The Ample Flame Podcast

For years, we kept running out of certain cuts of meat between processing days, while other cuts went bad in the freezer before we ever got around to eating them. In this episode, we share the food budgeting system we...

How do we balance the demands of homesteading, homeschooling, entrepreneurship, etc. without losing sight of the reason we are doing all of this? In this episode, we are responding to a listener question about how we...

<p>In homesteading circles, it is common to think that owning more land is always better. Join us for this discussion on why we "settled" for less acreage than we originally wanted and how we have maximized the space we...

<p>The more times we do something, the better at it we become. The pathways that form in our brains every time we repeat a motion, activity, or a task are slowly built like the foundations to a house. As we get into...

<p>The way family life plays out in our modern world is vastly different from generations past. We do not believe families were designed to live daily life separately: fathers and mothers working outside of the home for...

<p>The hard-won wisdom of farmers in previous generations is quickly disappearing in our modern world. Today’s farms often operate more like mining operations, extracting massive amounts of produce from the earth...

<p>We're pulling back the curtain on the greenwashing taking place all around us. What happens when "clean" brands are bought out by major corporations? Do you know where your compost really comes from? Can certified...

<p>When we first experienced the powerful effects of detoxing through diet, we knew we could never go back to eating the way we always had. Join us for this conversation about how our bodies have responded to short-term...

<p>Until we moved out to seven acres in the country, we did not realize how pervasively our mindsets had been shaped by the decades we spent in suburbia. In this conversation, we talk through our process of unraveling...

<p>When we began to notice our kids' behavior shifting after consuming certain types of media, we knew we had to make some changes. In this conversation, we are discussing our standards for the kinds of entertainment we...

<p>In a society that continually tells us to strive for ever-increasing material gain, we have embraced a different way of life. Choosing to live intentionally small with a large family certainly comes with challenges...

<p>Our initial journey into homesteading was based in a desire to change the way we were currently living. Over time, we have begun to look further into the future of our homestead— how we will age here, protecting our...

<p>Since we have been on a years-long journey of producing our own food, we have learned how much intentionality is required to live this way. When you can't run to the grocery store every time you run out of an...

<p>When our eyes were opened to the pervasive problems in our modern food system — factory-farmed meat, chemical-laden produce, unnatural preservatives and additives — we couldn't look away. In this episode, we are...

<p>Living an intentional lifestyle brings profound blessings, but it is not without challenges. In this conversation, we are taking an honest look at what it means to take responsibility for the uncomfortable aspects of...