The Benner Family Homestead-Living a stress free life through sweat and hard work.

Denise and I have two older children and three at home who we homeschool. We live on two acres in Mississippi where we are building our log house, not from a kit, but the old fashioned way, by cutting down our own trees. Denise plants and maintains her garden, her therapy as she calls it, and the boys tend to the chickens. We take abandoned cats and dogs, some we have kept and others we have found homes for. We also raised two baby possums, who lost their mother, and a squirrel that seems to have fallen from its nest. We try to live life as simply and as healthy as possible.