I met my husband at a party in San Francisco in 2004. We were big city club and party kids. Vegetarians who had never milked a cow and rarely left city limits. Now we are farmers in North Idaho, one of the least populated areas of the country. I'm no longer a goth clubbing radical feminist party girl. I'm a happily married farm wife, mother to eight children, living out in the incredibly beautiful countryside and thanking God for it every day. We're working hard at building up our new homestead, and growing deep our family's roots. We call our farm Rootsong.
My days are mostly filled with homeschooling, homekeeping, cow milking, cheesemaking, butchering things, canning things, caring for our farm animals, diaper washing, breastfeeding, laughing with my eight fantastic kids and homesteading with my best friend in the whole world, my husband. I have a passion for natural foods and natural birth, and living simply and joyfully. I am in the process of converting to Catholicism and am super excited about it.
A brief timeline:
I began this blog way back in early 2006. Husband and I lived on a postage stamp lot in the suburbs until the summer of 2011. We then packed up our family and moved to a 20 acre rental in the middle of nowhere north Idaho. I had never set foot in Idaho until stepping out of that moving truck. Nine months later, in April 2012, we were able to purchase our very own dream come true- a modest manufactured home on 10 acres of gorgeous rural land. We worked hard to make our fixer-upper livable, and moved in late June 2012. We've been working even harder, laughing and loving on this land ever since. I am in awe that I get to live this life.
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I wanna live like there's no tomorrow Love like I'm on borrowed time It's good to be alive! ~Jason Gray
My gaggle, their aliases
My first child, my 24 yr old daughter. "Paisley" has moved back to Oregon. We miss her!
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Teen son, age 17. Blog alias: "Ranger"
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Our 10 year old, blog alias: "Artist"
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Our eight year old, blog alias: "Monkey"
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Our six year old, blog alias: "Smiley"
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"Little Miss Farmgirl", age four years.
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"Busy", who is 2 years old.
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Our newest family member, aged one year. Blog alias: "Roo"
Me and allll my children in one place! November 2015
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This just might be my favorite song: God's Great Dance Floor. I dare you to listen and not dance in your chair. :)
"Feminism is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers, but slaves when they help their husbands."
"When all think alike, then no one is thinking.” -Walter Lippman
pile of boys, spring 2010
Boys, summer 2012
My first baby and my 7th, born 21 years apart. :)
My bunch, late 2011.
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"COMMUNITIES THAT SUPPORT FARMS, HAVE FARMS THAT SUPPORT COMMUNITIES."
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi
Napping under a blueberry bush during a hot summer afternoon of berry picking.
"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson
Good Things....
The 39 years I got with my mom. (She lost her battle with cancer in 2013. She was only 56.)
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Our family milk cows
Butchering our own homeraised meats.
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Goodies from the garden
Sea of canned food
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Eggs from our ducks, turkeys, chickens, and geese
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We raised and butchered our own pigs in 2013, and continue to raise a few each year
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Little chicks following their mama hen
Family times around the bonfire
Bourbon Reds, our hilarious turkeys
home raised goat stew
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Our baby orchard trees
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Our sheep. We raise Katahdins, a sheep that grows hair instead of wool & is used for meat.
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Our first beehive arrived in May 2013!......And, they all died over winter. We're trying again this year!....And they died again. Third time's a charm, right? ;) We're trying again now, in 2015.
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There are always cute things hatching from our incubators, like these ducklings
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