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An Authentic Review on Natural Toothpaste
Confused about which natural toothpaste might actually work for you? Read this blog post where I compare my experience with two natural top brand name toothpastes.
Creating A Life You Don’t Have To Escape From
*this post may contain affiliate links*I ran into someone not that long ago at the library, and she had recognized me and she looked vaguely familiar, but I wasn’t really really sure if I knew her or just seen her. She came up to me and we started talking and turns out we did know…
Fresh Milled Sourdough Banana Bread
*this post may contain affiliate links*We all know how popular banana bread is. I mean, surely we’ve all see that reel “dude I got some banana bread at work today dude”. Well I wonder what he would think if he had THIS banana bread. I fermented at 48 hours but 24 is plenty! It adds such…
Fresh Milled Sourdough Biscuits
*this post may contain affiliate links* I have tried over and over to make a combination of either fresh milled or fresh milled sourdough biscuits. And it’s always been a mess. Either between following a recipe in a book or trying to modify my southern friends perfected recipe, I have failed. Over and over again. …
Fresh Milled Sourdough Pie Crust
*this post may contain affiliate links* About 2 years ago I set out to can some triple berry pie filling. It was quite a lot of work to source everything locally. We had to get 30 quarts of strawberries, 25 pints of black raspberries and go pick 15 pounds of blueberries. Of course I didn’t…
Fresh Milled Muffins (with many variations!)
*this post may contain affiliate links*I’ve been doing a little bit of a self challenge these past few weeks- of only eating bread products that are with 100% whole grain (aka fresh milled). The flour is completely unsifted, so you take the whole wheat berry and then you grind it into a flour. I have…
What To Do When Your Bread Dough Doesn’t Turn Out Right?
*this post may contain affiliate links*I’ve been baking sourdough since 2019. Yes, I am a COVID sourdough baker. But guess what? WE’RE STILL HERE BAKING THAT DOUGH! Maybe just not posting as much since now our lives are back to normal. All of that to say, my dough has flopped many a times. It happens…
Honey Spiced Peaches
*this post contains affiliate links* I just got back from canning with a friend. I love that we can do this, it makes canning such much less annoying and more fun. We were cracking jokes, talking, or quietly working together while the kids played, alllllll day. It was so wonderful! But every year I can…
5 Tips to Realistically Practice Slow Living
*this post may contain affiliate links* We’ve all seen the homesteading instagram reels, you know the ones, where they go out to their chickens each morning and grab the eggs for breakfast, stop at their garden for tomatoes, and go milk the cow for the milk to make the cheese. It looks so idyllic. And,…