Off The Beaten Path

Immersing oneself in a dream is lovely, but to walk in reality means that there is an awful lot of just plain hard work that has to happen. We certainly didn’t have the money to fund our dream. A family of five with a single income in this day and age is not a proposition…

The journey toward a homestead and a self-sufficient life is always a long one. Sometimes, the journey is scenic and lovely and one just looks around and loves the moment; but more often than not, it is a white-knuckle ride over deeply rutted road with hairpin turns, very few guardrails, no roadmap and the tank…