Gaffney Homestead

11/28/2025

We used the garnishes from around our turkey platter (Rosemary, orange slices, cloves, cinnamon sticks). After dinner we put them in a pot with water and simmered away... The house smelled so good & festive!

11/27/2025

May you have a blessed Thanksgiving!🍁 🍽 🦃

11/27/2025

Every time I watch my kids help in the garden or run around the homestead with real purpose, it reminds me why we chose this life. Childhood isn’t meant to be spent hunched over worksheets while the best parts of the day slip by. It’s meant to be lived. It’s meant to be hands in the dough, dirt on their legs, real skills in their pockets, and curiosity guiding the pace. If they grow up knowing how to make good food, run a home, tend a garden, and love learning, I’m not stressing over what a standardized test would have said. They’re learning real life, and that’s what lasts.

11/21/2025

When you get a box of pinecones, make some cinnamon pinecones to make your home smell so cozy & festive…. Then give some as gifts to spread the joy! 

11/20/2025

Love this

❤️❤️❤️

11/07/2025

Oooh I want to make these!

11/07/2025

This stopped me in my tracks. At the end of the day, work shifts change, job titles come and go, and even friendships can fade—but home is where our presence can’t be substituted. The meals we cook, the care we give, the love we pour into these walls—it matters. It lasts. 🌿
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Words by: Jillian Benfield
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