If you're looking to go off-grid with solar power, this blog post is for you. Join me with Tag from Life Done Free and Grid Down as he shares his story and the best way to go off-grid for you and your homestead.

For more information, visit the blog post here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/going-off-grid-with-solar-power/

Check out Grid Down and get 7% off your order by using this link: https://homesteadingfamily.com/grid-down

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MORE ABOUT US!

WELCOME! We're so glad you're here! We are Josh and Carolyn Thomas. Together with our nine children, we are The Homesteading Family where we’re living a self-sustainable life in beautiful North Idaho. Let us welcome you and show you a bit about us here: http://bit.ly/HFWelcomeVideo

Grow, Preserve & Thrive with us!
Visit us on our blog: https://www.homesteadingfamily.com
Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homesteadingfamily
Instagram: https://instagram.com/homesteadingfamily
Rumble: https://rumble.com/HomesteadingFamily

A few highlights you don't want to miss are our FREEBIES!!

Healthy Healing at Home – Learn how to confidently use herbal medicine in your home with this FREE 4 video workshop: https://homesteadingfamily.com/HHHyt

Your Best Loaf – A Free 4 video workshop teaching you how to make great bread at home, every time, regardless of the recipe you are using: https://homesteadingfamily.com/free-bread-workshop

Meals on Your Shelf – Can along with me! Learn to can and put jars of a delicious meal on your pantry shelf with this FREE video series: https://homesteadingfamily.com/MOYS-free-workshop

FREE PDF DOWNLOADS:
- 5 Steps to a More Self-Sufficient Life - Simple steps anyone can take wherever they are to start a more self-sufficient lifestyle. https://homesteadingfamily.com/5StepsYT
- Thrive Wellness Checklist - A simple guide for healthy living: https://homesteadingfamily.com/TWC_YT
- Carolyn’s Cottage Garden herb list - Carolyn’s favorite herbs for growing at home.
https://homesteadingfamily.com/CGHL_YT
- Your FREE Guide to Preserving Eggs - Grab your guide to preserving eggs with multiple methods. https://homesteadingfamily.com/Eggs_YT
- 5 Steps to a Healthy Garden - Get an explanation of what makes healthy soil and 5 steps you can take to improve your garden.

I want to let you know about our IN PRINT In the Homestead Kitchen Summer Recipe Anthology! The magazine contains recipes and ideas for using and preserving your garden harvest. This summer anthology covers so many different foods and great recipes! Don't wait! The last time we offered an in-print magazine, it sold out quickly!

We're doing our best to switch as many products as possible to brands that are Made in the USA. It's not always easy (or possible), and really shouldn't be 100%. Join us for today's Pantry Chat and hear why we think it's important and how we're going about it.

For any links mentioned in the podcast, visit the blog post here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/made-in-the-usa-products-why-it-matters/

Today's podcast sponsor is Pleasant Hill Grain. We've been purchasing our small kitchen appliances from them for over 15 years now and can't recommend them enough. Check them out at https://homesteadingfamily.com/Pleasant-Hill-Grain

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Chit Chat
3:34 - Pleasant Hill Grain
5:00 - Freeze Drying Seeds
7:17 - American Made Products

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MORE ABOUT US!

WELCOME! We're so glad you're here! We are Josh and Carolyn Thomas. Together with our nine children, we are The Homesteading Family where we’re living a self-sustainable life in beautiful North Idaho. Let us welcome you and show you a bit about us here: http://bit.ly/HFWelcomeVideo

Grow, Preserve & Thrive with us!
Visit us on our blog: https://www.homesteadingfamily.com
Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homesteadingfamily
Instagram: https://instagram.com/homesteadingfamily
Rumble: https://rumble.com/HomesteadingFamily

A few highlights you don't want to miss are our FREEBIES!!

Healthy Healing at Home – Learn how to confidently use herbal medicine in your home with this FREE 4 video workshop: https://homesteadingfamily.com/HHHyt

Your Best Loaf – A Free 4 video workshop teaching you how to make great bread at home, every time, regardless of the recipe you are using: https://homesteadingfamily.com/free-bread-workshop

Meals on Your Shelf – Can along with me! Learn to can and put jars of a delicious meal on your pantry shelf with this FREE video series: https://homesteadingfamily.com/MOYS-free-workshop

FREE PDF DOWNLOADS:
- 5 Steps to a More Self-Sufficient Life - Simple steps anyone can take wherever they are to start a more self-sufficient lifestyle. https://homesteadingfamily.com/5StepsYT
- Thrive Wellness Checklist - A simple guide for healthy living: https://homesteadingfamily.com/TWC_YT
- Carolyn’s Cottage Garden herb list - Carolyn’s favorite herbs for growing at home.
https://homesteadingfamily.com/CGHL_YT
- Your FREE Guide to Preserving Eggs - Grab your guide to preserving eggs with multiple methods. https://homesteadingfamily.com/Eggs_YT
- 5 Steps to a Healthy Garden - Get an explanation of what makes healthy soil and 5 steps you can take to improve your garden.

I want to let you know about our IN PRINT In the Homestead Kitchen Summer Recipe Anthology! The magazine contains recipes and ideas for using and preserving your garden harvest. This summer anthology covers so many different foods and great recipes! Don't wait! The last time we offered an in-print magazine, it sold out quickly!

This week, we're talking about something a little "off-topic" from homesteading but that we think goes hand in hand with being prepared for modern life.

I'm chatting with Franklin Sanders from The Moneychanger and Volunteer Precious Metals, all about the top principles to know when buying gold and silver.

For more information, visit the blog post here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/top-principles-to-know-when-buying-gold-silver/

Check out Franklin's website The Moneychanger here: https://the-moneychanger.com
Find his son's at Volunteer Precious Metals: https://volunteerpreciousmetals.com/
Grab Franklin's three volumes of books here: https://fourriversstore.com/

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Introduction
11:27 - 10 Commandments of Buying Gold & Silver
12:41 - Rule #1
14:01 - Rule #2
18:51 - Rule #3
20:04 - Rule #4
26:42 - Rule #5
29:20 - Rule #6
30:59 - Rule #7
33:41 - Rule #8
39:30 - Rule #9
41:07 - Rule #10
48:07 - Final Tips

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MORE ABOUT US!

WELCOME! We're so glad you're here! We are Josh and Carolyn Thomas. Together with our nine children, we are The Homesteading Family where we’re living a self-sustainable life in beautiful North Idaho. Let us welcome you and show you a bit about us here: http://bit.ly/HFWelcomeVideo

Grow, Preserve & Thrive with us!
Visit us on our blog: https://www.homesteadingfamily.com
Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homesteadingfamily
Instagram: https://instagram.com/homesteadingfamily
Rumble: https://rumble.com/HomesteadingFamily

A few highlights you don't want to miss are our FREEBIES!!

Healthy Healing at Home – Learn how to confidently use herbal medicine in your home with this FREE 4 video workshop: https://homesteadingfamily.com/HHHyt

Your Best Loaf – A Free 4 video workshop teaching you how to make great bread at home, every time, regardless of the recipe you are using: https://homesteadingfamily.com/free-bread-workshop

Meals on Your Shelf – Can along with me! Learn to can and put jars of a delicious meal on your pantry shelf with this FREE video series: https://homesteadingfamily.com/MOYS-free-workshop

FREE PDF DOWNLOADS:
- 5 Steps to a More Self-Sufficient Life - Simple steps anyone can take wherever they are to start a more self-sufficient lifestyle. https://homesteadingfamily.com/5StepsYT
- Thrive Wellness Checklist - A simple guide for healthy living: https://homesteadingfamily.com/TWC_YT
- Carolyn’s Cottage Garden herb list - Carolyn’s favorite herbs for growing at home.
https://homesteadingfamily

I want to let you know about our IN PRINT In the Homestead Kitchen Summer Recipe Anthology! The magazine contains recipes and ideas for using and preserving your garden harvest. This summer anthology covers so many different foods and great recipes! Don't wait! The last time we offered an in-print magazine, it sold out quickly!

Join me for this week's Pantry Chat podcast with my guest host @MelissaKNorris as we discuss everything @modernhomesteadingconference .

For more information, check out the blog post here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/modern-homesteading-conference/

Grab tickets to this year's Modern Homesteading Conference here: https://modernhomesteading.com/

This podcast was sponsored by Pleasant Hill Grain. Check them out here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/Pleasant-Hill-Grain

Purity Coffee (use code "HOMESTEADINGFAMILY20" for 20% off your order!): https://homesteadingfamily.com/purity-coffee

Time Stamps
0:00 - Chit Chat
8:08 - Pressure Canning Weights
9:25 - Our New Coffee (Purity Coffee)
12:30 - Pleasant Hill Grain
14:15 - Modern Homesteading Conference

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MORE ABOUT US!

WELCOME! We're so glad you're here! We are Josh and Carolyn Thomas. Together with our eleven children, we are The Homesteading Family where we’re living a self-sustainable life in beautiful North Idaho. Let us welcome you and show you a bit about us here: http://bit.ly/HFWelcomeVideo

Grow, Preserve & Thrive with us!
Visit us on our blog: https://www.homesteadingfamily.com
Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homesteadingfamily
Instagram: https://instagram.com/homesteadingfamily
Rumble: https://rumble.com/HomesteadingFamily

A few highlights you don't want to miss are our FREEBIES!!

Healthy Healing at Home – Learn how to confidently use herbal medicine in your home with this FREE 4 video workshop: https://homesteadingfamily.com/HHHyt

Your Best Loaf – A Free 4 video workshop teaching you how to make great bread at home, every time, regardless of the recipe you are using: https://homesteadingfamily.com/free-bread-workshop

Meals on Your Shelf – Can along with me! Learn to can and put jars of a delicious meal on your pantry shelf with this FREE video series: https://homesteadingfamily.com/MOYS-free-workshop

FREE PDF DOWNLOADS:
- Homesteading Family's Favorite Holiday Recipes - Grab all of our family’s favorite holiday recipes. https://homesteadingfamily.com/free-holiday-recipes
- Carolyn’s Cottage Garden herb list - Carolyn’s favorite herbs for growing at home.
https://homesteadingfamily.com/CGHL_YT
- Your FREE Guide to Preserving Eggs - Grab your guide to preserving eggs with multiple methods. https://homesteadingfamily.com/Eggs_YT

I want to let you know about our IN PRINT In the Homestead Kitchen Summer Recipe Anthology! The magazine contains recipes and ideas for using and preserving your garden harvest. This summer anthology covers so many different foods and great recipes! Don't wait! The last time we offered an in-print magazine, it sold out quickly!

With more viruses popping up over the past decade, it's important to understand and know how to use medicinal herbs, more specifically, antiviral herbs. Join me with Dr. Patrick Jones from HomeGrown Herbalist as we discuss the common antiviral herbs and their uses.

For more information, visit the blog post here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/antiviral-herbs-how-to-treat-common-viruses-with-medicinal-herbs/

- Join the School of Botanical Medicine here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/school-of-botanical-medicine
- Get Doc's Respiratory Preparedness Kit here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/hgh-respiratory-preparedness-kit
- Get Doc's Immunity Support Tincture here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/hgh-immunity-support-tincture
- Get Doc's ShooFloo Tincture here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/hgh-shoofloo-tincture

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MORE ABOUT US!

WELCOME! We're so glad you're here! We are Josh and Carolyn Thomas. Together with our nine children, we are The Homesteading Family where we’re living a self-sustainable life in beautiful North Idaho. Let us welcome you and show you a bit about us here: http://bit.ly/HFWelcomeVideo

Grow, Preserve & Thrive with us!
Visit us on our blog: https://www.homesteadingfamily.com
Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homesteadingfamily
Instagram: https://instagram.com/homesteadingfamily
Rumble: https://rumble.com/HomesteadingFamily

A few highlights you don't want to miss are our FREEBIES!!

Healthy Healing at Home – Learn how to confidently use herbal medicine in your home with this FREE 4 video workshop: https://homesteadingfamily.com/HHHyt

Your Best Loaf – A Free 4 video workshop teaching you how to make great bread at home, every time, regardless of the recipe you are using: https://homesteadingfamily.com/free-bread-workshop

Meals on Your Shelf – Can along with me! Learn to can and put jars of a delicious meal on your pantry shelf with this FREE video series: https://homesteadingfamily.com/MOYS-free-workshop

FREE PDF DOWNLOADS:
- 5 Steps to a More Self-Sufficient Life - Simple steps anyone can take wherever they are to start a more self-sufficient lifestyle. https://homesteadingfamily.com/5StepsYT
- Thrive Wellness Checklist - A simple guide for healthy living: https://homesteadingfamily.com/TWC_YT
- Carolyn’s Cottage Garden herb list - Carolyn’s favorite herbs for growing at home.
https://homesteadingfamily.com/CGHL_

I want to let you know about our IN PRINT In the Homestead Kitchen Summer Recipe Anthology! The magazine contains recipes and ideas for using and preserving your garden harvest. This summer anthology covers so many different foods and great recipes! Don't wait! The last time we offered an in-print magazine, it sold out quickly!

We're chatting some more about our glyphosate toxicity and what we're doing to combat the toxins we have in our system... including changing up one of our FAVORITE things!

Have you missed what's going on with our health? You can get caught up on all of our glyphosate toxicity videos here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/our-journey-with-glyphosate-toxicity/

Links Mentioned:

- Check out the detoxproject.org for test kits.
- Work with Dr. Torrie for toxin testing here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/toxin-testing
- Presale of the Freeze Drying the Harvest book: https://homesteadingfamily.com/freeze-drying-book
- In the Homestead Kitchen Magazine: https://homesteadingfamily.com/in-the-homestead-kitchen-yt
- Watch the Glyphosate Videos One and Two here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/our-journey-with-glyphosate-toxicity/

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro/Chit Chat
7:05 - Milk Kefir Grains for Chickens
8:14 - Freeze Dryer Noise
11:55 - Glyphosate Toxicity

I want to let you know about our IN PRINT In the Homestead Kitchen Summer Recipe Anthology! The magazine contains recipes and ideas for using and preserving your garden harvest. This summer anthology covers so many different foods and great recipes! Don't wait! The last time we offered an in-print magazine, it sold out quickly!

Raising rabbits for meat has gained popularity in recent years. Mostly because of their relatively low maintenance compared to other livestock. Daniel Salatin is sharing the ease and practicality of raising rabbits for meat, covering everything from their benefits to practical considerations like daily care, feeding, processing, and breed selection.

For links and resources, visit the blog post here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/raising-rabbits-for-meat/

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MORE ABOUT US!

WELCOME! We're so glad you're here! We are Josh and Carolyn Thomas. Together with our nine children, we are The Homesteading Family where we’re living a self-sustainable life in beautiful North Idaho. Let us welcome you and show you a bit about us here: http://bit.ly/HFWelcomeVideo

Grow, Preserve & Thrive with us!
Visit us on our blog: https://www.homesteadingfamily.com
Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homesteadingfamily
Instagram: https://instagram.com/homesteadingfamily
Rumble: https://rumble.com/HomesteadingFamily

A few highlights you don't want to miss are our FREEBIES!!

Healthy Healing at Home – Learn how to confidently use herbal medicine in your home with this FREE 4 video workshop: https://homesteadingfamily.com/HHHyt

Your Best Loaf – A Free 4 video workshop teaching you how to make great bread at home, every time, regardless of the recipe you are using: https://homesteadingfamily.com/free-bread-workshop

Meals on Your Shelf – Can along with me! Learn to can and put jars of a delicious meal on your pantry shelf with this FREE video series: https://homesteadingfamily.com/MOYS-free-workshop

FREE PDF DOWNLOADS:
- 5 Steps to a More Self-Sufficient Life - Simple steps anyone can take wherever they are to start a more self-sufficient lifestyle. https://homesteadingfamily.com/5StepsYT
- Thrive Wellness Checklist - A simple guide for healthy living: https://homesteadingfamily.com/TWC_YT
- Carolyn’s Cottage Garden herb list - Carolyn’s favorite herbs for growing at home.
https://homesteadingfamily.com/CGHL_YT
- Your FREE Guide to Preserving Eggs - Grab your guide to preserving eggs with multiple methods. https://homesteadingfamily.com/Eggs_YT
- 5 Steps to a Healthy Garden - Get an explanation of what makes healthy soil and 5 steps you can take to improve your garden.

I want to let you know about our IN PRINT In the Homestead Kitchen Summer Recipe Anthology! The magazine contains recipes and ideas for using and preserving your garden harvest. This summer anthology covers so many different foods and great recipes! Don't wait! The last time we offered an in-print magazine, it sold out quickly!

Fat is stored energy. When looking at a self-sufficient and resilient homestead, fat sources must be considered. In this Pantry Chat, we'll discuss why it's important to raise fat sources on your homestead and how to do it!

For more information, visit the blog post here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/fat-sources-on-the-homestead/

MORE ABOUT US!

WELCOME! We're so glad you're here! We are Josh and Carolyn Thomas. Together with our nine children, we are The Homesteading Family where we’re living a self-sustainable life in beautiful North Idaho. Let us welcome you and show you a bit about us here: http://bit.ly/HFWelcomeVideo

Grow, Preserve & Thrive with us!
Visit us on our blog: https://www.homesteadingfamily.com
Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homesteadingfamily
Instagram: https://instagram.com/homesteadingfamily
Rumble: https://rumble.com/HomesteadingFamily

A few highlights you don't want to miss are our FREEBIES!!
Healthy Healing at Home – Learn how to confidently use herbal medicine in your home with this FREE 4 video workshop: https://homesteadingfamily.com/HHHyt
Your Best Loaf – A Free 4 video workshop teaching you how to make great bread at home, every time, regardless of the recipe you are using: https://homesteadingfamily.com/free-bread-workshop
Meals on Your Shelf – Can along with me! Learn to can and put jars of a delicious meal on your pantry shelf with this FREE video series: https://homesteadingfamily.com/MOYS-free-workshop

FREE PDF DOWNLOADS:
- 5 Steps to a More Self-Sufficient Life - Simple steps anyone can take wherever they are to start a more self-sufficient lifestyle. https://homesteadingfamily.com/5StepsYT
- Thrive Wellness Checklist - A simple guide for healthy living: https://homesteadingfamily.com/TWC_YT
- Carolyn’s Cottage Garden herb list - Carolyn’s favorite herbs for growing at home.
https://homesteadingfamily.com/CGHL_YT
- Your FREE Guide to Preserving Eggs - Grab your guide to preserving eggs with multiple methods. https://homesteadingfamily.com/Eggs_YT
- 5 Steps to a Healthy Garden - Get an explanation of what makes healthy soil and 5 steps you can take to improve your garden. https://homesteadingfamily.com/5StepsGardenYT

I want to let you know about our IN PRINT In the Homestead Kitchen Summer Recipe Anthology! The magazine contains recipes and ideas for using and preserving your garden harvest. This summer anthology covers so many different foods and great recipes! Don't wait! The last time we offered an in-print magazine, it sold out quickly!