As a young girl, I loved helping Mom in her busy kitchen, where she prepared from-scratch-meals to feed her family of ten. I caught from her the joy of caring for home and family, gleaning satisfaction in laundry washed and folded, beds made daily, meals cooked and cleanup done, floors swept and mopped.

My passion is homemaking, following the Biblical model in Proverbs 31. Through classes in my home, I offer instruction and training in the “why” and “how” of serving good food to our families – the way God intended.

My background experience includes 16 years managing food service at a mission headquarters in SE Asia, operating an organic market in Mora, MN, teaching cooking classes in a 5-county region, and as a demonstrator for NutriMill Grain Mills, Bosch Mixers, & Pampered Chef products.

My personal journey was greatly impacted in 2005-2006 when our family lost three loved ones to cancer. I began to understand in a deeper way the importance of real food. Hippocrates, Father of Medicine (431 BC) said, “Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food.” I believe we should turn to food first when we need to heal. We are “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14), with bodies that are designed to heal, at any age. We can personally impact our health when we give our bodies the right foods — whole, fresh, free of contaminants, and prepared in the best way to preserve nutrients.

Culture has a way of causing us to drift away from our kitchens. Max Gerson wrote in A Cancer Therapy (1958), that to restore and maintain health, “…we will again need real housewives, not eager to save kitchen time, but homemakers who will devote their lives to the benefit of all, especially to the task of developing and maintaining a healthy family.”