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Healthy, traditional cooking: real food recipes, monthly meal plans, alternative cooking methods, and much more.
Homesteading
All things homesteading: small livestock, homeschooling, gardening, homemaking, and much more.
Preparedness
Preparing for an unknown future: food storage, emergency supplies, prepping resources, and much more.
About Millie
As a blogger for over a decade, focusing on preparedness, homesteading, off-grid living, and traditional foods, Millie has penned seven nonfiction traditional food focused books, sharing how—with a little creativity—anyone can transition to a real foods diet without overwhelming their food budget.
Millie uses her homesteading, preparedness, and off-grid living experience as a guide to writing her bestselling Christian Post-Apocalyptic series, Havoc in Wyoming and Montana Mayhem.
Recent Blog Posts
Off-Grid Living November 2016
The end of November already! This month just zoomed by. The main focus of November has been filling up our freezer. We finished our pastured...
Instant Pot LOVE
A few months back the Instant Pot came into my life. I'd heard great things about the Instant Pot from Wardee at Traditional Cooking School through...
Pastured Poultry 2016
For the last several years we've been raising chickens for meat and eggs. Over the years we've had an assortment of breeds of egg laying chickens...
Off-Grid Living October 2016
Hello Friends! I'm slightly delayed in putting up a recap of what happened at our place in October. Joe and I took a couple of days off last week...
Lettin’ it Mellow…
Off-grid bathrooms often make for interesting conversation. Because many of us living off the grid have to figure out interesting ways to bring...
Capsule Wardrobe: Cold Weather
Capsule Wardrobe is something I see on Pinterest quite often lately (maybe because I searched the term so Pinterest thinks I want to see it often?)...
Apple Recipes ~ A Baker’s Dozen!
It's fall in Wyoming and I have apples on the brain! Each fall we like to stock up on apples. I often order these by the case from Azure Standard or...
A 2nd Cold War?
With the news of Russia having drills for a mock nuclear attack or other large scale catastrophe some are suggesting we are entering a new cold war....
My Well-Traveled Sourdough Starter and Favorite Sourdough Dishes
7 years ago in July I caught a wild yeast "sourdough" starter. After babying it along for a few weeks it my little starter became strong and...