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How Women Need to Eat to Balance Their Hormones
Weight gain Mood swings Painful periods--or for older women, menopausal nightmares... Have you even felt like being a woman is a cruel...
Hilary Elmer
7 days ago5 min read
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Maple Vanilla Milk Mix
Did you like vanilla milk as a kid? You can buy vanilla milk, but it has so many ick ingredients. What could be a healthy snack has been...
Hilary Elmer
Apr 41 min read
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What Misleading Milk Labels Really Mean
One good thing that our food industry does is to label food so we know what we are putting in our bodies. That empowers those of us who...
Hilary Elmer
Mar 289 min read
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Colostrum: the Amazing Supplement that Boosts Healing
When a baby mammal is born, it is thrust from the safe, sterile conditions in its mother's womb to a world full of things trying to kill...
Hilary Elmer
Mar 214 min read
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The Ultimate Kefir Guide
Raw grass fed milk is a perfect, complete food. But it's even BETTER for you if you make it into kefir. A delicious breakfast: kefir with...
Hilary Elmer
Mar 148 min read
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The Results of The MILK CURE are IN...
"From that time [being cured of his ailments] to the present, I have never ceased to advocate for the milk cure, and of the thousands of...
Hilary Elmer
Mar 77 min read
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What Would Happen if You Lived on Raw Milk Alone?
Theoretically, milk has everything you need to survive. So what would happen if you consumed nothing but raw milk? Milk is a miracle....
Hilary Elmer
Feb 284 min read
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Dry Beans--the Affordable Unprocessed Food, and Pork Chili Recipe
Why is it that the more heavily processed and unhealthy food is, the cheaper it is? That's so not fair! Sometimes it seems like you can't...
Hilary Elmer
Feb 214 min read
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Barn Kitties, and Do This to Keep Your Cats Healthy
Every barn needs a cat. At least one cat. More is better. Who else is going to greet you on a cold morning in the barn with purrs and...
Hilary Elmer
Feb 144 min read
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Dairying: Your Easy, Relaxing and Inexpensive New Hobby
Can you imagine anything better than free raw milk for the rest of your life? You should get a dairy cow or goat. Keeping a dairy animal...
Hilary Elmer
Feb 75 min read
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Colloidal Silver: the Gut Friendly Antibiotic
Antibiotics have saved countless millions of lives since Alexander Fleming created penicillin in 1928. Prior to antibiotics, an infection...
Hilary Elmer
Jan 316 min read
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Cooking with Cast Iron (and Dutch Baby Recipe)
If you want to make a meal that feels homey and rustic, cook it in cast iron! My collection of cast iron pans. Cast iron pans are great...
Hilary Elmer
Jan 245 min read
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3 Fasts to Transform Your Health, part 3: 2 to 5 day Fasts
The previous two blog posts focused on shorter, easier forms of fasting: Eating in a Window , and One Day Fasts . It is wise to start...
Hilary Elmer
Jan 178 min read
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3 Fasts to Transform Your Health, part 2: One Day Fasts
Last week's blog instroduced the simplest form of fasting, which is "eating in a window", or restricting your eating to an 8 to 10 hour...
Hilary Elmer
Jan 108 min read
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3 Fasts to Transform Your Health, part 1: Eating in a Window
Fasting is one of the most powerful tools to achieve and maintain good health. Since I started fasting almost two years ago, it keeps...
Hilary Elmer
Jan 36 min read
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Thank you, Dad
My dad had two daughters, no sons. He didn't need a son, he had me. Before I had kids, I was the best. mom. ever . I knew exactly how I...
Hilary Elmer
Dec 20, 20244 min read
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People Blame Bill Gates While Dumping Milk Down Their Sinks
A new controversial practice is creeping into the dairy industry. What does it mean for you as a consumer? Cow Farts and Climate Change...
Hilary Elmer
Dec 13, 20244 min read
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Can Milk be Grass Fed During the Winter?
People often ask me, Â "How do you grass feed animals when there is 3 feet of snow on the ground?" Can animals be grass fed during the...
Hilary Elmer
Dec 6, 20244 min read
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Root Cellaring: The Lazy Gardener's Other Alternative to Canning
Do you think that if you grow the majority of your food, you have to do tons of canning and/or freezing every year to put up the harvest?...
Hilary Elmer
Nov 29, 20246 min read
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Cider Cured Ham Recipe (Chemical Free!)
Do you love a good ham, but hate the chemicals  that inundate our food?  You don't have to put up with questionable ingredients in your...
Hilary Elmer
Nov 22, 20243 min read
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