Steemit HomesteadingChallenge #1
I feel that homesteading is important to me because of the state of affairs the world is in today. The food that is sold to us in supermarkets today, are processed to the point of no nutritional value. Just so it lasts longer on the store shelves. The taste is blan even thou it looks good.
Having a homestead gives a person the freedom to grow their own fresh food. Raising livestock for meat and eggs. Having a pond for fresh fish. Side benefits are other food sources that are not available in a supermarkets, like edible wild plants that can provide more nutrition then the best store bought.
Animals on a homestead are free of chemicals that can be passed onto humans, and that can never be good. Knowing what goes into your animals and soil will always give you the knowledge that your eating healthy.
Homesteading gives you the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction in the work you do to improve the homestead. To make homesteading easier or efficient. To give me the ability to get out of the debt market. To give me sustainable living. To give me self sufficiency that hardly anyone has today.
Homesteading is important to me because it is freedom to live.
I hunger for that freedom. I currently live in a small mid western town in Iowa. My property consists of a 75 foot x 175 foot lot, a few blocks from the town square. There is not much I can do here as far as homesteading goes. But anything that does not show up as a city ordnance can legally be done on my property, until my city council makes an ordnance forbidding it. I am currently looking for a 20 acre lot and someway to pay for it. I am also using this current property as a test bed so to speak, to challenge the system we have today that is trying to abolish our property rights.
Peace to all and have a great day!
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