Welcome to our Journey
Check out our City to Farm Escape Plan.
As part of our City to Farm Plan we want to learn building skills. We want to build our own house, so in June 2018 we took the Basics of Building Class from the Heartwood School of Homebuilding Crafts. (Heartwood website) While this meant we sacrificed our vacation this summer for school, we deeply enjoyed […]
We are super excited to start actually looking at land to buy! What an exciting new adventure to have embarked upon. Tim and I have been on the hunt for a rural property to start to develop. One day we hope to call it home. You can read our full transition plan here: City to […]
In late March 2018, I took an Axe Skills course with Mountainsong Expeditions. I deeply enjoyed getting a comprehensive education on axes in one day. This saved some of the piecemeal learning, one would normally pick up over time from their elders or through the school of hard-knocks. I started having used an axe only […]
In February, I got the awesome chance to go hang out with my friends at their parent’s +150 acre farm. Always eager to learn a new skill, Cole strapped his chainsaw to the back of his four-wheeler. I hopped on the other one, and off we went to find a nice, dead, non-intimidating tree for […]
Today is a snow day. The kind of snow that is wet and heavy flakes that cling to the trees. Each tree is given it’s own winter coat, to shine in the sun and brighten the day. I love this kind of winter day! I also love gardening in the spring. To each it’s own […]
- Class Review of Boston Firearm School’s LTC Course
- Class Review of Cheese-making Class at the Milk Shanty
- Class Review of Mass Wildlife: Basic Hunter Education
- 10 Lessons Learned from Last Year’s Garden 2017
- 10 Things I Learned on my First Deer Hunt
- Final 2017 Community Garden Yields
- My First 2017 Harvest + Blooming Vegetables
- Post-Vacation Garden Growth
- Preparing My Garden for Vacation: Community Garden Update
- My Community Garden Layout for Summer Success
- 10 Lessons Learned from Last Year’s Garden 2016
- City to Farm Strategy
- Why Am I so Passionate about Preparedness
- Why Am I so Passionate About Homesteading
Support Us
This blog takes time and money to maintain. If you like our work, would you consider supporting our efforts to bring you important and relevant content?
Consider:
- Bookmark this link for Amazon. As we are an affiliate, when you buy anything (literally anything) through this link we get a small commission without adding any cost to you. Win-win for both of us!
- Subscribe to our newsletter above and follow us on Facebook and Pinterest.