About Us
In the summer of 2015 I'd come back from an incredible backpacking trip and I, The Braid, met The Beard, and we agreed to go for a run in the woods. While the miles accumulated on more and more runs, we found our appreciation for one another grew as well. As we ran we began to find that it wasn't satisfying enough to just run in the woods a few times a week. It wasn't satisfying enough to make healthy meals from foods bought at stores. We wanted a deeper sense of well-being that could come to us by embracing a permaculture-based, homesteading lifestyle. Less screens, more sun and fresh air. Less white noise, and more psithurism. Less sitting and only moving to 'exercise', but instead sweating to tend to our space. So we left the city and dug in to creating our own rural nest - a place to call home that we hope, over the next few years, will yield not only most of the food we eat but also greater joy for our whole family as we reconnect with and find our place in the natural world.
- The Braid