Living with Less is Liberating – Living Simple
Goodbye to things, hello to simple living and living with less! Living a simple, minimalistic lifestyle is all about reducing the number of possessions you own to only those things that add value to your life. In our home, we live by the unspoken rule that if it’s not...
Old Fashion Jump Rope Songs – Memories from the past!
Jump Rope Songs and Rhymes One of my first memories of singing jump rope songs were in elementary school jumping rope to “Down in the valley where the green grass grows there sat Tracy sweet as a rose…” What I also remember is my white knee-high...
5 Ways You to Simplify Your Life
Learn to Simplify Your Life We live in a fast-paced world and trying to find ways to slow down can be a real challenge. I have spent the last few years putting into practice things to make me stop and enjoy the life around me. Here are 5 ways you can simplify your...
How to Add Simplicity to Your Life
Simplify Your Life When I left the corporate world and came home to take care of our farm and family my life, at first, did not calm down, but went into a tailspin. I felt I needed to do everything and I wanted to be available to help whenever I could. After six...
Are you ready to give homesteading a try?
Typically we think of homesteaders as pioneers living on government free land forced to live a self-sufficient lifestyle. Today the land isn’t free and the choice to live a simpler life is being embraced by the homesteading movement. What’s so different today is those...
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.