Homesteading, Gardening and Backyard Farming
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...
Electric chicken fence saved our hens from a pack of coyotes!
Poultry Net Electric Fence saved the day! Right in the middle of writing this blog post the same gray coyote had the nerve to show up right behind...
When Life Gets Real
Empty pastures, empty pens, empty hen houses…life on the farm is pretty empty. I’ve been quiet the last few months and felt you all deserved an...
A Lesson in Saving the Bees
I remember the day when our granddaughter came running in the house asking her Poppy to come kill the bees that were on the flowers she was trying...
Finding Your Place as a Homesteader
Have you ever wondered what your purpose in life is, or what your life as a homesteader should look like? I remember when I first left my full-time...
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.
