This month’s Mother Earth News contains an article called “Life on the Homestead” written by a modern homesteader who still works a day job while raising a garden, chickens, rabbits, dogs and sheep, in a rented house. Her story is inspiring and encouraging!
Here’s a gem from the article (and there are many more):
Living the way you want has nothing to do with how much land you have or how much you can afford to spend on a new house. It has to do with the way you choose to live every day and how content you are with what you have.
If a few things on your plate every season came from the work of your own hands, you are creating food for your body, and that is enough. … If you rode your bike to work, trained your dog to pack, or just baked a loaf of bread, let it be enough. Accepting where you are today — and working toward what’s ahead — is the best you can do. … But the starting point is to take control of what you can and smile with how things are. Find your own happiness and dance with it.
– Jenna Woginrich, “Life on the Homestead”, Mother Earth News, April/May 2009.
I will be reading “The Amazing Benefits of Grass-Fed Beef” in a bit…
Anybody else reading this issue? What have you read that’s inspired you or taught you?
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I read the grass-fed beef article and thought it wonderfully affirmed God’s wisdom in the complexity of animals and plants needing each other for success.
Christie — Oh, yes, I agree! I found that part awesome. We who know God can be thankful that His world works together as a whole, not in part, plants and animals together.
I suppose I should clarify that the article did not speak to God’s role in nature … but the data points to God even if the science does not name him.