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What makes a homesteader? There are many answers, but here it is boiled down in four basic principles. This blogger also reflects on how her commitment to Benedictine Spirituality led naturally to embracing a homesteading ethos.
I am a poet and writer living on 80 acres in Central Minnesota. My husband and I and the two other families who live here have turned this old hog farm into a combination of gardens, furniture making shop, and restored prairie and wetlands. It is a habitat for humans, chickens, a dog, a pair of sand hill cranes, and birds, bees, Monarch butterflies and other insects too numerous to count.
