After living all over Mississippi, Kara Courtney has called Booneville her home for the past nineteen
years. Using her painting and sculpture degrees, Kara taught various art classes, grades 1st through
12th, in public education for seventeen years. Nature has always been her primary source of
inspiration for her art and how she lives her life. Along with creating art that explores the wonders of
nature, Kara and her family have made, surrounded by woodlands, a homestead called Wildwood
Wonder. The homestead is full of vegetables, pollinators, and herb gardens. It is also the home to
miniature goats, chickens, ducks, and all sorts of barn pets! The family loves to hike their woods on
mushroom-gathering adventures. For the past two years, Kara has focused on herbalism, expanding
her knowledge through herbalism courses, expanding her herb gardens, running a freeze-drying
company, and creating an all-natural skincare line. This past year, she has begun focusing on the art
of plants, coming home as a full-time homesteader and herbalist.

It's taken me years to create my little cottage homestead and, honestly, just as long to realize that's what my style of homesteading, gardening, and home decor were. If you want to learn how to make your place the cottage-core dream you've always wanted, follow along, and I will share and teach you all the things I've learned along the way.

- Kara

Follow along as we create a cottagecore homestead in the woodlands of Northeast Mississippi. Step by step, we are creating a magical place among the wildwoods!