We are a young Christian married couple, Courtney and Robert, and we had a desire to create a blog to capture our adventure of starting a homestead. We believe that living frugally and being industrious are very satisfying (you should see how excited we get when we find a deal at a garage sale). We also believe that hard work honors God and therefore we do this in all aspects of our lives.
We recently moved to Northern Colorado to find a little piece of heaven to call our own. While we wait for heaven we are renting and doing our best to get ready for our homestead. We do have a little experience on the subject, we spent one growing season back East and raised a bunch of meat chickens, cared for a large herd of grass-fed beef, planted, harvested and canned a giant garden. My husband is a numbers guy so he has also spent a fair amount of time consulting for small start-up farmers/homesteaders.
We will both be posting so here’s a little about each of us individually.
Her
I’m Courtney, first of all I am a wife to a wonderful man, secondly I am a mother to a wonderful baby boy and a baby girl due in September. In my previous life I worked full-time for a consulting company training professional taste testers. I have my master’s degree in Food Science, specifically Sensory Science. Working was a lot of fun but I gave it all up to stay at home with my baby. Now I spend my days disciplining two bad dogs and making sure my son doesn’t kill himself. In the summers you’ll find me in the garden or canning up a storm, and in the winters you’ll find me learning to smock, planning my garden or hand quilting a ridiculously large quilt. Despite the crazy life I wouldn’t change anything for the world. Some of the posts you will see from me will likely be about gardening, canning, things to do during naptime, quilting, crafting, smocking, cooking, baking bread, cloth diapers, nursing, and cooking with grass-fed beef to name just a few.
Him
I’m Robert and I’m an accountant currently working for an organic orchard. They are a great bunch of people with a great product and I’m fortunate to be successfully working remotely. I grew up on a farm raising grass fed beef where we direct marketed everything we produced. I love tinkering and building things and look forward to sharing some of my projects and ideas here. My interests include gardening, animal husbandry, home brewing, target shooting, automotive mechanics, following current events, cooking, reading and dog training (which is a slow process, in case you read Courtney’s bio above).
And the two shall become one…His and Hers Homesteading.
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