What Homesteaders do on Vacation

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We stay busy, that’s what we do! Daniel has a week of vacation and we decided to get a whole bunch of things done around the homestead. We’re having a blast cooking, planting, digging, and making things together. Be prepared, lot’s of photos ahead 😉

I know a lot of you have been around for awhile, but I have been getting a lot of new readers. I think there is a little confusion over where we live and what we are doing. So, I’m going to clarify a few things again for all the new readers 🙂 We live in a small town setting on a small lot. Town homesteading, if you will, we purchased this property as an investment. We have lived here for just over a year and plan on fixing and improving our property for the next 2-4 years. Our BIG goal, is to buy ten to twenty acres and homestead full time. We are working on putting things into place now, that will pay off later. We also have a goal to learn as much as we can, right now while we have the time. Because we know how much work it is to start a homestead from scratch, how do we know? Well, for five years we lived off-grid building up our five-acre homestead. We sold our five-acre homestead a year ago, to regroup, reinvest, and plan for our future.

I know a lot of you like the Off-Grid info, and part of you would like more on town homesteading. I plan on giving a little of both worlds. We will revisit our old homestead, and show you how we apply what we learned from homesteading those five years. We are working on permaculture design on our town lot and it’s really changing how we look at gardening. Like I said before, “I really believe you can homestead anywhere, it’s a mindset more than anything”.

Little man, is enjoying the great outdoors in the playpen, whilst we work 🙂

This is my cool DIY plant starting rack. It rocks!

Above, is my really cool new compost bucket that Daniel and my daughter made for me. They know me too well. Below, is my new water jar tote. I like to use glass for everything and needed a tote I could carry all our drinks in. I wanted to be able to take our water and coffee/tea cups on the go, in the car, camping and wherever!
Daniel made it out of pallet wood, and I love it.

French Macarons, for my sweet sixteen birthday girl, more on these yummies later!

We have been making loads of jerky this week, it does not last long in this family 🙁

I could post more, but I will leave you with what is roasting in my oven as I type this. It’s been rainy and cool the last few days and I pulled out a turkey for such a perfect time as this. We have a few more days of vacation left in which we will go visit friends, and have some family over!

Happy almost Spring!

– Abby Jo