Regenerative Farming on an Old Log Homestead Step 1: Restoring the Pasture on my Sister's Homestead
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Published 2024-07-29
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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All Comments (21)
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This will be an awesome transformation of the farm land! 💪🏻🐕
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That is a beautiful old farm! Awesome family cattle adventure and Cali gets to play with her cousin. Good luck with it all. 👍😎🇨🇦🐾🐂
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What a beautiful property!
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Families working together. Beautiful..can't wait to see how sisters farm works out. Thks
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A great new adventure!
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Cali living the Dream!!!🦮🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
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Wow, your sisters place is beautiful. I think thats such a wonderful thing that you are both close and can homestead together. Just like the way things were back when life was simpler and healthier. The best of luck to you all on your future endeavours.
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I am enjoying this new branch of your self-reliance program! Thanks so much for documenting and explaining the journey.
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Good morning, glad you showed it. July 29th.
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What a great looking house and grounds!
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Congratulations Shawn and family!
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Congratulations Shawn and family, I strongly believe that your strategy of achieving your self reliance objectives, accommodating everyone's diverse interests, will be a great success👍🏻 Good luck and looking forward to you and your family's journey!
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SHAWN & OUR CALI !!! Great to see you again !!! Rewatched the building a firewood storage shed again !!! This is going to be helping on out here for goats & Cattle !!! Hope you get some cows for Milking with several families it will give you butter ice cream milk cheese to be made with all of it !!! You will be able to make Greek Yogurt also with it that is like sour cream for things like chili soups or tacos if you want those !!! I have made Greek Yogurt with store bought milk it turns on out great also with peppers that I have harvest as the starter it is found on line for you !!!
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Good morning Shawn and Cali 🌲Really cool farm ❤This is so awesome youre getting this put together! 💪 🐄 🐮 🐖 🐑 🐏 🐐
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And I am so glad to be a part of that (your life)!
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Hi Shawn..we sold everything bought acreage , we live off grid and planning on beef and pigs( again).. everything takes time..enjoy
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Cali loving the open land.
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Good Morning Shaun!
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Hi, Shawn!
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