A homestead mom of 7 fills the pantry 

That's why I love the term "essentialism" instead of minimalism - all these things are essential to YOUR lifestyle! What is essential is so unique to each of us 💛

You know what! If someone’s worried about how messy your pantry is, they probably don’t spend enough time in theirs! You shouldn’t have to explain your circumstance. You are a wonderful, inspiring influencer! Thank you for all your hard work. 😍

I was going to suggest a second fridge. I put ours in laundry room but I know you don’t have that option. For 15 years I had a second fridge in our garage; it worked well and when we moved, we gave the fridge away. They come in handy during the holidays or big family gatherings, even a great place for the kids to grab a popsicle and the mess stays outside.

Your farm organization makes me giggle. Growing up, I lived on a small farm. It was definitely a working farm, always had something going, things around, it looked disorganized but there was a method to the madness. Whenever company was coming, my mom would take half a day and tidy up. She would tell us "Make sure you can read all the labels on the jars (we had open shelving in the pantry and kitchen.), all clothes were finally hung or folded, making sure the hangers were all going the same direction and everything was wiped down and dusted. Always new towels, in the kitchen and guest bath and we would dust and vacuum. And lastly, she would boil a pot of water with cinnamon, nutmeg and apples to make the house smell good. Always opened the windows if we could. Finally, the house and driveway would be hosed down. LOL She felt this was enough to make the house look tidy.

I literally was making your sourdough pizza recipe while watching this video. Lisa, if someone has something to say about your pantry, they need a job. You are SUPERWOMAN!!!!

I think your pantry looks perfectly beautiful. I'm so impressed by those cheeses! I'm also glad I'm not the only one who likes to SEE what is in the pantry. I forget instantly when I put something away!

LOVED the comment "on a homestead you can only be so minimalist". TRUTH You need what you need and you need to store what you need for when you need it. :)🙂

Keeping a working kitchen clean, tidy and organized is a challenge when you do so many things from scratch. I invested in half and gallon size jars for each item I want to store and added 6 extra jars of each size to have in spare. I labeled them to make sure I don't use them for anything else that way I'm able to keep my pantry in check. Everyone knows where everything goes so they can put it back in place. Clear jars allow me to keep track on what I'm short on.

Working kitchens are full of heart and love. People who have picture perfect kitchens don't use them. A good life is messy. Love it!

Extreme minimalism is for folks who want to live in the pod and eat the bugs, clearly. Your dedication to your family, your homestead, is inspiring!

I have always thought that your pantry is charming! I love the “clutter” in cases like this because it’s all used and needed!

Essentialism is such a good term! I recently bought a second dutch oven as I can fit them both in the oven at the same time and I often make two loaves of bread at once. To me it's worth it, it saves me 45 minutes of baking time every time I bake two loaves!

It's always such a good feeling when the house is stocked with food! 😊

It's astounding how much food you go through when your family grows 😅 when i lived alone and even after being married i feel like we needed almost nothing. Now that we have multiple kids i actually get excited when our groceries are stocked!

Love your pantry 😍 Girl I have no idea how you get to manage all of that, when I am pregnant I just want to sleep 😴 I get super tired. You are a great example for all women, not just mamas, not just homestead people. God bless you and your family ❣️

I believe every word that you don’t waste any food and that you use a lot ! We have a family of seven which includes four boys all grown now, so I get it ! I think a second refrigerator would help you out so much !

I love this! Makes me feel so normal that my pantry and fridge constantly need reorganizing!

Thank you for sharing that homesteaders need these essentials and we probably will never been minimalist.

If you moved those copper pans you could bring the shelves all the way around for more space

I cannot express how much joy it brings me to see your cheese wheels aging. I watched a video last month of yours from a while ago and you mentioned not caring as much about making cheese at the time because it wasn’t a priority and I remember thinking it won’t be long until that’s the next skill under your belt. Sure enough, soon after I saw the podcast where you dove into cheese making. Look at you go!! It is so inspiring as a mother who also doesn’t like to follow 20 steps and extensive rules. I need my kitchen to be practical and functional - it’s a workshop. I don’t have time for the mental clutter of drawn out recipes that eat my time. I love seeing you pursue a homesteading life that is practical and beautiful at the same time. As you accumulate a few more necessary essentials in your home you maintain the clutter-free attitude and mindset and that’s where real minimalism is rooted anyways.

If people think your pantry is messy I’d hate for them to see mine🤣😂🤣

I've never thought your pantry was messy. 😂😂

Absolutely love it and so much relate to all the stuff you have on a homestead. When we moved to our new home I was so excited about a big pantry, and now after living here for about a year and having bread making, milking, cheese making, etc supplies it doesn’t feel that big anymore 😅

When we moved a year ago we got a new fridge and kept the old. It has been so nice to have 2 fridges.

I live 3 hours south of the Azure warehouse. Had been driving through the town where it is for 25 years and had no idea it was there.

It’s nice to know another family goes through cocoa powder too 🤣 we make smoothies…egg yolk, milk, cream, vanilla essence and cocoa 🥰

You are so cute. Love your recipes. Thanks, God bless.

Its a working kitchen a lived in and cooked in all day place. Looks great

Essentialist...I like that. It's more practical than minimalist, too. We're adding a hanging pot rack for 2 reasons, no fumbling down in cupboards for pans, but also to open up more dry and home canning goods storage space in those cupboards. The counter has a few clean bottles in a corner ready for filling - sometimes that takes a few days, but the kitchen is a live lab, more about essential function, not empty spaces. Minimalism works better for entry ways, living rooms, bedrooms and work zones to prevent cluttered living.

I so admire your organization of your home, I grew up in a big house with 7 siblings, we always put back what we took out.

Yes, a second refrigerator just for milk, eggs, and cheese.

I dont think your pantry is messy at all. All 7 of you live in the house. Your pantry is used. I love it.

Anything you do to make anything easier is best!😊

I love how you made your very functional pantry SO beautiful!!

I am so blessed to live very close to Azure, and today I got to visit their brand new market in Dufur, Or. I was completely in love with the remake and overhaul of the former store, into their new store and bakery/ lunch shop. I found organic chia seeds for much cheaper then Fred Meyers. Your pantry is lovely, and I admire your decorations and style. Lovely!!!

I love the long apron!!! It's so gorgeous!!!!

you definitely need more refirigerators and freezers. Everyone I know who homesteads has at last 3 or 4!

Love to watch you cook and you are so at ease with your children. Give another tour please. I love your country house.

Thank you for all your hard work with being a mom, having a homestead, AND being a RU-vidr! God bless you and your family! Also, I had an idea come to mind while watching. you should try to figure out how to use more vertical space instead of horizontal. For example in your pantry, to age more cheese you can do something like shoe or plate wire racks (thrift them;) to get in more cheese but use less counter space. Or in the fridge, stack all 6 rounds of cheese a top of each other in the back of the fridge. Just an idea I had!

Hi Lisa, wow, your baby is really growing. I think you’re going to have a girl this time😍. I love watching you do anything with food. Really relaxes me. Thanks for sharing 😍

I'm a fan of a grocery haul.

Congratulations to you and your growing family! May you all be blessed with another healthy happy child!

You remind me of Alonzo Wilder's mom in the Farmer Boy episode from Laura Ingalls Wilder,'s Little House on the Prairie series. i loved reading about how she managed her household. Prov 31 💕

Our Azure Standard drop amazes me. Our April drop emptied the whole truck. Folks were loading UHauls. At least there was not a foot of fresh & still falling snow like Jan/Feb/March. I love their grains, red cacao, & bulk honey (+ I roast my own coffee). The only store bought flour is King Arthur to maintain my starter. I grind (Mockmill Pro 200) everything else. I even nixtamalize my own corn. Try making syrniki with your fresh milk. A 50/50 baking soda & Jiffy Honey cornbread mix will take care of the mice etc w/o harm to kids or pets. What amazes me most is your clan. Just simply amazing. Lottsa kids, a homestead with all the jobs that go with it, homeschooling, and despite the traffic, a simply amazing home & hearth.

I love your beautiful pantry!!❤

I subscribed today! One of your vlogs was recommended to me and I'm happy that I clicked on it. Your videos are so relaxing and very educational. You are such an amazing homemaker and I am just amaze watching you doing everything with ease. You are such an inspiration! 😊

You are amazing!!

Yes, a working kitchen can get messy! You do a great job! 😁

Hi Lisa, always appreciate you taking your time to film food hauls.... It's very inspiring as it is one of my mine focuses at this time...😌🙏

You need a pantry that’s 10 times bigger than your present one! Add on to the house!

I love watching your family, and every video makes me hungry 😋

Love your pantry! Same problem with jars! Keep up the wonderful work of raising, feeding your family. You are a blessing. 🥰

I have a smallish kitchen and clutter or what other ppl see as clutter is a thing. But for someone who cooks from scratch....it just seems practical to me to have things out.

I'm amazed at how well you do especially with all the cooking you do!!

I saw in your pantry that you have some corn meal. Do you ever make cornbread? Everyone LOVES my cornbread. Tips for making cornbread: I use self-rising corn meal, 2 eggs, & buttermilk for the batter. It should be about the consistency of pancake batter. While you are stirring up the batter heat about ½ cup bacon grease in your iron skillet on top of the stove. Pour most of the hot grease into your batter and stir quickly then pour ½ the batter into the hot skillet. Quickly put a handful of grated cheddar cheese on top then pour the rest of the batter over the cheese and immediately put it in the oven which is preheated to 375 degrees. When it is brown on top flip it out onto a plate and sprinkle with a little salt and onion powder. YUM YUM.

One way to save space in your fridge is to find a place for hanging baskets in your kitchen to hold onions and potatoes which some would say "shouldn't" be stored in the fridge anyway. This small change will give you more space in your drawers for other items. I am sure you use potatoes and onions fast enough that you don't need tomorrow about them going bad in those baskets.

Love watching you do just ordinary daily chores.

Love watching what others do to glean ideas! Lisa, have you considered getting 5 gallon buckets and storing grains that way? I fill a lot of my regular pantry size jars from my food storage. I started doing this years ago because we live about 20 minutes outside of town and I hate running out of stuff. As my family has grown, I’ve found it so helpful. I store multiple kinds of rice, wheat berries, einkorn berries, lots of dry beans, sucanat, oatmeal. This way I can order 25-50 lb bags from Azure and I’m always stocked up.

Lisa, I use rubber bands wrapped around the closed bags instead of clothespins. I find it works great and much quicker.

I love those big white buckets, I keep several in the bottom of my pantry too. I'm currently working on finding good storage for my pantry as mice are a problem on our little farmlet. I hear glass is better, but I'm not keen on it with several little hands in the pantry throughout the day.

Soaking in that cheese whey is great and a good way to use it up! My friend that I get milk from always uses her whey to ferment veggies and soak grains!

In the event of the costs of things (costs increasing) I have stocked up on air purifier filters, replacement under sink water filter, back-up Berkey filters, etc. I expect that these filters will only get more and more expensive as time goes on.

Your home is nice your pantry looks just fine. My aunt had 14 children and her home stayed clean everyone worked together,

So calming to watch.

Thank you for addressing the fact that running a homestead house vs the average house is very different. Our homes look insanely different day to day. It's such a bummer that it's just seen as being messy. I swear I'm not messy. If I could my house would be spotless too. But everything takes to much space and time and we just can't do it. It's not realistic.

Love your content, thank you! My daughter and I have started making einkorn bread, love it!!! I store flour in the freezer, if you have the room it keeps it fresh and bug free ;) A tip my mom passed on to me.

Thanks thanks...Lisa for all you share and encouraging us all also.💜🙏

I'm planting a huge garden this year and (hopefully) will be able to freeze a lot to use in the winter. I will defiantly need to purchase an extra freezer.

I'm 70 ...Ive always lived with my hubby on 12 acres (48 years) I did the whole "homestead" thing like you & I loved baking sour dough, bread baking and all the rest but...the farm animals & the upkeep for them ...(maybe chickens are fine... with the price of eggs!) But this is going to EXHAUST you over time. I'd put the time into spending much more quality time (hear me out) with your children. Much more TIME with them. The time you spend tending to the farm animals won't stay with them once they are adults (& and you an your hubby spend SO MANY HOURS on those animals!) I wish I had bought organic everything and saved the tens of thousands of hours I spent milking etc etc etc You'll never get those hours back. Interesting for a while... but nothing that will form them as adults.. Just my opinion. I've done it. Kind regards, Lisa

No need to address the pantry! It looks beautiful and functional.

I love Kate at Venison for dinner also and watch all her videos as I do yours, Lisa! You are going to need a cheese fridge soon! Wish I had a separate pantry like yours! It looks great!

We used a small dorm refrigerator for our cheese to age. Worked well. We had lots of milk coming in from our dairy goats and making cheese was an every day job after the kids were old enough to wean. I only had 3 boys and 1 daughter but we could finish a gallon of milk at all three meals every day!

I love your pantry. I think you have made a wonderful and usable pantry. I've watched you long enough to know you don't waste food.

Was just thinking as I watched, you NEED a second fridge! They’re so handy for big pots of food you cooked at night and there’s no room in the fridge to put it too!

You look so precious with the little bump 🙋🏻‍♀️🤗🤗🤗

I love your you tube channel! I grew up in a family of 12 children, and have 8 of our own. We are now empty nesters... Your lifestyle is very much the way ours was! You do an amazing job!!

Oh you should see my pantry it's laundry room / pantry and I have a big bar with cabinets I put my baking pans in I been going thur and organizing my house this spring and I'm loving it but I still have something to get done one day I learn to make cheese

Haha. I just picked up Azure order at our drop yesterday. The truck was looking empty, so I must be on the tail end of the drop off route (NM). Cow arriving Monday, so this will likely be very relatable with butter and cheese making soon.

Do you find that people plan their shopping trips so that they are not wasting gasoline unnecessarily by going many places? I must say your pantry looks wonderful, even when laden with supplies for a large family that continues to grow. You do well.

Homemade fermented mayonnaise: into a tall jar put the following room temperature ingredients. 2 1/2 c oil (half avacado oil and half melted unsalted butter), 3/4tsp salt, 2tsp mustard, 4tbsp sauerkraut juice, 2 whole eggs, juice 1small lemon. Immersion blend till all ingredients incorporated & looks like mayo. Set at room temp for 6-8hrs then refrigerate. Refrigerator stable for up to 3 months. Never buy store mayonnaise again!! 😋

Loved seeing your hall! Can’t wait to hear more about your cheese making. 😊

As always, I love watching you organize and clean. I wanted to tell you I just bought another jar of local honey here in PA for 15 dollars for (almost) a quart jar. I am happy that I can get local honey here, which is much better than buying it in the stores like walmart.

A great way to use all those eggs is to make Spanish recipes! I lived in Spain for 3 years. They put eggs on top of everything. I ordered a steak dinner and it came with a fried egg on top of the steak. Two of my favorite recipes with eggs are sheshado (I don't know how to spell it). It is a pot of fresh english peas seasoned with olive oil, minced garlic & onion and turmeric with eggs poached on top. The other recipe is tomata frita . . . I won a cooking contest on PBS with that recipe. It is stewed tomatoes seasoned with garlic & onion sauted in olive oil then add strips of battered fried chicken and poach eggs on top. YUM YUM

I can’t believe you only have one fridge with all those children but maybe cause you have such a cold climate that helps. I am in Australia and have 2 fridge’s and 1.5 freezer’s for only a family of 6 and unfortunately cost so much extra for electricity.

No potatoes and onions or garlic in the fridge. keep them outside where air circulates in the pantry in a basket

I don't think your pantry was messy. You have a large family, so it's going to look lived in. I have tons of jars as well & I am always rearranging spaces to fit them.

My pantry is the messiest room in our house too! But it's the most used!

You are quite an organizer!

Wonder if using a stackable cooling rack…or cooking one!…would be a good space saver for “stacking” your aging cheese? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I love your practicality!

I love your videos there very motivational

Good afternoon Lisa. What a haul. Everything looks healthy and delicious - particularly that homemade cheese. 👍👍

2 Washing machines + 2 Refrigerators + 2 Freezers are an absolute must with a large family. They help make your busy life so much more easily organised. Don’t think about it, now is the time to get them. Your future self will thank you 🙂🥛🥚🧀🧈🥩🍗

You have a beautiful kitchen with, what looks like, lots of storage. It takes a lot to feed a large family for sure!! I always enjoy your videos! How are you coming along with the curtains? I know they are going to look great.

It all looks great.

I was impressed that your husband removed his hat before he prayed because of what apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 11:4.

Can you make a video on pregnancy? Morning sickness, etc.

love your pantry!

Love watching Azure hauls! Where is your apron from? It’s so cute! Or did you make it?

Lisa love your pantry! What cookware do you use ? I need to get some as the stick free pans are scratched. Thank you for sharing your world! Love it!! You are so inspiring!