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MEET ANJA ECKERT OF OUR GABLED HOME | PODCAST INTERVIEW
Meet Anja Eckert of Our Gabled Home, who moved to Northern California from Germany in 1996 and discovered that the homesteading way of life she learned from her grandparents not only kept her connected to her ancestral roots, but paved the way for raising a thriving and happy family. Anja and I met through a…
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How to Make Homemade Fresh Lilac Cordial with Lemons Recipe
Five years ago, I made my first-ever Lilac Cordial. I read about the recipe in an old Victorian cookbook ( a wildly fun find at a flea market). At that time, we had just relocated our family back to the foothills of California to be close to the trees, soil, and bedrock I knew in…
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Interview with Megan Parks of Parks Elevated Design
Meet Megan Parks of Parks Elevated Design, a former middle school teacher passionate about homemaking, crafting DIY bath and body products, and discovering new ways to make a house a home. Megan and I met online, and she offers her journey of learning the lost skills of self-sufficiency: baking bread, canning foods, cooking on cast…
