Our Story

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!

 

 

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

So I'm going to be a blogger

I feel the need to have a space where I can share all of my homesteading adventures with those of you who'd like to read about them. Everything from learning how to prepare whole food meals for my husband and our three daughters to butchering pigs, inoculating mushrooms spores or sharing my all natural home product recipes that I've tried and loved. We've been on a path towards simple living for the last year and half since we sold our 5,000 square foot house (along with nearly all of our belongings) to create a home life where we are producing more then we are consuming. We bought 3.5 acres of land overlooking the beautiful Susquehanna River in Lancaster County Pa and have been enjoying the simple things in life ever since. I've been so humbled by the things I've learned since taking this leap of faith and so grateful for the friendships I've been lucky enough to have made.

This is my first time ever doing a blog and this is my first post so as you can imagine, I'm typing this particular post as quickly as possible. I promise there is more and better posts to come!!

Thanks for reading,
Georgia

And since I have to practice putting up pictures, I decided  to post one of our first two piglets. This is a picture of Piggly and Wiggly last year helping us to till the new garden. Aww...