About Cat
Hi folks,
I’m Cat, a wife, mom, Massage Therapist, Reiki Master, and Midwifery student. I am also one of a growing number of modern moms who have chosen the traditional skills of homesteading as a way to provide for our family’s needs. It started with our family buying a share and my husband keeping a hive of bees at a local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. Next, we added a garden in our back yard. There’s a lot of reading and a kind of mad scramble to learn new skills as expand our self-sufficiency efforts each year.
Part of the motivation here was to save money. We had a temporary loss of both incomes simultaneously. Certainly, growing a backyard garden, making your own cleaning supplies, cooking from scratch, and cutting back utility usage with more low-tech alternatives saves money. We expected to put out more elbow grease and sweat equity to see us through a rough patch. Something we did not expect, however, was that our quality of life didn’t go down. It went up!
So, we thought, “Why not take this further? Why not move some place where land and property taxes are affordable, and we can eliminate our utility bills by providing our own power, heat, and water? Why not try to produce the majority of our own food so that we can cut costs further, and have as much control as possible over the quality? Why are we wasting money to pay for so-called conveniences, that end up being merely obligations?”
Our solution: We plan to move north to Maine and establish a more self-sufficient homestead than possible on a small city lot. We are building a home by hand. We will supply our own heat from wood,have our own well and catch rainwater, grow our own food, and raise our own livestock. My husband is building up the number of bee hives so he can earn his living through sustainable beekeeping, while I earn a living through various holistic healing arts. But for now, we are adapting typical city life in a multiple-family home to an urban oasis of self-reliant independence in Southeastern, Massachusetts.
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