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goodness gracious acres In 2003, I took the leap from fast paced city living (in Miami) to a more wholesome rural lifestyle. I quit my job, sold my house, packed up my dogs and my pampered stabled horses and moved to Loxahatchee, Florida. Little did I know what would come next. Within a year, a macaw, an african grey, 2 more dogs, a pot belly pig, and 2 goats came to live here. And that is how my addiction to goats started. We are now up to 30 animals.
The goats became an integral part of my life, changed my life, and that's that.
I work with and raise Nubian dairy goats. From the milk I make cheeses and soap. I am now selling soap online too. As well as periodically selling milk excess. My business name is Delilah's Dairy Goat Milk Soap, taken from my favorite girl Delilah. Her milk is rich and creamy and tastes so delicious that people are amazed it's goats milk. :)
We do all this on an acre! in West Palm Beach. Although, this area started out years ago as rural, its changing daily. A walgreens and a gas station are now going up in a Publix shopping plaza. People are moving in and fighting for city water to be pumped in. Schools are popping up everywhere. Roads are being paved. Every acre is being developed. It's very sad!
I have a feeling that i too am now an "urban farmer".
Built from waste materials HSHS is a urban homestead that strives to produce all of it's own energy, fuel, food, water, and building materials. After years of development some percentage of those different resources are now produced on site.
Holy Scrap Hot Springs is located in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Mikey Sklar and Wendy Tremayne started this project in 2006 and have blogged thousands of posts about their learning experiences. Coming from NYC there was a lot to learn about living off the land.
Today HSHS provides for the following:
100% - Electricity from off-grid PV Solar
20% - Long Distance Fuel from Waste Vegetable Oil Grease Car
100% - Local transportation via two electric vehicles
30% - of diet from vegetable gardens, wild foods, and fermentations
10% water - grey water, rain water, hot spring water
30% - building materials papercrete/ferrocement
We are constantly seeking out homesteaders in the southwest region to share knowledge and experiences with. Please contact us via our blog:
http://blog.holyscraphotsprings.com
An attempt at a more self sufficient and ecological lifestyle. Located in western Massachusetts, my goal is to grow as much of my own food as possible. Musings on gardening as well as preserving the harvest through fermentation, pickling, canning, jams, freezing, drying, and cold cellaring. I am taking my 150 year old home back to its roots while at the same time attempting to live in the present and future.
In addition to growing my own food, I attempt to provide for myself in as many other ways as possible. I have a keen interest in textiles, and always have projects involving spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, crochet, quilting, tatting, and printing fabrics so that I may cloth myself and keep my home warm. I also brew beer and cider and make my own soaps and lotions.
While doing all of this I am trying to keep alive a career as a fine artist and maintain a satisfying social life. Although I work hard, I do attempt to balance my life out with friends. I love a hard day's work, but I also love wasting away hours in a cafe or sipping a hearty beer at my favorite bar with my favorite people as the snow flits down outside.
Urban Homesteaders For urbanites only who have merged off the freeway of life onto a more sustainable path. The community’s mission is to bcommunity together city folks on the path. Urban homesteaders who are taking steps to live a more self sufficient life in regards to their food, energy, water, waste, transportation, lifestyle and more.
:: Community Outline ::
Definition of "Urban": less than or no more than 1/2 acre to 3/4 acre.
Urban Homesteading Lifestyle Guidelines: Doing more with less, growing a sizeable % (at least 50 percent) own produce (fruits, vegetables, herbs), raising citified animals (at least chickens, rabbits), composting, vermicomposting producing own alternative energy, alternative heating, using alternative transportation, back to basics skills (food preservation, soapmaking, sewing, breadmaking, etc), simple living, powecommunity down, unplugged lifestyle, homegrown diet, operating a viable home based business, home-unschooling, energy and waters conservation practices, greywater and rainwater practices and more!
Being the change we wish to see by living the solution on a daily basis.
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