Living Naturally Homestead started ​on ten acres in south-central Pennsylvania. This piece of land has been part of my family heritage since 1916 and was owned by my grandparents starting in 1959 until the torch was passed to me in 2009. This piece of land not only houses a mountain of childhood memories for me but a large portion of our family legacy from days gone by. Now, this little corner of the earth is my fuel for bringing forward a change to a more natural way of living and balance in all aspects of my life: homesteading, blogging, handmade business, and handmade coaching.

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My grandparents were homesteaders in their own right. My grandfather was an apple orchard foreman and my grandmother worked alongside him for many years. He brought that knowledge home where they farmed vegetables and some small fields (combined with my great-grandparents property across the road). They raised pigs, chickens, and even a guard goose who had a reputation. Grandpa Guy knew all about the old ways of grafting fruit trees and finding water with a divining rod while Grandma Cleo was the true housewife making meals for a large family all while canning and working part-time at the school cafeteria as a cook. 

While my mother was working full-time when I was little my Grandma watched me and we spent a lot of time together. All those years were spent learning a good amount of what I know about homesteading today-including a few years helping on her second husband's dairy farm. Talk about long, hard, stinky workdays. She instilled in me not only knowledge from planting with moon cycles and never in her beloved "Posey Woman" phase but a kind and gentle heart I only ever wish to be as good as her with.