Do you want to know what it was like to run a Homestead in the late 19th century? Do you like to read a reality novel to learn something from the past? I love to learn things about the past. Because we run a modern Homestead I am really curious to find out how people …

Don’t you enjoy working on your Homestead anymore, because it is so overwhelming? Does it make you wonder whether other homesteaders have the same trouble and why on earth somebody would start a homestead? In this blog I want to tell you something about a book I read and how exactly it changed my view …

For four weeks on a row we were working our heads off. Trying to harvest all our fruit, make cheese, getting the fruit processed, cleaning the house, laundry, dishes it needs to be finished. There was too much work on our homestead. The work goes on and on, endless.  I never imagined that running a …