Hey everyone! Welcome to my blog!!!

I want to give you all a little back ground to my life and what has happened that has lead us to where we are today.

My husband and I bought our second home May 2017. It was a dream. Country community, new build, open concept house, and on 3.55 acres. Waking up to the cows in the early morning and watching the sun rise, we started dreaming what we could do.

But we spent that first year repainting all the walls, putting in new carpet, doors and trim. The house has two levels and the basement is framed in but not finished. That’ll be a project during a cold season, but not this year.

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

When Pat and I were dating, we would tell eachother what kind of life we wanted. And we ended up coming to pretty much the same conclusion; a house on some land in the country.

But we also talked about how a little hobby farm would be fun. That hobby farm included chickens and goats.

Fast forward 8 years and 2 kids later, the chickens came into the family. We figured if we were going to live in the country we had to partake in the country chores a little.

The same year that we got the chickens, we decided to build a garden. I was just getting into self sustainability. And I loved the idea of growing food for ourselves. This is how our dream started. One thing lead to another and then another.

FIRST GARDEN

That first year with our garden was awesome! We grew tomoatoes, green peppers, cilantro, jalepenoes, 4 kinds of squash, lettuce and rubarb.

This was the summer I learned to can. I made spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce, blueberry jam filling, rubarb jam, apple butter, and green pepper jelly.

This little garden made me realize I really want to start providing my own foods and make whatever I could from scratch. We started buying beef and pork from our neighbors. We knew we wanted to do meat birds but that was a few years out.

The next year our apple trees produced enough apples, (they were planted here before we moved in). Now I was able to add apple sauce to my list of things to can. I wanted to can and save as much as I could for the school year. I wanted to have that garden fresh goodness available to us at any time.

GOING GREEN

Once I figured out the garden, canning and the egg laying chickens, I began to realize that I wanted to live a little greener.

That meant utilizing the clothes line on a regular basis, cloth diapering and using our wood stove as the main heat source vs electric.

I had already been making my own laundry detergent, hand soaps and chap sticks so by adding canning and chicken momma to my list I am starting to feel that dream I had about self sustainability, also known as homesteading.

So there you have it, a glimpse into how I am becoming the person I’ve imagned being. I hope you stick around over the years and enjoy the transformations!