The commandment to have no other gods has been and is essential but has only sometimes been correctly understood. Even in our enlightened time of the Restoration, understanding this commandment challenges many. When Ezra prayed about the people of Israel accepting and practicing the evil practices of the people in the regions where they lived …
My First 60 + 10 Years My first 60 years started in Strasburg Colorado, a small farming town about 30 miles east of Denver. My growing up years were continued in Denver, Commerce City, Craig, Silverthorne, Adams City all in Colorado with a short stay in Provo Utah before a return to Colorado, first to …
Pan-Roasted Chicken with Tarragon and Mustard Cream Sauce Excerpted from the book Nourishing Brothby Sally Fallon and Kaayla T. Daniels, PhD, CCN. © 2014 by Sally Fallon and Kaayla T. Daniels, PhD, CCN. Reprinted by permission of Grand Central Publishing. All rights reserved. Author: Jenny Ingredients 1 whole chicken 2 …
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Healthy Eating, Physical Fitness, and Stress Management The following is from a class project I am doing. After creating the plan for my project I felt that the plan would be beneficial for others. This project will continue over the next four weeks and following the progress will help. We will also share how we …
Sample Choices When the desire for having one’s own homestead becomes strong enough to cause action, a plan for making it happen is necessary. Some of the options for creating this plan include: Get out of debt and accumulate enough cash to purchase your dream homestead. Convert your existing home into a homestead. Use your …
Actually, we are too sweet. Is that possible? We like sweet personalities. We like sweet responses. We like sweet hugs and kisses. However, we should not like sweet blood, sweet cells or a sweet brain. Let me explain. Of course, our bodies require glucose to function properly. Carbohydrates break down into glucose and give the …
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2 teaspoons olive oil 1 lb of sage sausage rolled into small meat balls 4 medium Granny smith apples or another tart variety 1 tablespoon butter or Ghee 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme 2 Tablespoons maple syrup Heat 2 teaspoons of the oil in large cast iron skillet over medium heat. Form the …
Homesteading Requires Seven Virtues to be Successful. I once bought a book called “Homesteading in the 21st Century”. The authors are our age but have been doing it since the 1970s. I gave the book to my daughter when she and her husband got an acre of land and chickens. However, I always remembered one …
Growing our own food is not optional. We will do it no matter what. It does not matter the cost, the time it takes nor the workload. We chose to move to a place where we could afford land. A place where there is a growing season of 190 days a year. We choose to …
How Fats became Unhealthy I walked into a bakery to see if I could get a sandwich which might resemble something healthy. There on the shelf sat the cookies, pastries and bread and on their label is stated, oleo-margarine and hydrogenated shortening. How can it be? Doesn’t everyone know that those are wrong, evil, deadly? …
What are Carbohydrates? If a person is going to eat the correct types of carbohydrates it is important to know what carbohydrates are. I am not talking about the chemical makeup of carbs. But when you eat something, is it a carb or a protein or what? If you are new to what is what …
What is it like to realize you are in your 60s. Surely you were just a teenager then married and then with small children. But no. Those children are grown with children of their own. And you are in your 60s. But that is okay because you don’t feel like it. There was in time …
Lifestyle Changes help us Graduate to a higher level. Habits and Behaviors are intertwined and the goal is to change one area and then another and another. But wait, that sounds like we want you to be perfect and that will cause more stress in your life. We don’t expect perfection. We want you to …
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Pop a pill and go on with our lifestyle. Real Food Matters. Our love affair with food has had some very damaging results in the last few decades. Today we have more obesity, belly fat, Type II Diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure, and digestive problems than ever before. We pop …
A Ray of Hope An opportunity crossed our path where we were shown a husband and wife in India who have taken in boys during a drought time. Most of them have one parent but the parent is not financially capable of caring for the children. They have 25 boys who live with them and …
Farmers, Respect Yourself by Dressing the Part Joel Salatin, farmer extraordinaire, asks that when we appear in public to sell our goods, give a speech or interact as a homesteader or farmer that we do so well dressed to help break the stereotypical vision of what others think of farmers. When we farmers and homesteaders …
What does it mean to Sustainably live in Place? This is a phrase we coined as opposed to Aging in place. Have you looked up the definition of aging? Allow me to share some of its synonyms of aging. Crumbling, declining, fading, fermenting, maturing, mellowing, slumping, stale, waning, and last but surely not least …
There is no place like home. Our past three months visiting family is unsurpassed in the relationships we nurtured and the memories we made. We will ever be grateful for those three unprecedented months we took between our Oregon Homestead and our Pennsylvania home. Surrounded by forest and snow, we have arrived in Pennsylvania. I …
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The Process of Aging As I sat in church I heard a petition as someone prayed for a 91 year old that he would be comforted as he went through the process of aging. I was struck by that sentence. The Process of Aging…. It is true that our hormones change as production decreases and …
Sustainable living in place and being healthy go hand in hand. Losing weight is not how to get healthy. Calories in and calories out is an equation that fails to make one healthy. Diets can make a short term difference but all that we know of fall short and many people don’t stick with them. …
Patience is the key word We have never had patience. We have always been spontaneous. We are working very hard to do this move right. Like we said yesterday, we sat on this decision for a month, not wanting to even address it. Now, it is harder. We are getting items sold. The chickens are …
Changing the Emphasis in Our Life to Sustainable It is impossible to experience #SustainableLivingInPlace if your living situation is not financially sustainable. Finding the correct living situation is imperative in order to accomplish sustainability. Creativity may be the key to obtaining this goal. Stepping into a new Journey of Sustainable Living For the last two …
