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.
Introducing The New Cabin

Introducing The New Cabin

It seems like a good week for introductions, what with the solar oven finally getting its own announcement and all. And if that does, then surely this new living space should have its own post, right? The last few weeks have been a flurry of activity on what we are calling the new cabin. Walls…

Lately

Lately

Lately :: a brief smattering of what’s been happening here on the homestead and our other content from around the web. Stewart spent some time working on the formatting of this new book, Pennsylvania. I’ve been reading it as I can now that it’s in its full, beautiful novel form and am almost done. As…