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.

Pasture Antics

On a particularly dreary and cold day recently, we set out to move Mabel and the three dairy goats into a new section of pasture. The other two meat animals we currently have were housed on a separate but equally worn section of pasture and so we were going to move them as well. And…

January Postcards

I don’t really know what happened to January. We started digging up the potato field. We had a lot of cozy evenings by the wood stove. We did a lot of addition and long division and multiplying fractions alongside reading and penmanship and english. I finally got around to planting broccoli starts which have still…