Growing Our Way
Growing food, capable kids, and family freedom on a small Tasmanian homestead.
We’re documenting the systems, skills, mistakes and seasonal rhythms of building a more resilient family life — honestly, practically, and as we learn.
About Us
Our story
We’re Charles and Michelle, raising our three girls on about three acres in rural Tasmania while renovating a farmhouse, growing food, keeping chickens and ducks, homeschooling, and learning how to build a more capable family life.
Growing Our Way is not expert advice or polished lifestyle theatre. It’s our working notebook: what we try, what breaks, what the kids learn, what we’d do differently, and the systems that make family life a little more resilient.
Rural Tasmania
HOME BASE
Homestead
IN PROGRESS
Learning
AS WE GO
What we’re building
Grow
FOOD, GARDEN & ANIMALS
Make
DIY, REPAIRS & SYSTEMS
Raise
CAPABLE KIDS
Live
RURAL TASMANIA & RESILIENCE
What we’re documenting first
Latest from the homestead: Morning rounds on our Tasmanian homestead end with a hidden duck nest in the long grass and the possibility of ducklings in.
01. Grow
Garden beds, food systems, chickens, ducks and what actually works on our small property.
02. Make
DIY fixes, repairs, preserving, workflows and the practical systems that keep the place moving.
03. Raise
Capable kids, home education, chores, resilience and what the girls learn by doing real things.
04. Live
Rural Tasmania, seasons, budget-conscious choices, renovation, freedom and family values.
FOLLOW THE JOURNEY
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Watch the latest Growing Our Way episode or receive Growing Notes by email.
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Low-pressure contact
- Rural Tasmania, Australia
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