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.

Fermented Cod Liver Oil

photo credit For a long time I thought that fish oil and cod liver oil were basically the same thing, nutritionally speaking. In the last year or so I found out that I was wrong. In order to balance out our omega-3s we have been taking fish oil for quite some time now. Eating grass-fed…

Dehydrating Blueberries

We are blessed to have a u-pick blueberry farm within five minutes of our home. That means that we can just jump in the car with our boys and head over for an hour or two of picking on a Sunday afternoon or weeknight. They opened less than two weeks ago and we have picked…