by Victoria Gazeley | Oct 10, 2011 | Animals, Chickens, From City to Country, Lessons, Livestock
JANUARY 2012 UPDATE: We’ve just hit our ‘8 month’ anniversary of getting our first chickens, and I have to add that we lost one of our girls to a coyote while they were free-ranging one day last fall. She was a free spirit and used to wander WAY...
by Victoria Gazeley | Aug 22, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, From City to Country, Lessons
There are days that I wonder what I was thinking by trying to do this modern homesteading thing on my own. Like this past week. There I was, having not been sick at all for at least a year, finally feeling human again after more than a week of being unable to walk...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jul 28, 2011 | Fear, From City to Country, Homestead Planning, Lessons, Mindset
If there’s one thing I hear over and over from readers who have a dream of rural living, is that it’s their spouse, family or friends who are keeping them from their modern homesteading dream. Let’s face it – while the number of people desiring...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jul 26, 2011 | From City to Country, Lessons, Mentoring
Moving from the city to country comes with its own set of challenges, especially for those of us who didn’t grow up that way. In other words, if you’re going to do this thing, it’s important to get yourself some mentors who can download their brains...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jul 17, 2011 | From City to Country, Lessons
There’s this affliction that’s been going around for a few years now – it plants this really vivid dream in your head of escaping the rat race and moving to the country. Of growing your own food, collecting your own eggs and your children being raised under the...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jun 26, 2011 | Homesteading Stories, Lessons
Now you know my shame. I haven’t planted my garden yet. How can someone who claims to be a ‘modern homesteader’ not have planted her garden by the end of June, you ask? Let me tell you… It started with the weather. Cold, rainy, muddy –...
