Building Our Homestead Journey

Hey ya'll! My name is Liz. I'm a 32 year old mother to an ambitious 4 year old boy and I have a wonderful boyfriend. I'm also a homesteader (sorta). If you google homesteading it will tell you that the core principles of homesteading are self-sufficiency, subsistence agriculture, home preservation, DIY and crafts, and resourcefulness. Over the past year I have realized that this is the type of life I want. This is also the type of life I want for my family.

Currently, my son and I live with my parents and my boyfriend lives about an hour away. Over the next year or so we would like to buy a house with some land. When we have a house we plan on having a garden and a root cellar. We plan on growing most of our vegetables, getting fruit at local farmstands, and buying most of our meat at local butchers. In the meantime I have been learning how to preserve food through freezing, water bath canning and pressure canning. I have been learning to cook meals from scratch along with making sourdough bread and other deserts and treats from scratch.

My goal with this blog is to share our journey as it happens- that's how I came up with the name Start from Scratch Homestead. We are literally going to start from scratch and build our dream life. I plan on sharing some of our favorite recipes, sourdough baking tips, gardening, canning and freezing ideas. I will share the successes and failures so that you can learn what worked for us and what didn't.

Come along with us on our journey as we Start from Scratch.

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