Homesteading
“Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart”
One of my favorite things to do while growing up was to watch tv with my older brother. We would trade nights for who’s turn it was to pick the show. From what I can remember, he often chose MacGyver and I often chose Little house on the Prairie.
As Laura grew up with each new season, so did I.
Walnut Grove sure seemed like a lovely town, minus the Nelson ladies of course!
I wanted to become like both Caroline and Laura Ingalls. They were elegant and wise, hardworking and strong, and they were always kind to the people in their small town.
As a young girl, we lived back off the road where I had room to adventure and dream for my future life. Dad always had a garden he was trying to grow and I loved being outdoors in our back yard, always exploring nature.
Fast forward a few years to my early 20s where I was married and living in my first home on a tiny lot and it was nothing like Walnut Grove.
And things didn’t change for me much when I entered my 30s either. Although life had shifted and I had moved to a larger home with more property, I was still chasing the American dream, so to speak, and didn’t spend much time outside.
But then something clicked during my late 30s after reading a book called Healthy and Free by the late Beni Johnson, and that’s when things really began to look different.
And the world seemed brighter.
Before I knew it, I was buying chickens, eating organic foods, working on a garden, and life was good - until it wasn’t.
After divorce and God colliding our lives in 2018 as a blended family, Travis and I began to dream together of how to enjoy our new home on 10 acres.
We started by adding a few chickens, clearing some trees for pasturing, tending to our already planted rows of blueberry bushes, and growing a mild garden. And then we started adding more fencing, expanded our garden area, planted more fruit trees, and welcomed a couple of babydoll sheep to our farm.
This summer was a year of expansion for our homestead and with it has come a so many new ideas.
As a blended family, our lives are often interrupted and so we’ve had to be a little more intentional with finding ways to connect with each other at home. And one of the ways we’ve done that is with spending time together outdoors on our property.
As we have done this, a new little dream has formed that we are so excited to share with our world - in person and online.
We are going to be opening a roadside farm stand next summer and we can’t wait to take you on our journey. In fact, you can follow along with with us over on our new Youtube channel @DeBrot Homestead … We’ve already begun to put some fun little videos on there of our farm.
