Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.
– David Shi
Homesteading
Homesteading isn’t where you live. It’s how you live. If you are taking an active role in your food production, you are a homesteader. For the agrarian, it’s about exercising dominion over the Lord’s Creation and mindful stewardship of the land and livestock. Your property with all its imperfections is what He has blessed you with and called you to manage today.
As we work to be more self sufficient, to know where our food comes from and what’s in it, we are growing in our skills and knowledge. We make mistakes that help us do thing better the next time. We seek to give back to the land as it gives to us. We want to walk beside you in your journey as we grow in this together.
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