HI, I’M TAWNY.

In 2018, my husband and I sold everything we owned to renovate a retired school bus into a tiny home, which we lived and traveled in for the next five years. I documented that time on our social media, Since We Woke Up, and in a book of the same name. In 2023, ready to step into the next chapter after several years of intentionally moving toward a new dream, we purchased land to build an off-grid homestead, a little hollow in the woods of Northwest Missouri we dubbed The Haven.

Today, we still live full-time in the school bus that’s been our home for over half a decade now, parked beside a spring-fed creek that has magic powers according to local legends and is surrounded by acres of abundant forest teeming with life. Our goal has always been to work with the land to create a mostly self-sustaining homestead and food forest, and we’ve spent the last two years laying the foundations of that dream here.

I’m currently in the process of writing my second book, but when I’m not writing you can find me in the garden talking to my plants or in front of a camera sharing our latest homestead adventures with my amazing social media community. You can find my writing at my author Instagram and Facebook pages, sharing bus and homestead life at Since We Woke Up on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, and homestead specific content on the new Haven in the Hollow Instagram and Facebook pages.

You can find my book through any major book retailer or I offer signed copies here.