Howdy everyone!
Thought I would take a minute to introduce myself.
A little over a year ago, my partner and I bought 30 acres of raw
land in the mountains of Northern CA, with the dream of a developing a regenerative homestead. We had a little trailer to put on the land and that was going to be our home.
Two weeks later we found out we were going to have a baby! We joke that he was waiting for us to get the land before arriving. We knew we wanted him to be born on the land, it seemed fitting since the land was bought with the intention of being a subsistence life for us. We also knoew it wasn't going to work having a newborn in a small trailer in the winter in the mountains!
So, we dove in, with a 9-month deadline... by ourselves.
This past year has been crazy - grading
water harvesting roads, power systems, gravity-fed water systems, building an alternative small home, woodshed, shop and more. While always in a rush to get our home built for the arrival of our little boy, we have applied
permie principles as much as possible.
Somehow we also started an orchard, started a flock of free-range
chickens, and developed a 1/4
acre veggie garden. Right, while figuring out how in the heck to be new parents!!
Today, I sit inside, our first winter storm of the season and work on getting caught up on rest.
Slowly but surely, I am compiling and producing our story in the form of blogs, eBooks and more. I hope others can benefit from our
experience and want to share that with you all.
Last week,
Permacultureapprentice.com featured a blog post of mine,
How to Survive your First Year Developing Land into a Homestead or Farm
Check it out.
You can follow along with us on our
Instagram Page too.
I have started to write everything you need to know to build your
permaculture homestead or farm, starting with this free eBook you can download
(check out the thread I started here).
Who else lives this kind of life?? I'd love to hear from you.
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