Hand Made

The Modern Woman's Guide to Made-from-Scratch Living

Do you wish you could slow down and create a home you and your family love and enjoy spending time in? Melissa K. Norris offers down-to-earth guidance to help you bake old-fashioned recipes, make your own soaps and salves, declutter your home, and more.

Homemade Shouldn't Be Hectic

Do you wish you could slow down and create a home you and your family love and enjoy spending time in? Melissa K. Norris, author of The Made-from-Scratch Life and voice of the Pioneering Today podcast, offers down-to-earth tips and guidance to help you learn how to.

• bake old-fashioned recipes (everything from biscuits to shepherd's pie) with quick, stress-free steps
• grow, harvest, and preserve culinary and medicinal herbs (with DIY tutorials for soaps, salves, and balms)
• make your own cultured and fermented foods at home following simple instructions for buttermilk, sour cream, sourdough, and more
• simplify your routine and declutter your home with room-by-room guides and Depression-era wisdom

Open your heart to God-given rest and discover practical and tangible ways you can craft your home into a refuge for yourself and the ones you love.