by Victoria Gazeley | May 31, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Home Business from the Homestead, Rural Home Office
With all the news coverage about natural disasters recently, I got to thinking – what would happen to my home-based business if my home was destroyed in a fire or my family had to be evacuated for some reason? Is my business prepared? Truth is, right now there...
by Victoria Gazeley | May 22, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Home Business from the Homestead, Homestead Planning
With all the talk these days about prepping for major events like earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, tornadoes and all the other wildness Mother Nature is throwing at us, there’s something getting lost – and that’s emergency planning for less dramatic...
by Victoria Gazeley | Feb 18, 2011 | Home Business from the Homestead, Lessons, Rural Home Office, Rural Technology
Running a web-based business that serves other web-based businesses from a rural home can be a fairly challenging experience. But if making a living on your homestead is your dream, you have to find a way to make it work. Our Internet Service Story We live in a...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 14, 2011 | Home Business from the Homestead, Homestead Planning, Homesteading Stories, Lessons, Rural Home Office
Living in the country comes with rich lessons. Every day some situation comes up that tests your endurance, your skills, or your sanity. In almost two years on our rural 6 acres, we’ve had occasion to learn a lot of things. Some are funny (‘gifts’...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 11, 2011 | From City to Country, Home Business from the Homestead, Homestead Planning, Homesteading Stories, Lessons, Mentoring, Mice, Mindset, Rural Home Office, Rural Living Skills
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...
by Victoria Gazeley | Dec 31, 2010 | Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, Homestead Planning, Mentoring, Rural Living Skills, Rural Technology
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!...
