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magazine. It's so crazy when you think about how much cheese making has changed in like

the last 150 years. Like cheese has been around for thousands and thousands of years, but then

it's completely like changed in the last 150 and it's scandalous to use these natural cultures now.

Welcome to everyday homesteading, the show for busy families who want more self-sufficiency without burning out.

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And in every episode, we share time-tested knowledge on topics from growing and preserving your food to raising livestock to herbal medicine and anything homesteading

in between. Let's jump in. You know, many years ago, great grandma Jeannie lived with us, and she

told me a story about how she remembers being on the farm in the Great Depression and how her mom would make cottage cheese.

But of course, back then, they didn't have any fancy freeze-dried starter cultures that you

would buy from a cheese making shop. You had to make all of your own pieces that you needed

for any sort of cheese making or home dairy making.

And so she said that her mom used clabber.

Clabber is something that a lot of us are unfamiliar with in our modern culture,

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