We want to be farmers. For right now we're alright with the little urban homestead we have, but we have a master plan (& it's only ours, we'll see where we're ACTUALLY led), of being goat farmers. Well, really everything farmers. All this is the reason we ended up in Greensboro anyway, we thought here we might eventually be able to afford some land and we're getting there--dependent of course on financial institutions who are right now very hard to get money from, particularly self-employed individuals...
Our goals for the farm are immense & modern, eclectic & rugged, vintage & maybe even common (or commune). In practice we've learned so much about crops, chickens, bees, fruit, finding materials, networking, etc.
Relationships with other young homestead yearners, countless online resources, books, trips to local farms, & years of our subscriptions to Mother Earth News, Back Home, Martha Stewart, Our State & others have only deepened our urges & it's the time for us to whole-heartedly push forward. We feel it...
So, the house is being scoured, emptied & things of little necessity are being purged in hopes of impressing some new family in the market for a homestead of the urban variety. Should the money-lenders decide to keep our dreams from us (which we'll only know after January), at least the house is in tip-top shape & our clepto-tendencies have been unveiled.
We'll keep you posted with break-throughs & pitfalls. Do you have similar rural dreams?
