about us

 

Hello!
I'm Georgia and my husband's name is Justin. We have three beautiful daughters that we are trying to teach to live humble, simple and grateful lives.

(A picture from when our youngest was born)

We did not always have this specific goal in life. Just last year we decided that we were going to sell our very big, very nice home. A home with 5 bedrooms and 5 bathroom and sat on 2.5 acres. A home with an in-ground pool....

(our old living room)



.....So we could buy a 3.5 acre property with spectacular river views within walking distance of all of my family and friends. The appeal of this property was easy to see...the less appealing aspect of it was that instead of a house, in the center of the property...was a trailer! Now I'm not judgemental about trailer living but we knew it was going to be a very big adjustment for us to go from 5000 sq. feet (literally our kids would ride their Barbie jeep through the old house) to a small trailer where we would have a strict "no running inside" rule. Needless to say...within 24 hours the trailer property was ours and the big house was going on the market.! I can honestly say that we have never regretted taking such a huge leap of faith and the rewards have been endless. Plus the trailer's pretty cool. It was pretty and new and super clean. Now go ahead and check out the new view.....

(what we see out our sliding glass door)

When we moved here we did not even know what "homesteading" meant. We just knew that we were getting chickens and going to plant some tomatoes. We also assumed that we would have had a house built by now. (wrong!) Right after we moved here I remember having an old friend stop over one morning (Hey Katieann!!) and she listened to all of the dreams I had for our new property and said that her and her family were "homesteading" too. Imagine that...There was a word for what I had been dreaming of!! I could hardly wait to start researching!! Within minutes of googling the word she had taught me, I had my life's mission spelled out in front of me....

....Produce more, consume less, be humble, be grateful, give back to our community, have a stellar garden and raise some animals with love and humanity. It was also clear that I wanted to raise my daughters to work hard, live on less, eat healthier and know where healthy food comes from. We've been happily homesteading ever since!

And a quick shout out to the blog that I stumbled on last year. She made me realize how much I cared about preparing healthy meals, and she also makes me laugh every time I read her posts. Check her out here at http://theelliotthomestead.com/recipes/

So that's our story! well, that's the very short version of our story and how we ended becoming homesteaders. I have so many things to fill you in on that have happened here in the past year but will have to get to each thing one at a time.Until then...thanks for stopping by our little homestead!

The Neefe Family