The Untentional Homestead

When I first decided to homestead...which was quite by accident. I started off just wanting a few chickens (4) just for eggs. Then i found a photo of a chicken I thought was beautiful so I had to have a few of those because you do not send just one...chicks need each other for warmth. Then, I found Ameraucanas and thought they were the most beautiful chicks ever. You know the story now, I bought 10 of them. Then I decided a garden made so much sense and I believed that in being a good steward of what God had given to me, I wanted to use my land productively. I wanted to grow my own food. I wanted to be as self sustaining as possible and I can not afford to buy or keep a cow but I love beef and I heard that Muscovy ducks taste just like beef. I did not need to hear anything more. I bought hatching eggs and hatched me some. I have four. In the Spring, they will mate and I will have many many more. I was concerned, because my income is low, the need to plant seeds every Spring but then learned if I bought heirloom seeds, I could harvest my own from the vegetable...so I do. I have been able to bless others by sharing those seeds. So now, I had protein, and veggies...I was missing fruit. I bought 17 fruit saplings...peach, pear, plum. I planted one on every major holiday last year. Many are dwarf and I can expect them to fruit this coming year. I do have apple and pear trees that are heirloom and full sized. I hope I live long enough to see them fruit. I can plant the seeds of the fruit of those trees and germinate them and grow new trees. So that is the story of my unintentional homestead...way led unto way.