We Have a Store (homeschool, health, adventure, natural family living support and services)

We Have a Store (homeschool, health, adventure, natural family living support and services)

I have some exciting news to share - we have a store! In the past I've talked about the iterative process Damien and I use to flesh out ideas in our life. And how those ideas keep moving forward but usually in a slow, cyclical fashion until we finally do ...

Season's Eatings

Season's Eatings

Today I'm pleased to introduce Leah Cherry to FIMBY. Leah Cherry teaches children and their families how to cook, sew, make and grow – traditional talents that remain essential for living well today. Her business, Skill It, is founded on the belief that working with your hands nourishes your spirit ...

What Remains

What Remains

October has been stormy and wet. The days have been mostly grey. The gusts have blown the leaves from the trees and the rain has swollen the rivers and streams. What remains now for color, stark against mostly naked branches, is yellow. Some leaves and the feathery needles of the ...

He Cooks ~ He Shops

He Cooks ~ He Shops

One of our goals when we moved was to build a livelihood together at the intersection of our skills and passion, expertise and interests. We don't have a specific "career" in mind for either of us. Instead, we envision our work as an ongoing evolution of projects and ideas that ...

Freewrite

Freewrite

While I procrastinate a little longer on finishing my elementary homeschool curriculum series, I thought I'd share one piece of our writing curriculum - Freewrite.

An Emerging High Schooler, Interest-led, Learner-Specific Homeschool Curriculum

An Emerging High Schooler, Interest-led, Learner-Specific Homeschool Curriculum

Oh my word. That's a mouthful of a title. I originally started this post as an overview of all three of our kids' homeschool curriculum. Yikes. If I had continued down that track it would never have seen the light of day. So I decided to limit this to Céline's ...

Home Again

Home Again

We're home again from our brief, one night hiking trip on the IAT in New Brunswick. Québec charges backpackers a fee to hike the Québec portion of The International Appalachian Trail or Sentier international des Appalaches. These fees are modest (though still high in my estimation) for a single backpacker. ...