Welcome to my gardening and homesteading blog!
My business card says "Homesteading Round 4". Although this is my fourth go-around in this realm, it is also this country's fourth time of going back to the land (also referred to as a modern homesteading movement), so I have a somewhat unique perspective.
Back to land #1 was after the Great Depression and WWII; #2 was the Back-To-The-Land movement during the hippie era; #3 was Y2K; and #4 is the present time. I use the term "Back To The Land" because we always were an agrarian-based society, until a shifting mindset following the Civil War moved people off the farms and into towns and cities. This information is easily attainable through studying the U.S. census records available on many genealogy-study website, using the "occupation" category. The "why" and "how" is a more in-depth study.
At any rate, this blogsite will be about my personal observations. It not a historical study or a how-to although I might meander into those categories occasionally as it pertains to my life, and in no particular order. It is more of a biography for my children and my nieces and nephews about growing up during #1 on what today would be considered a small working farm, the confusion and amusement and frustrations I felt in #2, why I was driven back in #3 and retiring out in #4.
I hope you find it interesting!
Best,
Debbie
Image courtesy of the Library Of Congress.
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