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 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 family has been on a more natural, traditional food journey for a little over a year now. We’ve been making a lot of diet and consumer changes to embrace a healthier lifestyle. One of the changes that I am now working toward is switching to 100% einkorn flour baking. It’s a big step. It’s...
It’s been a year since I tried my “Kombucha Experiment” to find out what the hype was all about. I was a little weirded out at first and thought the whole concept was just so strange. But a year later, I’m a 100% kombucha convert. I can’t claim that it, alone, is the miracle drink...
My love affair with einkorn flour continues. We are obsessed with the delicious, healthy, wonderfully scrumptious einkorn banana bread. I bake it often. The house smells lovely while it’s in the oven. In fact, everyone who walks into the house while it’s baking wants to know what the delicious smell is. A couple of the...
I started experimenting with einkorn flour baking a few months ago, but I hadn’t heard much about it up until then. I still haven’t perfected the science, but I do love it for so many reasons! What’s all the fuss about? Einkorn is the first, most ancient form of wheat. It’s older than even spelt...
I’ve been brewing kombucha now, off and on, for the past few months. I took a break after my first few batches because, honestly, I was forgetting about the brew sitting on my counter too often! I knew it had many potential health benefits, including bio-available vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants, and probiotics, but I...
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Have you done these with starter and fermented them?
Kristie, I have never tried that but it sounds like a really wonderful idea. I know this comment is from a bit ago – have you tried it yourself? I’d be curious to know how it went! Blessings to you!