Nicole Chryst
Wellness Educator
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 teaching fine arts to my favorite upper school students at our incredible classical Christian school, 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 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 baby chicks are not baby chicks anymore! They started laying this week! Their itty bitty little eggs are just the cutest things ever. Look at how adorable they are compared to Mama Daffy’s big egg! The younger girls will eventually grow into their eggs, but the miniature ones have us all ohhing and...
The first snow fall came early this year! It was so beautiful, and I loved seeing the blanket of soft, fluffy whiteness cover everything. Now that all of the leaves have fallen and everything looks sort of desolate, the bright white snow was a welcome sight. The views were simply magnificent. The chickens, however, were...
Mama Daffodil did, indeed, accept all of the new baby chicks. All 15 of them. Fifteen. After sitting on wooden eggs and golf balls for 2 days, she allowed us to quietly and not-so-stealthily replace them with baby chicks. Did I mention there are 15? She has so instinctively and fiercely taken on the role...
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! ...
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...
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