I think you have done a wonderful job SCM. A few things that are different to me about A Gentle Feast – not good or bad, just different – are:
– One year level can be bought for a single form/age range ($46.99), or you can buy the full set for all ages ($99). This contains your schedule for picture study, Bible, fables, hero tales, nature study, hymns, copywork/dictation, poet study, composer study, grammar, writing, Shakespeare, Plutarch, history selections, read alouds, science suggestions. To do the plans you will need to gather books listed, of course, but once you do, everything is scheduled in one file similar to how SCM offers in history guides and other guides like the Enrichment option. It includes links to art to view or print, links to nature study topics at the Handbook of Nature Study blog, has poems, hymns, copywork or dictation all right in the student notebook portion of the guide or linked free. A decent portion of their selected books for history/literature are free in the public domain, and marked as such, for those who are willing to use ebooks.
They do not offer everything – for example they have a grammar curriculum suggestion to use (and then schedule it for you) and a writing curriculum for later high school (again, and schedule it for you).
One difference – They do multiple ‘streams’ of things – so history will have some ancients, some American, some british, for example in a single year. They also suggest multiple streams of science for a year(so you may do nature lore, physics, and astronomy one year, then change to nature lore, botany, and chemistry the next).
Another difference – a 4 year history rotation instead of 6.
Another difference – PDF only guides, no print version, so you have to print it yourself.
I don’t know if there is a significant cost difference once you buy the materials they have plus books listed for history/etc, plus the curriculum by others that they schedule (grammar in 4th and up, writing in high school, science guides from Sabbath Mood for at least some things).
I think a lot of their book selections for history, literature, and reading aloud are comparable to ones SCM would recommend, with many being available at public libraries (easily found) if they are not already free in the public domain.