12/10/2023 0 Comments 10 acre hobby farm layout![]() It eventually led to our first book Growing Simple, something we never imagined we would be writing some 10 years ago! The Next 10 Years – Creating A Self-Sufficient Homestead And we discovered we loved writing and talking about what we loved doing just as much as doing it. In fact, it was somewhat of a joke to keep family and friends from thinking we had lost our mind by trying to grow all our own food!īut somehow it evolved and grew into a life of its own. When we began this journey 10 years ago, we started documenting it all with what was a little tiny blog we called Old World Garden Farms. In 2016, we built our little 1054 square foot home and finally fulfilled our dream to live at the farm. See: The Five Simple Secrets To Create A More Self Sufficient Life. Or maybe just by slowing down and enjoying life without the need to be rushed. Or perhaps building and creating things they need. One thing is for sure, whether you live in a tiny apartment, or have 5000 acres, anyone can live a little better by becoming more self sufficient.īy learning to grow some of their own food. And that includes the failures right along with the successes. After all, the only time you truly fail is when you give up.Īnd honestly, we both will tell you we have enjoyed the process probably even more than the results. And more importantly, kept at whatever we were doing until we figured it out. We faced a lot of challenges, but had a lot of fun with the process.īut we have laughed and smiled all along the way. Building our own barn from 2 old barns was quite the learning experience. And oh have we ever failed at building and planting things. It is one thing we certainly have always done, and will always do! Oh, yes, have we ever screwed up projects! In fact, many, many times. Meaning, to enjoy the path, the journey and the process as much as the final outcomes. And to us, it really is the secret to creating a homesteading success and life.Īnd that goal? To always, always, always find the fun in everything we do. There was one final goal we both agreed on more than anything else. Built from recycled pallets and shipping crates, it was created for under $100. And we knew the more we learned to do ourselves, the more we could save. We started with what was most important to us – creating a more simple, self sufficient life.Ī life in which we could grow and preserve most of our food, build and create more of what we used, and follow our passions of gardening, cooking and all things DIY.īut we also wanted to do it with a zero-debt philosophy. Old World Garden Farms as it looks in mid-September, 2020. So we sat down and scribbled out our 10 year plan to create a homestead that we could hopefully, someday actually call home. One thing is for certain, to fulfill any dream, you have to have a plan. But armed with a 10 year plan, we were determined to make it happen! Creating A Self Sufficient Homestead – The Plan And most of all, their certainly wasn’t a cabin or a house to call home. Nor was there a strawberry patch, apple trees, grape vines or blueberry bushes. There was no garden, no barn, and no chicken coop. It was September of 2010, and all we had were dreams. That’s right, this month, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Old World Garden Farms!Īnd the farm is certainly a far cry from where it was back then. That brush may look small, but it was close to 7′ tall! A look at how our little self sufficient farm looked September 1st, 2010.
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