So, as I was putting our goats and chickens up for the night, I though of something cool.
2 out of 3 of my Aunt's (my Mother's sisters) are also starting their Homestead journeys. The cool thing I thought about was how we all are different from each other.
Donna, who lives over at The Crooked Coop, a small scale Homestead like ours, specializes in all different kinds of fowl. She has chickens, ducks, guineafowl, and most recently, meat chickens. She butchers and cleans her chickens on the Homestead (which I think is awesome!)
(The batch from 2014)
Her most recent endeavor is honey bees. She is the first in our family to try their hand at honey bees, and we couldn't be more happier for her. :)
(Busy busy bees)
Joie, who just recently moved to an 80 acre Farm (Sufficient Graze Farm) in the mountains, is starting out with chickens, ducks, and donkeys. She is also in the process of trying to raise her own hogs for meat.
Her donkeys, Jackson and Noel will be used as protection as her livestock numbers grow. We are so happy for her as her farm is finally expanding.
(Jackson)
(Noel)
Then of course there is us with our chickens ducks and goats.
Our Homesteads/Farms are striving for all the same things, growing and raising as much as we can. But yet we are all uniquely different at the same time. :)
"And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God made a farmer." - Paul Harvey
