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Roxanne Ahern

2 years

It’s my book!! So exciting to be actually holding it in my hands🎉 Available for pre order, will be released and ship Sep 13th!

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

2 years

First lamb of the year! Born this morning

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2 years

Normalize buying your children land, perennials, and livestock instead of toys they will be tired of in a day

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1 year

When the wild violets start to pop up we make sun tea 💜✨ Wild violets are antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and a blood cleanser. They are also full of Vitamin A and C!

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2 years

Imagine a woman who looked at mothering through this lense raising you. Yes motherhood is sacrificial, that’s why it feels sacred. If you are clocking your hours and tracking all your unpaid labor your kids are going to feel that, js

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5/ Breastfeeding is also time intensive and comes with a mental and physical price. A year of breastfeeding adds up to roughly 1,800 hours. It's basically a full-time unpaid job, considering 40-hour work weeks and three weeks of vacation totals 1,960 work hours per year.

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3 years

Homeschool

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2 years

We have been making this baked apple dish for breakfast once or twice a week lately and it’s so easy and delicious I thought I would share: (1/4)

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

3 years

My best choices: Getting married Having children Learning to cook well Buying land Growing gardens Raising livestock Building community Owning lots of books Staying at home to raise my kids Homeschooling If you are on the fence about any of these consider this a sign 💚

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2 years

We started growing luffa about 5 years ago and I haven’t bought a sponge since

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3 years

Pastured animals have a better quality of life and pastured animal products are more nutritious for you.

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3 years

Putting my seeds in a binder was such a game changer #gardening

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2 years

9 years ago when we bought land and told our friends and family that we planned to grow our own food and homeschool our kids every single one of them thought we were NUTS. Now no one does!! Funny how life is like that sometimes. Trust your gut! Even if it makes you an outlier.

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3 years

The design in every single bit of nature is so incredible.

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3 years

You need to growing vegetables. You need to be homeschooling your children. This society that has been built around us did not have people’s well being in mind but instead only profit and efficiency. You need to be planting fruit and nut trees and spending your money locally.

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3 years

Interesting isn’t it?

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2 years

When the recipe says, “1 clove of garlic”

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3 years

Right now homeschool looks like the big girls working on sewing projects, the littler ones making things out of play dough, me peeling potatoes while wearing the baby, and everyone listening to a fascinating audiobook about plants. Children don’t need classrooms to learn.

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

3 years

Homeschool hack: if you have a child who is interested in a certain topic (gardening, chickens, mushrooms, carpentry) get catalogs related to it. They will sit and read them for hours and they are usually free.

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1 year

My oldest made blackberry ice cream last night and she said “this tastes like memories” and I said “what do you mean” and she said “we have made it every summer since I can remember. It makes me think of playing on the porch of the tiny house. And fireflies. And being small”.

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1 year

Eggs colored w dye made from yellow onion skins, beets, red cabbage and tumeric

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3 years

And homeschool your kids

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3 years

You need to be hugging your babies. You need to look into their eyes. One day you will miss their crumbs and sticky finger prints. You need to know that stewarding the soul of this tiny human is the most important work of your life.

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8 months

My husband brought home a new livestock guardian pup! What should we call her?

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3 years

Winter solstice purple sweet potato pie 💜

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3 years

Who could have possibly seen this coming

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2 years

It’s time to look for wild violets! Making tea is simple, combine flowers w hot (not boiling) water and put in a sunny spot. I usually give it 24 hours. You can add sugar or honey to make syrup and lemon to turn it pink!

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Roxanne Ahern

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3 years

There is a common misconception regarding homeschooling that you will be educating your child alone. This isn’t true. You can seek other parents to co-op w, hire teachers for particular subjects, seek mentors in a vocation your child shows interest in. Endless options.

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Roxanne Ahern

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1 year

This is a good trick for helping save your strawberries. It helps to put the rocks out before you have any ripe berries.

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2 years

Dear antinatalists who mutter and give me and my children dirty looks when I dare bring them to stores during the day: - I’m a mother of 5, my sense of hearing and sight are super human -my children can also see and hear -you all were children once, quit being rude/mean

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Roxanne Ahern

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3 years

Had some stuff planned for homeschool today but when the girls went down to the barnyard to check on sheep this morning they saw a mama in labor and they got to watch a lamb be born instead. One thing I love about homeschool is you get to change course if you want!

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5 months

It’s that time of year again! (wild violet tea time💜)

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3 years

Normalize giving fruit trees, sourdough starter, and your favorite recipes written down as gifts Give something that will continue to give for generations, instead of ending up in a landfill

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3 years

How many can you name?

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Roxanne Ahern

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2 years

Did you know you can drill holes into a log fill them with mushroom spawn and it will give you delicious mushrooms for the next 7 or 8 years??

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

3 years

In 1944 40% of the 8 million pounds of fruits and vegetables consumed in the United States were grown in home victory gardens.

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

2 years

“Two hens in the backyard for each person in the house will keep a family in fresh eggs.”

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

1 year

Our very first honey harvest: 1 1/2 pints

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1 year

Honey!

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3 years

Yes!!

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

1 year

We used to have sewing circles and quilting sessions and canning parties and all generations of women would be together and stories would be traded and wisdom dispensed. Where do young women go for this now? How are we passing down wisdom from one generation to the next?

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Roxanne Ahern

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1 year

Can we get a complete shut down on all plastic until we figure out what the heck is going on please

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3 years

Homeschoolers sharing their W’s

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

4 months

It’s always weird to me when the “homeschoolers are weird”discourse comes up because one of my deciding factors to homeschool was that almost everytime I met a child who was exceptional, happy, and a joy to be around they were homeschooled. They always impressed me.

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3 years

Grilled cheese and tomato soup always sounds like it’s just going to be ok and then it’s actually amazing

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3 years

I hope my kids become obsessed with all my weird fascinations tbh

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2 years

This is a fun trick

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

3 years

Ways you can be homestead-ish with zero access to land: Learn to cook from scratch Learn to make your own bread, crackers, pasta Buy food in bulk from farmers and learn preservation methods Buy or forage herbs from trusted source and learn to make infused oils and tinctures

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Roxanne Ahern

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9 months

My husband brought home a surprise last night

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

3 years

If you are not already growing food this is your year! And right now is the perfect time of year to plan and prep. I will be adding to this thread over the next couple of months to share how to plan a garden so that this spring you are ready to go. First up: Water Sun Soil

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

2 years

For thousands of year humans baked bread w home produced leaven. In 1943 Fleischmann’s Company introduced the first dry active yeast to the market and now 4 generations later most homemakers no longer even know how to produce a leaven and they have to rely on store bought yeast.

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Roxanne Ahern

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3 years

Some friends and I were talking today and we have all noticed groceries are definitely climbing considerably. Please share your favorite dishes that are inexpensive and nutritious, or ways you stretch your families food budget! Let’s help each other.

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3 years

Growing food isn’t a trend it is a return to historical normalcy

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3 years

Ok but seriously how do we form our own autonomous communities and have the gov just leave us alone?

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

3 years

Hey homeschool parents you can get educators discounts at many bookstores and office supply stores, so ask!

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1 year

Lol but seriously can we stop calling over 35 women geriatric??

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3 years

My oldest (almost 12) has wanted a milk goat as long as I can remember. This year she saved up her farmers market money and yesterday she bought 2 Saanen goats. She was ecstatic! She was up at sunrise today to check on them. So proud of her and happy for her 😭😭❤️

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1 year

Started fermenting peppers for hot sauce today

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@Happyholistichs

1 year

Just thinking about that time a fawn wandered into our yard and it wanted to be friends with our Pyrenees so bad but she was completely not having it

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Roxanne Ahern

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2 years

Just found out my daughter bought a pack of bacon with her own money to make me breakfast for Valentine’s Day and I kept cooking the bacon and my husband had to replace it 3 separate times lol There was a whole behind the scenes bacon drama going on all week I was unaware of

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1 year

Did you know that somebody wanted to know why you weren’t supposed to wear linen and wool together (Deuteronomy 22:11) and so they did a frequency experiment and linen and wool both measured 5000 but when worn together on the same body the frequency was zero!

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

3 years

You don’t need a ton of land to grow a significant amount of food

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

2 years

If you have woods on your property and are interested in producing more food I highly recommend this book!! It’s one I keep going back to again and again over the years, always glean something new.

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3 years

People be like, “Mommy bloggers aren’t doctors don’t listen to their nutritional advice” I would rather get advice from a person who obsessively reads every scientific study regarding nutrition as soon as it is available than a person who took 25 hours of nutrition 20 years ago

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3 years

Why is intergenerational living normal for royalty and the super wealthy, but stigmatized (at least in western culture) among the other classes?

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2 years

You can’t put a price on it in dollars because it operates on a completely different plane of existence than currency.

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

2 years

My daughter made cheese w milk from her goat and it’s some of the best I’ve tasted!

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@Happyholistichs

2 years

If it came from a lab or a factory I do not want it.

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@Happyholistichs

3 years

Some of the books in our homeschool curriculum this year

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

3 years

How much do you actually remember from 16,000 hours of time you spent in school from K-12? Homeschool. Give children a chance to learn things that are important to them and spend their time doing things they care about. It is their one and only life.

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3 years

My two oldest are currently settling a somewhat heated disagreement about the bird they saw in our yard with a stack of field guides I love homeschool

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1 year

When it gets warm we make a lot of popsicles. I never seemed to have popsicle sticks on hand so I started using spoons and it works great!

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@Happyholistichs

1 year

Friend of mine just told me her daughter (10) was getting teased at school by other girls Bc her mom drives a 2017 suv and it’s not even a bmw, Denali or Benz?? I didn’t even know what those were at that age. Not a day goes by that I’m not grateful we homeschool.

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3 years

🌱💚💪

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@Happyholistichs

2 years

Just flour, salt, water, and time. Always feels like a little miracle. A gift.

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@Happyholistichs

3 years

The biggest psyop in humankind has been to send all members of the family to different boxes daily in pursuit of careerism and education. Families should be doing life together, instead most people spend a majority of their time w strangers who they won’t even remember.

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2 years

It really is legalized plunder though

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

1 year

23 and 24 when we met! If you meet your person don’t wait

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1 year

Hot take: Don’t fall in love from 22-29, there’s to much to lose. Your career will thank you.

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3 years

We need more of this

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3 years

They could also be labeled right and wrong

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

2 years

Every mom I talk to lately is so tired of feeling like they have to do constant investigative work just to protect their families from the chemicals in literally everything. I think there is about to be a massive economic shift. And moms are going to drive it.

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@Happyholistichs

3 years

When I was a young mom and realized I went through all those years of public ed and would have starved to death standing in a field of carrots or potatoes because I never would have recognized them I decided to homeschool

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

2 years

You guys I got bees for my Mother’s Day gift! And my husband found this bee suit used on fb on a local bee group page. He also got all the equipment we needed used locally! He caught a swarm w help from a trap his friend made. So excited! Have wanted hives for years.

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2 years

It’s time to reclaim the home as a place of production rather than only consumption.

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@Happyholistichs

1 year

It’s funny how modern western culture normalized no primary caretaker at home and no one ever thought that might cause some issues. The home is like a building block of society, if no one is paying attention to forming the blocks well you can’t have a stable structure.

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7 months

Nettle tea is a multivitamin.

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@Happyholistichs

2 years

In fall on our farm the egg basket has mushrooms and feathers too

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2 years

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

2 years

When I was a young person I wanted to change the world in a positive way. After decades of trying to figure out the way I could impact it positively what I realized is that what I did at a household level mattered most. The hand that rocks the cradle really does rule the world.

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

2 years

Learn to build, fix, make, and grow things. Life in the United States is organized almost entirely around consumption. Produce more, consume less.

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@Happyholistichs

9 months

My older girls have been sewing these little animals and tiny accessories to give to the littler ones for Christmas

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9 months

November? Do you mean pumpkin pie season?

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@Happyholistichs

1 year

Went strawberry picking today!

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@Happyholistichs

3 years

It became a habit when we started homeschooling to do some kind of character/virtue lesson in the morning. Before writing, before math or science. Character matters the MOST, my hope is that by touching on it first everyday our children internalize this. Here are some books:

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

7 months

the ballerina farm mom has an elite athlete level of energy and ambition that she has applied to momming and homesteading and I think it’s amazing and I feel so inspired but not bad at all about my own abilities sort of like when I watch Olympic gymnastics floor routines

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Roxanne Ahern

@Happyholistichs

3 years

Cutting homegrown luffas up today to make bath scrubbies and put into soap for Christmas gifts! Luffa is so easy to grow and we have used it to replace all our scrubbies and sponges w something totally compostable💚

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@Happyholistichs

3 years

“You homeschool?? Aren’t you afraid your kids won’t be properly socialized?”

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@Happyholistichs

1 year

At my shower for my first child an older wiser woman said to me, “you cannot become what you are becoming without letting go of who you were” and it has stayed w me all these year. Motherhood didn’t make me “lose myself” it was a caterpillar into a butterfly situation

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: Having children sounds terrifying. As if I’d lose myself, my relationship, and my career. Yet everyone seems to do it. Are you all happy? Happy mostly when they’re older and you have people to come home for Thanksgiving? I wish people would honestly reply

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1 year

Peach season

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