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.

Postcards: Rained In

It rained for most of the week here and I can’t quite remember the last year we had such a week. With the rain came more fall-like temperatures and so the soup pot is on rotation. The roosters we butchered last week made an appearance in several pots, including the above Squash and Sweet Potato…

When Everything Grows

In the two months since Hannah was born the garden is now coming up with little effort. The pigs and meat birds are growing plump on grain and milk and scraps. Mostly, though, I notice that the baby that is my first born is now twelve and looking nearly like a full grown man. I…