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.

A Blank Weekly Menu Planner

Weekly menu planner. For some reason “blank menu plan” is one of the most common searches to bring people to simple natural nourishing. I find it strange since I don’t actually have a blank menu plan on my sight. At least I didn’t, until now. After giving up on different systems, I am creating a…

A few notes…

Thank you all for the kind comments on my recent posts regarding my journey to nourishing food and my reflections on the past year. Y’all are too kind. If you visited my blog sometime this afternoon you may have noticed it was in a state of disrepair. I hope to make some changes to the…

2008: A Year of Gifts

I haven’t written much about the person behind this blog lately, but if you could indulge me, I’d like to reflect on the events of the past year. Being a list maker and a goal setter I enjoy the fresh start of a new year. Since we are about to embark on 2009, I am…