Sweet Harvest Homestead

Hello and welcome to the sweet harvest homestead podcast, old fashioned homemaking for the modern woman. Sweet Harvest homestead is brought to you in part by, The Naked Pig located in downtown Oakboro, North Carolina.  The naked pig has fresh grass fed beef and pastured raised pork and if you use the naked pig's lard to make biscuits, folks who eat them will think you are the best cook around! For more information visit their website at the naked pig.com "Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum…" - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. Even though that passage was written over 50 years ago, it is still fitting right now on these humid, sweltering, summer days. A great way to cool off in this heat is with a bowl of home-made ice cream.  I remember when I was about 11 years old, my granddaddy bought an electric ice-cream maker.  He let me go to the s