Milk cows are truly the stars of our homestead. It's no secret that I'm in love with our dairy cows. I spent many years going back and forth between dairy cows and dairy goats, but if you've listened to my podcast episode about how I'm pruning my life these days, you know that I've finally decided on focusing on our family milk cows for our dairy needs. In fact, I personally feel that dairy cows are some of the biggest assets to ANY ...Continue Reading
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Season 11: Episode 15: Building Old-Fashioned Community with Gary Chapman
It’s one of the most old-fashioned practices we can cultivate in our modern culture. And no, it’s not baking sourdough, or growing vegetables, or milking a cow… I’m talking about building community. So why is it so hard? And how can we navigate relationships in our ultra-polarized world? Dr. Gary Chapman, best-selling author of The 5 Love Languages, is joining us today to talk about building & mending community in a world that ...Continue Reading
Season 11: Episode 14: My Long Road Back to Whole Wheat Flours
Today I'm geeking out over wheat berries. Yeah, it's no wonder I don't have a lot of non-homesteading friends, I guess I seem kinda weird to some... But fresh flour is something worth geeking out over! Join me in this podcast episode to find out why. Podcast Episode Highlights Back story on my whole wheat journey Weston A. Price, Sally Fallon, and other influences The results from my early days Mastering ...Continue Reading
Homesteading Skills to Develop Over Winter
Homesteading doesn't stop because the garden is full of snow or the hens have decided to go on an egg-laying hiatus during the winter. This time of year doesn't mean that there aren't any outdoor homesteading chores to do: the animals still need to be fed, ice needs to be chopped out of the livestock water tanks, and the snow needs to be shoveled. But the winter months seem to be a bit slower without the hustle and bustle of gardening ...Continue Reading
Season 11: Episode 6: Ancient Grains: Your New Best Friend in the Kitchen
Ancient and heritage grains & how to use them in your kitchen ... It's an intriguing topic that most of us long to know so much more about. So in this podcast episode, we do a deep dive with not one but two experts, Caitlin Youngquist, an agricultural educator with the University of Wyoming Extension, and Sarah Wood, a fourth-generation farmer. Podcast Episode Highlights Background on the guests and how they got interested in ...Continue Reading