooking Club Hi Reader Have you started your homeschool year and suddenly realized: “Hmm…I think we need something else.” Maybe you need a break from textbooks. Maybe you want to add more practical life skills. Or maybe everyone is already tired of worksheets—and you haven’t even made it through September. I have a last-minute homeschool curriculum add-on for you! For the next 48 hours, you can save 30% on Junior Cooking Club with coupon code: HOMESCHOOL30 Junior Cooking Club is a...