Striving for Sustainable Simplicity
Periodic themed classes where you get to jump right in, learn some recipes, try new ways of cooking and hopefully gain some insight into how to make your food work FOR you and your family.
There is so much information (and misinformation) out there, but let’s start with what feels manageable and far from overwhelming. We can create a plan together and help keep you motivated along the way.
Your garden should be as unique and wonderful as you and ideally, will provide just enough of everything you are missing now. Let’s get you started with resources and ideas to create the right space for you and your loved ones.
The (ongoing) story of how it all began…
Lifelong learning is our passion. Creating healthy relationships with our bodies and the world around us is our why.
Hi, I’m Liz, married to Joe and mom to 4 kids, 2 dogs, and 6 hens. We live in an old home with under 3/4 of an acre of land. We have been on a journey of discovery, learning about this world we live in and how we can make our impact a reciprocal one, rather than one of extraction. Join us as we make MANY mistakes and learn lots of new things along the way…
Monty. Don
We try to keep it simple, but there are some things that just make life much easier! We do our best not to impulse buy, but let things marinate a while before we spring for them. Plans change, ideas evolve, and we hate the buy things we don’t use or need (or will break or wear out too quickly).
When possible, do or make for ourselves.
Life is so much richer when you can LIVE in the moment.
Find ways to give back to the system.
There’s always more to learn, that is one of the great joys of living.
Spring Planting with Heirloom Seeds Choosing new seeds and watching them grow is one of the joys of gardening. Choosing Heirloom seeds is not only delicious and rewarding but a piece of garden revolution.Spring is just around the corner and you may be wondering when...
It seems the traditional garden landscape has long been a wide green lawn, bordered with a few shrubs and some tasteful annual flowers that bloom most of the season before dying back in the fall. The spring and fall cleanups are the bulk of the work and bookmarking a...
One step at a time. How splitting tasks into tiny pieces keeps things moving.Time is a commodity we do not have much of! With four kids, work, school, activities, feeding everyone, animals, basic daily home upkeep...our days get pretty full. With a toddler around,...
Chore Time... How we're staying on track. For now.I hate to nag. I hate to remind. I hate to ask kids if they've done the thing I asked them to do six hours ago that I know they didn't do, but I'm trying to be polite and ask them again without getting mad. Kids avoid...
Why homestead? Isn't it a LOT of work? When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have been doing with my own...
