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.

Easy Step Towards a More Nourishing Diet: Buy Meat with Bones & Make Stock

photo credit Previous steps: stick with traditional fats, part 1 stick with traditional fats, part 2 add cod liver oil cut back (or out) sweets don’t change your meal, change your ingredients When we buy meat from the grocery store it usually comes precut or ground in a form that doesn’t resemble the animal it…

A Dose of Sprouts for My Itchy Sprout: Healing Animals with Homemade Enzymes

This is a guest post from Melissa who blogs about all things cellulite (as well as frequent posts concerning acne, fluoride, real healing, and Real Food) at Cellulite Investigation. This is part of the series Mothers & Wives as Keepers of the Health. If you’ve ever cared for an ailing pet, you know just how…

Huge, but Easy Step Towards a Nourishing Diet: Don’t Change Your Meal, Change Your Ingredients

Previous steps: stick with traditional fats, part 1 stick with traditional fats, part 2 add cod liver oil cut back (or out) sweets When I first got started on the real food journey I found myself attempting foreign recipes in order to fit in all of the foods I thought we should be eating. What…