There have been so many new ones joining, I thought I would take a moment to get re-aquainted.
My name is Andi and I'm a homesteader and home school mom from Florida. We aren't off-grid (yet) thanks to local laws requiring power service, but we do the best we can to keep it to a minimum.
We have cows, chickens, pigs, turkeys, quail, and almost 10,000 square feet of garden area.
During the growing season, we are able to produce nearly 80% of our own food! We are striving for 90 next year, and hopefully longer growing seasons. We are working with land that had never been worked before, so it is A LOT of sand just yet.
I love reading other peoples' experiences, especially gardening, livestock, water cachement, organic practices, using less oil products, and living off-grid. We are also "preppers", which by now everyone should be as the natural and man-made disasters are just about everywhere all the time these days!
Click below to see how we rode out Hurricane Irma
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@farmandadventure/finally-some-pictures-post-hurricane-irma
So I'm looking forward to "meeting" others from around the world!! STEEM ON!
