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Time-Saving Tips For The Traditional Foods Kitchen | The true challenge of traditional food prep is not so much skill as time. It takes so much time to plan, prepare, and serve traditional foods. In an effort to improve in this area, here are goals I made for myself. I’d love to hear some of yours as well! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Time-Saving Tips For The Traditional Foods Kitchen

Nanny Goat Acres | Today you get to meet Cindy, Colin, and their four children. They are farming and homesteading on over 1000 acres in Canada raising cattle, goats, chickens, turkeys, horses and more. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Nanny Goat Acres

Solar Cooking 101 | This summer I have been experimenting with solar cooking. What an amazing experience! I love solar cooking for so many reasons, and in this post I tell you why I love it, which oven I recommend, plus I clear up misconceptions about solar cooking and I share my best tips. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Solar Cooking 101 {why you should & how to get started!}

7 Strategies to Improve Mealtime Contentment | This happened in a bad kinda way at our place. Our kids -- who have never been subject to frozen fish sticks or to a gelatinous mass of Wonder Bread -- had become food critics. I'm watching some major improvements take place; were having a real turn around. From one parent to another, I realized that I need to share my theories with you as to how it is getting better, just in case you have experienced this, too. | GNOWFGLINS.com

7 Strategies to Improve Mealtime Contentment

KYF #074: Countdown to Preparedness 52-Week Plan | One week at a time, you can prepare for any kind of disaster -- whether job loss, illness, or something more widespread. That's the whole point of survival expert Jim Cobb's new book. In "Countdown to Preparedness", he shares a 52-week plan that will help you gather food and water, stock emergency supplies, create a bug-out plan, and much more. Get to know Jim through the links and information in this post, and of course through this podcast. Plus... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/74

52-Week Plan to Get Prepared (KYF074)

'Just Another Day In Paradise' Urban Homestead | Today you get to meet Ruth, Bernie, and their seven children. They are homesteading on one-third of an acre in the suburbs, raising hens, bees, fruit trees, and a garden -- all in this small space! | GNOWFGLINS.com

‘Just Another Day in Paradise’ Urban Homestead

How to Make A DIY Butterfly Feeder | Here's how to make a DIY butterfly feeder that makes a wonderful addition to any garden or flower bed. This simple feeder, made from a mason jar, some twine, and a piece of sponge, will help attract these friendly insects to your garden and give them a place to refuel. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Garden DIY: Make A Butterfly Feeder + DIY Garden Project Round-Up

Quick & Easy DIY All Purpose Pine Cleaner | I'm not going to sacrifice cleanliness just because I own and operate a muddy homestead. So, I whipped up my own DIY All Purpose Pine Cleaner to keep on top of muddy floors. Not only are the ingredients familiar and easy-to-find, the recipe is quick and my floors smell of fresh pine. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Quick & Easy Homemade DIY All Purpose Pine Cleaner

Homespun Chick Farm Tour | We're heading down home... to your farms! Urban, suburban, or rural -- whatever you're growing and doing, we want to see it. Today you get to visit Tami and family from Missouri. She and her family share 28 acres with chickens, ducks, guinea, alpaca, rabbits and gardens. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Homespun Chick

Staying Fit on the Homestead | Eating healthfully is very important. However, there's another side of the coin: it's also very important to stay healthy through activity and fitness. We are aging and we need to keep up with our homestead's work load. Also, in the case of an emergency, we may need to fend for ourselves, confront challenging situations, and sustain a high level of endurance. Here's how my family and I stay fit on the homestead -- no gym required. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Staying Fit on the Homestead

Eating Locally CSA Farm Tour | We're heading down home... to your farms! Urban, suburban, or rural -- whatever you're growing and doing, we want to see it. Today you get to visit the Romans from Indiana. From their two farms, they specialize in heirloom veggies of all kinds and share with others via their CSA. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Eating Locally CSA Farm Tour

Humble Hill Farm | Today you get to visit Courtney and Rick, along with their six children, who live in Central New York at Humble Hill Farm. They are direct market growers selling at the local Farmers Market and offer a CSA, too. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Humble Hill Farm

The Skoolie Revisited | How are things going for the Delgado family in the skoolie? Things are looking good. :) Join me to check-in with Jami and her family (of 5) that reside in a converted school bus in southern California. We talk about their improvements and challenges, her grain-free cooking, and what she does for fun. Plus... the tip of the week -- the world's BEST plastic bag dryer! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/65

The Skoolie Revisited (KYF065)

How To Homestead Without 100 Acres & A Cow | 'I really want to homestead, but we're waiting until we can afford to buy an acreage.' I hear that comment a lot, and here's my response: 'If you have a home, you have a homestead.' Today I will share ways you can start homesteading wherever you are, regardless of where you live or the resources you have (or don't have). | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How to Homestead Without 100 Acres & A Cow

Long-Term Survival with Jim Cobb | Beyond the first 72 hours of a crisis or disaster, what will you do? The new book "Prepper's Long Term Survival Guide" teaches you how to survive when nothing returns to normal for weeks, months, or even years. Today on the podcast, Jim Cobb from Survival Weekly joins me to talk about his new book and much more! Plus... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/64

Long-Term Survival with Jim Cobb (KYF064)

Raw Cat Feeding (Plus Cat Food Recipe) | I don't believe in spending exorbitant amounts of money to keep an ailing animal alive, but I do believe in humane treatment and loving care as much as possible. When our cat Ezra’s kidneys were ailing, I researched good diets that could help her. Over the recent years I had not given much attention to the type of diet a cat should eat: rather than Friskies, a diet fitted to the feline nature. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Raw Cat Feeding (Plus Cat Food Recipe)

Food as Ministry, Part 2 | When we came to our current church when my husband was hired as the worship pastor, one of my first questions was, "Does someone deliver meals to people after an illness, birth, death, move, or other time of need?" Our pastor candidly replied, "I'll be honest with ya. We don't have anyone doing that right now. But we really need someone. You interested?" My response? YES! Here's how our food ministry works -- from starting it to communicating to keeping it going. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Food as Ministry, Part 2

Our Mountain Hearth | We're heading down home... to your farms! Urban, suburban, or rural -- whatever you're growing and doing, we want to see it. Today you get to visit Lauren and Joseph at their small farm in the Montana wilderness. On just a few acres, they raise chickens, turkeys, rabbits, goats, pigs and more -- all with a focus on permaculture. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Our Mountain Hearth