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.

September’s Health and Food Resources: Classes, Foods, Good Reads and More

From time to time I receive emails with resources for healthy, natural living. It is always a balancing act as I attempt to filter through it all and find certain resources that I think might be useful to you all. A lot of products or companies I am just not comfortable supporting, given my own…

Harvesting

This truly is my favorite time of year. Changing leaves and cooler temperatures feel like renewal and abundance to me. Perhaps it is those 16 years of starting school in the fall or these last few years of seeing farmer’s tables sag beneath the weight of tomatoes and greens as we began to know seasonal…