Welcome to the website of Clarissa R. West! All articles and PDFs are researched, written, and published by Clarissa; she retains the copyright. This site may contain affiliate links and collect cookies. Please read my full disclosure and privacy policy for more info. Author: Clarissa R. West Welcome to July on the farm! Besides being an informative article for you, the…
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When starting the journey to better health for you and your family, you should keep it simple. It may not be easy, but “simple” is the keyword here. Here are several goals for better health that you may choose from. Choose one goal and pursue it until it becomes a natural part of your life, then work on another goal….
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Teaching Life Skills to Children is best done by having your children work alongside you as YOU engage in real life, intentional living, and old-fashioned tasks. Besides the obvious life skills a child will need to learn to care for themselves as adults, sustainable life skills that may be best described as “homesteading skills” are important, too. These are the…
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If you are interested in the Trim Healthy Mama lifestyle, you will want to read my testimony and learn why I have embraced it since 2013. THM incredibly blesses me, so I became a Certified Trim Healthy Mama Lifestyle Coach in January 2023 to better educate myself and help other women. My certification ended in the summer of 2025 due…
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If you are wondering whether you should get goats or sheep for a small homestead, I am sharing our experiences and the conclusion we came to on our micro-farm. We have just 1 acre total and can not use all of it for livestock, so we need to choose our animals wisely. We have learned through trial and error. Learning…
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