Our purpose

For our first post I want to give everyone a big picture of what we are trying to accomplish. We have big goals. Huge dreams. This is just the surface but I want to get something out there without too much time spent perfecting it, because then it would never get posted!

MAIN GOALS IN THE MOST CONCISE LIST IMAGINABLE:
1. Support the local Food Movement
2. Homesteading and Providing for our family off of our land
3. Education for ourselves and our community

While part of what we do is in fact to make money in order to fund everything we want to accomplish, (but trust me we are not taking or planning on taking in millions of dollars) our larger goal is education to our immediate community on what they can be doing to help themselves live better, sustainable, fulfilling lives, and eat the best food possible while doing so.

If we can take all the families in Gloucester and get them to grow one fruit tree in their yard and have them trade their yield within their neighborhood, how much money would each of those families save each year in the grocery store? How many chemicals would they keep out of their bodies from home grown fruits that weren’t factory farmed and sprayed with pesticides and herbicides? If one family has an acre and they grow 4 trees instead of 1, imagine what they could provide and trade to another family that has chickens? If they canned their excess and made pie fillings and sold that to locals for thanksgiving pies so that family didn’t buy canned pie filling for thanksgiving dinner? The families with even larger properties raising sheep or swine, trading another family with no acreage for vegetables that manage to grow in their front yard. See where I’m going here? There is so much growth and by growth I mean so much that our grandparents used to do, that we could all start doing again.

There has been such a surge for homesteading and self-sufficiency in the past few years and what we really want to push here is sustainable living for a whole community. It is near impossible to do and make all the things you need alone or with your partner. You need support, we need support. We need mentors, we all need people to teach us things we don’t know.

We want to help the community to come together and teach each other what they know about food preservation, about sewing, about making butter, a sour dough starter, dried pasta, foraging in their own backyards! The possibilities are literally endless and if there is something that you want to learn about, we can make it happen.

***I do want to mention that although you might see some things on our website or social media, it does not mean it is for sale or available to the public. We do have to follow rules and laws about what we are able to sell and share with the community. Many things we do are intended only for our enjoyment and our family. But that doesn’t mean we can’t share our experiences, good and bad, with our community. On the same note, we do love visitors but our property is our home! Even for porch egg pickup, we do ask that make an appointment so we know you are coming!
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