The Radical Homemaker

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The Radical Homemaker Blog is moving!

The Radical Homemaker Blog is moving to SapBushFarmStore.com!   Over the coming months, we will slowly be migrating years and years and years and years of content over to The Sap Bush Hollow Farm Store page.  Shannon Hayes’ Radical Homemaker blog and the farm store were traditionally together, but they were torn asunder by Covid […]

Always Something

It’s always something.  Today, I’m angry with the air.  I resent that it refuses to flow freely into my mother’s lungs, bathing them with replenishment and energy.   Today, I’m angry with the designers of handicap access ramps, who, in their interest in minimizing pitch, create a distance demand that requires extraordinary effort on Mom’s […]

Friend Medicine

  “We are all in the gutter.  But some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde   What was I supposed to say?   It was ten years and one month ago.  Lisa, a fellow homeschooler, had moved here with her daughter Sarah the summer before.  We had slowly become friends when […]

Finding The New Normal

  An increase in social experiences will develop the frontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for various complex cognitive functions, such as decision making, personality expression and emotions (The Stroke Foundation). I suppose it says something that I can finally begin reading and thinking about a way forward. That I can start to […]

The Long Way

“You know the longest way around is the sweetest way home,” Sanford used to tell me all the time.  My eighty-plus-year old farming friend would  tell me that when we’d climb into the upper pastures to pick blackberries, using that maxim as an excuse to amble a bit farther afield, checking the water lines and […]

The Banana Peanut Butter Coffee Smoothie

“You kids just want to shove me into whatever version of myself is most convenient for you!”  I lash out at Saoirse. She doesn’t deserve it. There’s a jazz concert tonight.  I want to look nice.  Last summer I bought some pretty new clothes that might fit under the harness for my bari.  I’ve yet […]

Shannon Hayes Speaks on Hearth Matters

It was a pleasure to join Kathryn Lukas-Damer and Erin Szuma of Hearth Matters for an extended conversation about Radical Homemakers, Redefining Rich, and what makes a hearth-centered life work….and what doesn’t. I hope you’ll check this out!

Sap Bush Cafe has a new home on the web!

Sap Bush Cafe is now open for the season, every Saturday, 9-2 through the last Saturday before Thanksgiving.  We are now posting the weekly specials over on a special page dedicated exclusively to cafe event over on the farm website.  Find it here: www.SapBushFarmStore.com/Cafe.

12 Days of Xmas Sale is ON!!!!

The cafe is now closed for the season!   Starting Black Friday, November 24th, running through December 5th, we’ll be running a different special each day.  Be sure to check SapBushFarmStore.com each day to find out the daily deal!  We’ll be offering up CSA shares, wool bedding, yarn, steaks, chops and more!