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September 20, 2025, Warren Country Fairgrounds, Lebanon, Ohio
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Cottage Pastures is operated by Mathew and Carissa Winters. In July of 2022, Mathew and Carissa, along with their children, moved from Cincinnati, Ohio to Southeastern Indiana – somewhere between Lawrenceburg and Madison. It had become a passion and desire to locate a place where a Farm and Homestead could be developed in order to develop skills honed by generations past and to provide a steadfast place of love and support for their children’s growth. We have a fully-functioning farm, selling pasture-raised meat and produce (primarily garlic and other specialty crops for retail and wholesale purchase). We are also an agritourism site – offering immersion experiences for farming and homesteading, hosting classes, workshops and conferences to help teach people the traditional skills of homesteading, farming and generally agriculture and trades.
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About Shawn & Beth
Shawn and Beth Dougherty bring decades of hands-on experience to the homesteading table. Farming together since the 1980s, they've spent the last 26 years mastering sustainable agriculture in challenging conditions. Their primary farm, a 27-acre plot in eastern Ohio designated by the state as "not suitable for agriculture," and their management of a 100-acre monastery farm, serve as living laboratories for their innovative techniques.
Their approach centers on intensive grazing, harnessing the power of grass conversion to nourish a diverse ecosystem. They raise dairy and beef cows, sheep, farm-fed hogs, and a variety of poultry, striving to produce the majority of their food and feed on-site.
Deeply concerned about the reliance of modern agriculture on external inputs—feed, fuel, fertilizer, water, and electricity—Shawn and Beth are dedicated to rediscovering and refining traditional, low-input farming methods. Their research highlights the critical role of grass conversion, particularly the daily transformation of grass into milk by dairy ruminants, in achieving whole-farm sustainability. This process fuels their entire farm community, from humans and ruminants to pigs, poultry, and the soil itself.
Through their writing and travels, Shawn and Beth share their expertise on sustainable farming, dairying, farm-raised animal foods, and off-grid captured water systems. They are the esteemed authors of The Independent Farmstead, published by Chelsea Green Publishing, and The Independent Farmstead’s Field Guides to Inputs-Free Farming and Homesteading (Lulu.com).
After the greatest calling ever given to a human in all of history, the angel departed from Mary and she likely went back to sweeping the floor, going to the market, and making dinner. While some are called to drop their nets and take on an entirely new way of life, most of us are called to follow God in daily living that, from the outside, probably doesn't look all that different.
However, God is present in the daily ordinary moments of our lives. While "mountain top" experiences and grand signs are not outside of God's capabilities, it is not the way He typically communicates to his people through the ordinary means.
From ruminating and letting the cream rise to the top, to what pruning really means and how we don't know more than the gardener, to God the Divine Physician who holds the Salve to our wounds, we accept God's invitation to explore his creative nature through our gardens, flocks, and herds. Examples from our animals, homemaking, gardens, and family life will shed light on Sacred Scripture and how we can move forward oriented to the will of God for our lives.
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How you transform your business as technology, consumer, habits industry dynamics change? Find out from those leading the charge. How you transform
There’s such a thing as “too much information”, especially for
There’s such a thing as “too much information”, especially for
There’s such a thing as “too much information”, especially for
665 North Broadway St.
Lebanon, OH 45036
United States
Name: Elizabeth Cavanaugh
Phone: 513-331-1539
Email: elizabeth@homestead.land
Name: Elizabeth Cavanaugh
Phone: 513-331-1539
Email: elizabeth@homestead.land
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