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.

All about millet

Photo credit. I wasn’t even aware of millet as a grain until I started going gluten free during my last pregnancy. Ditching wheat, rye, barley and oats opened up a lot of other grains to explore, such as quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat and my current favorite – millet. Millet is a very small grain thought to…

Gratitude

I never actually consider that someone is reading my blog until comments come along, or in this case, I am given a ‘blog award’. DeeDee was generous enough to give me a kreativ blogger award. Thank you, DeeDee. Being short on time, but always needing to cultivate thankfulness, I will state six things I am…