Creating a Homestead


Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Create Vision and Respond to Change, Earth Care, Fair Share, Inner Permaculture, Integrate, Don't Segregate, Make No Waste, Obtain a Yield, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Use and Value Gifts from Nature

I have started back into looking at real estate sites.  Wondering what life could be like if we were to move to a farm and homestead on a larger scale.  I have dreams of living somewhere off grid with a woodlot and a stream.  Enough room for pastured chickens and perhaps even a jersey cow.  […]

July 23, 2015

Goal Oriented


Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Create Vision and Respond to Change, From Pattern to Details, Inner Permaculture, Integrate, Don't Segregate, Parenting, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Unschooling

I am currently struggling with my lack of defined goals for the future.  Now that I’m a stay-at-home unschooling mom, I feel lost at times, wanting there to be some sort of tangible short term goal to reach.  There isn’t one.  And as far as my children’s education is concerned, I don’t want there to […]

June 16, 2015

When to Jump


Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Consumerism, Create Vision and Respond to Change, Forest Gardening, From Pattern to Details, Inner Permaculture, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback

We dream about moving to a larger property.  We’d like to move somewhere with enough acreage to house some livestock, with 10 or more acres.  We would love to build our own natural home or earth ship.  We would love to live off the grid.  The dream world looks so beautiful.  But when my bleary dreaming eyes […]

December 17, 2014