Home Business from the Homestead

Modern Homesteading – Lessons Learned So Far (Part I)

This rural living gig is still fairly new to us. We’ve been living in our little cabin in the woods for almost two years. After growing up in the country, 22 years living in the city and then 6 months in temporary digs while we renovated our 80+ year-old heritage log cabin, I finally moved [...]

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Planning Towards Self-Sufficiency for 2011 (and Beyond!)

I spent yesterday going over my goal-setting mind map from last January. This time last year, I had no garden, no greenhouse, an old, decrepit woodshed, an overgrown brush pile where the pasture now stands, no blueberry patch (tiny though it is) and no website! Amazing how much you can get done if you actually [...]

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Working Online from Your Homestead – 5 Tools to Use

If you long for the rural life, but just can’t figure out how you’re going to work successfully from your homestead, I know how you feel – it’s terrifying! Just the thought of it probably brings up a whole wheelbarrow load of resistance. I know it did me. You might decide to commute and continue [...]

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No Regrets: 10 Key Things to Consider Before Moving to the Country

The country lifestyle is not for everyone. Every day I commute into my job in the city I hear at least one fellow commuter complaining about the ferry service. Or about logging on the local mountain. Or the weather. Which always leads me to wonder, “What did you think it would be like when you [...]

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Your Country Home Office: Does Your Dream Homestead Property Have What it Takes?

Why it was an afterthought, I can’t even begin to tell you. When I began planning our move to a little rural homestead, I knew I’d be working from home. I had a full time job that required accessing the internet for everything. I built websites and did some graphic design work ‘on the side’. [...]

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