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Melissa Norris

About Melissa Norris

Melissa inspires people's faith and pioneer roots at MelissaKNorris.com sharing all aspects of Pioneering Today. She lives with her husband, two children, seven cows, and five chickens in their own little house in the big woods of the Pacific Northwest. Through heirloom gardening, preserving the harvest, from scratch traditional cooking, and modern homesteading techniques, she shares how to implement the best of the old-fashioned pioneer skills into your modern life. For daily inspiration and tips, join her on Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, and catch her bi-monthly Pioneering Today Podcast.

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Preserve your harvest AND stay away from metal cans by canning your own tomatoes! Learn how to safely can tomatoes, plus let's bust the myth about heirloom varieties and acidity once and for all! (Hint: you NEED to pick an acid no matter what!)

How To Safely Can Tomatoes (+ the myth about heirlooms & acidity)

As I look back on those first few weeks and months of being a new mom, there are so many thing I'd wish I'd known. My best friend is getting ready to have her first child and as I thought of all the things to tell her, this blog post was born. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

7 Things I Wish I Had Known as a New Mom

I'm reminded of all that God created when I'm outside, with the rush of air over my skin, the warmth of the sun, the chill of the rain, the sharp jut of mountains against the sky. All of these wonders came to be by His word. It leaves me in awe. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How Growing a Garden Nourishes the Soul

In all my years of cooking outside, I've learned a thing or two. Here are my 8 best tips for cooking over an open fire. Whether you're just getting started or you're a seasoned off-grid cook, I can't wait to hear your best tips. Be sure to share in the comments! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

8 Tips for Cooking Over an Open Fire

Chocolate is one of my must-haves. Can I get an amen? However, after looking at the ingredients in a regular chocolate bar, I couldn't eat it without a major prickle in my conscience... | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

What’s Hiding In Your Chocolate?

Orange Ginger Cookies {with dairy-free option!} | Citrus and ginger blend together so nicely -- especially when paired with a little bit of molasses. And it ain't Christmas until the molasses comes out to play! You get all three in these soft, melt-in-your-mouth cookies. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Orange Ginger Cookies {with dairy-free option!}

Real Food Makeovers for Your Holiday Recipes | Our favorite holiday recipes have had to undergo real food makeovers. Here are simple tips and substitutes to make your favorite holiday and family recipes a little bit more traditional, healthier, and even tastier! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Real Food Makeovers for Your Holiday Recipes

Sourdough Chocolate Waffles | Is there anything better than chocolate at breakfast time? Especially when it's a fermented, sourdough, actually-good-for-you chocolate waffle? Yeah, I can't think of anything better either. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Sourdough Chocolate Waffles

How To Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds | One of my favorite things about heirloom plants is being able to save the seeds. Purchase the seeds once and then, by the beauty of God's design, you can save the seeds to plant year after year to feed your family. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How to Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds

How To Pressure Can Green Beans (Raw-Pack Method) | We can't sacrifice food safety. I consider some quick canning methods to be unsafe. Not the raw pack method, though -- it's both safe and time-saving. Learn how to pressure can green beans using the raw-pack method! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Pressure Can Green Beans (Raw-Pack Method)

4 Ways To Preserve Blueberries | The only thing more glorious than eating plump, juicy blueberries straight from a bush is enjoying a sweet bite of blueberries in the dead of winter! One mouthful brings back the warmth of a July morning and the long days of summer. Here are 4 easy ways to preserve blueberries. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

4 Ways To Preserve Blueberries

6 Tips For Growing & Planting Beans | If I had to choose one vegetable to grow, it'd be green beans. Beans are wonderful plants, providing benefits to our bodies and our garden soil. Through my many years of growing beans in my own garden, I have discovered a few tips to share with you on how to grow green beans. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

6 Tips On How To Plant and Grow Beans