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.

The 2018 Sweet Potato Harvest

Digging up root vegetables is probably one of the most exciting homestead tasks. The children absolutely love it, and so do we, especially since we get to watch their reactions upon digging. This year the sweet potatoes somehow grew, despite the drought and death of everything else in the garden come July. I am sure…

Summer Squash in October

Read all about our homesteading story and the projects that helped us out along the way in our new book, The Doable Off-Grid Homestead. If you’ve read it, you can now leave a review. If you’ve followed along with this year’s garden posts, you know that pretty much everything from the summer garden, except the sweet potatoes,…

After The Rain

Read all about our homesteading story and the projects that helped us out along the way in our new book, The Doable Off-Grid Homestead. If you’ve read it, you can now leave a review. It has been quite some time since the creeks ran and the ponds filled and the tanks overflowed, but last week all…