Скачать или смотреть [VLOG] Black Thumb -Thriving Garden & Stocked Pantry [TOUR] in 365 days plus announcing NEXT STEPS!

The last year has been an adventure in unplugging from the "programming" of the day and turning back to ways of the past to step up food security for my family, and what an adventure it has been! It all started when I woke up to the reality that I had outsourced many duties vital to the success of my family to companies and systems that were no longer guaranteed. Supply chains break, but I still have a husband and 5 kids to feed, and they will all need more than just meat to thrive, and this was a hard reality check. The conveniences that I had grown up with were no longer a guarantee, and I felt God was telling me that it was time to step up my game for the sake of our future.

Over the winter, I turned off subscription TV services and quit watching anything but YouTube, during the many hours that I sat nursing our newest baby. I started watching ‪@epicgardening‬ and realized that I could provide quite a bit of food for my family. Then I tuned into‪@theprairiehomestead‬ and keyed in on a few main crops for my garden, and got to work. The garden thrived, and my kids all enjoyed it so much that plans for year 2 quickly came to fruition.

Inside the house, I began learning how to stock a pantry with basics that could serve my family. Shopping, storing, and USING the foods that I was buying became a passion, and learning the actual cost of the ingredients going into some of our favorite meals to eat out really opened my eyes in huge ways.

My mantra was, and continues to be, "ONE SKILL AT A TIME."

So What's next now that the canning is done, the pantry is full and the winter has set in? Spring planning has us buying a chicken coop and planning for the type of chickens to come. Additionally, I have plans to learn to work with raw dairy and more!

All of that to say, small steps daily add up to massive change in the scale of a year, so make 2023 your year to recover some control when it comes to your food supply. If I can do it, you can too.

Be well, Friends!

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