The promise of spring

The days are getting longer and that means spring is coming. If you were to look out our window you wouldn't believe me. Today it is cold and snowing and we have a blizzard coming with even more snow. It still seems frozen here but the animals aren't fooled. We have a rabbit due to kindle soon and we're surprised by our first chicken egg of the season! Most people don't understand why we have chosen to farm but part of that is to be connected to our land and to produce the food that we consume. Sure that means hauling buckets of hot water for our livestock and shoveling out frozen manure and animal pens but it also means getting that first taste of spring that most people are too busy to notice, from a first laid chicken egg to baby rabbits. Signs of spring are there but only if you know where to look!

Where We Stand

 Mr. C and I have decided to start a chronicle of our homestead adventures. So this space will be where we can document and look back on all of our homesteading projects, ventures, failures and shenanigans.

Let me start by saying that we have wanted to homestead for a very long time. We've been in our current home for six years. We kept putting off starting our homestead journey and coming up with multiple excuses, babies, lack of resources, lack of knowledge. More and more I realized that we have to embrace where we are in our life and follow our dreams. Life has a way of going by too quickly and if you don't follow your dreams before you know it it's going to be too late. I have a homesteading friend who taught me this. Wheather it was intentional or not I'm not sure. I visited her farm for the first time two summers ago and realized you can start farming with whatever you have wherever you are, you just have to be in the right mindset .

So this post is just a welcome to the Farm, welcome to the homestead, and welcome to the blog. We're glad to have you here. We hope you stick around and enjoy reading about our successes, our failures, our family and our animals. Thanks for stopping by!