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Also, my husband and I would love to be homesteaders but at this point in our lives it's just not feasible. Our home is paid for and right now we're not in a financial position to take on land and a loan to build a house, since that's what it would take in this area. If we were to get my medical bills paid off and when I finish school I get a good paying job, then something might be able to happen, but we're in our (almost) mid-40's and to take something like that on may be more than we could physically handle with 2 people working full-time and both having some physical limitations like his bad back and my shoulder that still needs surgery.


Now if we could move to the family cattle ranch in Colorado and start with the gardening and everything else, that would be perfect. It's an excellent location in the middle of nowhere, his nearest neighbor is 2 miles away, and has a basement for storage and other awesome features that would be exactly what we'd need. But my uncle might not want roommates. Lol. He's an old cranky bachelor. ;-) And my husband has longevity at his local government job that's hard to walk away from even if we both agree that by the time he's able to retire none of that stuff may be on the table.

You don't need lots of land to be a homesteader. Start with some garden boxes you'd be ammazed how much food you can grow in a 12x12 box. Plant some fruit bushes that do well in your climate. Get some rain barrels and have the rain water fill them up. Eventually you catch the bug and start seeing all kinds of ways to be "more" self sufficient. I'm a bit of a radical my goal is in 10 years to be debt free and if I need to be able to live off everything I grow and raise on my property. It's a huge task but little steps right?

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