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The Great Carrots Backyard Farm Tour!

April 30, 2018 By Haley 32 Comments

Carrots Backyard Farm Tour

As my husband Daniel and I have been sharing photos of the bounty from our urban garden, I've gotten lots of requests for a backyard farm tour. Your wish is my command! One of the biggest selling points of the house we bought two years ago was the giant backyard. After a great experience doing an agricultural internship for a year on a working farm (yes, that farm where we lived with no … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading, Farm Life, Food, Green Living, Homeschooling, Husband, Our Home Tagged With: backyard chickens, homeschooling, urban farm, urban homestead

Hospitality With No Flushing Toilets: What I’ve Learned

July 12, 2016 By Haley 15 Comments

Hospitality When There's No Flushing Toilets...

Having people over has always been our thing. Daniel loves to cook and I love to talk, so hosting friends for dinner has been part of our family culture ever since we tied the knot. And after having kids, hospitality became the only way we were going to see our friends because kids have early bedtimes and babysitting is expensive. I firmly believe that other than the Mass, there’s nothing that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Life, Green Living Tagged With: caldrea, grove, hospitality

When You Leave Your Comfortable Life and Change Just About Everything (THE BIG NEWS)

April 21, 2015 By Haley 111 Comments

When You Leave Your Comfortable to Do Something Crazy

Since I mentioned in February that we put our house on the market, inquiring minds have wanted to know why we’re moving. And y’all, I have been bursting with this news for months. Months! Now that it’s actually time to share it, I hardly know where to start. Here's the basic idea: we’re selling our house and leaving behind Daniel’s stable job and everything we know to move our five-person … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading, Farm Life Tagged With: adventure, the big move

Ask Daniel: You Had Questions, He’s Got Answers

September 15, 2014 By Haley 5 Comments

Today Daniel answers your questions about gardening, homesteading, and backyard chickens from last week's Facebook party. Yay! Chickens So, here’s the basics of our chicken setup at this point: We have a 4x8 movable coop. It’s just an A-frame with one half covered by plywood and the everywhere else wrapped in chicken wire. I can easily open one side. There are roosting bars inside. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Life, Green Living Tagged With: backyard chickens, daniel, gardening

Introducing the Hens!

June 5, 2013 By Haley 27 Comments

And now, the post you've been waiting for! A chicken virtual meet and greet! You have been waiting for that, right? Ahem. Apparently there's a nesting instinct that takes over pregnant women as they approach their due date. Instead of starting a painting project, organizing, or attacking the dire laundry situation, this phenomenon prompted me to do super unnecessary things like convince my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading, Farm Life, Green Living, Husband Tagged With: backyard chickens, chickens, daniel, farm life, hens, urban homestead

6 Must-Have Books and Cookbooks for Seasonal Eating Inspiration

May 14, 2013 By Haley 22 Comments

Since our conversion, I've gained more appreciation for the rhythms of the Christian Year and that by observing those seasons, the story of the Gospel unfolds. One way to participate in the Christian Year is to feast and fast according to the traditions of the Church which, obviously, involves food! Sharing food with family and friends should ideally be a daily reminder of sacred things: The Last … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Christian Year, Farm Life, Fasting, Feasting, Food, Green Living, Recipe Tagged With: barbara kingsolver, books, brother Victor-Antoine d'Avila-Latourrette, christian year, cookbooks, garden, seasonal eating, seasonal food, simply in season, wendell berry

Goals for the New Year

January 16, 2013 By Haley 38 Comments

So, we're halfway through January and I'm just now solidifying my goals for the new year. Clearly we should begin with with "stop being such a procrastinator, Haley!"  Anyhow, I've never spent much effort on resolutions at the start of a year, but I've really been reflecting on what I want 2013 to look like. I've been very inspired by all the great posts about goal-making, particularly Mandi's of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Family & Homesteading, Farm Life, Homeschooling, Our Home Tagged With: 2013, goal-making, goals, new year, resolutions

Our Favorite Breakfasts

September 10, 2012 By Haley 7 Comments

Breakfast has always been my favorite meal of the day. Maybe because I love eating anything I can cover in butter and jam. When I was a little girl, my parents would take me to Cracker Barrel and I would amaze bystanders with the sheer volume of biscuits a tiny 4-year-old could eat. Having a child with a severe gluten allergy has significantly diminished my biscuit consumption, but I still love … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Life, Food, Husband, Recipe Tagged With: breakfast, daily rhythm, food

Food Choices ARE a Moral Issue

August 27, 2012 By Haley 23 Comments

I recently read a very popular blog post, Food Choices Are Not a Moral Issue, on one of my favorite blogs, Keeper of the Home by Mandi Ehman of Life Your Way (another blog I read and enjoy). Mandi writes a lot of great stuff and I usually like her posts, but in this case, I wholeheartedly disagree with her claim. You can read the post here. Basically, Mandi bemoans the rigid judgmentalism of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Life, Green Living, Health Tagged With: ethics, food, food choices, food ethics, morality

East Hill Honey: Get Delicious Raw Honey and Support a Great Kickstarter!

July 25, 2012 By Haley 2 Comments

I wanted to share a great Kickstarter project that my lovely musician friend Colleen Nixon introduced me to: The East Hill Honey Project, a North Florida family-owned apiary providing pure, raw, unprocessed honey through sustainable methods. Because I don't process sugars well, our go to sweetener is local honey and Daniel really wants to keep bees next year so I was immediately intrigued by their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Life, Green Living, Health Tagged With: east hill honey, kickstarter, raw honey

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Welcome! I’m Haley Stewart, a bookish mama of four and wife to a beekeeper. Writer, speaker, podcaster, and Catholic convert. Homeschooling, bacon-eating, and bright red lipstick-wearing Jane Austen aficionado. My first book, The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture is available now!

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