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Category: Health & Nutrition

How To Cook Pastured Chicken | Since you and your neighbor aren't "engineering" your chickens to be plump and juicy, you may notice that your pastured meat is sometimes dry or tough after cooking. No one wants to eat dry chicken, especially when you've spent years raising it or quite a lot of money to buy it! Here's how to get tender and juicy pastured chicken. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Cook Pastured Chicken {so it’s flavorful & juicy!}

Sick for years, Agatha finally learned she had Lyme Disease. But today, through natural healing and herbs, she's completely recovered. And along the way, she discovered a passion for herbs. She's got a refreshing common sense approach, sharing the best herbs, and how to gather, store, and use them -- safely! Plus... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/98

The Independent Herbalist (KYF098)

Homemade Herbal Tooth Powder & Toothpaste | Why would anyone think about making homemade toothpaste? Or homemade tooth powder? Maybe because there are questionable ingredients in conventional products and a high price tag on natural alternatives. Not to mention, the satisfaction of doing it yourself, and knowing exactly what you're putting in your mouth. Convinced yet? Then here are recipes so you can brush your teeth with your own personal mix today! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Homemade Herbal Tooth Powder and Toothpaste

Coconut oil. Tallow. Lard. Pasture butter. Ghee. Duck fat. These are the Traditional fats we typically hear so much about. Then avocado oil made its way into my kitchen. I predict that avocado oil is going to have a secure spot on our list of healthy fats very soon. And here's why. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Avocado Oil: The New Fat in the Real Food Kitchen

Essential Oil Diffusion Methods | Fresh lemons and spicy ginger... Those are the scents drifting over my writing area right now. I love my essential oils, and I love my cool mist diffuser humming along beside me. I've learned and discovered so much about essential oils and diffusion over the last few years -- and am eager to share! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Essential Oil Diffusion Methods

Exploring Water Filtration Options | If tap water is likely full of dangerous, cancer- and birth defect-causing chemicals and bottled water is nothing more than tap water with a fancy label, what other options do we have? I'm glad you asked! Home water filtration is tricky business, and no one wants to waste their money on expensive filtration systems that don't actually work or that may be harmful. Here are your options, from worst to best. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Exploring Water Filtration Options {which water filter is best?}

Simple Herbal Muscle Rub | If you're in pain, you want to sooth the ache, right? Do you reach for the tube of muscle rub full of questionable ingredients? Of course not! Here's a simple herbal muscle rub that heals the body with God-given ingredients. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Simple Herbal Muscle Rub

What if our children could develop true, valuable, marketable talent even before they leave our homes -- so when they are on their own, they are already passionate and successful experts in their fields? Jonathan Harris is committed to helping his children do just that. Also in today's episode... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/102

How to Find and Develop Your Child’s Talent (KYF102)

Finding Friends & Freedom In A Restricted Diet | I'm sharing from my heart about my real food journey and how I somehow found both freedom and friends in places I least expected. I pray you will find encouragement and hope if you find yourself feeling alone, unsupported, or deprived. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Finding Friends & Freedom in a Restricted Diet

Though we now live off-grid, I once lived near a large city where many farmers and food artisans came to town weekly to distribute their traditional foods at a co-op. It was here that we purchased our weekly raw milk share, grass-fed meats, beef liver and heart, and eventually a rye bread that would change my bread-baking and eating habits forever. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Why I’m Hooked on Rye

How To Make An Alcohol-Free Herbal Extract {Herbal Glycerite}| Want to use herbal extracts... but not if they're made with alcohol? Here's how to make a faster, better-tasting, non-alcoholic glycerite instead! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Make An Alcohol-Free Herbal Extract {Herbal Glycerite}

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

When it finally occurred to me that no ‘poo might not be the best option for me, I honestly didn't know what to do. I had been living the no 'poo "lifestyle" for so long that I thought the imaginary No 'Poo Police were going to arrest me or something. Here's why no 'poo didn't work for me... and what's working for me now. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Why No ‘Poo Didn’t Work For Me

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!}

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

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}

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?

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!}