[paw4Him]

I didn’t. It chose me.

Or if you are the believing sort, God chose it for me. I’m just along for the ride. 🙂

[Nighthawk-Meadows]

Yes. I was driven (I believe by God) to this life in 2008. Boy, what a ride.

[paw4Him]

(((hugs)))

[Grampa-J]

Working on trying to get back to it. Was there for a while as a kid. Some of the happiest and peaceful memories.

[Loco-PhilNomad]

Here here – I got a calling from my Grandma to continue her legacy way on the other side of the world

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[TagNBee]

said perfectly….

[Jypsy19]

I believe God puts people in our lives and allows things to happen to shape and mold us. Because of these, we (Louise & I) try to live a life as free as we possibly can.

[JesusIsOurSaviour]

Amen to that. That’s a beautiful perspective! God bless ya’ll!

[Quail_and_Manna_Farms]

Second the motion. Amen

[potpourri_of_life]

I agree 💚

[Mottshillhomestead]

Outside the military this is the only life i have ever known.

[KramitDreams]

To be close to my creator. A reminder of what I can do, why I need him, and all the miracles that happen. The plants ,the wildlife, life in the garden..it’s all miracles! I plant, he waters 💧and gives the increase. It’s hard work (the sweat of my brow) and not always easy but the simplicity also keeps me humble.

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[MountainMike]

Miracles, that word sums it up for me every morning I wake up and walk outside I feel truly blessed, it only takes one look around to realize the miracles I’ve been given.

[TagNBee]

yep, 100% on vacation.

[NeverAlone-Homestead]

It is just who I am. Serenity,Peace. It was how I was raised. I love so much living a homestead lifestyle. Grow and produce my own food.

[Summerhat-n-Chicks]

I grew up on a homestead and got away from it for too long. I actually love the smell of Natur and healthy earth, my hands and feet in it. My parents raised goats and sold products at the farmers market where I helped them often. It was hard work and I learned a lot, but the greatest reward was the people I’ve met and worked with. Absolutely invaluable ❣️

[JoanneB]

Same except we had a milk cow, pig, chickens and huge gardens.

[Summerhat-n-Chicks]

👍

[Baldwin-farm]

We choose this life to see the fruits of our labor. God has blessed us with a big garden cows for milk and hogs and chickens,rabbits for meat. So far it is a wonderfull life. May God bless the rest of the Freesteaders on here.

[SarahKay]

I grew up on a small family farm and it’s in my blood. God has blessed us to be able to carry on. We don’t have a lot but we have enough and our kids are learning about hard, honest work.

[Hippiemimi]

I grew up homesteading. I have had such a calling to get back to what makes me a whole person again. My husband is a city boy and never had animals so it has been a 35year struggle to get him on board. I have slowly gotten chickens and rabbits and quail for our small town back yard. He doesn’t care much for it but he knows it’ makes me happy. We finally purchased our 5th generation off grid family homestead last year and although we are only living in it on weekends for now until we get it updated and more manageable, I’m so happy and yearn to live there full time. We have our garden there and we are working so hard on clearing trees and brush and replacing roofing and adding on. It has become our haven. He loves it as much if not more than I. Being self reliant is the most rewarding and satisfying feeling. There’s nothing to compare. I feel we have prepared in perfect order so that if there were any disaster man made or otherwise we would be perfectly comfortable.

[wiggle2]

In my view the life my family lives now is more than simply homesteading. We also raise and homeschool (more like unschool) our kids (now ages 19, 17 & 15). We established & maintained a home-based Internet business, which we continue to run as a family, all the while having pursued truth and aligning ourselves with it. What I see in the life we live now is that we are in the process of building our own tiny village for our offspring & neighboring friends.

We abandoned mainstream media, conventional food & medicine, politics & organized religion, mainstream holiday celebrations and much of our indoctrinated knowledge of history & science well over a decade ago, and this caused us to become very isolated & lonely.

We didn’t think, act or look like anyone else around us, and we didn’t have anyone to mentor us in the path we chose to take. But we knew in our gut, this was the way for us.

As of about 2008, we intentionally began to leave a figurative Egypt (because we knew that it was an oppressive house of bondage). And we chose to be led through a figurative wilderness with the hope of coming into a land flowing with milk & honey (because we trusted our Maker & His design, and we believed there was a better way intended for mankind to live).

While we’re not completely out of Egypt yet, there’s no looking back as far as we’re concerned because we believe in our heart of hearts (and have been able to witness with our own eyes & now experience on a daily basis) that the grass is far greener on the other side (in more ways than one). 🙂

[HG-1]

Wow, right on! You are an inspiration 👆

[CircleD]

I choose this way of life to be close to God and to honor him! I live it one day at a time! My Homestead is ever changing! I’m a free man and that’s the way I live! 60 years and counting!