We draw closer and closer to Our Grand Adventure.  We are roughly 40 days from hitting the road. I am pumped! I have been packing and sorting and sorting and packing. I’d say I am 1/4 of the way there. The hubs has been working hard on his days off sprucing up our one acre ‘farm’. The chickens are gone. The garden looks promising. The house has been repainted. Trees are trimmed. Washes and walkways weeded and raked.

I discovered,  via Pinterest, a great blog called theprairiehomestead.com . It is a delightful blog with thoughtful posts on many things about homesteading (wherever you may be, be it apartment or farm) from wholesome recipes to how to naturally disinfect a chicken coop. Good stuff. To top it off, she is a Christ follower! I love it when I come across other believers. It just energizes me. On one of my recent visits, I decided to purchase and download an ebook that Jill Winger from The Prairie Homestead wrote called Your Custom Homestead, Awakening a Fresh Vision of Homesteading. It was $4.99 and I believe, well worth it. In it, she walks you through 21 days of practical things you can do to begin homesteading right where you are. She even dedicates some of the chapters to helping you establish a vision for your homestead by writing down goals, a mission statement and even has you recognize the reasons behind why you want to homestead. It is an easy read and the chapters are short (there are only 78 pages in the entire book).

One of the first thing Jill recommends you do is to put together a binder to keep all of your thoughts and ideas and resources in one place.

The next bit of homework  was to establish the reasons I want to homestead. I will post them someday but I’d like to wait until the hubs writes his down too.

I am sure I should have been packing and sorting instead of taking on another project. However, my brain needs food quite regularly so my life is peppered with various interests and projects. I believe this one will be quite beneficial.

Ciao!