We are settled into our new homestead. Finally. But it was a LOT of work getting to this point. When our homestead in CT went onto the market to be sold things moved quickly. In just 10 days we had an offer on the place and accepted it. Suddenly we needed a place to live […]
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3 Mistakes New Homesteaders Make
It was the first year on our new homestead and we decided with summer coming we were going to start a garden. I brought in a skid loader, dump truck, and an excavator. We tour up about a half an acre lot, took all the topsoil off of it, screened it and put it all […]
Daddy Left Us – How Do We Handle The Farm While He is Gone?
After leasing the buck Quinn for the last few months to have our does bred it was finally time to bring Quinn home. Back in December we picked Quinn up, and for those of you who remember watching that video, it was NOT a nice road trip – A buck during mating season is a […]
Using a Lifestyle Business to Design the Life You Want
Sometimes the most obvious way of solving a problem is not the best way. On this episode of Homesteady, we explore our most valuable non-renewable resource: time. Beginning with the story of the Village on the Hill, we see that looking outside the box for a different solution may be the best way for us […]
Why Your Homestead Business Will Fail
On this episode of Homesteady, Aust further explores the dream vs. the reality of homesteading, by explaining the harshest reality of them all: why your homestead business WILL fail. Through video, Aust’s brother-in-law parodies the overt optimism that brings us into the homesteading world in the first place: the beauty of vegetables, the imagined ease […]
Snow, chicken poop, farm fresh milk and Killing birds. I love homesteading weeks like these.
We are moving livestream nights… Stay tuned. There will be no live stream tonight as we are preparing for the launch of our new forum next week. Snow, chicken poop, farm fresh milk and Killing birds. I love homesteading weeks like these. It started off cleaning coops with my wife. Now I don’t love cleaning […]
