What are the plans for our homestead?

This is something that I personally have thought long and hard about. Both of our children will be going to school this year so I will have some free time. I have talked this over with my husband and we agree that living a self sustainable life is the best way for us to live. It won't happen over night but there are some things we can do right away after moving in like gardening. Even in the winter you can grow plants some inside or in a greenhouse.

A few weeks before spring hits we will be calling our local farms to see who would be willing to sell hay to us. I plan to mulch the gardens with hay and after the growing season we will throw it in the compost. Speaking of compost.. That needs to be built(using pallets for fairly easy) before summer starts. This is probably also when we will start looking into purchasing our chicken coop and our chicks. For the chicken coop I am undecided if I want to use electric poultry netting around the coop and run or if I want to use concrete pavers for the run area. That way it's predator proof and we don't have to worry about animals digging their way into the chicken area.

We need to price materials for a garage, shed, and fence. We are fencing in our backyard for a safe place for our children and dog. Eventually we will be adding to our fur baby family we currently have a 2 yr old Pit Bull Terrier mix. He is such a joy! We adopted him from a local shelter but he has been a little sad so we want to get him a friend. Our pets will be trained to be chicken friendly so no worries!

At some point we will be installing a rain water system to use for watering plants and an outdoor shower/rinse. Since we plan on planting blueberry bushes the rain water will come in handy! We will also be talking about starting a youtube channel. I would like to so we can document our journey but I'm still uncertain. This is all a lot to think about and nothing is set in stone yet. I hope we can get everything moving along and take you on this journey with us!