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Enter to Win!! | Stacy Lyn’s Harvest Cookbook and The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion by Amy Fewell

March 24, 2018 · In: Book Review, family, Featured, gardening, herbs, natural living

Are you ready to take your garden to the next level this year? Here’s your chance to learn how to grow an incredible vegetable and herb garden for the ultimate gardening experience! You’ll also learn how to put those harvests to good use with recipes, products, and more!

Homesteader and sustainable living expert, Stacy Lyn Harris and I have teamed up to bring you a basket full of information, and a great way to harvest your bounty this year! Not only will you enjoy the books, but you’ll enjoy the Maine Garden Hod Basket from Lehman’s Hardware!

Stacy Lyn Harris, co-host of The Sporting Chef, shares her tips and more than 100 recipes for food from the garden, pasture, woods, and water

With nine mouths to feed on a daily basis, Alabama chef Stacy Lyn Harris keeps it simple, but doesn’t skimp on elegance. Her seven kids enjoy homegrown food, prepared beautifully and sustainably thanks to a few chickens in the back, a year-round kitchen garden, milk from a dairy farmer just outside of town, and locally-sourced free-range meats. Always served up in Stacy Lyn’s rustic-refined style, her dishes are classic Old South, but with a fresh, healthy, beautiful twist.

Featuring full-color photos, Stacy Lyn’s Harvest Cookbook includes more than 100 field- and farm-to-table recipes that meet her three-part criteria: family friendly (easy, with simple ingredients), fresh, and tasty. There are cherished family recipes, free-range meat dishes derived from her husband’s hunting obsession, and lighter takes on decidedly southern classics all prepared simply, in the freshest way possible. The book covers food from the garden, pasture, woods, and water in four sections: The Garden features Fried Green Tomatoes, Jalapeño Poppers, Corn Chowder, Fried Squash with Tomatoes and Pesto, and other recipes to make you wish it was summer all year long. Beyond the Garden delves into beekeeping and raising chickens for an amazing Honey Butter to pour over Cinnamon Pear Buns and your favorite Egg Salad Sandwiches with Refrigerator Pickles. From the Pasture focuses on free-range, pasture-fed game recipes like Braised Short Ribs, Black-Eyed Pea Gumbo, and Juicy Pork Chops, plus a how-to on sausage-making. Seafood and Fish includes Stacy Lyn’s favorite entertaining recipes, Best Ever Clam Bake and Perfect Fish Tacos.

Included are 15 how to articles sprinkled throughout the book offer steps for cooking and eating sustainably in any setting including container gardening, saving seeds, preserving, foraging, composting and more.

You can read a more in-depth book review, with an amazing venison recipe, by clicking here.

 

Praise For Stacy Lyn’s Harvest Cookbook

“These recipes grabbed me, and I was almost too hungry to finish writing this blurb. Stacy Lyn took me back to Sunday Suppers at my Granny’s when I was growing up. Whether you’re a farmer, a hunter, an avid gardener, or just a lover of really good food, you’ll be drawn in by Stacy Lyn’s Harvest. She’s the real deal!” —Carla Hall, Chef, Co-Host ABC’s The Chew, and Author of, Cooking with Love and Carla’s Comfort Food.
 
After having spent the past few years working with her on The Sporting Chef TV show, I vebeen able to get to know the behind the scenes Stacy Lyn Harris. From the moment I took my first bite of her Venison Scaloppine, I was hooked on Stacy for life. 
This book captures the essence of Stacy Lyn Harris sustainable lifestyle, devotion to her faith and family and true love of incredible, yet uncomplicated cuisine.– Scott Leysath, best selling author and host of the award-winning show The Sporting Chef.
 
“Stacy Lyn and I have a long-standing love of sustainable living and blurring the lines between the indoors and out. But I’ve always thought she shined the brightest when creating recipes in the kitchen. With this cookbook, she gives traditional Southern recipes a fresh, modern take with lighter ingredients. My soul is singing with happiness.” —P. Allen Smith, lifestyle expert, author and host of PBS series P. Allen Smith s Garden to Table, P. Allen Smith s Garden Home, and Garden Style. 
 
If you’re thinking that Alabama native Stacy Lyn Harris’ Harvest is merely a collection of well-worn Southern classics, you’d be wrong. Sure, her Southern charm shines throughout the book, but Harris’ range and depth in the kitchen will open up all sorts of new culinary worlds for your own harvest — whether it’s from the field, the water or the forest. –Hank Shaw, author of three cookbooks and the James Beard Award-winning website Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.
 
With simplicity and style, Stacy Lyn s Harvest Cookbook is an exquisite collection of tasty recipes, tips and how to s that will inspire you to play in the dirt, seek out nature, and get into the kitchen. She has a gift for simplifying the process of growing your own garden, and illustrating how tasty free-range and pasture-fed meats are when prepared the right way. Even if you don t do it yourself, Stacy Lyn will open your eyes to the beauty and benefits of sourcing local at farmers markets and local farms to find the freshest ingredients, and put the most delectable food on your table. Page after enlightening page, Harvest is a must have for anyone who savors fresh flavors! —Dana Popoff: Producer. Good Eats & Feasting on… Series with Alton Brown/Food Network & Cooking Thin with Kathleen Daelemans/ Food Network, and Rusty’s RockFeast: On the Road with Zac Brown Band/FYI Network.

 

The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion is a beautiful guide for the modern day homesteader. From learning how to incorporate herbs and essential oils around your home, to learning how to enhance your family’s health and well-being, this book is the go-to guide for those wishing to live a more natural homesteading lifestyle. This book takes readers through the basics of herbalism, including the different types of herbs and the uses for them around the homestead. It also breaks down how herbs are used in tinctures, salves, essential oils, and infused oils. Better yet, if you’re a homesteader with livestock, you’ll learn how to maintain their health holistically as well.

With an array of beautiful photos and easy to read terminology, just about any homesteader, new or seasoned, can learn from The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion, and finally feel comfortable incorporating the many wonderful qualities of herbs around their homes.

 

Praise for The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion

“…The overriding word that kept coming to my mind as I read Amy’s manuscript was FREEDOM. The whole homesteader and DIY  movement screams FREEDOM. The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion is both comprehensive and enjoyable. Amy skates perfectly down the middle between science and art; what a joy to have a book like this as a resource for both beginners and old hands. If you’ve never ventured into the world of herbs, you’ll find this book drawing you in and before you know it, I’m sure you’ll be dipping your toe in this exciting pool of wisdom. The historical contexts are an enjoyable read by themselves. Thank you, Amy, for bringing into our lives, our homes, our families such a wealth of freedom.” — Joel Salatin; Foreword, The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion

“Finally! A herbal handbook for homesteaders, written by a homesteader! Amy is the real-deal and knows this topic inside and out. This is the book I could have used years ago, and I’m thrilled to have it now.” — Jill Winger, blogger at theprairiehomestead.com

“Amy makes herbalism not only easy to understand, but also inspiringly charming. Easy methods, dosages, and instructions make herbalism doable, even for the average person.” — Shaye Elliott, author of Welcome to the Farm and Family Table

“Amy’s passion and love for natural, healthy living on the homestead is evident from this beautifully written guide to “everything herbal!” There is no better herbal book necessary to the homesteader’s arsenal than The Homesteading Herbal Companion. Amy’s inspirational and conversational instruction makes this book not only a reference book, but also an intimate journey into a homesteaders use of herbs medicinally, in the kitchen, and even on the farm. This book belongs in every home whether on a 100-acre farm or an apartment in Manhattan. It’s a must-have for anyone wanting to live a more healthy and natural life. This gorgeous book will be a classic!” — Stacy Lyn Harris; Co-Host The Sporting Chef and Rural Heritage/ Author of Best-Selling Books: Tracking the Outdoors In and Stacy Lyn’s Harvest Cookbook/ Founder of Game and Garden.
 
“The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion makes using herbs even more achievable! Filled with inspiring recipes and photographs, Amy presents the harmonious relationship between our homesteads and the herbs we can grow on them!”  — Quinn Veon, blogger at reformationacres.com

“. . . a valuable resource for the beginner and the novice who wish to seek natural remedies.” — Doug and Stacy Colbert, Off Grid with Doug and Stacy

 

Enter to Win:

• Stacy Lyn’s Harvest Cookbook by Stacy Lyn Harris
• The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion by Amy K. Fewell
• Lehman’s Main Garden Hod Basket

 

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By: Amy K. Fewell · In: Book Review, family, Featured, gardening, herbs, natural living · Tagged: Amy K. Fewell, giveaway, Stacy Lyn Harris, Stacy Lyn's Harvest Cookbook, The Homesteader's Herbal Companion

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  1. Deborah Williams says

    April 25, 2018 at 1:05 pm

    Would love both of these books…they have been on my wish list!!

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This is your reminder to become a student of the w This is your reminder to become a student of the word, not just a hearer. You can sit in church your entire life and hear someone preach, but that is not the same as doing deep dives into the word yourself. That feeling when you read and a thought pops into your head “what does that mean?” Priceless. The thread begins to unravel as you research and try to understand more. 

One of those things for me this week has been studying Melchizedek. If you were to only read the Old Testament account of Melchizedek, there wouldn’t be much to know. But combined with the New Testament, and the ancient writings and documentation of this incredible “king”, the picture becomes more clear. 

It becomes most clear in Hebrews, as the writer begins to unpackage the parallel of Melchizedek and Jesus—both high priests appointed by God. But interestingly, Melchizedek was a high priest centuries before the levitical priesthood was ever established. This is why scripture says that “Levi was still in the loins of Abraham”, and Melchizedek existed long before Levi was even born or established as priestly.

God has had me sitting in Genesis for a few weeks. It’s a book we feel like we know well, but until we dive deeply into it, do we know it well, or do we know it how someone else taught it in that one hour Sunday sermon 10 years ago? I’ve sat in Genesis for 2 weeks now and I’m barely halfway through. 

It may seem unimportant—what does Melchizedek matter to Christian’s now? Why do Adam, Noah, and Abraham’s covenant matter now? But they matter greatly. Because they are mirrored in the New Testament church—the priestly kingdom that God established. If you don’t understand Melchizedek, and the fact that he was before and outside of the established tribes of Israel, and appointed long before that, then you won’t understand the correlation between a religion of tradition versus a relationship and worship in freedom. 

It is not the levitical priest that Jesus is compared to—it is the priest of the order of Melchizedek. And that’s important. It’s important in how we believe, how we perceive, and how we advance and take dominion. 

I hope to write deeply about this soon.
There are a lot of new faces here over the last we There are a lot of new faces here over the last week due to a post that went semi-viral (about Yahweh calling back the shepherds). So I thought I’d take a minute to introduce myself, since so many of you followed me from content that is only a part of what myself and this page is about. 

My name is Amy. I am first and foremost, unapologetically, a follower and disciple of Jesus Christ. That fact motivates and touches every single other aspect of who I am and what I do. 

I am secondly a wife and mother (of 4). I’ve been married to my best friend for almost 21 years. We have seen just about every high and low, and came out stronger on the other side every single time. We walked through 9 years of secondary infertility, and suddenly God healed me and we welcomed 3 more littles to the crew in less than 7 years. Naturally. 

I grew up Baptist in the early years, then Pentecostal/charismatic. Now—I just follow Jesus. I’ve seen it all—the religion/tradition (on both sides), the good/bad/ugly, the miraculous.

My career was in media/newspapers/marketing before 2016. Then in 2016 I founded an organization called @homesteadersofamerica — where we teach people (and the kingdom) to take back the land, food and health system, the home, government and more. We are building the parallel system to the broken one. We’ve maxed out our annual October event at the current venue—6,000+ people each day.

We host the @homesteadrevivalnow events at our October event, where people encounter the Spirit of God, receive baptism and salvation, are encouraged by the word, and equipped to keep going. 

And most recently we started @thechurchstorehouse , where we are equipping the body of Christ and helping others start gatherings, church plants, refine their current church set up, and build places of refuge for times ahead. 

I’m a worshipper, entrepreneur, have lead in the church and churches, master herbalist, milk maid, author, coffee lover.

Those are just the cliff notes. 

Welcome to my corner of the internet. I pray it encourages, motivates, and spurs you on towards the everlasting goal of the kingdom. ❤️‍🔥
We’ve reached that time in the summer where it’s a We’ve reached that time in the summer where it’s almost fall but still hot outside. And we just need to see a glimpse of autumn showing up in our coffee!

So I’m just over here not using commercially processed creamers and instead using raw cream and infused maple syrups! 

I highly recommend @highlowfarm ‘s vanilla and cinnamon infused syrups, @shepherdscrookcoffee for all your farm coffee needs, and don’t forget that @showalterhomeandforge copper cream ladle 😍

You CAN buy and support your local homesteaders in EVERY way! Check out some of these folks at their vendor booths at the October @homesteadersofamerica conference!
The Senate farm bill got shut down in committee. 1 The Senate farm bill got shut down in committee. 10–11. Party line. Shocker! It’s only 🙄 been since 2018 that we could pass an actual farm bill.

Heres what happened:

The Senate Ag Committee met Thursday to mark up the Agricultural Act of 2026—Chairman Boozman’s “Farm Bill 2.0.” Two Republicans were absent: McConnell, recovering from “illness”, and Tuberville, unexplained. Their proxy votes didn’t count. Democrats voted as a bloc. It failed to advance.

The sticking point wasn’t corn, cattle, or conservation. It was SNAP—specifically, how long states get before they start paying a share of benefit costs. Boozman says one year is the most leadership will accept. Klobuchar says two. That’s the standoff. Ridiculous considering this is all because there is so much corruption in the SNAP aid program. 

Sit with that a minute. The last full five-year farm bill was signed in 2018. Everything since has been extensions and provisions stapled onto spending bills. And what’s holding up credit access, crop insurance updates, more food freedoms,  and FSA loan limits is a one-year versus two-year phase-in on a nutrition program. For real?

What it means for you: nothing changes tomorrow. Programs keep running under existing authority. But “nothing changes” is exactly the problem when input costs, land prices, food access, and rates have moved this much since 2018. Uncertainty is a cost. You just can’t put it on a balance sheet.

Boozman recessed the committee rather than adjourning—a signal he means to vote again in September. Even if it clears then, it needs 60 on the floor. Without a SNAP deal, it doesn’t have them.

The lesson underneath all of it: don’t build your food security on a bill. Build it on your ground, your neighbors, and your skills. Legislation is worth watching. It was never worth waiting on.
I have personally wrestled with the Lord over this I have personally wrestled with the Lord over this topic for months.

Earlier this year, someone asked why we were still hosting fellowship dinners at our home.
My answer was simple:
“Because I refuse to let the sheep scatter again.”

We have watched people leave churches wounded, lonely, and without accountability. Some find healthy places to land. Others simply go through the motions while still feeling empty and unseen.

And it grieves me. More importantly, I believe it grieves Jesus.
Recently, I finally said to a friend, “I think I need to write this out. God is calling back the shepherds.”

And not in the way you may think.

The word translated as “pastor” in the New Testament is poimēn.

It means shepherd.
Not platform speaker.
Not church-building manager.

Biblical shepherds lived among the flock. They knew the sheep by name. They found food and water, recognized danger, fought predators, rescued the wandering, and understood when it was time to move.

They were gentle, but they were not fragile.
They carried lambs, but they also fought lions and bears.
The rod was not used to beat the sheep. It was used to fight off predators.

The staff was not used to control them. It was used to guide and rescue them. And when the wolf came, the shepherd stayed.

Somewhere along the way, we reduced shepherding to preaching a sermon and managing an institution. But biblical shepherding was always more intimate, costly, discerning, and involved than that.

I believe the Lord is about to (or already is beginning to) reform the ministry of the shepherd within the Body of Christ. And do not be surprised when those shepherds do not look the way the religious institution expects.

They may be farmers, homesteaders, mothers, fathers, or people who are perceived as rough around the edges. They may never stand behind a pulpit.

But they will gather around tables, dwell among the people, protect the flock, confront the wolves, and refuse to let the sheep scatter again.

He is calling back the shepherds.

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