Homesteading - What?

Homesteading - What?

Homesteading - Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and raising animals.

So part of my dream has always been to have a ranch in the mountains with horses. So that means I need a ranch. As moving day (when Lilly is making her long trip from Pennsylvania to Wyoming) looms closer I realize that to fulfill my dream I need to buy land and homestead. 

I always wanted to live in the mountains in Colorado. But Colorado is so expensive, there are too many people, and it is getting too warm. Since I moved to Wyoming 2 years ago I have fallen in love with the weather here. The town of Laramie is not too bad either. Many of the people are kind (though during COVID most are NOT wearing masks and that bothers me and keeps me from interacting with people). But I have found that I want to stay close enough to visit my nephews and my sister and get things easily from a small town. 

I want to buy land and live "off the grid." I want to have animals and grow my own food. 

I have found many cool places around Laramie that would work for my purposes so I am now fixing my credit so I can get a loan to buy a property. So in this series of blogs I will be focusing on my homesteading efforts. I will be learning as much as I can and documenting what I am learning and the resources I am learning from and about so I can keep track of what I am doing and the process. 

So if you are interested in learning how someone gets started in homesteading - this would be a great place to find some information. 

If you have any resources or suggestions please let me know in the comments. Good luck to all my homesteading friends!