Twisted Roots Farm

I believe in the importance of storytelling, it’s something that humans have been engaged in for such an incredibly long time. Stories help us to understand the past and envision the future. They can offer us hope, spread messages of love, and rekindle hidden threads of remembrance for what it means to be a human culture worth descending from. Personally, I love storytelling. I love writing about our lives here and the many incredible teachings that this life of farming and homesteading...

I was asked last year, by a very lovely woman on a goat walk, how I am able to be in such deep relationship with the various beings here at our farm and then eat them. It was a wonderful question, one that I could tell that she was so curious about herself due to her deep love of life and of all beings. If she had asked me twenty years ago, or perhaps even eight or nine years ago, if I could imagine myself being a part of the birth of an animal, midwiving them into the world, then raising...

Homesteading and living off-grid in the woods is a way of life that is not for everyone. People often ask why we chose this way of life because it certainly comes with challenges. Making a living from the land is an incredibly hard process that requires time, energy, money, a little bit of crazy and a whole lot of grit. However, our motivation at the core is about land protection and learning from the Wild community (nature). We truly believe that if we are to begin addressing the issues...