Nicole Chryst
Wellness Educator
Family Herbalist
Chasing truth, beauty, goodness, and all things naturally wholistic.
Faith over fear.
Ephesians 2:8-10
I’ve been married to my high school sweetheart since 2003. Together, we have four amazing children, by birth and adoption. When I am not homeschooling my favorite students, I spend my days on our 7-acre property where I try my best to love my family well and experiment with hobby homesteading. My favorite things to do are cultivate my ever-expanding gardens, wrangle chickens, ferment all the things, sourdough bake with einkorn flour, and figure out new ways to use herbal remedies and essential oils. I believe God has tasked us to be good stewards of our spaces in the world, and I guide my children to do the same.
I am a board member of The Sparrow Fund and an Empowered to Connect Facilitator. I love to dig in the dirt, cook nourishing food, capture beauty through my camera lens, watch the sunrise on the beach, and spend time with good literature on my porch while sipping on a hot cup of coffee.
Our sweet Red Star baby chicks arrived! All 15 of them. They are every bit as cute as the pictures suggest. They arrived healthy, feisty, and playing right out of the box. Huge kudos to Murry McMurray Hatchery for doing a top notch job with their chicks! I can’t recommend them enough to purchase chicks! ...
It’s always a little (super crazy) hectic getting out of the house on our first community day, but we did it and I didn’t even forget anything! I think today was a smashing success! It was so wonderful to see our old friends, as well as meet and get to know new ones. And the...
My sweet Daffy girl has gone broody two times now since the beginning of the summer. I think she desperately wants to be a mama! And ohhh, she’s a stubborn one too. It took almost 2 weeks to break her last time. This time around, at about a week in, I had a revelation. Why...
What started as an extremely last-minute beach invitation in 2013 has transformed into one of our family’s most favorite traditions. Four years ago, Kelly knew that a weekend away with the kids was exactly what I needed to pass the time when hubby was on a mission trip. What she didn’t know was that her...
This post may be better titled: The schedule with which we’ll start or The schedule to which we’ll aspire. Hopeful also works because I believe in at least having a starting point. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about myself though, I’m terribly fickle with an at-home schedule. I think that’s mostly because I like...
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