We aim to help you become more self-sufficient by providing practical and trustable guides created by people who also believe in this lifestyle.

We know how hard it is to find trustable gardening and livestock advice because most of them are anecdotal or personal experiences from people with different problems and field conditions, while more in-depth guidance are locked behind classes that not everyone can afford.

At MorningChores, we want to open information and stories you need to know to grow a thriving garden, raise healthy livestock, build things by yourself, save money without pinching pennies, and learn new skills that will make your life easier.

We know how important it is to water your plants the right way and feed your livestock properly—because we’ve been there too. That’s why we make sure our guides are written by people who actually grow plants or raise animals in their own farm, and fact-checked by people who know what they’re doing.

You can depend on us to provide field-tested advice with genuine care that will guide and inspire you to become self-reliant or just become a bit healthier.

Meet Our Team

Our team comes from different place all over the country (and world!) with different backgrounds, but we all have one thing in common: we want to share our experience and expertise in becoming self-reliant for millions of people around the world.

Jennifer Poindexter

Jennifer is a full-time homesteader who started her journey in the foothills of North Carolina in 2010. Currently, she spends her days gardening, caring for her orchard and vineyard, raising chickens, ducks, goats, and bees. Jennifer is an avid canner who provides almost all food for her family needs. She enjoys working on DIY remodeling projects to bring beauty to her homestead in her spare times. Her book, The Homestead Companion, provides helpful hints and answer to common questions if you’re considering homesteading.

Tasha Greer

Tasha is an herb gardener, foodie, and from-scratch cook since the year 2000. In 2014, she started homesteading for greater self-sufficiency in rural Surry County, North Carolina. She currently keeps dairy goats, chickens, ducks, a pet turkey, worms, and (occasionally) pigs. She gardens on about two acres and grows a large variety of annual and perennial edible, medicinal, and ecosystem support plants. She is an Extension Master Gardener Volunteer and teaches classes in her community related to Edible Landscaping, Organic Gardening, and Introduction to Permaculture. She is the author of Grow Your Own Spice.

Steph Coelho

Steph is a certified Square Food Gardening Instructor who has been gardening for more than 10 years in Canada where the winters are long and cold, and the summers are unpredictable. She is a volunteer for her community’s Incredible Edible project. In the past she created an educational gardening space for seniors and taught classes at a local community center where she created her own curriculum and activities. She participated in several local municipal garden days where she set up a booth to educate citizens about the joy of gardening.

Ame Vanorio

Ame lives off-the-grid on her beautiful farm in Falmouth, Kentucky. She has been gardening organically for over 30 years and has grown vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, and ornamentals. She also participates in Farmers Markets, CSA, and mentors young farmers. Ame is the founder and director of Fox Run Environmental Education Center where she teaches environmental education programs in self-sufficiency, herbal medicine, green building, and wildlife conservation. Ame is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator and works part-time as a vet tech.

Craig Taylor

Craig is a self-sufficiency gardener who lives in Auckland, New Zealand. He has six vegetable gardens, a 7-meter glass house, and 35-tree orchard that provide food for his family. All spray-free. He is a prepper who likes strange plants and experiment with heritage plants to save seeds.

Bethany Hayes

Bethany is a suburban homesteader who grows over 30 types of vegetables in her garden every year. Her garden is large enough to provide half of the vegetables needed to feed her family of six for the entire year. She practices organic gardening without the use of any pesticide and chemical.

Amanda Pieper

Amanda is a self-sufficiency farmer and beekeeper, operating a small apiary consisting of three beehives on her farm in Wisconsin. As an avid beekeeper and advocate against the declining bee population, Amanda extracts, prepares, shares, and sells her honey and wax locally and enjoys chatting with her customers about bees and their positive impact on the environment, as well as the many uses of honey. Although she and her husband weren’t born into farming families, their passion for self-sufficiency and animal husbandry led them to purchase a 200-year-old Wisconsin homestead where they have filled the vacated dairy barn with meat rabbits, bull calves, chickens, and goats.

Savannah Brown

Savannah’s family began homesteading in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia when she was ten years old. She fell in love with the lifestyle and knew she wanted to keep animals of her own. When Savannah was 11, she saved enough money to buy her own flock of chickens. Since then, her passion has grown, and she plans to build a career in farming while educating others about homesteading and sustainable living. Savannah is especially passionate about nurturing hurt and sick animals back to health. More about Savannah’s farm life can be found on her Instagram account.

Kenzi Knapp

Kenzi’s homesteading journey began with a flock of Buff Orpington in 2003. Her next venture was LaMancha goats, an area she dived so deep that she is known as the goat expert among her neighbors and friends. Along with goats, Kenzi and her family also enjoy raising ducks, sheep, cows, and herb and veggie gardens on their homestead.

Rebekah Pierce

Rebekah started a small farm with her husband in 2016 in upstate New York, just north of the pristine Adirondack Mountains, where she grows vegetables and herbs and also raises sheep, chickens, and pigs. She has college degrees in English and Special Education. There’s nothing she loves more than helping others learn more especially about sustainable living as it pertains to health and homesteading. An avid cook, she works hard to grow and preserve enough food to support her family throughout the year. She is the owner of the blog J&R Pierce Family Farm.

Catherine Winter

Just over a decade ago, Catherine Winter abandoned life as an art director in downtown Toronto and fled to a cabin in Quebec’s Laurentian mountains. She immersed herself in botany, permaculture, and herbalism, and now tends a
thriving food forest and physic garden on her property. In addition to writing about plants for various websites and publications, Cate coordinates edible/medicinal gardening initiatives in disadvantaged communities in North America and the UK. When she isn’t writing or out in the garden, she’s either formulating botanical care products, or wrestling with new knitting projects.

Finn Robinson

Finn Robinson is a landscape designer and outdoor fitness practitioner from Devon, UK. He works with international clients to create edible and medicinal gardens, drawing upon his nearly two decades of experience with landscaping, rural and urban farming, and heritage property maintenance. During the down season, he helps avid gardeners stay healthy with restorative yoga and strength training.