LH 172: Catching You Up On All Things Living Homegrown You are probably wondering what happened to the podcast. Right at the end of December, host Theresa Loe came out with episode 171 and then the show went radio silent for 2 months. Theresa n

Growing Heirloom Flowers

Dec 28th, 2018 39m 49s

LH 171: How to Add Vintage Blooms to a Modern Garden It's a wonderful thing to add flowers to our vegetable gardens to attract pollinators. But it's also REALLY important to feed our souls as well as the pollinators when we're gardening. Growin

Creating a Garden Sanctuary

Dec 14th, 2018 32m 37s

LH 170: How To Create A Sacred Space To Unwind From The Busy World Life is busy. Life can be stressful. It’s often too easy to get caught up in the noise of the world…which can lead to MORE stress. As gardeners, we usually have a sense that rec

Homemade Gifts - All Natural Body Care

Nov 30th, 2018 36m 48s

LH 169: Easy Ideas for All-Natural Gifts From Your Garden There’s something special about a homemade gift. But it becomes even more special when it includes a little piece of your garden as well. It can be as simple as a dried flower or an herb

Making Herbal Infusions

Nov 16th, 2018 34m 26s

LH 168: How To Make Simple Infusions for Medicine and Skin Care In this episode, we explore extracting the best healing properties from some of the common plants and culinary herbs we are likely growing in our own backyards using infusion. Don'

How to Save Seed From Your Garden

Nov 2nd, 2018 37m 56s

LH 167: Tips for saving your backyard food garden seeds Preserving the flavors of the season doesn't have to stop when that last canning jar lid has "popped." If you know how to save seed from your own food garden, you are truly self-sufficient

Backyard Chicken Keeping Hacks

Oct 26th, 2018 39m 2s

LH 166: Simple tips and tricks to make backyard chicken keeping easier On today's episode, we're going to be talking about chicken keeping hacks. A "hack" is a handy hint, or something that will help you do things faster or better. It usually i

Real Farm-to-Table Food for Our Pets

Oct 19th, 2018 46m 13s

LH 165: Helping Your Pet Live Closer to Their Food An all NEW episode on a topic we've never covered before! We talk a lot on the podcast about living closer to our food and making sure we know what’s IN the food we eat and serve our families.

Homemade Cheese in an Hour or Less!

Oct 13th, 2018 48m 54s

LH 164: How To Make Delicious Fresh Cheese in Under an Hour Note: Host Theresa Loe has a special free workshop this month. See the end of this post for more info! There’s something warm and inviting about homemade cheese. Perhaps it's the anc

Organizing Your Homestead

Oct 5th, 2018 29m 38s

LH 163: Use the KonMari Method to Organize Your Homestead Today's episode is an ENCORE episode. What is that you ask? An encore episode is an episode that has been previously published, but it was SO long ago, you may have missed it. This episo

Grow More Food in Less Space

Sep 28th, 2018 46m 24s

LH 162: How to Grow More Food In the Space You Have Today's episode is an ENCORE episode. What is that you ask? An encore episode is an episode that has been previously published, but it was SO long ago, you may have missed it. This particular

Extraordinary Edible Plants

Sep 22nd, 2018 34m 35s

LH 161: Grow Landscape Plants that are Beautiful AND Delicious As gardeners we grow tons of veggies and fruit, but there are many other landscape plants that are delicious as well as ornamental. So let's think outside the box of planting our ga

Preserving Your Own Gourmet Meat with Curing, Smoking and Drying

Sep 8th, 2018 55m 2s

LH 160: How to preserve protein-packed foods with gourmet flavors In this episode, host Theresa Loe talks with author Karen Solomon about turning your kitchen counter into a deli counter by preserving your own meat with dry curing, brine curi

How To Be A Better Food Gardener With Science

Sep 1st, 2018 50m 42s

LH 159: Using Science to Improve Flavor & Food Production In this episode, host Theresa Loe brought back author Dr. Lee Reich to make us a better gardener…using science! When we fully understand the reasons behind the gardening techniques, we a

Eating Local and Exploring More Flavor

Aug 25th, 2018 45m 2s

LH 158: Eating Local and Getting to Know Your Local Farmer This week’s episode is about discovering INCREDIBLE flavors...locally. Host Theresa Loe brought back organic, foodie-farmer Andrea Bemis of Tumbleweed Farm to discuss a national project

The Magic of Vintage Garden Books and Cookbooks

Aug 17th, 2018 33m 12s

LH 157: The Magic Of Vintage Books Host Theresa Loe has been collecting vintage books since she was a kid. And on today's episode, she wants to share her tips and tricks for getting the best value from vintage garden books, cookbooks and even o

Top 10 Favorite Farm Fresh Things

Aug 12th, 2018 28m 25s

156: Farm-Fresh Living Made Easier Do you know how you feel when you get a new garden, or kitchen tool, and you love it so much you just have to tell everybody? That's what today's episode is ALL about! I'm sharing my favorite things that make

Seasonal Eating and Plum Liqueur

Aug 4th, 2018 37m 28s

Throwing A Party With Real Food It's summertime and delicious flavor is EVERYWHERE right now. There's yummy seasonal flavor at the farmer's market and it may even be in our own backyards (if we grow our own food). What better way to enjoy that

The Homemade Kitchen with Alana Chernila

Jul 28th, 2018 43m 1s

LH 154: Big flavor in a waste free kitchen You asked for it, so host Theresa Loe brought back author Alana Chernila for another episode! This time, they chat about getting the very best flavors from our produce and how to use left over scraps s

How to Make Real, Old-fashioned Fermented Pickles and Other Fermentation Basics

Jul 20th, 2018 53m 21s

LH 153: How to make real, old-fashioned pickles Summer is here and homegrown cucumbers are ripening on the vine. Let’s make REAL pickles - The old fashioned kind! What's a “real” pickle? It’s where you use natural fermentation (and NO vinegar)

Getting Started with Backyard Chickens

Jul 13th, 2018 42m 35s

152: Why Backyard Chickens Make Great Pets Host Theresa Loe has been keeping chickens in her small Los Angeles backyard for about 10-11 years. Her family loves having chickens and her friends and neighbors enjoy the eggs. Many people don't know

Behind the Scenes of A Farm Fresh Lifestyle

Jun 29th, 2018 47m 33s

LH 151: A Peek Into A Farm Fresh Life In this episode, host Theresa Loe has someone interview HER about her own farm fresh lifestyle. Guest interviewer, Bev Ross, digs deep to find out how Theresa juggles an urban homestead, the podcast, teachi

Tips and Tricks to Simply Flavorful Veggies

Jun 15th, 2018 39m 28s

LH 150: Getting The Best Flavor From Your Fresh Produce Whether you're harvesting from an epic kitchen garden or supporting your local farmers' market, you want that fresh produce to SHINE when it hits the dinner table. That's not always how it

Tips for Cooking Real Food With Southern Flair

Jun 8th, 2018 40m 48s

LH 149: How to Cook Real Food with Real Ingredients This episode is not just about Southern cooking, its about cooking from scratch using the freshest of produce and herbs. (Just like those we grow in our gardens) And it's about preparing real,

Long Term Food Storage for Emergencies

Jun 2nd, 2018 44m 30s

LH 148: Simple Ways To Prepare Food For An Emergency Being prepared for emergencies is an important topic to cover because no matter where we live, we could face a weather event or community emergency that requires us to be on our own for a bit