I didn't want to start out quite so personal but, alas, I must. For to begin a story one must inevitably begin at the beginning...
Last spring we were elated to announce an addition to our a small but growing family. However, the Lord in His Sovereignty saw fit take our little 9week peanut to himself. We learned through the miscarriage that I had a large and rapidly growing fibroid tumor and my only option was surgery. To Mr. Himself and I this wasn't really an option as the surgery would leave us only able to deliver via C-section. So I began researching. I found that many of the food we eat and genetics had caused this and I would have to drastically change my diet.
No sugar, all organic, less meat products.
This was expensive and prompted further research into some of my oldest sons allergies which lead to raw milk and other raw dairy products. Thankfully it's working. His eczema is clearing up and his colds are becoming less frequent. But again it's terribly expensive.
One day, on a whim, I looked into how much milk a dairy cow makes, eats, and costs to buy. I found that it was about the same as buying it and you had some left milk to make products and sell. We only needed about 5 acres.....
Surprisingly Mr. Himself didn't baulk at the idea.
Meanwhile he had been listen to R.C. Sproul Jr. and The Basement Tapes he produces with his church. He had been listening to them speak about freedom...freedom from industrialization, freedom.
In December of the same year we went spent a month with my family in Colorado. Fort Collins is blessed to have many freedoms. Some I agree with and some I do not :) One of their freedoms is to have livestock in the back yard. Our eyes were open to the freedom to walk out our back door and get eggs that we know where they come from, and what's been fed to the mother hens. We loved it. On the way back to Texas Mr. Himself had me listen to The Basement Tapes. I was hooked; I want the freedom from industrialization, to work along side my husband as he provides for our family's needs, to live self sustainably. We were 20 minutes from our house and we decided to put it up for sale and move on land before a year had passed.
What began as an effort to improve our physical health has became a journey to improve our familial economic health.
