Old Fashioned On Purpose

By Jill Winger

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Have you ever felt uninspired by modern life? Does the idea of living a simple, wholesome lifestyle speak to you and your family? Join best-selling author and homesteading mentor Jill Winger every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for practical tips, inspiration, and stories from a decade of modern homesteading. If from-scratch cooking, organic gardening, backyard chickens, or rows of mason jars light you up, this is the podcast for you!

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127. The 7 Lessons a Homes...

06.01.2020

Homesteading with kids isn’t for the faint of heart, but if you’re up for the challenge it will certainly make an incredible impact on their lives. I know with our kids, life on the homestead has taught them the value ...

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06.01.2020 127. The 7 Lessons a Homestead will Teach Your Kids Homesteading with kids isn’t for the faint of heart, but if you’re up for the challenge it will certainly make an incredible impact on their lives. I know with our kids, life on the homestead has taught them the value ...
05.29.2020 126. How to Find & Buy Local Food in Your Area Now more than ever, interest in locally grown food is booming. Not only are people looking to support small and local businesses during this chaotic time, but they’re also coming to realize the high quality food that exists outside of ...
05.27.2020 125. Why Your Grassfed or Pastured Meats are Tough For many different reasons, grassfed meats are all the rage at the moment. While the incredible benefits are obvious, there seems to be one issue most people run into when preparing grassfed meats; if you’re not careful it can become ...
05.25.2020 124. Our Biggest Homesteading Failures The fear of failure can prevent even the strongest among of from pursuing dreams and passions that will lead to a truly fulfilling life. I know Christian and I have had our own share of fear throughout the process of ...
05.22.2020 123. What to do When Your Friends & Family Don't Like Homesteading No matter how excited you might be about your homesteading venture, I can guarantee you not everyone around you shares this same excitement. How do I know? I’ve been there myself. Sharing your passion with loved ones only to get ...
05.20.2020 122. Why We Milk a Cow & Drink Raw Milk Even amongst the homestead community, raw milk isn’t necessarily a common topic of conversation. Maybe it’s a product of our current situation, but in our household we can’t get enough raw milk at the moment. For the completely uninformed, raw ...
05.18.2020 121. 9 Things Your Non-Homesteading Friends Don't Understand It’s no secret. The vast majority of the world considers us homesteaders to be a bit of an odd bunch. If we’re being honest with ourselves, what we do on a daily basis is certainly abnormal in modern society. Even ...
05.15.2020 120. Why Small Businesses Matter More Than Ever Before With the widespread quarantines across the country, we’ve witnessed disruption in nearly every single industry. Perhaps has this been most apparent within the food supply chain. Isn’t it incredible that we’re seeing both food shortages in areas at the...
05.13.2020 119. Why We Only Eat Grassfed Beef Even prior to our current situation, there has been an explosion of interest in local food production. While we’ve always produced food for our own use, it wasn’t until this year that we chose to start producing for our community. ...
05.11.2020 118. My Current Favorite Homesteading Books Recently I’ve been sorting through my library of homesteading books. I’ve read countless books over the years, but the ones that still remain on my shelf today are the one’s that I truly cherish. Finding great homesteading books can be ...
05.08.2020 117. Tips for Growing Your Best Tomato Crop Yet Tomatoes are easily one of my favorite things to grow. These versatile vegetables can be eaten off the vine, turned into pasta sauce, and so much more. On today’s episode, I explain my preferred process for growing tomatoes and what ...
05.06.2020 116. How We're Using Chicken Power on the Homestead This Year Just a few weeks ago, I made mention of our mission to increase our food production this year. While I’ve already covered several topics regarding food production, chicken power is one we’ve never really utilized. While this might be a ...
05.04.2020 115. How We Breed & Calve Our Milk Cows In one of the more exciting developments on the homestead over the past couple months, we have calves! For many of you, the idea of dairy producing animals might be completely foreign. On today’s episode, I’m here to demystify the ...
05.01.2020 114. Cold Frames, Greenhouses, High Tunnels...Which Do You Choose? After nearly 10 years of talking about it, we’re finally taking the plunge. As discussed in previous episodes about increasing food production, now is the time to put a greenhouse on our homestead. In all honesty, I’ve been getting tired ...
04.29.2020 113. What We Learned from Having our Garden Soil Tested If there’s one positive to come out of our current situation, it’s the incredible surge of interest in gardening. Now more than ever, people are realizing the importance of growing and producing their own food. As any veteran gardener knows. ...
04.27.2020 112. When Homesteading Kicks You in the Gut While most parts of homesteading are extremely fun and rewarding, it’s not all sunshine and roses. Sometimes I make mistakes. Sometimes Christian and I face serious challenges that simply aren’t pleasant to deal with. If you’ve been listening to the...
04.24.2020 111. Plant These for a Quick Harvest For a long time, I’ve lived under the belief that gardening season in Wyoming runs from June to September. In the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic I’ve been obsessively reading about new and different approaches to gardening that quite frankly ...
04.22.2020 110. How I'm Surviving Quarantine It’s a rather interesting time to be alive, isn’t it? Even though I tend to spend a lot of time at home under normal circumstances, the current state of the world has made it even more extreme. Even though I ...
04.20.2020 109. The Inside Story on Getting Chicks Somehow, someway, more chicks have found their way onto our homestead. In the name of food security and the uncertainty surrounding our current time, I broke a promise I made to myself just a couple weeks ago. If you’re feeling ...
04.17.2020 108. What's Working for Blogs in 2020 While this most certainly is a homestead focused show, the whole reason I’ve been able to sustain and grow my homestead is because I took the time to establish other businesses. Whether you’re currently pursuing another business or have been ...
04.15.2020 107. Flour Shortages, Grain Mills, & Whole Wheat Have you ever discovered a forgotten piece of equipment at just the right time? With the madness going on at the grocery, I stumbled upon an old dusty grain mill. While I’ve stuck to all-purpose flour for quite some time, ...
04.13.2020 106. You're Not a Homesteader if You Have a Microwave What is and isn’t a homesteader? If you’re anything like me, this question has weighed on your mind at one point or another. To be honest, the deeper I dove into this topic, I quickly realized how difficult it is ...
04.10.2020 105. ALL Your Sourdough Questions: Answered! Time and time again, I get inundated with questions about sourdough. On this very special episode (which was broadcast live on Facebook) I answer every sourdough question you could throw my way. We cover everything from why sourdough starter...
04.08.2020 104. How I'd Boost our Food Security if I had NO Homestead During uncertain times, basic survival needs like food security become a topic of daily discussion. While I realize homesteading is essentially preparing us for times like these, not everyone that listens to this podcast are on a homestead. Many of...
04.06.2020 103. We're Ramping Up Food Production This Year. Here's Why: Lately it seems Christian and I have been talking a lot about our dreams for the homestead. More than anything, we’ve realized we share a strong desire to increase our food production this year. Listen today as we take our ...
04.03.2020 102. State of the Homestead: Spring 2020 On today’s episode, I’m taking a bit of a departure from my traditional format to dive into the present state of our homestead. I cover everything from prepping raised beds, meat chickens, what we’re doing with our milking setup, and ...
04.01.2020 101. Is This Your Year to Raise Meat Chickens? The chicks are here! Yes, it’s that time of year. Last year we were a bit behind the eight ball and missed out on meat chickens. Not this time my friend. If you’ve ever wanted to raise meat chickens but ...
03.30.2020 100. How To Can Dry Beans With everything going on in the world today, it’s important to always check back in on some basics. For everyone that has followed me for any period of time, you’d know canning is easily one of my favorite things when ...
03.27.2020 99. What to do with an Excess of Eggs What do you do when everything goes as you hoped, or perhaps even better than you hoped? While it’s great to be able to produce our own food on the homestead, sometimes we find ourselves with a perishable bounty that ...
03.25.2020 98. Strategies for the Unexpected Homeschooler Seemingly in the blink of an eye, the world became homeschoolers. For some of you listening, it’s business as usual. For others? Full time panic mode has ensued. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or a rookie doing this for the ...
03.23.2020 97. What Covid-19 Means for Homesteaders To say the world is full of uncertainty is a bit of an understatement at the moment. We’re living in some uncharted waters as a country and as humans in general. I for one can say my mind has been ...
03.20.2020 96. How NOT to Re-Season a Cast Iron Skillet Have you ever tried to save a piece of cast iron and found yourself in way too deep? This was my story just last week. After staring at a skillet in my kitchen for years, I finally decided to do ...
03.18.2020 95. How I Learned How to Homestead Contrary to popular belief, I wasn’t born into the homestead life. If you go back and listen to some of my first episodes you can get the full story on how Christian and I caught the homestead bug. In the ...
03.16.2020 94. Is it Possible to Grow Food in a Shady Garden Spot? While we’d all love an open, sunny spot to plant our garden, the reality of it is some things are beyond our control. Rest assured, a shady spot doesn’t always mean a death sentence. On today’s episode, I explain how ...
03.11.2020 93. How to Start Your Own Seeds Have you ever jumped head first into starting seeds and quickly find yourself overwhelmed? Trust me, when I first started expanding my garden I was right there with you. The truth is that this will always be the case unless ...
03.09.2020 92. How I Find Meal Inspiration When I'm in a Rut While I love to cook, at times it can become a drag. With everything we have going on with the kids, our various businesses, and the responsibilities of running a homestead, at times I end to fallback on the tried-and-true ...
03.06.2020 91. Whats the Best Method for Starting Your Garden? It’s no secret by now. If you’ve been listening at all to the podcast lately, you’d know that I’ve got gardening on my mind. I’ve said i many times before but I’ll say it once again; gardening is likely a ...
03.04.2020 90. How to Garden in a Cold Climate Between late frosts in the spring, early frosts in the fall, blizzards in the middle of May, and everything in between, Wyoming is one of the most difficult climates you’ll find to grow a garden. So I do I combat ...
03.02.2020 89. My 5 Favorite Ways to Use Up Sourdough Discard Believe it or not, many of the best ways to use up leftover sourdough starter have nothing to do with baking bread. If you’ve ever wondered what to do with your leftover sourdough starter, then this is the episode you’ve ...
02.28.2020 88. Is It More Noble to Be a Broke Homesteader? I’m not going to lie. This episode is likely to ruffle some feathers. However, this is a topic that’s been weighing on my mind for quite some time. On various videos or social media posts, I’ve received a number of ...
02.26.2020 87. The Scoop on Horses for Your Homestead If you’ve been listening or following me for a while, you’d know that it was horses that actually spurred my initial interest in homesteading. While most people wouldn’t consider a horse as a traditional ‘homestead’ animal, I’ve found that they ...
02.24.2020 86. How I "Do It All" Thanks to social media, I might appear to be some type of super woman. The truth of the matter is, Instagram and Facebook posts never tell the full story no matter how transparent I try to be. I’m able to ...
02.21.2020 85. How to Care for Your Wooden Kitchen Tools Innovation and technology serve us in so many different ways. Whether it’s making things more convenient, easier, or faster, new tools and techniques allow us to live our lives in different ways. Needless to say, new isn’t always better. When ...
02.19.2020 84. What I'm Reading This Winter Winter on the homestead has become one of my favorite times of the year. It’s that special time of year when I can come inside, cozy up next to the fire with a warm drink, and lose myself in good ...
02.17.2020 83. The 4 Types of Homesteaders Personal development has been an essential tool over the years. Looking back, I realize that some of the assesments I’ve taken have provided the biggest opportunities for growth. They help point out common personality characteristics and their...
02.14.2020 82. 7 Practical Ways We Save Time on the Homestead Do you ever reach the end of the day and wonder where all your time went? Do you look at your “to-do’s” and wonder how you’ll ever get it all done? Fitting the homestead lifestyle into the speed of the ...
02.12.2020 81. What I'm Planting in my Garden This Year One of my favorite days of the year has arrived. The seeds for my garden showed up! If you’re anything like me, you’re in full-on garden prep mode. On a recent episode, I discussed my long-term love for heirloom seeds. ...
02.10.2020 80. How We're Staying Healthy This Winter Natural health remedies seem to share a certain distinction when it comes to health care. While that may be the case, we’ve found many different herbs and essential oils to be a key component of maintaining good health. On today’s ...
02.07.2020 79. Why Canning Safety is Important Few things that strike greater fear into the heart of a homesteader than the word botulism. If you’re anything like me, you’ve come to have a healthy respect for canning safety due to the potential serious consequences of improper canning. ...
02.05.2020 78. Why Aren't My Chickens Laying Eggs? I don’t know about you, but we are in the dead of winter out here in Wyoming. Inevitably during this time of year, our chickens just don’t produce the same amount of eggs as they normally do. While the weather ...

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