Homesteading, Gardening and Backyard Farming
10 Steps for Living a Simple Self-sufficient Lifestyle
10 Steps to Self-sufficiency Learning to live a simple life starts with learning how to take care of yourself; it's knowing that whatever tomorrow...
4 Tips on Homesteading for Beginners
If you’re here, then you have a dream about homesteading A dream that consists of being more self-sufficient, maybe it’s gathering eggs or walking...
Homestead Seed Kit Makes Choosing Seeds Easy
Save time with this Homestead Seed Kit For the last few weeks, my mailbox has been jam-packed with seed catalogs from at least ten different seed...
7 Signs You’re a Country Girl
I've lived in the country for a better part of my whole life. My fingernails have been caked with dirt, I've worn holes in the knees of my jeans,...
Best Backyard Chickens
Best Backyard Chickens for the Small Farmer With so many choices it's hard to know which are the best backyard chickens to raise. Much of your...
13 Tips on How to Become More Self-Sufficient
When you make the mindful choice to simplify your life you automatically start thinking of ways you can take care of yourself and become more...
Are You on a Quest for a Simple Life?
This is how our simple life started. I remember the moment like it was yesterday... My husband and I were in our office, the phones were ringing,...
Beginners Guide to Raising Goats
Quick Start Guide to Raising Goats I've always wanted to add goats to our homestead but was always a little nervous since I knew nothing about...
Preserving Vegetables – Harvesting Your Garden
Preserving Vegetables to Last all Winter Long You've spent months planning, planting, growing, watering, fertilizing and now your garden is...
Homemade Beeswax Hand Lotion
From hive to honey to hands with homemade beeswax hand lotion Our bees have been busy making honey and filling our hive box with all-natural beeswax...
Clean Eating Meal Plan on a Homestead Diet
Why I stopped following the doctor's advice and started a clean eating meal plan. For years I've been told; no-fat, low-fat, low-carb, count...
Learn to Become a Producer, Not a Consumer
How to become a Producer, not a Consumer? For us, it means keeping life as simple as possible. It means living as close to the land and being as...
Hidden away in the Upstate of South Carolina is a little farm where we call home. Surrounded by century-old pecan and oak trees, we live on a 120-year-old homestead. By the grace of God, we were called to restore this 1890 farmhouse along with its barns, gardens and long-forgotten cotton field to its original working farm. Dedicating ourselves to reusing, recycling and making do we are living a very simple life building our backyard farm.
Are you looking to slow down and live a simpler life?
Do you feel like the world is closing in around you, and you want to hide and find a place where you can be alone?
That was us ten years ago!
I'm so happy you've landed here and I can share some of the simple living principles that have made a huge difference in our lives.
