Home and Hand Made: A Homesteader's Recipes to Help You Cook, Clean, and Care for Your Family

by Melissa K. Norris

Fifth-generation homesteader Melissa K. Norris offers over 100 time-tested, budget-friendly recipes for cooking, cleaning, and caring for your family.   

As the cost of food, cleaning supplies, and personal care items continue to skyrocket, are you looking for new ways to cut costs and seek healthier solutions for your family?

Melissa K. Norris, host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, shows you how you can make many of the meals and products you’re currently paying for at a fraction of the price.

Melissa shares easy-to-follow recipes, ideas, and tips for… baking a variety of delicious pastries, pies, pizzas, and more cooking hearty soups, stews, and sauces creating scrumptious sourdough treats and other fermented foods   growing your own herbs for seasonings, salves, and tinctures     simplifying your life in every room of your home celebrating the holidays with homemade charm Home and Hand Made helps you do more with less and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing all the ingredients that go into what your family eats and uses each day.            
 

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

Published May 6, 2025

About the author

Melissa K. Norris is a 5th generation homesteader who helps others use old-fashioned skill sets and modern homesteading to grow, cook and preserve their own organic food no matter where they live. She's a Mason jar addict and thinks one can never have too many because everything looks and tastes better when it's in a Mason jar.

Reviews

[Alexis C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m so happy my preorder of this book came early! I love Melissa’s writing style with stories interwoven with the recipes. I am excited to try my hand at some new recipes from this book and learn new skills!

[Teri Stich · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a delightful book. Her writing is like sitting down together with a cup of tea, The recipes ones you would actually use. Well thought out, useful even if not a Homesteader!
This is one that will remain of my book shelf and become a well loved, well used edition.

[Suzanne Deneuve Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love her!

[Featherpen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of staple recipes to use and good old-fashioned wisdom.

For future me: intro to gardening, intro to natural remedies (herbs, tinctures, etc)