Your Guide to the Homestead or Small Farm
There are many reasons to homestead and just as many ways to start. Follow along our journey to self-sufficiency and find ways to jumpstart your homestead or hobby farm. Unlike other homesteading and hobby farm blogs, we focus on efficiency because time is our scarcest resource.
Sow | Grow | Repeat
Articles
- Why the Homestead Life Rejects Convenience
We live in a world of pre-sliced cheese, next-day shipping, and programmable thermostats. You can go years without touching real dirt, making real food, or solving a real problem with your own two hands. Everything is engineered to be asContinue reading “Why the Homestead Life Rejects Convenience” - Lessons of Thrift from a Civil War Era Farmer
Edmund Morris’ book Ten Acres Enough: The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming presents a unique view into the life of an ordinary man, who like many today, dreamt of moving to the country as a small time farmer. MorrisContinue reading “Lessons of Thrift from a Civil War Era Farmer” - To Farm, Or Not to Farm
The idea of quitting my day job and turning the homestead into a for-profit farm is an alluring idea. In sum, what I can’t help but contemplate regularly is whether I really want to be a homesteader or a farmer,Continue reading “To Farm, Or Not to Farm” - Analysis Paralysis on the Homestead
Homesteaders want to do many things, often with limited budget, space, and time. Particularly in those first few years, many will feel overwhelmed by the dozens of projects they want to complete. I feel this acutely, especially when I estimateContinue reading “Analysis Paralysis on the Homestead” - One Rule of Farming to Never Forget
There are many little rules to farming or homesteading, some passed down from grandparents, some learned from experience, and others learned from YouTube or blogs. There is one rule I’ve come to learn through experience and lots of research intoContinue reading “One Rule of Farming to Never Forget” - Why I Bought a Compact Tractor (and not any other farm vehicles)
Ideally, I would have an ATV, a UTV, a farm truck, a back-hoe, and a compact tractor (heck, throw in a super-sized tractor since it’s all hypothetical), but I (like most of you) don’t have a couple hundred thousand dollarsContinue reading “Why I Bought a Compact Tractor (and not any other farm vehicles)”
About Us
We started homesteading on six acres in central Georgia in mid-2022. We are constantly working on projects around the homestead, from clearing land, to fencing, to planning our next endeavor.
We aim to grow as much food as possible to feed our family (and maybe others one day). Following many of the practices of the organic market gardeners but substituting in our own methods where we see fit, we aim to produce a wide variety of fruits and vegetables to feed us all year round.
We tend a flock of 15 hens for eggs and 12+ chickens for meat this year. This is just the beginning of our home meat production, and we have plans within the next year or two for pigs and goats.
Why Homestead?
There has never been a better time to start homesteading. The world is a crazy place, and there are hundreds of resources and tools to make homesteading easier than ever.
Gain peace in a crazy world.
Few things in this world are as peaceful as an idyllic homesteading life.
Know your food.
There’s nothing more reassuring about the health and ethics of your food when you produce it yourself.
Experience the joy of growing.
Being outside with your hands in the dirt is a great way to decompress from the stresses of the day.
Become self-sufficient.
To produce one’s one food is to be secure in your most fundamental needs.
Born for the Barn 