Owning a homestead is wonderful.  Paying for it is not.  When Bre and I first started planning on buying and building a homestead, we had a target budget of $60,000 for land.  We spent almost twice that, and that’s when we realized how challenging this would be.

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“What did you want to be when you were a kid?”  It’s a common question people ask each other.  Often, I say that I never really knew, and I still don’t.  But that’s not entirely true.  Let me share my secret with you. (more…)

When I began the process of designing this website and blog, I had to seriously ask myself the question “why?”  Let me back track a little bit; I should have titled this post “The reason why I post and all that entails,” but that seems too wordy. (more…)