Our house...

... in the middle of our street! *snicker*  Ok so it's more in the middle of the field, but who's keeping track? So we actually live on a family compound. For those of you that don't know what that means, we share the property we live on with my husband's family.



























Our ultimate goal is to buy the entire property from Jon's mom and grandmother and turn it into an intentional community. But for now, we are slowly working of converting the property from crab grass and weeds, into a farm with sustainable crops.

We started with a small plot this year and it did pretty good! We got quite a few peas, a few onions, and a few pounds of broccoli. I have to go harvest our 2 heads of cabbage still. Then I think that I will call my garden done for the season. My failed attempts from this season included corn, Brussels sprouts, cucumbers, and spinach.

Our plans for next year include corn (we will be doing it in ground instead of a raised bed), peas, beans, cucumber, zucchini, asparagus, tomatoes, onions, broccoli, potatoes, and lettuces. We will also be adding in blueberries, and strawberries. If funds allow, we will hopefully be getting some fruit bearing trees as well!

We are going to be working on getting the chicken coop ready and getting some chickens in the spring. We will probably start out with 5 chickens. We'll raise them for eggs, and then when they get past their egg laying years, they'll be used for meat.