by Victoria Gazeley | Feb 22, 2013 | Mentoring, Rural Living Skills
As an urbanite, I had this long-held dream of homesteading, of living off our own rural property, collecting eggs from our free ranging chickens, picking and storing our own organic vegetables and fruit, and working from home. I think I even romanticized it a bit...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jun 17, 2012 | About Us, From City to Country, Lessons, Mentoring, Rural Living Skills
I’m looking out my office window at the foundation of the new addition we’re building onto our little cabin. Or really, that my Dad is building as I keep working so I can pay for it. And it’s got me to thinking about where we’d be without his...
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 | Apr 30, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Mentoring, Uncategorized
As I’ve ventured down the road of becoming more self-sufficient, one thing has become abundantly clear: my skills for storing food are sadly lacking. Because I never learned these things growing up, I have to learn it now. But I’m lucky – there are...
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!...
