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.

Huge, but Easy Step Towards a Nourishing Diet: Stick with Traditional Fats, Part One

photo credit Three years ago it seemed impossible to be able to incorporate real, traditional foods into our life. There were just so. many. changes. But the more I read, the more I was convinced it was necessary for my family’s health. The more I was convinced, the easier it was to make changes. That’s…

Menu Plan for Winter

It seems like just about everyone is cooking from the pantry these days, and I really ought to be too. Now that we’re officially into the dead of winter it seems like a good time to eat up all of the vegetables I canned, froze, and lacto-fermented for just this purpose. So while I still…