Category: Self-Sufficiency

Moving back to the country, digging the garden, hauling wood, clearing land, helps you reconnect with the earth. It’s also helpful to overcome fears that you have no choice but to face.   I’ve never been a fan of bugs. I had serious arachnophobia as a kid, loathed earwigs, and was (more rightfully so) petrified

I knew a few things about myself before we started homesteading.  I mean I recognized a few aspects of my personality that would be obstacles to traditional homesteading.  I knew that I didn’t exactly have a green thumb. I knew that I would have to develop greater upper body strength to chop wood, and I