Our Dream here at Fluster Farm
So what exactly are we aiming for, here on Fluster Farm?
While we would love to have a completely sustainable, independent, off-grid lifestyle, our current property at a little over 5 acres is too small to support that dream. However, the location is perfect, located about 30 minutes from Mr. Fluster’s work with a scenic wooded commute, and 15 minutes to the nearest town with a grocery store, and we are now close to our family in Georgia. It has a livable house, well, septic and electric so we’re not starting completely from scratch, and the property was comfortably in our budget. It’s beautiful and quiet. It has a creek running through it and woods cover approximately 3/4ths of the property. It’s near many, many gorgeous hiking trails, fishing lakes and streams, and waterfalls. Our property also backs up to hundreds of acres of woods, which connects to Chattahoochee National Forest and the beginning of the Appalachian Trail. You can walk into the woods behind our house and keep walking through woods, until you reach the northern terminus of the AT at Mt. Katahdin in Maine. How cool is that!?
Baby Steps
While our little patch of heaven isn’t big enough (yet) to go full-tilt, to us it’s a wonderful place to start. Homesteading is a huge undertaking. HUGE. It’s important to take baby steps to avoid burnout. Having a property that is manageable while Mr. Fluster works and the kids are still young, is very important to us. That’s the thing about dreams and goals – they have to be flexible!
Adjusting our original vision, Fluster Farm aims to be a small hobby farm, offering farm fresh, pasture-raised eggs and organically grown, heirloom vegetables and fruit. Eventually we hope to supplement or completely replace our electricity needs with solar power, offer aquaponic garden vegetables and fish year-round, and also keep dairy animals and bees. Most of all, we aim to grow a large portion of our own food and learn lost skills along the way – and truly live life and enjoy every minute of it.
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Hah! It seems we basically wrote the same post on the same day. I just outlined our goals at Simple Life Homestead as well. Your dreams are awesome! I will be following you and watching how the adventure unfolds for your brave family. Beautiful Pictures!
Why thank you!! It's exciting and also a little bit crazy. They say if people think you're crazy, you're doing it right. Or something. Ha!
Yes I would say flexible is the key. I don't know how old you are, but I have found I am not the same person at 50 that I was at 20. I suppose for some their dreams are a rock and never change. I am not unhappy to say my dreams/plans have evolved as I aged a bit. Followed.
Also I would recommend citing the source (even though you wrote it) to stay on the good side of Cheetah bot. I keep a permanent list of my other sites at the end of my posts. Its not worth the hassle of getting put on the plagiarizer list even if its self plagiarization. :)
We're in our mid-thirties. I am so thankful our goals have changed as we've grown! Some days I still don't quite feel like an adult but I've realized that it's just part of the learning and growing process.
Thanks for the tip on the citation. I have the main link on top of my bio to our farm blog but never thought to include it with each post!
No worries. The bot starts off friendly enough, but if you keep running afoul of it, you get flagged and it kills your reputation so that you wont be seen lol. :)
First, self-checkout, next, automation crisis, now this. I knew the robots were already taking over LOL! Thanks :)
I know right lol. I know it seems like a hassle, however its very useful. Without Cheetah we would have everyone just stealing content to make money off of others work :)