Andria Perry
This lifestyle is not for everyone, especially those who do not like hard work and getting hot a sweaty and being in shape without a gym.
For me the hardest part is learning to grow and preserve my own food. This is time consuming but I have learned over the years that I feel better eating what I grow and I control the salt and sugar, and hey! I can pronounce what is in my food.
The homestead at this time is a vegetable and fruit producer, not a farm with any animals besides a couple yard dogs and a barn cat. However, I do have a hunter in the house and he does bag a deer or two per winter and I do freeze or home can the meat. At times he will bring in a rabbit or squirrel. 
Homesteading is also about what is in season, on the blog I write I find some weeks hard to have a subject because if its fig time, you work those figs, same with the greens and okra.I tired the greenhouse last year, I was so happy to have a greenhouse and the thoughts of growing food year around was thrilling. Then I caught the flu and no one was able to walk down daily to vent it, so everything died 🙁
Click here for : How to home can greens
Click here for : how to make honeysuckle jelly
So do not listen to all the so called “experts” because those black water filled drums does not keep it warm and if you do not open the plastic on warm days it gets to hot and sweats, when it sweats the plants freeze to death at night. Photo shows the drums before I painted them black. 
Learning to live free on a homestead is trial and error. No two homestead are alike.Since I have been here I have started with a small solar power set and it has came in handy when the power went out, but I want full solar and I am sure I can mange to live in the big old place and have plenty of power with solar.
I have yet to get a well drilled and the reason is not just the cash, its I am not sure of this will be my forever homestead, I am thinking about down sizing and making this place something else, maybe a maple tree farm or pecan grove, both would really be good for an income.
How about you, do you live on a homestead?
For more about how I live Click Here : Learning to live free
By Andria Perry
Photos By Andria Perry and Pixabay
It’s a really very hard work, a long series of trial and error!!! Wish you successfully cope with all difficulties in this difficult but worthy cause!!!
Yes it is, live day by day.
It’s never easy, but I know you will do it.
I am stil trying! Somewhere along the way I got busy and forgot some thing, I am back now and this matters.
It was our dream to have a homesteading life when we moved to our 14 acres in Templeton, but we were relying on the help our teen son would provide. He had skills and energy that we didn’t. He died three days after we signed the contract to buy the property. I did the best I could in the gardening department until one summer the ground squirrels destroyed almost everything I grew. I lost heart and gave up that dream. I’m glad you are more successful at it. We still have the property, but we’ve moved into the city. Some years I do plant some vegetables when I’m able.
I am so sorry for your loss.
Thank you. It was a long time ago. He’d be in his thirties now had he lived.
You just made me want visit the country. Love the photos!
Thank you, well, it must be time for a trip.