Planning the Modern Homestead 🤝🛠️🤩 • On today’s episode we discuss planning and building out your modern homestead on raw rural acreage and how it requires so much thinking ahead. Here on our acreage we started with the earth work first, digging trenches for our off-grid capable, gravity fed homestead water system all throughout our acreage, utilizing these same trenches to run buried electrical conduit as well. All of this meant we needed to anticipate exactly where our future home, barn, craft kitchen, greenhouse, and other outbuildings would all be located and built many months, if not years down the road. And just when you think you’ve got it all whooped, you’ll remember how another overlapping future project will require digging another trench to burry more of the same.. Planning for your future farm needs are crucial when designing how this layer cake will all come together in the end.. Today I lucked out drilling fencing post holes with the tractor and auger. I knew daily close to where my waterlines lay underneath the ground but it still makes you really nervous.. Had I been thinking ahead, I would have marked exactly where these lines ran with my future fencing project in mind.. But you’ll never remember it all. Just do your best and enjoy the process. The journey is the thing. • It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war. 🌱🥷 • #modern #rural #civilian #selfsufficient #off-grid #sustainableliving #rootcellar #switch-grid #strawbale #foodprodution #foodpreservation #beekeeping #rampump #homestead #waterislife #bushcraft #fatwood #apothecary #preparedness #precisionshooting #fish #overland #community #hunt #forage #icebath #modernruralcivilian

Locally produced Non GMO Bulk Feed ❤️🐓🐐 • On today’s episode we talk run of the mill, sack feed from the local farm store vs. local family owned, @texasridge regenerative farm produced, bulk multi species feed! We’ve had this transition to buy local on our goals list for a couple years now! The only thing stopping us was a good safe way to store 1000lbs of feed! But after visiting with our rural neighbors @cresscrossacres we learned that they keep their bulk feed in 55 gallon drums! What a good feeling to be feeding locally produced, non GMO, no corn, no soy feed to our chickens and goats! And that is only the half of it! No more running to feed store last minute, wasting fuel and time to get one of the two types of feed we use.. because god knows you always run out of one before the other.. We get to support our local rural farm neighbors in the process! This is what the evolution of the modern homestead looks and feels like! You get to help others while improving your efficiencies and making healthier choices for you, your farm and your health! Loving life! • It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war. 🌱🥷 • #modern #rural #civilian #selfsufficient #off-grid #sustainableliving #rootcellar #switch-grid #strawbale #foodprodution #foodpreservation #beekeeping #rampump #homestead #waterislife #bushcraft #fatwood #apothecary #preparedness #precisionshooting #fish #overland #community #hunt #forage #icebath #modernruralcivilian

Oil Lamps (Preparedness ✅ Ambiance ✅ Beauty ✅) • On today’s episode we discuss antique oil lamps. I just bought these 3 oil lamps for $20/each off FB Marketplace and I’m in love with them for so many reasons. They’re absolutely stunning. They give off incredible light. They provide beautiful ambiance in any home setting. And they check the box for off-grid preparedness. We all tend to think off-grid living is a new movement.. But really we’re just cycling back through the incredible simplicity our great grandparents used on a daily basis. I’m in love with everything old.. The quality is impeccable. The usability is 2nd to none. And it’s most likely a simple solution to modern problems.. Everything old is new again. And sometimes less is actually more.. 💡🤔 • It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war. 🌱🥷 • #modern #rural #civilian #selfsufficient #off-grid #sustainableliving #rootcellar #switch-grid #strawbale #foodprodution #foodpreservation #beekeeping #rampump #homestead #waterislife #bushcraft #fatwood #apothecary #preparedness #precisionshooting #fish #overland #community #hunt #forage #icebath #modernruralcivilian

The Value of a Fire Pit on the Modern Homestead • On today’s episode we discuss the crucial role of our fire pit here on our budding homestead property. From burning cardboard and paper products, wood scraps from construction, green limbs from fruit tree pruning to our social gathering space when we have friends and family stop bye. Our fire pit is priceless. 🤝🛠️🪵🔥 • It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war. 🌱🥷 • #modern #rural #civilian #selfsufficient #off-grid #sustainableliving #rootcellar #switch-grid #strawbale #foodprodution #foodpreservation #beekeeping #rampump #homestead #waterislife #bushcraft #fatwood #apothecary #preparedness #precisionshooting #fish #overland #community #hunt #forage #icebath #modernruralcivilian

Thank you all for appreciating me keeping it real 🤝🛠️ • On today’s episode we discuss an issue I had with my borrowed, neighbor’s John Deere tractor and the 3 point hitch function. Thank you all for your unwavering support of our homestead journey! It’s a beautiful struggle! • It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war. 🌱🥷 • #modern #rural #civilian #selfsufficient #off-grid #sustainableliving #rootcellar #switch-grid #strawbale #foodprodution #foodpreservation #beekeeping #rampump #homestead #waterislife #bushcraft #fatwood #apothecary #preparedness #precisionshooting #fish #overland #community #hunt #forage #icebath #modernruralcivilian