Stewart recently put together a video for his grandfather. This video is a guided tour of our homestead done by a handful of my favorite little people.
Once finished he sat me down and showed it to me. There were smiles and laughter and those unexplainable mommy happy tears. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
“Or what if I had simply grown up in a time when food was seasonal? When there was, in each year, a time of more and a time of less? When food was not just there in packages on the supermarket shelf all year?” ~ Jessica Prentice ~ Welcome to another edition of Food Roots!…
It has become apparent over the last few years that December through mid-February are our off-season months where things slow down a little, we get a bit more sleep, and the days are filled with more school books than shovels. And, like clockwork, mid-February came upon us, bringing a flurry of activity around the homestead…
A long, long time ago I had many requests to share photos of the hoop house. Just when I was about to share them winter set in with temperatures in the single digits over night. None of us checked our little winter garden for several weeks and I had written it off as a goner….
It is one thing to say we’re going to move off-grid and start a homestead and it is an entirely different thing to do it. What you think might happen really doesn’t and what you envision your days looking like isn’t really a reality. We’ve spent the past seven weeks learning that lesson, amongst others….
Gravity-fed water means one of two things: either our house goes down or the water tank goes up. In our case, the water tank had to come up. On flat ground, everyone got into the action – even little Ruthie who somehow became the one-shoe wonder at some point. (Stewart is on the other side…
When I look back at a lot of the decisions we’ve made since having children, many of them come back to the home. We chose to try homebirth with our first child and it completely changed the trajectory of birth for our family. We have since had all four of our children at home and…
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Oh my – this is so great…. makes me want to just pick all of them babies up and squeeze them!
I LOVE this video!!
What a wonderful New Years Video, It makes me happy, thanks!
So cute! It seems like just yesterday you were annoucing you were pregnant and now she’s so big! 🙂
That video was so precious! Your oldest clearly was excited and proud to be sharing his farm to his grandpa! So cute! Just found your blog and can’t get enough! Made the soaked oatmeal pancakes this morning and the family loved them. Can’t wait to share them with family members who are trying to eliminate wheat.
That was great. I’ll bet while you were watching this video you knew you made the right decision to make this move.
I have two kiddos on my lap. I suspect this video will be on repeat most of the day. They loved it (and so did I). Thanks for sharing.
Awesome. Living the simple life. It does not get any better than that.
What a precious family you have! May God continue to bless your efforts to honor Him in your lives. Blessings!
Thank you for letting us share. What a beautiful way to start the new year. Beautiful you!! Thanks and blessings to you and the little ones. I know you work so hard and the task is large but you have sent a good fragrance into the world.
Thank you for sharing this. I couldn’t help buy smile the entire time. I have three little ones too and its such a true blessing and joy to see children so happy and proud. Great video!
Just gorgeous – thank you so much for sharing.
What a lovely family – with such pioneering spirit.
May the year be flourishing for you all
What a seriously endearing video for your family member! I have no doubt Grandpa will be thrilled to be given a tour by such fabulous (and adorable) tour guides 😉
Love your homestead, too!! That’s something my family aspires to do one day.
Oh my, how amazingly beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes. Sending hugs and kisses to your precious little ones. What a blessed family you have.
Oh, my; I was enthralled. Your kids are adorable and any grandparent would be thrilled to receive a video like this. This reminds me of our family growing up so long ago. Love your website and all the news you send along. It is fun to watch your family grow and learn. God bless you all.
Well, I cried, too…and I’m neither a mom nor a crier! I love the scene with your little one skipping in the beginning…I love how he’s so proud to tell grandpa about what’s going on around the homestead and is sure to personally address grandpa in every scene…I love love the dancing scene…then the ultimate ending scene…the look on your daughter’s face as she watches her two brothers scoot in close to her…you could almost hear her little mind wondering, “What are you two doing?…what’s going on here?”..then she seems satisfied that both of them are just sitting next to her, so she looks at the camera and grins. Priceless. What a lovely family.
ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT ! May God Bless You All With Health, Happiness and A Whole Lot Of Energy……..
What A Wonderful Family Homestead and How About Those Three Little Cuties……. Hugs
Oh my, that was super cute 🙂 Thank you for sharing a little of your life with us. I enjoyed it very much!
Great video, thank you for sharing!
What a great family vid! Totally awesome! And frankly, the slow-watering milk jug planters is about the smartest thing I have seen in a very long time. I am going to plant some kale, some lettuces, and some spinach this spring using that method.
Wonderful! A joy to watch! What do you plan to do with your moringa? I am planning to plant moringa for high protein goat food, but I know it has a million uses…..
Hi DeAnna,
Thanks for the question! I’ve got big dreams for our Moringa. 🙂 I’m hoping to eventually get enough growing that we can rely upon them as our own vitamin powder. I’ve taken Moringa capsules as a supplement before and they seemed to help me feel better. We also plan to use them for salads and more. Your goat idea is interesting because we would like to get milk goats at some point in the future. I’m hoping to get enough plants going someday that we can feed our animals without needing to purchase any feed. Another plant I would like to have growing everywhere is the Siberian Pea Shrub. It produces great self-scattering chicken feed (or so I’ve read). The Siberian Pea Shrub also fixes nitrogen into the soil.
If you end up using Moringa it for your goats someday and it works out well please let us know! Oh, one more thought. We recently learned of and purchased seeds for something called Sunn Hemp. It isn’t “Hemp” but is supposed to be a really fast growing plant that goats really like (crop in 60 days). http://www.petcherseeds.com/about-sunn-hemp/
After a day of “yuckiness” on the internet, this was refreshing. Thank you. Kids are adorable, and the homestead looks like it is coming along. We’re right there with you on our little one acre “dream” 🙂
Very cool to see what you guys are doing and it looks like the kids are loving it!
Absolutely heartwarming! Thank you so much for sharing!
That is so precious!
Well done. For raising a beautiful bunch of kids, for having such pride in your homestead, for sharing it with us, for showing us kids playing in the dirt and swinging from trees and being so proud about garlic! It really made my heart sing. Thank you.
The video was great. Praise God for all you were able to accomplish this past year! Your children are beautiful. God Bless.
Beautiful! What an awesome video. Just curious, what was the second song played in the background?
Beautiful. The most important thing you are cultivating is your children, your family. It is obvious that all of this wraps into your family life. The respect your children show for you, their grandpa, their baby sister, and secondly, the land and the animals is all so refreshing!
Isn’t it wonderful to see children absolutely enjoying the outdoors and God’s creation instead of being plugged into an electronic device? And, money and possessions do not equal happiness.
that just made me smile SOOO big 🙂
thank you for sharing!
Beautiful video! What kind of video camera do you use?
I hope to one day have my own land to be sufficient! So happy for you guys!
What a beautiful family and such a great place to be a kid (or adult for that matter).
Beautiful!!!