For anyone that knows my husband, they know he has a lot of plans. He makes all these plans with the best intentions, but there are a lot of things that J wants to do; fix a 4-wheeler, ride across the country on his motorcycle, brew beer, shoot pistol in the Olympics, remodel a house, flip cars on Craigslist, farm… Each of these goals separately are completely obtainable. The problem is that J wants to do them all right now.

Our new home we bought is situated on 20 acres. J was excited about this because he wants to “farm”, aka grow a garden. So far farming has involved buying a tractor, buying pieces for the tractor, working on the tractor and driving it around the yard. After that the other projects overtook the farming idea.

But last night we started watching this show on Netflix about a family in Alaska that homesteads. They completely live off the land, even when there is 10 months of winter. I think this show sparked J’s memory, that he had previously bought a lot of seeds to plant. Now we’ll be going to California in 3 days for 2 weeks, so starting a garden right now is a bit of a problem for us. So we started our homesteading 1 egg carton at a time.

Looking through the seeds and finding some dirt!

Appetizer sticks double as plant markers

We locked up the pods in a room in front of a window so the cats wouldn’t decide to play in the dirt. Now to see if anything starts growing when we return home mid-March!