Hey friends, welcome to Old Fashion on Purpose, the show where we explore what we have left behind

as we have raced towards progress as a society, but not only that, how we can get all the good stuff back.

I am your host, Jill Wingeringer and my family and I have been homesteading out here on the

Wyoming Prairie since 2008. And in that time homesteading has changed my life in every way possible, and I'm super passionate about teaching old-fashioned skills to, well, anybody that will listen.

And I firmly believe that we can have the most fulfilling lives right now

not by hiding from modern culture or fully embracing it but finding that sweet spot in the

middle. So today's topic is one I'm really excited about.

It's a solo episode today. It's something I've been working on a lot lately and that is

seeds. Maybe you weren't expecting me to say that.

But I am really focused on efficiency lately

in my homestead efforts.

As my life gets more full, my kids are getting older,

there's more things that they're doing.

We have the businesses, you know, but I still want a homestead.

I'm always going to homestead.

So I'm all about figuring out how to keep things flowing as smoothly as I can.

And the focus in my efficiency efforts this month

would be my seeds because it is January at the time of this recording. It is the time of

year when people like me are definitely not outside digging in the garden,

but I am dreaming and planning and scheming as to what my upcoming growing season will look like.

And a big part of that is ordering seeds.

Now, over the years, I've tried a lot of different methods,

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