Quote: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?

Sadly we are not on our own land. We own a mobile home that is on someone else's lot- there are 6 of us who own and just rent the lot. And we don't have a great deal of space. We've considered the best way to do garden boxes and the only good place sun-wise is right where we have to drive and park. We are surrounded by pine trees and scrub oaks that completely shade anywhere else we could do it and we can't cut them down because it's not our property. I tried container veggies a couple of years ago and something just didn't turn out right because nothing happened of consequence. I wanted to try again last year but had major surgery in February that took me out of the game past the time to get things going. Maybe this year. 

 

We do have a rain barrel that we've used mainly to water flowers, plants and the birdbath. It came in handy last weekend when we lost power due to snow and ice and I went outside and filled a bucket with water to flush the toilet because yellow is mellow but brown goes down. I do want to get a couple more barrels for sure.

 

My husband has the same mindset as you but only acquired it in the last year or so. He kicks himself in the butt mentally for not thinking about it before but he was a bachelor until we married and 40 so things like this just didn't ever occur to him. When we married I introduced him to a completely different way of seeing things and it still took him 3 years to figure it out. Lol. And yes- it all happens in steps. I don't know how old you are but it's good to know you are aware of this fact. Many are not and try to do everything at once. 

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