Starting Your Homesteading Journey in Any Space

I have always envisioned my future looking like a beautiful homestead, living off the land, prepping and thriving off of the labor of my own two hands (and the two hands of my partner of course), making the best of what the earth gave us, eating seasonally and mindfully.

Making clothes and fixing up the house in a crafty way. All of these things I thought I’d be able to do once we were all set in the perfect house, with the perfect land, in the perfect space.

I get that a lot of that daydream is my being chronically optimistic (sometimes to my own detriment), but I’ve always felt like I had to keep my vision in mind so I always kept up on the right track. Unfortunately overtime I think that the dram has become too perfect. I feel like unless everything is in the right place I can’t start.

I’ve seen so many other creators of all sorts say similar things and somehow that has always helped me feel a little better, knowing that the people who walked the path I’m starting have also felt similarly.

A lot of things have shaped my life over the last few years, two of those being the birth of both of my children. Now that my youngest is a year old and she’s a little better and playing with her brother (a very rambunctious two year old) I’ve started to feel like I have space little by little to start being able to do more of the creative things that I’ve been wanting to try. I decided that even though we were still in our (slightly too small for our growing family) apartment, and I didn’t have the sprawling acres and the perfectly organized root cellar, or the aesthetic cozy cottage to decorate – I could still learn. I could still build skills and try things. Create recipes and do what I could with the space I had been given. Besides, what good is the perfect space if I didn’t know what to do with it when I get it.

So now here I am, learning and practicing the skills I’ve always wanted to have. My little patio “garden” and one cabinet ready for canned goods. It’s not perfect but it’s a start. The rest will come, but why wait for “someday” to live my dream when I can live it in little ways now. Your space IS perfect, so start!