Author: Shannon

I am wife to Stewart, mama of six, homeschooler, messy cook, and avid fermenter. This is where I tell our story... of building a sustainable off-grid homestead... of raising this growing family of ours... of the beauty and the hard and the joy in all of it.
We Choose Milk Kefir… for Health, Ease, Diversity, and Sustainability

We Choose Milk Kefir… for Health, Ease, Diversity, and Sustainability

Milk kefir is one of the first fermented foods that our family began eating solely for the way it made us feel. We already loved the flavors of yogurt, kombucha, and sourdough; but milk kefir was definitely out of our normal flavor range. Since then I have experimented with it for a few years and…

My New Project: a Cultured Food Blog for CFH (and a week of giveaways)

My New Project: a Cultured Food Blog for CFH (and a week of giveaways)

As y’all might know, I am passionate about interacting with like-minded women and mamas, cultured food, and writing and photographing those adventures. So it only makes sense that these three culminate in a project that was just launched this morning. For a while now I have been working for Cultures for Health to design and…