About

Hi! My name is Nathanael and this is my wife Emily and welcome to the Rohdehof homestead.  We are blessed with a vibrant and growing family; and through that blessing comes the equal challenge of defining what sort of environment we wish our children to grow up in.  Starting with our traditional Catholic faith, our lives and identities are further moulded by the exploration of our Scandinavian and German heritage, the natural world around us and deep love for history and the cultural past.  All that we learn, we wish to integrate into our lives of today.  

We, by no means, profess to be experts at much of anything we do.  We make a lot of mistakes, fall short of our ideals and expectations, and like any family struggle with the typical daily challenge of keeping even the basics of our home in order.

Nevertheless, we are also confident enough to share what we have to offer the world.  We seek to enrich the culture of the home through the rediscovery and experience of ancient ways and methods of everyday living and translate them into the modern domestic life.  

Bushcraft, homesteading, baking, sewing, historical cookery, woodwork and simple blacksmithing are examples of ways we seek flavour our lives and the lives of our children.  It is our hope and prayer that they will grow up knowing that adventure and exploration start, not in far-off exotic places or in extraordinary circumstances but within the sanctuary of the Home.