Not Just Homesteading

When my husband chose to change his lawncare strategy a decade & a half ago and brought in cows to mow the front yard and goats to clear the brush in the back, we naturally started becoming homesteaders.

And when we decided to do more with the dirt that surrounded our home than simply travel on it and began to sow seed & transplant starter plants, bushes & trees into it, we naturally began to become food producers and eventually gardeners.

Today, those who drive by our property can see that we are a bit over-the-top in our homesteading.

We have way more animals roaming the land than we really need to manage. And our gardens are overflowing with produce that often ends up in the mouths of our livestock.

While we put up a Homestead Stand at the edge of our property many years ago to facilitate the exchange of our excess produce with passersby at the time, that stand has morphed into something else, void of any kind of “for sale” sign.

This is because we are not just homesteading. We are building something greater, a more robust way of life — to include something more akin to a townsquare. We are seeking to build a community around us.

Restoring the Natural Order

We recognize that humans were designed, not only to live off the land, but also to live in community with other human beings. This is the Natural Order of mankind.

And while there is a grand movement sweeping this country of folks returning to the land, seeking to live a more natural lifestyle, many are still tied into the grid of the artificial world being run by Powers-that-shouldn’t-be.

I’m not simply talking about the energy power grid. I’m talking about the greater grid, the matrix if you will, that includes person-to-person, world-wide communications and a monetary-based global economy.

So, while folks seek to live more naturally, consuming & utilizing food that grows from the earth as opposed to a petri dish, and are getting closer to nature, they are missing out on what I believe to be a more necessary ingredient for long-term living.

That is, the Natural Order of community, starting with the family unit, and extending to localized clusters of households of every shape & size, voluntarily working together to live.

And by “live”, I mean physically working together, sharing with & learning from one another, exchanging goods & services face-to-face and simply socializing with one another offline.

Now, I’m not faulting anyone for living tied into the grid because we were all born into that artificial world, and it is a complex process to come out of it. Make no mistake, my husband and I are still in it. However, we are strategically working our way out of it.

And this is why we are not just homesteading.

This is why:

• We have more animals and fertility than is needed to support our single family of five.
• We put a kitchen & bathroom in our barn and periodically host community gatherings of all kinds.
• Our land continually looks unkempt in a constant “under construction” state of being.
• We don’t accept money for our homestead produce and loathe the idea of needing money at all.
• We are constantly looking for others who are also trying to come out of the System to cooperate with us.

We believe living well outside the System takes a village of self-ruling, self-governing households committed to working together on the local level to meet one’s own needs, as individuals and as a community.

So, we are homesteaders seeking to be community builders, as we continue in our journey out of the artificial world with its harmful systems being run by criminals and into a world of existence that is more aligned with our natural, intended design.

What about you?

Where are you in the grand scheme of things? Are you an active part of a community tied to the natural world, seeking to untether itself from the matrix? Would you like to be?

If so, please reach out and connect with us. We welcome the opportunity to connect with you. 🙂