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The Nourishing Hearthfire

Kate Downham

Real food, traditional skills, and slow living from my forest homestead. Learn cheesemaking, fermentation, sourdough, and self sufficiency, with practical recipes and simplified techniques. Thoughtful monthly emails for homesteaders, backyard gardeners, and anyone who wants to cook and preserve real food from scratch.

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July at The Nourishing Hearthfire

The Nourishing Hearthfire From the homestead Last month the sun sank to its lowest point on the horizon here, and this month we are aware of the growing light, the growing sunshine, and the coming growing season. In drafting this email I’ve been writing about about connecting with natural cycles and disconnecting from technology. What I wrote ended up being too long to send out to you in full, so I’ve posted the rest of this on the blog. Read more about light and dark, technology, and...

12 days ago • 2 min read

The Nourishing Hearthfire Welcome to the first email for the new Nourishing Hearthfire mailing list. If you’ve received this, you were either subscribed to the old mailing list, or had said ‘yes’ to the mailing list question on my cheese book Kickstarter survey 3 years ago (yes, I am a bit slow with these things!), or you’ve found this through my Floury Friday sourdough mailing list. If you are no longer interested in receiving these emails, there is an unsubscribe link at the end of this...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

This is the new mailing list for thenourishinghearthfire.com. A new design (and this mailing list) are currently under construction and will be ready in the next couple of weeks.If you'd like to be among the first to know when this bundle of free homesteading ebooks goes live to mailing list subscribers, sign up today.

3 months ago • 1 min read