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Surviving in the Country

There are many websites available that talk about the specifics of homesteading, homeschooling, homemaking, cooking, chickens, ducks, goats, rabbits, bees, bread making, cheese making, soap making, gardening but few tell you the truth about day to day life. Having started as a city girl raised around the world, coming to terms with country living and survivalist skills has been an adventure.

One day in the fall of 2006, as I stood in my suburban yard and I thought, gee while I was growing up, living in the city and shopping at the mall or working 24/7 for someone else was not the dream I had. So I put my house up for sale and moved to the country, well small town anyway.

We don't live in the traditional homesteading home, we only have 3/4s of an acre that used to be horse property, but we have transformed it into our little slice of paradise. Admittedly though, it is a work in progress. We enjoy our little homestead.

That first year as spring approached (we moved in the dead of winter, with lots of snow and stuff) we started looking at our options. I knew we wanted chickens, rabbits, goats and a big garden and lots of fruit trees and bees. Armed with my handy dandy version of Carla Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living I started out full of confidence and headed for both amazement and disappointment which you can explore with me over the rest of the pages of this site.

Over the years of living here in Cache Valley Utah, I have met some very interesting and talented people. People who love to share out of their abundance of experience.  Please check out our forum about everything homesteading and homeschooling, introduce yourself, ask questions, post jokes.  Think of it as a living room (or camp fire) where you can share and be encouraged.