Regenerative Farming on an Old Log Homestead Step 1: Restoring the Pasture on my Sister's Homestead
After decades of decline, this old homestead is in need of restoration and regeneration so that it can once again provide sustenance to a family and a community. Step 1 includes building up organic material in sections of the pasture and converting the remainder from sedges, blackberries and ferns to a biodiverse blend of grasses and forbes that are nutritious for cattle, goats and fowl.
Welcome to our self reliant homesteads! Join us, Shawn and Dervla, as we create a resilient, abundant and sustainable ecosystem that feeds our families from the land in Ontario Canada. Using permaculture and regenerative farming as our guide, we strive to become independent in water, food, energy and shelter, focused on beauty in form and efficiency in function.
Our Self Reliance is a life of compromise between my two daughters and my wife's preference for culture, comfort and formality, and I, with my love of chaotic and beautiful but challenging and often uncomfortable wilderness living. The resulting homesteads are an eclectic blend of modern with traditional, whimsical with practical, formal with informal, civilized with rustic.
Over the last five years, my wife and I designed and built our dream homesteads from scratch with very little outside help; from undeveloped, declining forest to a comfortable home and cabin with a prolific edible landscape for people and wildlife equally. For many years, we have strived to lessen our burden on others by taking full responsibility for the health and welfare of our immediate family while building a strong community around us, both online and offline. Now that the infrastructure is in place here, we will be spending more time working cooperatively with community members, including extended family, to collectively become more resilient while living a deeply satisfying and meaningful life. Thank you for being part of that!
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