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Welcome to a Delectable Education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte

Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz

It's real and Nicole Williams. Today we have an interview with Michelle Riescraft.

Welcome Michelle. Thank you. Michelle is going to share about how she has found balance using the Charlotte

Mason method with her family.

We've been doing a series all season long trying to bring you snapshots from different people's lives because we do all have challenges

balancing our lives with all the other things that we're supposed to do and adding homeschooling

and particularly homeschooling with Charlotte Mason into the mix.

And so we're speaking with several people in our listening audience

who we know have common challenges that many of us face.

And we want to hear a little bit about their experience and ask them to share some of their lessons they've learned and wisdom with us.

So, Michelle, as we start out, would you share a little bit about your family and how you came to live at the farm you currently are at?

Thank you Emily. So as you said I live at a farm. It is a

special type of farm. It's called Hope Farm School. It's a farm in a school for

inner city boys ages 11 to 18 who are failing out of school for all the reasons.

The man who started the farm grew up on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, and he saw that that way of life was really helpful to him as he became older he had started a school in

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