about me
Hi! I’m Anna, and I’m a city girl turned modern homesteader who’s passionate about growing, cooking and preserving real food at home, creating my own herbal medicine and all-natural home and body care products, and working toward a simpler, more sustainable and selfsufficient life each and every day. And I’m equally passionate about helping others do the same
Background
In this time of uncertainty when it feels like so much in this world is out of our control, modern homesteading offers us a unique opportunity to take back some of our power and enjoy a level of personal security, freedom and control over our lives that seems to have been lost long ago.
My story
Hi, I’m Anna! My husband, Ryan, and I began our journey into homesteading while living in a Vancouver condo, feeling trapped by the daily grind of city life.
At the time, I was struggling with depression, and we both longed for a simpler, more fulfilling way of living. We found inspiration through documentaries that opened our eyes to the issues in modern food and pharmaceutical industries, and we became fascinated with people who were choosing a sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle. The more we learned, the more we knew that we wanted to escape the rat race and take control of our lives. In 2015, we made the leap and moved to the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, where we began learning how to grow our own food, live more sustainably, and build a life that aligned with our values.
MY MISSION AND HOW I
HELP OTHERS
Learning how to produce what you consume, be it food, medicine, personal care products or a myriad of other things, means you don’t have to depend on the grocery store or the pharmacy to take care of you. It also means you know exactly what’s in the food, medicine and products you’re consuming, which gives you more control over your family’s overall health. And it means that you’ll still be able to provide for yourself and your family in a crisis, be it an economic crash, a food shortage, a job loss, a health crisis or any number of other emergencies.
