A Simple Farm LLC - Kristin Reynolds and Vincent Giesman - Family Homestead and Business.
Reynolds has a passion for learning new skills and putting her hands to many different hobbies. She took her desire to better everyday usage by creating her own line of home care from remedies to deodorants. With that came more knowledge and old time skills that began the business she now runs, bring her homestead to you. “My husband says I have hobby addd, and that fine, I just love to do everything. I think its completely fine you don’t know what moves you to do something. In the winter I will crochet, but we will also be developing teas or trying new recipes.” Vincent Giesman, Reynolds 13 year old son, has become her right hand man in their family business. Geisman is a spice connoisseur and has developed his own line of, what he calls, “Flippin’ Good Seasoning.” When asked why he called his brand this, he simply replied, “Because their flippin’ good!” “Mom was into the, no offense, old lady stuff. And I'm like, this is kind of boring. I'm not into the old lady stuff as much anymore, because I just watch her and she's over there on the couch just. And I look what she's making and there's this like 85 foot blanket. Like, whoa, when that happen? I was like, well I mean if she's doing all that on her own, I bet I can make some of mine on my own. And I start thinking and I'm like, spices. Everybody likes spices. It's needed.”
Tiffany Taylor - Teal Stone Homestead - Life Of A Homesteader.
Finding home has been the quest of every man, woman, and child sense the beginning of time. Life has a way of creating a journey before us to take in order to truly appreciate the idea of home. Throughout history we read stories of people finding their way towards home from the pioneers of America to the depths of the Indigenous people of the African jungle, it has been told through many tongues in vast cultures, over many campfires, around the table in many differently designed shelters. Home, in the physical sense, looks different to every person but the feeling is exactly the same, this is where I belong. For Tiffany Taylor, like most, the journey towards finding home has been full of twists and turns that eventually lead her to walking in the woods that held memories from her childhood. It was on this walk when home became visceral and those same trees still grow on her own homestead, the soil of her roots.