by Victoria Gazeley | Dec 31, 2012 | Home Business from the Homestead, Online Business Tools, Rural Home Office, Rural Technology
My satellite internet died one morning at the beginning of December. An hour on the phone with tech support and it turned out the issue was probably one of having to recalibrate the dish (i.e., seems it had shifted and was off the signal beam). Which meant waiting...
by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 17, 2011 | Animals, Chickens, From City to Country, Home Business from the Homestead, Lessons, Livestock, Mice, Mindset, Pests, Rural Home Office, Rural Technology
Time for me to come clean. I love the rural life, really I do, but there are some days when the comfort of a city condo would be a welcome distraction. And honestly? A relief. Like the days when it’s sub-zero and I forgot to pick up winter work gloves to do...
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 | 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!...
by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 4, 2010 | From City to Country, Home Business from the Homestead, Online Business Tools, Rural Technology
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...
by Victoria Gazeley | Oct 21, 2010 | From City to Country, Home Business from the Homestead, Rural Technology
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...
