Simple Living Made Simple Podcast

Let's start off the new year with a really great episode and guest!

Corina from The Hopewell Homestead is one of my most favorite homesteading and simple living experts to follow on Instagram. So it was such an awesome experience to get to speak with her in this episode of the Simple Living Made Simple Podcast.

We talk all about homecentric and holistic living, as well as, what it means to be a Hopesteader and build the homestead life you dream of. It was such a fun and inspiring conversation, you don't want to miss!

Corina is a heart-centered homemaker with a passion for teaching others new and old ways to live more intentionally in their own homes. She focuses on developing and sharing real food recipes, building out a homestead, and serving others through education on how to live a more natural lifestyle. She combines these passions in her daily life and shares what she learns along the way on her blog and social media platforms and more detail in her upcoming book - the natural minded homemaker.

 The Hopewell Homestead blog 

 The Hopewell Homestead Instagram 

 The Homecentric Podcast 

In this episode, I got to speak with Robyn from Cheese from scratch all about the basics of home cheesemaking. She breaks down all you need to get started and clears up common misconceptions and questions when it comes to making your own cheese.  We talk about what kinds of cheese to start with, cheese making science, and how to get over your hesitations and start making your cheese in your own home today!

Robyn is the creator of Cheese From Scratch, an online business that empowers and teaches milkmaids as well as educates homestead cheesemakers around the world.  Together Robyn and her husband homestead and ranch in Northern British Columbia where they raise their three young children and work to grow the bulk of their own food. 

You can find Robyn here: 

Website: https://cheesefromscratch.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cheese_from_scratch_/

After a few months break, I am back! I had to take an unexpected few weeks off because teething babies and sick kids took over our house.  I am back with an episode all about 5 things that I do to help keep my sanity when I am overwhelmed with life's unexpected events.  These 5 things help me recharge and get back on track quickly. 

This week on the Simple Living Made Simple Podcast we are talking all about building trading relationships and how to become more community sufficient, instead of just self-sufficient!

My guest this week is awesome and the perfect person to talk about this topic.

I got the awesome opportunity to speak with Kate from Venison for Dinner about her many trading relationships, how she leverages her family's skills and knowledge and how she keeps herself rich and plentiful by utilizing the skills and good of her community.

It was such a good and important conversation and you don't want to miss it!

Do you love old homes? I do!

If you are interested in historically accurate renovations, decorating old farmhouses, antiquing and thrifting that you are probably familiar with my guest this week, Paige from Farmhouse Vernacular.

Paige has one of my favorite You Tube channels and I was so excited to have her on the podcast this week.

In this week's episode we talk about:

It was so much fun and you don't want to miss this one!

Farmhouse Vernacular You Tube

Farmhouse Vernacular Blog 

Paige (founder of Farmhouse Vernacular) and her husband purchased a run-down farmhouse in rural Kentucky in 2017. They have spent the last five years renovating it into a cozy, somewhat historically accurate home. Paige shares about home design, efficiency, canning, self-sufficiency, and farm life. You can usually find her painting a room, thrifting for glorious treasures, canning something up in the kitchen, or cuddling a cat.

Are you experiencing the pinch at the grocery store or at the gas pump?

Over here we are for sure.

Don't worry, we've got this and will get through it.

I certainly don't have the answers but I can tell you a few ways that I have made adjustments to a few things in our life to help lessen that pitch, even if just a little.

Tune into this week's episode to hear a few ways that we have cut some costs in our house recently.

I got the awesome opportunity to speak with Shelby from Simple Homemaker Meals this week and it was so much fun!

We talked about modern homemaking, getting all of the things done, and simple meal planning.

Follow her over on Instagram where she shares awesome recipes and tips for getting it all done.

Simple Homemaker Meals Instagram

Shelby is the creator of Simple Homemaker Meals, a space designated to recipes, sharing her joy in homemaking and learning lost skills along the way, like gardening and cooking from scratch! She is a wife and mother to two residing in TN.

You can purchase The Homemakers Meal Planner or her cookbook; Simple Homemaker Meals Dinner Recipes.

You don't want to miss this episode with Jill McSheehy from the Beginner's Garden.

Jill has always been my go to experts on vegetable gardening because her content is so easily digestible and she does a great job presenting it so that new gardeners can learn.

I listen to her podcast and watch her you tube videos all the time so speaking with her for this week's podcast episode was awesome!

I was definitely a little star struck if I am being honest.

This conversation was so much fun. We discussed garden planning, growing a fall garden, and pest prevention and maintenance, just to name a few.  I truly learned a lot and really appreciate her expertise!

Blog: Journey with Jill

Podcast: The Beginner's Garden

You Tube: The Beginner's Garden

Instagram: The Beginner's Garden

Garden Course: Dream to Garden eCourse

Jill McSheehy is the creator and host of the top-rated Beginner's Garden Podcast and author of Vegetable Gardening for Beginners. She teaches gardening to beginners through her web site, journeywithjill.net. Frustrated with the lack of gardening resources for new gardeners when she began her first garden in 2013, Jill created the Beginner's Garden to help others with the same frustrations. Through Jill's guidance in the podcast and web articles, thousands of beginning gardeners have been able to start and grow their own gardens.

After a brief hiatus for the 2022 garden season we are back for episode 39!  In this episode, I share with you updates from our garden, chickens, and kitchen, as well as, some shifts in my perspective as it comes to homesteading, proving for my family, and boosting our food supply.

Join me in my conversation with Kris from Healthy Mama Kris all about practical cooking, easy meal plans, and making your food taste better.

Kris is a trained chef, culinary nutritionist and founder of Healthy Mama Kris, where she helps moms stress less about food through delicious weeknight-friendly recipes, simplified meal planning, meal prep and confident cooking.

She encourages women worldwide to uncomplicate eating and find joy in balanced living through her digital courses, cooking classes and top rated podcast, The Healthy Balanced Mama Podcast. She lives on the coast of New England with her sailor husband and two little sous chefs.

To learn more, follow her on Instagram @healthymamakris or on her blog and website www.healthymamakris.com where she shares tips on balanced eating, flexible meal planning, simplified food prep and confident cooking.

Instagram: @healthymamakris

Healthy Mama Kris Blog

Healthy Mama Meal Prep Course

Healthy Mama Meal Planner

The Healthy Balanced Mama Podcast