How it all started
Our journey began in 2020 after the purchase of our first home. I’d always tried to plant a garden even at rental properties. I can’t tell you how many things I have killed in my time.
When my mom planted petunias, I planted cucumber seeds. When my roommate wanted roses, I planted herbs.
The desire to grow food was always alive within me, but it was really allowed to take flight when our new home came with an existing garden plot.
Our story
I did not grow up growing food, regardless of how many times I’d tried. Instead, I grew up in military housing with a yard that could be weed-eated instead of mowed. When my husband and I met, I was a hardened girl, so sure she didn’t want kids or even a wedding. Then I fell in love with him. He wasn’t much of a traditional man back then, but the two of us grew together and now our lifestyle is completely different.
Our life
We believe in sustainability. Before we had a home, it was minimalism. Then it was “going green”. Now, we try our best to utilize our land to serve us and the community around us. Over the last 4 years, we’ve built two gardens, killed hundreds (if not thousands) of seedlings, and grown HUNDREDS of pounds of fresh food. We’ve had failed canning seals and floating raised beds after a flash flood and crying fits over homeschool days. We’ve lived through the experiments and the beautiful pain that is learning-by-doing.
I’ve decided to start this blog for one purpose. To share our failures and our wins in hopes that someone out there doesn’t have to go through the pains or stresses that we have. I hope that this blog lends itself to those at the beginning of their journey so that they may have more successes than failures. If we can do that, then maybe more homesteaders will keep the dream alive and move forward to teach other homesteaders.
“I can do everything through Him who gives me STRENGTH.”
— Philipians 4:13
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