Homesteading Wanderers

[Infinite Unity]

My wife and me are homesteaders. We were lucky enough that her family owned a nice piece of land. Her whole family lives in it, and they all farm. Its been hard but very enjoyable. We started off trying to make it in the world. Working jobs, paying rent, and all the modern life stuff. It just was not for us. I couldn't find a decent job, that I had to work all my hours and it be in construction. I got extremely tired of working all day, and my body hitting all the time. So one day I just could not bear it any longer. I told my boss hey things have changed in my household and could only work part time anymore. He wouldn't have it, and I quit on the spot. My wife and I spirraled for awhile finacially. We lost our home moved back in with her mother, with are two children. There we where At ground zero again. I would try and find small jobs, and donate plasma for small amounts of money. She came to me one day saying she wanted to homestead, and build are own small home. I was very exhausted, and readily agreed. At the time I didn't really believe it was the answer. That was about a year ago. So this past summer we really got into, and just the previous year they had some of the land cleared. So we started cleaning the land of large debris, started forming gardens, and building pens for chickens and goats. It taught are children a lot this far. We plan on walking this road, it's a struggle but I am much happier doing thus, and my whole family is as well. We still struggle against what her family wants out of and for us. I have put those out of my mind and don't let it annoy me. We have big dreams, we want to set up a little market by the road selling and teaching people about the goodness of fresh food. We are not doing an ordinary style of gardening either. We are both fascinated with permaculture.