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.

Real Food Doesn’t Need An Association (my response to the corn refiners association debacle)

If a food is inherently nourishing to the body then would it need to be defended by an association with multi-million dollar companies residing as the board of directors? That’s the question I asked when I read about the Corn Refiners Association’s attempts to persuade consumers, through "mommy" bloggers, that their products really aren’t so…