Hello, I am Stacey. I love goat cheese, bacon, family traditions, fermenting, Airstreams, canoeing, and curating my pantry. I have been known to spend an entire holiday break butchering a pig.  

Butternutplace is a blog about life on the modern homestead, complete with  livestock adventures, gardening misadventures, preserving the harvest, reflections on the agrarian ideal, and all other manner of odd-ball things.

Occasional flirtations with poetry and old books are included gratis thanks to a chronic affliction as an English major.

This blog is in many ways an homage to my grandparents, who named their antiques shop Butternut Place, and whose devotion to God, family, hard work, and rhubarb has provided their descendants with an abundant and good life. . . and enough leftovers to feed the entire congregation.

Stay briny,

–Stacey