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 Importance of Seafood

photo credit There is so much mixed information out there about seafood. Some say that it is the healthiest form of protein because it is "low in saturated fat" and high in omega-3 essential fatty acids. Of course I don’t really buy into the idea that saturated fat is the villain (here’s why). So that…

Menu Plan

Last week we didn’t get to a few of the meals that I had planned. My boys were both down with a cold so we took all dairy products out of their diet and ate soup of some sort with homemade stock nearly every night. They are finally pretty much recovered and I am so…