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Homesteading for beginners requires creating a homestead based on reasonable goals. Often this means reaching out to the homestead community near you. Fellow farmers and homesteaders will help you to establish homesteading goals and plans for your area based on their experience. Creating a Homestead I talk about this topic a lot on my social…
A homesteading housewife. This is who I seek to be. A homesteading homemaker who wishes to serve her family and property while creating a homesteading life. Living a simple life is the desire for many woman like myself. Whatever it takes, we will achieve these goals. The homesteading life awakens many unknown feelings in women….
Setting homestead goals the first year is vital to maintaining a sense of organization and maybe even your sanity. Homesteading goals will keep you on tract, and allow a design and structure to last. This doesn’t mean that modification or expansions will not happen, it simply means that year two will allow for important things…
There’s gonna come a time when your homesteading journey will be tested, and sadly we recently hit that point. Our homestead, and it’s people, were suffering and it truly had me wondering if this is the life I was prepared for. The tears outweighed the smiles, my love for being with the livestock became a heavy burden and I…
Can your homestead run in your absence? I had a medical emergency recently which called for a trip to the hospital for 2 days, in turn meant my farm guy was there with me. That’s when I quickly realized that we were not set up for such situations. Luckily we were close to the property, and my husband could easily return…