This blog is dedicated to those who have the desire to explore and possibly start their very own small farm. Homesteading, has been a great experience for our family, learning from mistakes and what works. We got started homesteading just eight months ago by figuring out just what the land we had access to would be best suited. Since that time we have done a lot of work building a relatively inexpensive, but working micro farm.
Folks use different terms when talking about small farms. Homesteading is just one term that defines our goal of a self sufficient lifestyle. Micro-farming is another name for small farming or a small farm and again is often defined by producing your own food. The concept of small farming itself is nothing new and has been taking place on earth since the beginning of civilization. Lot's of information out there on how to build a micro farms in different locations and climates.
History and Why: My wife and I were both raised on small farms and farming runs for generations on both sides of the family. Although we still help out considerably on the established family farms, we decided to give it a try ourselves right outside our front door. We both came to the realization that homesteading would not happen overnight and would require some serious hard work and sacrifice. In the end we knew it would be rewarding to our family of four, especially for our two children. There are many aspects about farming that simply can't be learned in a classroom and require a hands on approach of just doing it.
Rest assure the information we provide will never be sponsor driven. After looking at pages and pages of information from other websites it's obvious that many articles were written to simply try and sell a product. Many of these products we have used ourselves at some point in time and would never feel comfortably recommending something that didn't perform. We may eventually let folks place their own adds on the site, but through this blog we will never personally recommend a product that we haven't tried ourselves.
