Welcome to Showing You The Whey – a business run by a trio of odd individuals with lofty goals. What are those loft goals, you might ask? Self-sufficiency. 

Truth is, so much knowledge has been lost over the generations. As a result, many people nowadays feel trapped and unable to help themselves, let alone those around them. Here, we want to change that, and help you fend for yourselves (while we learn the ropes, too). 

At Showing You the Whey, we want to teach ourselves all about homesteading and self-sufficiency, exploring the paths less travelled across gardening, animal handling, and cooking – all in the hopes of becoming self-sufficient in the years to come. 

Showing You the Members

Three of us run this business, and come from two vastly different backgrounds. Luke (the oldest) grew up in a working class UK family from birth, while Lynley and Heather grew up in the wild plains of South Africa. Luke is a voice actor, with a working home studio, while Lynley and Heather are content writers. Even so, we all take turns writing articles for our site, so you’ll get a taste of writing from us all.

We all met a few years ago, and since decided to start our own thing upon realising that there are huge gaps in knowledge where there shouldn’t be. 

What are these gaps? Doing basically anything for yourself. Where growing up in the UK has taught a great deal of arbitrary subject knowledge only to still end up working in retail, the SA side of things is very different. From raising chickens to slaughtering and preparing them for all kinds of good stuff – we have a lot of knowledge to offer. 

Showing You the Things We Offer

We’ve mentioned a few things already, but it shouldn’t hurt to give a more detailed answer to this. On this website, you can expect to learn about all kinds of things – some of which you’ve probably never come across. 

Learn about raising different animals, growing your own food, and cooking meals from scratch. We will have information about goats and chickens, growing fruits and vegetables, and making bread, pasta, bone broth, and so much more. 

You might count yourself lucky if you were taught how to make bread in school in the UK, but we promise that your knowledge will stretch far beyond this as we grow our website. 

It might sound daunting, but all you need to do is take baby steps! Try something, then another, then another, and soon enough, you will surprise yourself. The more we learn and teach ourselves, the more we can help ourselves as well as those around us. 

Showing You the Goals

Our ultimate goal is to have a homestead to call our own. Living in the UK for the time being, this is almost impossible to achieve unless you have the funds to source it all (things ain’t cheap over here). So, in the future, we hope to move to France where our aspirations can be realised. Until then, however – we’re doing what we can. 

With everything we learn along the way, we want to show you the whey (get it?) – to better us all and help you realise your dreams, too. 

Showing You the Other Stuff

As if a website isn’t enough, we’re busy in other places, too! You can find Showing You the Whey on YouTube and Twitch, where we do gaming-related content and tutorials. 

Additionally, we have an Etsy store to explore! There, we have cards, pin buttons, t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and more, and everything is shipped globally.

On top of all that, we’re making a video game! We’ve linked the Patreon to it below – it’s still in the (very) early stages, but we’re excited about it and are making progress every week. It’s about woodland animals taking on the force of nature, but we can’t say much more than that here. 

In the future, we also hope to have a YouTube channel dedicated to homesteading, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get there!

Showing You the Socials

Interested in following our socials or checking out the other things we’ve got going on? See below: