My First 60 + 10 Years My first 60 years started in Strasburg Colorado, a small farming town about 30 miles east of Denver. My growing up years were continued in Denver, Commerce City, Craig, Silverthorne, Adams City all in Colorado with a short stay in Provo Utah before a return to Colorado, first to …
Sample Choices When the desire for having one’s own homestead becomes strong enough to cause action, a plan for making it happen is necessary. Some of the options for creating this plan include: Get out of debt and accumulate enough cash to purchase your dream homestead. Convert your existing home into a homestead. Use your …
Homesteading Requires Seven Virtues to be Successful. I once bought a book called “Homesteading in the 21st Century”. The authors are our age but have been doing it since the 1970s. I gave the book to my daughter when she and her husband got an acre of land and chickens. However, I always remembered one …
Nutrition is in our hands. Grow your food. It happens all the time. Even today, when a farmer/homesteader was asked why he started his farm, the answer was. “The only way we can eat the proper food is to grow it ourselves, because the people who are supposed to be keeping our food safe, are …
Our Mission – Our Why Our Mission is birthed out of purpose, principles and conviction. We provide nourishment for our God-given body in a way that shows respect to Him and us and help others to have hope in a healthy future by the fuel they provide their body. This is our why. For too …
Why Time Management Matters Time management is crucial in order to have a successful time on your homestead. Perhaps you have a personality like ours. No matter where you live or the time of life you are in, you find yourself busy. Busy is not bad. Being too busy causes stress which causes stress on …
What is a Chicken Tractor? Often, we forget that not everyone is aware of all the terminology and topics so familiar in our day-to-day lives. When Rhenda told our son that we had built a chicken tractor for our new hens he asked, “A what?” What was obvious to us was foreign to him. He …
Going Back to Our Roots – Missouri holds a secret for us. It appears we have gone back to our roots by moving to Missouri. Jim and I research our past family history regularly. We are very interested in the genealogy of our family. We knew we have roots on both sides of our family …
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. …
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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Seeking our Connection Connected and happy. This week Jim is writing the blog while Rhenda completes the weekly newsletter. We are scheduled to have both ready for publication before bedtime. Moving has been challenging for our Youtube production and our blogs and a few days with limited to no Internet has limited our abilities. Today, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Abandoned Farms of America If you have ever walked on the land of a lonely farm you may have felt what we are about to describe. There are sleeping farms all over America but especially in the Colonial East. Previous generations farmed it and as each generation passed it to another, eventually there was no …
Farmers, Respect Yourself by Dressing the Part Joel Salatin, farmer extraordinaire, asks that when we appear in public to sell our goods, give a speech or interact as a homesteader or farmer that we do so well dressed to help break the stereotypical vision of what others think of farmers. When we farmers and homesteaders …
Below is the COF recipe included in Steve’s new book: To make enough complete organic fertilizer to generously cover 100 square feet, mix: 3 quarts oil seed meal such as soybean meal, cottonseed meal or canola seed meal or 1 1/2 quarts feather meal or fish meal (smelly) or, the very best combination is probably …
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