so what is homesteading while homesteading to me is basically doing
stuff for yourself being able to do real things with your hands it doesn't matter
if you live in an apartment or if you live in 100 Acre property you just gotta
learn how to do things and the people that say home setting has to be off the
grid and doing all this you know what sometimes it's not practical for a lot
of different reasons for a lot of people and to say that this is right and this
is wrong it's what you can do and what you can do
in your budget and and just have fun doing it you don't need to have tons of
tons of money or have tons of tons of property to suddenly be okay I have
almost everything so here I never really did tell you about the homestead in 1953
my grandfather bought the place he worked in a town called Rock lift Park
which at the time it was a town now it kind of got amalgamated into the city of
Ottawa and he really wanted to raise his family out in the country so he found
this piece of property but the problem is that he never drove in his life so
when he moved everyone out here he's still worked in rock left Park so on
Monday morning he would bike into town and work there all week then bike back
for the weekend that is just what people did back then he didn't have high
education he definitely didn't have any money because my family was pretty poor
at that time I always joked around it took a little
while for them to come out of the depression you know like it was 1953 but
they lived pretty poor and pretty simple so he raised his family out here with a
big garden and a bigger piece of property and had cows and he had horses
and stuff like that and he still continued to bike into town every week
and do it that is a hardworking person I have to say that is what you had to do
back then and he did it after a while that bought the property and he raised
us here so I have fond memories of this place my dad having a big Gert I
remember running around with pellet guns rabbit squirrel hunting and all kinds of
mischief you can get Hindu around here but I have fond memories of that here my
family moved here it was a little later you don't my kids were a little oldest
they didn't get the full experience of the place but they definitely seemed to
love it here so so what is homesteading it can be as simple as gardening at the
community garden going to get wild edibles but just know how to do things
there is an epidemic in North America of people that don't know how to do
anything and it is sad and scary all in one when I grew up my dad had pigs I how
I remember the pigs getting you those things are hard to keep penned up and
that's one of the biggest reasons why I'll never get pigs I think because no
matter how well you pen them up they will get out like pretty much for sure
so and chasing pigs around the country is not my kind of having fun so since
I've moved here the garden hasn't been the greatest I got to work on that a bit
um but I've been trying to clear a pasture so I could have some sheep the B
thing I I started beekeeping and in three years I'm up to fifty hives
it's goin off to see what the spring holds after seeing how many died this
winter but I'm hoping it's in a good direction anyways I've got chickens it
really doesn't matter you don't have to do some of that or any of that home
setting is just doing more yourself so I got to keep cutting some wood so let's
go