Hazel Creek Homeschooling is a heart-centred guide to educating your children at home with more trust, more purpose, and less pressure.

Rather than recreating school at the kitchen table, this book invites families to build an education around the life they are already living: shared work, beautiful stories, time outdoors, meaningful relationships, practical skills, and the natural unfolding of childhood.

Drawing from years of teaching, homeschooling, Waldorf-inspired education, Charlotte Mason, and life on a New Brunswick homestead, Laura Martin explores what it can look like to step away from rigid expectations and create a home education that feels deeply human.

Inside, you’ll find thoughtful guidance on rhythm, real work, beauty, land, story, the arts, reading, writing, mathematics, adolescence, interest-led learning, record keeping, hard seasons, and the quiet work of learning to trust your child,  and yourself. The book is structured around the belief that belonging, trust, and time form the foundation of meaningful education, with rhythm, real work, beauty, and land shaping the life that grows from them. Part philosophy, part practical guide, and part story of an actual homeschooling life, Hazel Creek Homeschooling is for the parent who wants something slower, more grounded, and more rooted in real life. For the family who suspects that education can be more than curriculum, and that childhood was never meant to be rushed. Format: Hardcover Size: 6 × 9 in Length: Approx. 390 pages Language: English Published by: Hazel Creek Homestead First Edition: 2026 Preorder: Ships once the first print run is complete