AmericanHomesteader
Lovin' The Homestead
Let me say how much i enjoy this forum, i have been reading the post for a long time and decided to join in 
We are blessed to get our Inheritance early, My mother gave us a 12 acre ranch in arizona close to McNeal. She had a building built and fenced in 2 acres around it. That was her gift to us 3 years ago.
As the economy has been getting really bad here in georgia and all our neighbors have been losing there homes, My DW talked to me about moving out to the ranch and become homesteaders, She is 42 and i'm 51 we have 2 kids at home still and one married. We have been married now for a happy 16 years So we started on our plan about 1 1/2 years ago. We are now ready to make our move in March 2012. We are both from farms as kids and we garden every year here.
We decided to start down sizing our belongings. We will replace furniture once we are out there. Thank god for freecycle and craigslist lol. We lost most of our savings in a 401K so were doing this on a shoestring. We will have about 6K when we arrive there. My DW is a state licensed cna and can transfer her license to arizona for a 50 dollar fee, she wants me to stay home and work the homestead as she works part time to provide some income. The worst part is unplugging the kids from cable tv, telephone and xbox lol. We plan on being very active members on the forum and posting our move and what we do on our homestead. We will be doing as much solar usage as we can from cooking to power.
Again thank you all for your wonderful post in this forum and i hope i can help out as well.
We are blessed to get our Inheritance early, My mother gave us a 12 acre ranch in arizona close to McNeal. She had a building built and fenced in 2 acres around it. That was her gift to us 3 years ago.As the economy has been getting really bad here in georgia and all our neighbors have been losing there homes, My DW talked to me about moving out to the ranch and become homesteaders, She is 42 and i'm 51 we have 2 kids at home still and one married. We have been married now for a happy 16 years
So we started on our plan about 1 1/2 years ago. We are now ready to make our move in March 2012. We are both from farms as kids and we garden every year here.We decided to start down sizing our belongings. We will replace furniture once we are out there. Thank god for freecycle and craigslist lol. We lost most of our savings in a 401K so were doing this on a shoestring. We will have about 6K when we arrive there. My DW is a state licensed cna and can transfer her license to arizona for a 50 dollar fee, she wants me to stay home and work the homestead as she works part time to provide some income. The worst part is unplugging the kids from cable tv, telephone and xbox lol. We plan on being very active members on the forum and posting our move and what we do on our homestead. We will be doing as much solar usage as we can from cooking to power.
Again thank you all for your wonderful post in this forum and i hope i can help out as well.
Good luck with your move. Hope your well doesn't go dry and keep your powder dry. 
