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Fermented Tex-Mex Salsa | Having lived in Texas all my life, I think it’s safe to say that I know a thing or two about really good Tex-Mex salsa. I’ve spent the last two decades perfecting my salsa recipe, and several years ago, I began lacto-fermenting it. It’s my most-requested recipe! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Fermented Tex-Mex Salsa

How to Grow Your Own Herbs for Tea {even in a small space} | Herbal tea is easy and rewarding to grow yourself. Many tea herbs are easy-to-grow and do well in pots and small spaces, so you can enjoy delicious home-grown tea year-round. Although you can make tea out of almost any herb, here are five (plus one more) of my favorites for both large and small gardens! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How to Grow Your Own Herbs for Tea {even in a small space!}

Raw Milk Q&A | Switching to raw milk is a good starting place for many newly health-conscious families. I went to one raw milk-producing family farm, Fall Creek Farms in TN, to ask important questions: Is it safe? Is it from a good source? How long does it last? Why is it more expensive? and more! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Raw Milk Q & A

Nourishing Breakfasts | Want to hit your day hard and well? Don't neglect these 4 things -- plus my best ideas for nourishing, healthy, energizing breakfasts. Plus, the tip of the week comes from Katrina and a listener question from Naomi! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/108

Nourishing Breakfasts (KYF108)

26 Sourdough Bread Recipes | I often get asked for a great sourdough bread recipe. There are some really great recipes out there! So we scoured the web for you, looking for the best and most nutritious sourdough bread recipes. Presenting... the 26 {nourishing} sourdough bread recipes that made the cut. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

26 Sourdough Bread Recipes

To Keep or Not to Keep... a Rooster | While doing our research on chickens, we heard a number of both good and bad things about roosters. In the end, the good outweighed the bad... and we decided to give a rooster a chance. After nearly a year now, with not just one, but three roosters, here is our take on keeping a male bird. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

To Keep or Not To Keep… a Rooster

Chicken and Spring Vegetable Soup | Amazing produce like green onions, asparagus, and snow peas are ready to enjoy in the spring. What better way to celebrate spring than with a light soup to highlight the first produce of the season? This savory chicken and spring vegetable soup brings the flavors of spring into your kitchen... | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Chicken and Spring Vegetable Soup

14 Things You Can Do Today To Save Time In The Kitchen This Week | I’ve been there -- in the kitchen for 12 hours straight only to come out with a few quarts of yogurt, a loaf of bread, and dinner for that night. It’s not a fun place to be. I can help -- here are 14 simple things you can do TODAY to save yourself some time in the kitchen this week. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

14 Things You Can Do Today To Save Time In The Kitchen This Week

How to Start Your Day Great | We all have challenges we can't eliminate from our lives. However, the choices we make about how to care for ourselves can either help or sabotage our efforts to get through those obstacles triumphantly (in God's grace). In today's episode, I'm sharing the 5 steps I follow to start my day great. Plus, the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/107

How to Start Your Day GREAT (KYF107)

Easy Homemade Herbal Hair Rinses for Beautiful, Healthy, Hair | Drugstore shelves are full of products that promise to give us healthy, manageable, shiny, smooth, strong, and beautiful hair. The problem is, most of those bottles are filled with anything-but-healthy chemicals. Thankfully, we need look no further than our own kitchens, gardens, or local herb shops to find natural, organic care for truly healthy locks! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Easy, Homemade Herbal Hair Rinses {for Beautiful, Healthy Hair}

The Best Broccoli Bacon Salad {truly!} | I suppose it is a bit presumptuous of me to share this recipe a few months ahead of broccoli season, but -- trust me -- you'll want this recipe in hand when your kitchen overflows with green florets later this summer. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

The Best Broccoli Bacon Salad (Truly)

Vanilla Ginger Chai Tea {with a nourishing gelatin boost!} | In recent years, I've avoided vanilla chai drinks because of the caffeine and sugar. Then I happened up on this warm, soothing, nourishing, mug-worthy morning drink, and I include gelatin for a nutritional boost. If you like chai, I believe you will love this homemade version as much as I do! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Vanilla Ginger Chai Tea {with a nourishing gelatin boost!}

Salmon Cakes with Homemade Lemon Mayo | These salmon cakes are one of my go-to meals when I have nothing planned and need to get something on the table in a hurry. With the mayonnaise made from pastured eggs, and a side of asparagus, they come together quickly while providing us with a healthy meal. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Salmon Cakes with Homemade Lemon Mayonnaise

Natural Personal Care Products: Make Or Buy? | I used to think that in order to be a true believer in natural health and real food I had to make all of our natural personal care products. I've let go of that notion. I love experimenting with both homemade and store-bought personal care products. Here's what I make... and what I buy. What about you? | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Natural Personal Care Products: Make or Buy?

They grew up gardening, each of them. One in the country, one in the city. And when they met and married, their common interest became their favorite past-time. Today, Holly joins me to share some really great tips about organic vegetable gardening. Listen in! Plus... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/105

Tips for Organic Vegetable Gardening (KYF105)

Many of us just can’t get the sleep we need. Whether you suffer from occasional sleeplessness or chronic insomnia, these herbs may help. Plus, I'll share 3 easy tea blends you could be drinking tonight before bed! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

10 Herbs for Better Sleep and How to Use Them {plus 3 “sleepy” tea recipes}

Our home was plagued with terrible coughs earlier this winter. So, I reached for our fruit-derived Vitamin C and made batch after batch of these gummies. Within a week, the coughs lessened -- or completely went away. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Vitamin C Gummies

Balm of Gilead: The "Do-It-All" Poplar Salve {it's spring in a jar!}

Balm of Gilead: The “Do-It-All” Poplar Salve {it’s spring in a jar!}