Hello!
I'm Amanda, and this is my blog.
Sounds exciting, right? Well, we'll see. I intend to use the blog as a experimental journal; a collection of my mostly-random interests organized into an easy-to-access record for myself, a chance to cultivate my writing skills, and maybe something entertaining for the rest of the homesteading community to read.
Why homesteading? That's a long story...but aren't all of them? Growing up, my family had a massive garden. I have lots of memories of eating strawberries straight out of the garden, following my dad around plunking seeds in the ground, and my friends giving me weird looks because we had to go dig up the potatoes for dinner before we could eat them. Then I got older, and life happened, and my family just didn't garden anymore.
A decade later: I'd graduated college, but was vastly underemployed. Money was tight, and my grocery budget didn't stretch very far...I was always tired, a little hungry, and a lot drained. A body can only live so long on boxed noodles...and then I started turning up sensitive to a lot of the additives in processed food. With my tight budget, a steady supply of whole foods was out of my reach. So I started gardening again...and loved it!
There's a world of information at my fingertips that just wasn't there when I was young, and I dived into it with both feet. Permaculture, whole foods, small-scale livestock operations...this was meat and potatoes for my soul as well as my body...which is how I ended up here, with this blog. Here you will find my experiments in making my world just a little better, one day at a time. I'm not sure how often I will post, or exactly what I will be posting about, but there will be triumphs and tragedies, humor and bleak disappointment...and hopefully a little fun along the way.
Welcome...and enjoy!
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