“To me, homesteading means engaging in a give-and-take relationship with the earth. That means growing your own food, cooking from scratch, raising backyard livestock, collecting rainwater, simplifying your life, reducing your impact, and basically not being a jerk to Mother Nature. She is, after all, part of the reason why we are surviving.” – Kelli […]
The Rental Homestead: Amber’s Story
“To me, homesteading involves a sense of connection to the simple ways – now I don’t mean “less work” when I say simple…it is usually the other way around! But there’s a pleasure that comes from simple work.” -Amber For her first three years of life, Amber lived with her parents in an old sharecroppers’ […]
The Homesteading Spirit
The modern homesteader is greatly misunderstood. Popular culture paints the picture of a backwards, back-woods, anti-social, stuck-in-the-1880’s personal. Some may believe that nobody even lives like that anymore. But just because we’re off the grid doesn’t mean we’re not with the times. Au contraire! my urban-minded friends. Homesteading is thriving and well connected in the […]
A Gradual Progression: Holly’s Story
“Homesteading is about living a life without a lot of modern conveniences. It’s about going back to basics and living in sync with the seasons.” -Holly Holly and her family live on 17 acres in West Virginia. She is the author of Simply Resourceful. Her site talks about simple ways to be more conscious about […]
A View of the Freeway: Kathryn’s Story
“I see homesteading as making the most out of the resources available to you, and attempting to create and produce instead of always being a consumer.” – Kathryn Kathryn and her husband Edward have three little girls ages 6, 4, 2, and they are expecting another child in June. Kathryn works from home doing transcription […]
Finding a Balance: Danielle’s Story
“For us, homesteading is a way to reconnect to the land – where our food comes from, how an animal is raised, how a coop can be built – and add balance to a life that has not forsaken modern conveniences. If our boys can hike a mountain trail, or milk a goat, with the […]
