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In Search of Authentic Homesteaders by Sheri Dixon PAGE 6 of 6 <BACK |
Guinea Fowl: Something Different the Guinea Fowl, is fast becoming not just the friend of the poultry farmer, but a friend of the avid gardener as well Home-schooling for Homesteaders our modern society is not well in many ways, and if we continue to immerse ourselves and our families in it, we will soon be ailing right along with it. Build and Maintain Your Own Trails, Roads and Driveways One day we reopened that crude, intermittent log trail and converted it into a crude continuous log trail that took us all the way from our back porch to the highway in less than half the distance |
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Magical. Everything about Juli’s little homestead is magical. From the very first glimpse of the house - a very normal-appearing house actually, except for it seeming to be peeking up from under the ground - windowed eyes gazing in wonder at everything "up top", the rest of the abode snuggled inside the earth, safe and warm.
The cats are a
project of love for Juli; they appear on her doorstep on their own, or
dropped off by the humans who were supposed to be taking care of them.
Cared for, gentled by tender handling, and given health care, the kitties
are placed in new, good, forever homes. Of course, the cat population
always outnumbers Inside the home, there’s a flurry of creative activity. Juli’s an artist, an herbalist, and her home is her workshop. Paintings finished and in progress, perch everywhere - 2 dimensional portholes exuding brilliant hues and happiness. Dolls created with bits and pieces of everything: sticks, stones, moss, feathers, buttons, beads, scraps of material, woven together in a perfection of individuality. Shelves lined with herbs and spices waiting to be blended into teas that soothe the soul as well as the tummy. Juli’s entire home is smaller than a lot of peoples’ garages, and it’s filled to the brim with her craft, her strapping young man of a son, and various feline folks, yet there’s room to be comfortable, welcomed, and content. The most magical thing about Juli’s homestead is that it’s living, thriving proof that the secret of life is not having everything you want, but being happy with everything you have. See Juli's work here: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=42099
Somewhere between the city and the "hobby farm", of over 5 acres, thrive any number of small homesteads - difficult to pigeonhole, refusing staunchly to remain unlabeled, these are the beginner homesteads, the retirement homesteads, the forever homesteads. Each one every bit a real homestead as even the tiniest pocket poodle is every bit a real dog. Because the realness of something has nothing to do with size, but everything to do with heart.
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Outside,
chickens and ducks mingle happily in their pen while cats wander casually,
yet purposefully, in the manner only felines can pull off without looking
demented. 
the homes, but they are placed as they can be, and are safe while
waiting. 