Introduction

My name is Jessica. My husband Robert and I have 3 children and live in Maine. Recently we moved up here from CT to start our homesteading life. We aren’t going cold turkey from everything but are taking it day by day. Each day we are learning more about things we can do to make our household more self sufficient and how to leave a smaller footprint on this earth.

We got married in February 2010 and are more in love than we were then. Are we the perfect couple? Definitely not! But that is the best part of marriage is not being perfect and learning to grow together.

Our children are 10, 7, and 2! I am a stay at home mom and homeschool all three of our children. Currently we use Time4Learning and add in all kinds of extra books, experiments, and more.

For animals we have 3 dogs at the moment but are expecting to grow in the next couple months! We have 2 English Mastiffs and a miniature dauschund. Arriving May 2nd/3rd will be 20 New Hampshire Red chicks. We are so excited to be starting our little homestead farm.

Another huge part of this homesteading journey will be growing our food. I love gardening and growing foods for us to enjoy. This year and the years to come I hope to grow enough to feed our family of 5 plus our chickens as well as being able to share with our community.

So that is a little about our life. Stay tuned to follow us on our homesteading life journey!