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How we became small town homesteaders
Homesteading refers to a self-sufficient lifestyle, which can include activities like growing your own food and preserving it. The authors are a couple whose journey into homesteading began in 2021 with a small garden and has expanded into maintaining a large vegetable garden and a flock of chickens. The experience, which included elements of preserving…
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Homeschooling with ADHD
WHEN YOU AND YOUR KID HAVE ADHD! We started homeschooling this year and it’s certainly come with some challenges. Not only do I have to navigate life having ADHD, but I also have to learn how to teach a mini-me, who also has ADHD and just doesn’t know it. It’s half the reason we decided…
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Coming Home
Last week was a big week! On Friday 2/23, I finally left my career to be a stay-at-home mom and full-time homesteader. I won’t lie, I’m still a little shook up about it because this happened 4 full weeks early, but I know this is what God wanted us to do. A full-on leap of…
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Loss on the Homestead
The time has come. We’ve had our chickens for 9 months with zero indication that predators could get to them. Then we came back from a long weekend vacation and boom, two chickens missing. Two out of our ten chickens were just gone. Not much evidence as to what happened to them other than the…
Welcome to my blog! I’m Amber!
My family and I strive to live life more traditionally. We grow and preserve our own food, raise chickens, homeschool, and try to find new ways to be self sufficient. I started this blog with one purpose- to teach new homesteaders, homeschoolers, and homemakers how to live more traditionally in hopes that the next generation retains some of the old ways.
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