Our homestead is really a training ground, a place where we… Although I sometimes refer to myself as a farmer, I think of myself primarily as a father and husband who has surveyed the cultural landscape and then scrambled to create a context in which his family can survive and even thrive. For three years we have worked to turn our acreage into a farm that will directly supply the needs of our family for generations to come. We looked around for affordable land, and in summer 2005 we moved onto thirty acres in south central Kentucky, about two hundred miles west of Bristol. The answer-homesteading-surprised us, as well as a lot of our friends. We moved to Bristol, Tennessee and spent four years thinking about what we wanted to do next. The adventure got interesting in May 2001, when I volunteered to be laid off from the internet firm I worked for. My name is Rick Saenz, and I’ve kept this weblog about our family adventure since March 2000. The barn is no longer standing, having been blown down by a near-tornado. About The picture above is the view from our front porch on a fall morning in 2005.
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