Heartiness Approach May 11th, 2018 Our Hearts are Filled with Gratitude for YOU As we sit on the porch and feel the breeze, hear the birds and see the land we own, our hearts are full of gratitude. How did we get this? For everyone who has followed our journey, they know it was …
We wrote this article while we were planning our Missouri homestead. These are questions to ask for any homestead. The rhythm of our homestead includes making time for animals. Animals are an intricate part of success. The chickens scratch to prepare the soil for the garden. Cows provide mob grazing to improve the grass quality. …
Heartiness Approach May 4th, 2018 What is Heartiness? Even though no one has asked we want to explain the word we have chosen for the lifestyle we have chosen. A little history first. When we decided that we needed to make big changes in how we lived, we searched for …
Am I too old to start a homestead at 60?This is what a subscriber ask Justin and Rebekah Rhodes. They referred them to us, Heartiness Approach. We said, No, No, and No. We never thought we would write an article that would be titled about 60 year olds. We never wanted to exclude anyone of …
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Heartiness Approach April 27, 2018 Topsy Turvy Week with a Large Dose of Gratitude. This has been a tumble week for us. We have gone up and down and tumbled around. First of all apologies to you, our readers because we did not have the correct link to our weekly blog last week. …
Heartiness Approach April 12, 2018 Practice until the Lid Closes I love motivational speakers because they…well…motivate. They reach inside us and touch our inner self, moving us to some type of positive action. Our tenancy is to berate ourselves saying: We are not good enough. We will never overcome our past. We can …
Heartiness Approach April 6, 2018 The Promise of Spring This bird house high rise is on the property we are going to purchase. We look forward to the time when birds come and go from this sweet home. What a week this has been with the weather all over the United States and probably the …
Heartiness Approach March 30, 2018 Eleven Reasons Why We Chose Missouri Property costs are low. There were large quantities of acceptable properties at an affordable price Cost of Living is less overall. Gas prices are very low. Sustainable Living in Place is our goal and Missouri will aid in allowing that goal to become …
Heartiness Approach March 23, 2018 Seven Positive Items to get Started or Start Again. When something goes in your mouth, four things go in our mouth, A Good Protein, A Good Carbohydrate, A Good Vegetable, and A Good Fat. No more refined food. The food you eat will be real food with real one or …
Heartiness Approach March 9, 2018 Happy St Patrick’s Day – Load Up your Leprechauns With us purchasing a new homestead soon, we had a conversation with one of our children who is excited to have their future foster children and their future children spend the summertime on Grandpa and Grandmas homestead. There is nothing that …
Heartiness Approach March 9, 2018 Growing a TapRoot We discovered long ago that moving is the one thing we know how to do very well. We have met so many wonderful people in all our moves and we count ourselves lucky to know them. But we now long for a place to call …
Our Homestead Dream Fulfilling our homestead dream is what this week is all about. I am trying to put into words the feelings that are going on in my world. Jim and I culminate our 6 month journey of finding our permanent homestead by showing a YouTube video this week. Many young families are changing …
Pop a pill and go on with our lifestyle. Real Food Matters. Our love affair with food has had some very damaging results in the last few decades. Today we have more obesity, belly fat, Type II Diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure, and digestive problems than ever before. We pop …
A homestead is a place of learning new things, hard things, emotional things. It is a place of learning how to grow plants, animals, skills and wisdom. When Jim and I were first married, I expected him to be able to fix anything just like my dad could. I was disappointed and in disbelief that he …
I Can Only Imagine Last night we saw the movie, I Can Only Imagine. We cried through half of it and highly recommend it. As we prepare for our new homestead we are doing a lot of imagining. We spoke of having spiritual experiences in finding our new homestead. We came away knowing that He …
Grandchildren are a gift of joy. Tinker Bell Room When our oldest grandchildren were small we made a room in our home for them called the Tinkerbell Room. It was their bedroom. We put in bunk beds for them. We had their own toy closet with toys that just stayed at Grandma and Grandpa’s home. …
We love trees. We recently read an article about trees. A tree with well developed deep roots can withstand a great wind storm without falling over. We watched many trees with shallow root systems topple over in heavy wind and over moist ground in Oregon. A tree depends on a strong root system to reach …
Heartiness Approach March 2, 2018 Growing Food equals Sharing that Food Part of growing is community. That community may be 45 miles from you. When you live in the country everyone is a neighbor. The community is your lifeline. When you need something… When they need something… A person who moves to the country will …
A Ray of Hope An opportunity crossed our path where we were shown a husband and wife in India who have taken in boys during a drought time. Most of them have one parent but the parent is not financially capable of caring for the children. They have 25 boys who live with them and …
Heartiness Approach February 23, 2018 Why We Love Homesteading If the word homesteading to you is full of romance, animals and fun times to frolic around, we need to burst that bubble right now. It is hard and steady work. The animals need taken care of whether it is 30 ° below zero or 120 …
Create money and income on your homestead, which allows you to be profitable while doing something you love. There is never a day that goes by when we do not think of, search for, and ponder on the land that we will buy to make our forever homestead. We think long and hard about where …
Heartiness Approach February 9, 2018 Making the Most of Winter – HOPE The snow continues to be our companion. We get only glimpses of the green grass before another flurry of snow invites itself to our yard. Dark chocolate cocoa with a glimmer of coconut sugar served with a bowl of hot popcorn cooked in coconut …
Heartiness Approach February 16, 2018 Life is Filled with Hard Choices Each year of our life brings new choices. We have discovered that choices are better when we live our lives in such a way that we GET to choose rather than HAVE to choose.Let me explain. When we take care of our bodies by the food we …
