Melissa K. Norris is a 5th generation homesteader who believes everything looks and tastes better in a Mason jar. She and her family live on their own homestead in the foothills of the North Cascade mountain range where they raise all of their own meat, including grass fed beef, meat chickens, laying hens for eggs, and pigs for bacon... as well as the other cuts. Her blog, melissaknorris.com and the Pioneering Today Podcast, inspire and teach over two hundred thousand people a month, how to create an old-fashioned farm to table lifestyle, with, or without the full on homestead. When she's not chasing chickens, stuffing food into Mason jars from the garden (after washing her hands of course) you can find her working on her next book. She's the author of The Made-from-Scratch Life and Hand Made: the Modern Guide to Made-from-Scratch Living.