In my garden Google searches, I keep stumbling across the same blogs. They seem to be around homesteading, gardening as a family, canning, living off your own land, owning chickens and homeschooling. If you're a garden nerd, like me, these are fascinating reads: Homestead Revival Reformation Acres Mountain Home Quilts Buckets of Burlap Thy Hand Hath Provided and of course Parisienne Farmgirl (She keeps popping up!) Resourceful Magazines: Mother Earth News HobbyFarms.com A common piece of advice these homesteaders give, seems to resonate with me and my BIG DREAMS. Q. What advice would you give to someone who wanted to start homesteading? A. Start slow and small. This has worked very well for us. Each year, we've increased garden size and amounts preserved based on our confidence levels. Jumping in too fast and taking on too much would have left me stressed and overwhelmed. Keep doing what works well, try a couple new things each year and when you've mastered them (to your satisfaction), move on to the next couple things you'd like to try.I noticed that most of the homesteaders have around 2 acres and with root cellars, canning and freezers, some can feed their family all winter. Now, I need to get back to researching "how to justify having a goat to my HOA".
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Jessica
4/13/2012 04:18:43 am
Did you see Mother Earth News is having a fair in Puyallup in June? A few friends and I are going :)
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