Home Life

One fo my favorite resources is www.pathtofreedom.com It’s a journal, blog, information archive, etc. of a city homestead and all of these great things they do to help and teach others that they can homestead no matter where they live.  A lot of their information is coming in handy now that we live in the city - though our property is much smaller than theirs, I’d like to think we can follow many of the same ideas.  I started getting my garden plot together (better late than never, right?  Hey - at least I started a lot of my plants early this year and have been eating fresh green beans and peas for a few months now from my container plants).

Anyway, this ‘100 foot diet challenge’ is a challenge to all households, starting once a week, to eat a meal prepared from totally home-grown and home-made ingredients.  I try to prepare every meal for my family in this way, however not having any livestock it’s really hard to provide home grown meat

http://urbanhomestead.org/journal/2008/01/06/100-foot-diet-challenge-launch/ is your information page. 

Who will be joining this challenge with me?  We need to band together and fight what this world is coming to.  one household at a time, we can make a difference together.

For many, a garden of any size is practical.  If you live in an apartment, container gardens (indoors or out) is an option.  For those with homes, an in-ground garden (and/or container gardens) are an option.  For most of us, however, growing our own meats, dairy and eggs can be a bit of a challenge.  I’ll venture to say that most in an apartment setting probably can’t do this.  Buy local if you can, to support those who are able to raise meat locally for other locals to eat.  If you have a backyard then you have more options - goats for milk, chickens for meat and eggs, rabbits for meat - all are great small space livestock.  I’m entertaining the idea of each of those for our city backyard but I really, really have to do some thinking.  I know they won’t take up too much space but I do have to share my backyard with my kids, our boat, another vehicle when we get one, and my garden!

We moved spur of the moment and I wont be able to continue these meetings after the first scheduled ones so I figure why even bother having a meeting if I can’t continue them. WIth the cost of gas, and where we live now, it’s just too far!

So the homesteading and homeschooling meetings are going to be cancelled. If anyone wants to take them over, feel free.

We took the opportunity to move our of our duplex into a 4 bedroom house all to ourselves and couldn’t resist. ;-)  So now we’re living in South Toledo.