Meet Gabi from Little House in the Pines!
Documenting the beauty in the everyday moments on our homestead! Sharing photo tips for moms, cooking from scratch, preserving food, and homesteading adventures.
Welcome to Little House in the Pines where I share all about our homestead adventures! I focus on helping moms simplify cooking from scratch, begin preserving their food, and learning to capture all the memories in life big and small by sharing simple photo tips! I also offer a few family photo sessions locally each year and you can learn all about that here.
More about our Homestead
We live in a cute little house on a lot that’s just over an acre surrounded by pine trees! In 2015 we decided to add a few chickens to our family so that we could have “free eggs”. It felt like a HUGE and scary step but we learned so much. That catapulted us into the homesteading life. Shortly after we started a garden and I spent hours reading books learning how to care for our chickens and ways to preserve the food we were growing in our yard. It all felt so overwhelming!
In 2020 shortly after the pandemic hit with the concern of food shortages we decided to expand into raising our own chicken for meat and adding rabbits to our homestead. It added a lot of work to our daily routine but it has definitely been worth it! Meat at the grocery store just cannot compare to the fresh meat raised on your own homestead.
In 2022 we are looking to start a few new adventures and add goats to our homestead! Be sure to follow along with our adventures. I will be sharing all the lessons we learn along the way and some easy tips to help you get started if you are ready to begin your own homesteading journey.
A Few Fun Facts about Me
I’m an Army brat and I spent my childhood living all over to include quite a few years in Germany!
My husband and I met while both attending the University of Tennessee and never actually had any intentions of homesteading until a few years after we were married.
I have always loved cooking meals from scratch and started cooking in high school. At first I did it because that was the way my mom did it. However in college, I didn’t a kitchen available that first year in the dorm and I quickly learned that cafeteria food or prepackaged microwavable meals did not even taste half as good. Once I had an apartment with a kitchen, I was so happy to be able to cook my own meals again.
I have always had a special place in my heart for animals and getting to raise so many kinds of animals is one of my absolute favorite things about homesteading!
I love photography because I am a mom! I quickly learned after I had my first daughter that so much happens between yearly professional photo sessions and that I would need to learn to take better photos to preserve all those precious memories!