Meet the homesteader who grows and stores enough food to feed her family of six for two years at any given time.

Sunny Haven, 39, started the homestead lifestyle in 2010 after she and her husband welcomed their first child.

At the time they were living in a suburban house with a small yard in Seattle, Washington, where they would grow carrots, lettuce, and pumpkins.

They then got a three-acre homestead in 2012, where they had a vegetable garden and livestock - including turkeys and chickens.

In 2024, the couple packed up with their four children and moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where they live on a seven-acre farm.

The couple has a 5000 sq ft vegetable patch and keeps their own chickens - giving them enough food to feed the family for two years at any given time.

Sunny, a full-time mom and farmer from Kansas City, said: "If you would have asked me 20 years ago that I would be living this way I would have said it is insane."

"But here we are, we are thriving and we love it. I feel like this is something we were always meant to do."

"We store all our produce in our basement, I try and grow enough food for two years."

"Whatever I am going to grow, I will grow enough to preserve it for our family to eat for two years."

Sunny and her husband started growing their family in 2010 and switched their lifestyle to grow more of their own produce.

"We lived in a little suburban house with a tiny backyard, and we started growing vegetables here and there," Sunny said."

"Neither of us knew what we were doing, we relied heavily on the internet."

"We started growing carrots, potatoes, lettuce, and pumpkins at first."

After living in the suburban home for four years, the couple saved and moved to a three-acre plot just outside of Seattle, Washington.

There the couple kept chickens and turkeys, had a vegetable garden, 30 fruit trees, and 40 berry bushes.

Then in 2024, the family of six moved 1,836 miles to Kansas City, Missouri to a seven acre farm.

Sunny said: "We lived in a really expensive area, we needed more room to grow and cheaper land."

"We were looking for a cheaper lifestyle at a slower pace than the one we were used to living."

Since moving onto the farm, Sunny has planted a 5000 sq ft vegetable garden, where she grows tomatoes, peppers, squash, lettuce, and pumpkins to name a few.

The couple also grows their own chickens and lets their neighbors pasture cows on their land.

Sunny said: "We grow most of our fruit and vegetables apart from things that don't grow well in the midwest."

"Most stuff that we grow we will preserve in cans or freeze."

"Some years I will grow 30 tomato plants and will use those tomatoes over a two year period." "

Sunny and her husband will grow enough food to last the family two years at any given time.

They do this by freezing, preserving, and storing their produce in their basement.

Sunny said: "It was difficult at first, I didn't grow up like this, I had to learn everything from the internet."

"My preferred method of preservation is canning, it is safe and cheap and costs almost nothing."

"You just need to find yourself a good recipe, and what we don't can we will freeze."

"We freeze a lot of fruit to make ice creams and smoothies later, we also freeze a lot of meat."

"We have a large storage room in our basement where we keep all the foods."

Sunny said they will still go to the shop now and again twice a month for items they can't grow like shampoo or the occasional bag of chips.

She also highlighted the impact that the homestead lifestyle has had on her four children.

Sunny said: "My children are growing up connected to the land, knowing where their food comes from, knowing the meaning of work."

"They know the names of all the species of trees, they know how to tell which way is north, they know how to forage."

"They're brave, inquisitive, and adventurous. But, they also play Minecraft because they're still normal kids."