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.

Links For a Busy Day

After hours in the garden again yesterday, I am playing catch up around the home. I have so many posts coming up that I can’t wait to share with you, but they will have to wait. Today I want to share some encouraging and helpful links from the homemaking, mother and real food worlds. Some…

In The Midst of Early Summer

In The Midst of Early Summer

Mosquito bites have covered us since Sunday. Hours of weeding, tilling, planting tomato seedling after tomato seedling. Is their any prettier site than freshly tilled dirt? Tuesday it is me and the boys at the library and then the farmer’s market for asparagus and strawberries. I ran into my midwife and then the asparagus man…

Food Roots – June 11

Food Roots – June 11

“Or what if I had simply grown up in a time when food was seasonal? When there was, in each year, a time of more and a time of less? When food was not just there in packages on the supermarket shelf all year?” ~ Jessica Prentice ~ Welcome to another edition of Food Roots!…