GARDEN: BABY VEGGIES

A teenie-tiny baby watermelon. Pretty peppers. A group of roma tomatoes. What I thought was a pumpkin, now I'm thinking it's a zucchini. A reminder that when I plant seeds to take more time & care in marking plants. 

I don't think it's going to hurt anything this season. 

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"THE" HOUSE...CLOSING DATE JULY 3RD 2012

The little country house on 2.29 acres in the country. 

I cannot wait to close and make this ours <3 I have so many plans and ideas already

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Top Must Haves on a Tiny Homestead & the Wish List

Because I can't have it all so I have to prioritize and plan carefully what the "must haves" will be for our tiny homestead.
1. Gardens: vegetable & herb. I plan to use the square foot gardening methods and make square beds. I also plan to make flower beds around the house to plant my herbs & a few veggies. A few things I've learned so far; plant marigolds with tomatoes, make a "Three Sisters Garden" which is Corn, two weeks later beans and then a couple weeks later squash.
2. Chickens. For eggs, meat & they are garden helpers, eating bugs & leaving behind "fertilizer"
3. Compost. To make great use of our excess
4. Fruit Trees. Planted at the edges of the property
5. Berry Patches.

In addition I would like to add:
1.Bee Hives
2. One or two Goats
3. A Horse (Just because I've always wanted a horse to ride)
4. Small Stock Pond: Catfish & Bass

If we had a large homestead I'd add cows. But since my boys are hunters we'll stock our freezer with deer meat.
And in the evenings I want to swing on my front porch, sip lemonade & admire it all.

For details & how to on Three Sisters Gardening

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Finding our Homestead

From the beginning I've said, bigger is better; but I will do my best with any size property we are blessed to own.

Step #1 was getting a pre-approval for a home loan. *check* $80,000

Step #2 now that we know our budget we can get looking. In the areas we've been looking we can find 1-2 acres with an older house. 

Step #3 when a family member told us about some of their people that were selling a house by word of mouth, in our budget, 2 acres, older house we went and looked. We fell in Love. 

Friday we meet to discuss the details. I am praying, praying, praying this is the one! It feels so right. 

My goal will be to learn how to manage our land to get the most out of it and learn how to grow crops. I've never successfully grown more than a few puny little tomatoes or strawberries.   

Ideally, I will spend a season or two, maybe three growing, learning and sharing our harvest with family and friends and thereafter set up a road side stand (this particular property is EXCELLENT location for a road side stand!) and attend local farmers markets. Those are lofty goals, considering our experience. But I believe if we stay positive and learn through the difficulties we can do it. 

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