For the women who believe everything they do in their home matters…
but sometimes struggle to remember it.
Sword and a Song is a quarterly handwritten letter mailed to homemakers — the Sisters of the Wooden Spoon — full of encouragement, art, and poetry, for women doing the quiet, radical work of home building.
Real paper. Real mail. $5/month.
Haven Hedgerow is our farm and our home. It’s where we grow, work, dream, fail, shovel poo, and try again, striving to make it all a beautiful thing for the glory of God.
We are trying to make a life where all of us have purposeful contributions, working with dairy cows, wool sheep, meat chickens, farm dogs and gardens, baking, making, wiping counters, and the myriad things we are called to. Our life here has been built slowly, like a bird’s nest, one purposeful twig at a time.
Sword and a Song was born from this place and daily work, with the passionate conviction that homemakers need encouragement, and hardly ever find it.
In our disconnected impersonal age, I’m striving to make something outside the algorithms, the constant psychoanalysis for sales pitches, the constant pressure to like and conform. My prayer is that it refreshes and encourages you to be more present in the gritty reality which is yours.
You are most welcome here!
You ARE doing important work.
Not the kind that gets noticed. Not the kind that trends. The kind that happens in kitchens, laundry rooms and garden beds, in the small daily acts of feeding and tending and showing up again. The kind that builds the kingdom of Christ from hidden places.
It is easy to lose sight of that. It is easy to feel alone in it. And there is so much to learn. We are recovering a great profession and also need to cast vision to the next generation for how much scope the vocation of homemaking can contain, though we can’t do it all ourselves.
Sword and a Song is a quarterly letter written by homemakers for homemakers — to remind you of what you are a part of and why it matters.
Each issue is a 24-page, 8½ x 5½ booklet, written by hand and mailed to your door. Inside you'll find poetry, custom artwork, and quotes gathered to fuel and inspire you for another round of faithfulness, from me Mrs. Burks, and other homemakers who come along side me to write just for you.
No algorithms curated it. No screen will deliver it. It simply arrives in your mailbox, something to hold, to savor with a cuppa and hand off to a friend.
Besides doesn’t it just thrill you for find that one envelope in the mail with a beautiful stamp and a handwritten address with your name on it?
For $5 a month, a new letter finds you every quarter.
If you have ever felt that what you do inside your home is small — this letter is for you.
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100% Local Cut Flowers
These are flowers with terroir—a true expression of the soil they grow in and the subtle shifts of the seasons. Each bloom captures a fleeting moment of beauty, and grown right here on the farm.
A florist’s bucket of fresh-cut seasonal blooms is $45
Contact us to find out about availability.