A Wild Family

A Wild Family We raised our children on our 4-acre historic, permaculture farm(Luna Hill Farm) for 10 years.

Sold our educational farm of 10 yrs🌿Traveled the US in our skoolie for 2 years 🚌 Now: AJ is hosting workshops at our home in Downtown Brooksville, FL & community building events in the area While we lived there, we ran various community building events, ranging from Yoga on the lawn, a monthly Women's Listening Circle for 7 years, foraging classes in our 2 acre Forest Garden, Medicinal Plant class

es from our herb spiral, community gatherings of all sorts, & farm tours. We also ran the Luna Hill Wild School, where children from ages 4-13 came to learn about mindfulness, permaculture & organic gardening, carpentry, animal husbandry, foraging, connecting with the moons cycles, healthy communication, & more! In 2019 we decided to do something we'd been contemplating for a while-convert a bus and travel with our kids as a natural evolution to their(and our!)education. AJ design the bus & John built the conversion all by hand in 3 1/2 months & we left our hometown on December 1st, starting our (at least)year-long adventure exploring the U.S.!

🗣️ Wanted to give a shout out to these wonderful women entrepreneurs in the homeschool, art, & wellness field, who I’ve ...
01/14/2025

🗣️ Wanted to give a shout out to these wonderful women entrepreneurs in the homeschool, art, & wellness field, who I’ve got to know recently & some more deeply since we moved here, a year ago. Please check out their pages & follow their offerings-each brings a unique light & I’m so excited to continue to watch them grow & support their endeavors!

📸 A few weeks ago some of us met at my favorite coffee shop (which I’m going to be working at soon!!!!) to get to know each other better & find out how we can support one another. Cultivating Community- so grateful to have met other women who want to uplift! *See the photos for their links & follow them, too!!
🫶AJ

We finally unloaded our scroll saw & all the kids have been busy making their own creations 🤺 This tool helped many hand...
01/13/2025

We finally unloaded our scroll saw & all the kids have been busy making their own creations 🤺 This tool helped many hands create in our workshop at the farm & Wild School in Indiana, went all around the country with us in our skoolie, & now we’re back in full creative swing, rooted down at home this Winter. Having spaces & tools for us to take our sketches & turn them into tangible works is so rewarding, no matter how small or big it is!
👧 They’ve each made different swords to battle with, taking them everywhere to play! And I’m making brackets for the shelves in our apothecary.

Florida living’ from the past couple days ☀️ Eating fresh oranges on hikes 🍊 Playing with dirt & clay 🟤 Beautiful bike r...
01/11/2025

Florida living’ from the past couple days ☀️ Eating fresh oranges on hikes 🍊 Playing with dirt & clay 🟤 Beautiful bike rides 🚲 Collecting seeds for the gardens & herbs for medicines 🌼 Admiring the trees & their resiliency🌴

I'm making brackets for the shelves in our apothecary, similar to the ones I did for our library shelves at the farm! Ch...
01/09/2025

I'm making brackets for the shelves in our apothecary, similar to the ones I did for our library shelves at the farm! Check out all the ones I did 5 years ago here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1582d9FdGW/

Also, thinking this would be a great offering to add to the porch stand I'll eventually have here- alongside the fresh veggies, flower bouquets, eggs, baskets I weave, t-shirts with art we make, projects the kids want to offer, & more!

🍊Another lovely visit with Nance & Wendell😌Slurping down fresh citrus from the trees, feeding the water buffalo, catchin...
01/09/2025

🍊Another lovely visit with Nance & Wendell😌
Slurping down fresh citrus from the trees, feeding the water buffalo, catching chickens, playing games by the fire, & the best parts; just enjoying their company, all the wonderful conversations we have, & seeing the kids so happy to be with elders they love & respect. 🫶

We’ve covered the ‘building a fence’ lesson many times before at the farm-but I’m proud of us; The kids & I did this run...
01/05/2025

We’ve covered the ‘building a fence’ lesson many times before at the farm-but I’m proud of us; The kids & I did this run of fence without John’s help today 💪 Felt so good to hear their input & work together on this.
✅Next up; adding the gate & SLIDE-who wouldn’t want the option to go through a gate to get to the garden, or side right in!?! 😍

🌞 In the garden with the rising Sun today, until the stars came out! ✨ Transplanting Elder, finishing setting posts, mak...
01/02/2025

🌞 In the garden with the rising Sun today, until the stars came out! ✨

Transplanting Elder, finishing setting posts, making the garden gate, harvesting, & loving every minute of all the hard work & vision coming to fruition!!

Grateful for the garden; A teaching space inspire. To fail & try again. To feed. To observe. To explore. To grow alongsi...
12/31/2024

Grateful for the garden; A teaching space inspire. To fail & try again. To feed. To observe. To explore. To grow alongside- for me, our family, & all the other visitors at our Wild School😌

🎉 Facebook recognized me as a top rising creator this week & multiple weeks in a row 💪 Putting in the work to help build...
12/30/2024

🎉 Facebook recognized me as a top rising creator this week & multiple weeks in a row 💪 Putting in the work to help build community, spread knowledge, & inspire, even though I’d rather just be playing in the dirt 😆

Well, it’s official -she’s hooked. We have a birder!🕊️For solstice she got a book to mark off all the birds she encounte...
12/30/2024

Well, it’s official -she’s hooked. We have a birder!

🕊️For solstice she got a book to mark off all the birds she encounters & she was just elated to have a group of White Ibises right out our front door! She also got a solar powered bird feeder that stores video/pictures of the visitors & was actually shaking with excitement the first time she watched the playback. I deeply love working alongside them, encouraging them, & watching their unique interests grow.

🍊The kids made a mobile drink cart to roll around the neighborhood- $.25 a cup! They made it fresh from a tree here, add...
12/29/2024

🍊The kids made a mobile drink cart to roll around the neighborhood- $.25 a cup! They made it fresh from a tree here, added a little water & honey from our hive & poured it over ice. They made $4, lots of smiles, & awesome memories ☺️ Love our neighbors & neighborhood, here in downtown Brooksville!

Our Home✨🔨We’re building a fence in the front to protect the pollinator garden from basketballs & foot traffic(think whi...
12/28/2024

Our Home✨
🔨We’re building a fence in the front to protect the pollinator garden from basketballs & foot traffic(think white picket fence style, but with bamboo!) All from re-used, free materials!
🧑‍🌾Finishing the fence for the main production garden- with fence the neighbor heard we needed, dropped it by & said Merry Christmas🥹 That will be covered in growth, eventually, giving privacy, windbreak, & a set boundary for the kids at our Wild School.
👷‍♀️Marking out new swales to build
🍊 Snacking on fresh mandarin oranges 😋
🐓 And figuring how to turn this old dog house, into a mini chicken coop!
🛝 Oh! And scheming on how to add a slide enterance into the garden!😄

🌊 Went to the ocean to watch the sunset on Christmas evening, came home to pick greens from the garden for a salad at di...
12/26/2024

🌊 Went to the ocean to watch the sunset on Christmas evening, came home to pick greens from the garden for a salad at dinner, then picked out books to read together from our cozy reading nook. Love being a 30 minute drive from the coast!

12/21/2024

Aww…us 2 years ago-traveling in the bus🥰
Merry Solstice, all!

Out pickin’ bok choy, mustard, and kale from the garden in the dark, with herbs I harvested from our farm, for our Winte...
12/21/2024

Out pickin’ bok choy, mustard, and kale from the garden in the dark, with herbs I harvested from our farm, for our Winter solstice eve dinner! Complete with gf focaccia bread from our sweet neighbor, Shanta🥰 Unfortunately, we had to postpone our meal here with friends to celebrate, give gifts, make candles & reflect together & we’ll have to cancel our solstice gathering here on Saturday too…two of us are sick! 🤧 While it is a bummer for SURE(our kids were super looking forward to an evening with two couples who are mentors and elders they love-Iris was in tears!) we’re rolling with it..resting & enjoying our traditions at home, just us. And the soup was amazing! So grateful to be able to harvest from the garden in December!🥬 Oh! And my basket is one I made at the spring equinox-how lovely that it held my first harvest here. Now- to finish wrapping presents 🎁

Front walkway is lookin good-all ready for the whittling workshop I’m hosting here today at our Wild School, in Downtown...
12/19/2024

Front walkway is lookin good-all ready for the whittling workshop I’m hosting here today at our Wild School, in Downtown Brooksville, FL! 🌴

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About Us

We are a family of six living the simple life here on our farm in the beautiful countryside of Plymouth, Indiana & we love to share in the process. We are passionate about Cultivating Community, Celebrating Curiosity, & Nurturing Wonder With Nature! John & Amanda Jo lead the year-round Luna Hill Wildschool on Wednesdays. We host & lead various events, such as yoga, kids classes, community gatherings, workshops, a monthly women’s circle- all in an effort to create an environment where folks of all walks of life can find community & enjoy in the process of learning & loving life, with others.

We plan to expand the Wild School in the Spring of 2020 & are working on getting our Round Barn in better shape so that we may hold events in this space! Lots more exciting ideas in the works!!! Check out our website for more details on what we have to offer, we love making new friends! www.lunahillfarm.com