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I recommend you get hold of A Journey Home ,which is dvd showing how the Wallers did it.It is inspiring and wholesome.

We haven't done it yet, but I just want to say that we have the same dream. a few cows, a handful of chickens, some sheep for wool, fruit trees and a garden big enough to feed us all yr round. We just moved to a little country house this spring. I've never had a garden before, but I am learning-mostly that it's a lot of work! I'm about to start my winter seedlings-just as soon as I get over this cold. I'm hoping that each season we get a better harvest and maybe we'll get the chickens next yr. We bought highly inefficient house and we dream of switching everything over, but the goal right now is to get out of debt. Keep us posted on your journey. I'd be delighted to learn with you.

Wow! I'm not the only one! How exciting! I've quit buying bread. My 3 year old and I make our own, and we're working on getting less and less white flour and sugar. I bought the book "Whole Foods for the Whole Family." It's got a bunch of good ideas. We also plowed a bigger area for a garden. Hopefully much will come from it. I've just found out we're adding baby number 3 to our family next July, so, I'm a little nervous that I won't be up to doing a whole lot out there.
In the past month, my Dad passed away from cancer. I can't believe eating all of the processed junk we buy in the store is not harming us. Around here all of the farmer's spray the fields with anhydrous ammonia. It's a poison, yet we fertilize with it. With my Dad's illness, it's at the forefront of my mind. Did he get sick because of what he ate? I'm so anxious to start taking back my family's health.
Good luck to you all!

You mean there are other people like me? WOW! In our extended family, I am known as the gal who is just a little "off".

Our dream is to continue living self sufficiently. It seems like everyday we learn more and more. We make almost everything from scratch, grow as much as we can, buy local if we don't have luck growing it ourselves, eat mostly wild game that my husband has hunted during the year, drink milk "straight from the bulk tank". We don't "shop for something to do". Once you get into the "lifestyle" its fun to see how it spills into every single part of your life. I am a firm believer that we truly will be provided all that we need...its just accepting that what we have right now is really all that we need.

Its fun to see other people with this passion!