I have heard this from others as well. I think this model works for bigger families who can help one another or near a friendly community who help one another out. Everyone fantasize homesteading while growing up in a city and used to all the conveniences are very different lives.

My strategy is to leave most days and go to work. The grass seems to grow with or without my attention.

We no longer live in an agrarian society and this is the reason. Farm life is incredibly demanding and thoroughly incompatible with modern society. We fragmented the communities that made it possible. I think there are a couple of things that could be done to re-enable this at least at some level, b...

Beneath the surface of a lush, verdant facade, a fire brews - the insatiable hunger to sustain, to nurture, to provide. Will a new model be born from the embers of exhaustion, or will it succumb to the weight of its own desires?

Homesteaders try and do everything at once.... They just think jump into the deep end and sink or swim. How ever there are only 24 hours a day and one can not simply pay attention to everything on the homestead which is why we use to have families. Each on would specialize in a particular task and m...