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I’m Danielle.

City girl turned huntress and homesteader, wife to Trevor, and mama to three amazing girls.

I’m passionate about helping others reconnect to their food on a meaningful level and make delicious meals from their harvests.

I believe that food shouldn’t come from a box. That we were meant to hunt, grow, and forage our food, or at least most of it. For the rest of it, food should be from locally sourced places like farmer’s markets or direct to consumer farm sales. 

To me, cooking is a form of art, but need not be fancy. It’s a language all of it’s own and I love taking our cultivated, foraged, and hunted food and turning it into delicious meals for myself, my family, and my friends. 

We are meant to know exactly what it is we are eating. It shouldn’t have a long list of difficult-to-pronounce ingredients, but should be recognizable to us, our ancestors, and our bodies.. I believe that our food should connect us to nature.. That we shouldn’t be mere consumers, but become an integral part of what winds up on our plate. 

Today, I prepare delicious nose-to-tail, cultivated, and foraged foods that are largely hunted or grown by myself, my husband, or our daughters. 

It didn’t start out this way, though. In college, I couldn’t even properly fry an egg. My husband brought home his first deer over a decade ago and I was intimidated, afraid even, to use it to make meals with. I had always been told that venison, wild game in general, had a gamey flavor and I automatically assumed I wouldn’t like it. 

But, I felt this pull to respect the animal, to figure out how to utilize every last part of it. And so, I began a journey of sorts to learn how to make delicious foods out of those hunted whitetails. Now, all five of us prefer venison over beef, we butcher our own harvests, and utilize every bit from the heart and liver to the delicious steaks and grind pile. 

Today, I’ve made it my mission to help others create delicious meals that didn’t come from a store or a box but are simple enough for anyone to create.

Not sure where to start?

I’ve got you covered, here are my favorite blog posts to help inspire you to reconnect to your food and create a beautiful, mindful life.

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