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.
These Beans

These Beans

I’m sure at one point we were talking about other things related to food and babies and agrarianism and sustainability. And I’m sure it was all very pertinent at the time. But right now I think there’s nothing more exciting going on than beans. I’m not canning jar after jar and we’re not bringing in…

Late Summer Seed Saving

Late Summer Seed Saving

Gardening is a funny thing here, to which I don’t think I’ve quite yet acclimated. The tomato plants that had been piddling along all summer with just enough fruit to snack on are dying back. But then those tomato starts we planted in May that never really grew with the heat are up and flowering….