Spring Starts in February

On a warm August day painted with the picture-perfect blue sky, the children all congregated behind the cabin. The eldest, nearly eight now, assisted in washing laundry while he encouraged his younger brother, six, in the garden fence he was putting up. His little sister squatted down in the mud nearby, the way toddlers seem…

It all began simply enough. A few trenches here, some rebar there. Little girls with pink socks looking on. And before you knew it, the work site had erupted into utter chaos. Soon the concrete bags were flying out of the trailer and into the mixing trough. And then forms were filled and bolts sunk…

It is one thing to say we’re going to move off-grid and start a homestead and it is an entirely different thing to do it. What you think might happen really doesn’t and what you envision your days looking like isn’t really a reality. We’ve spent the past seven weeks learning that lesson, amongst others….