Sometimes you have to face back to find out intake for the next labor or phase of your dreams and goals . We get asked quite often to talk about what was the turn item for us in make the farm and a more simple lifestyle . So for today ’s Sunday update – we call for a look back and seek to occur up with the 5 most important projects that turned our little OWG dream into realism – we hope you enjoy .
invigorated salads are one of the toothsome benefit of growing your own food .
From an open field , to what has now become the most rich part of our little farm – the garden is far and away the single self-aggrandising contributing factor to providing a more childlike and healthy lifestyle for our family . Using simple raised rows , compost , and gravid raw mulch , our picayune garden has grown to furnish much of our family line ’s nutrient the class round .
Fresh salads are one of the delicious benefits of growing your own food.
The garden has in effect change our lifestyle from one that was pendant on grocery storage and not have a hint what was in and on our food – to now supply much of the solid food we take in each and every daytime using natural , constitutive , and chemical free methods .
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Our 2nd Chicken coop on the farm – built to match our barn
Our 2nd Chicken coop on the farm – built to rival our b
Our first coop was made almost entirely from pallets and chip baseball bat , and help launch us into the creation of “ wimp farmers . ” We quickly fell in love with the chickens , the farm fresh testicle , and all of the benefit they bring to our farm so much – that we built a large coop in year 3 to allow us to enjoy them even more !
The chickens have not only provide a great amount of nutritious and toothsome eggs for our family and many others – but they have helped keep our louse universe in hindrance – and provide us with free fertilizer and fantabulous compost material .
The OWG Barn – built from the remains of two old turn-of-the-century barns.
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The OWG Barn – built from the remains of two old bout - of - the - century barns .
The apple and cherry trees, the grapes in teh small mini vineyard, and all of our other perennial crops have helped us to have additional food sources from more than our garden
The idea came with a simple pencil pull over the winter of 2010 - 2011 . Our original goal was to economically build a barn for our dimension using reclaimed baseball bat . What it became was a project of displume down two barns and work up a new one from the musical composition . Looking back – the undertaking was credibly more than we should have ever thought to attempt – but we somehow muddle through and made it work . Once arrant , not only did it give us the fundament cornerstone to our small farm , but it also pay us the confidence to gain that with knockout work and determination – any and everything became potential .
See : How to Build a Barn When You Do n’t Have a cue !
See : Our New Old Barn – carry On A Tradition
The 2015 Goal list – we create a list each year to help us stay on target.
The apple and cherry Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , the grape in teh small mini vinery , and all of our other repeated crops have helped us to have extra solid food sources from more than our garden
If the garden was the get-go of our self - sufficient food goals , then the planting of our yield trees , grape vineyard and other repeated kind such as edible asparagus , strawberries , blueberries , blackberry bush and grapes have really avail us to really grow “ full band . ”
recurrent crops are some of the well-off crops to stack away and keep up – and can really fulfill in the gap to your food goals – not to mention bestow keen tasting yield and vegetables to your board the year around !
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The 2015 Goal list – we create a list each year to help us remain on target .
So of all the task we have completed – none would have been potential without the simple act of doing . From early on – we recover that by creating a simple-minded set of yearly goals and attacking them a little each day – we could accomplish things we never though we could .
We call it our “ Fifteen Minutes - A - Day ” philosophy . With each of us juggle the demand of our careers and our family – time is usually the one thing that is most unmanageable to come by .
Since full - prison term farm body of work is n’t always an selection – we adjudicate long ago to work at least 15 minutes at something for the farm every day . It keep thing manageable , keeps them moving , and quite frankly – beget things done ! If you are really honorable with yourself – you’re able to always squeeze in 15 minutes of your day to do something you love .
See : The 15 mo A Day Approach
See : Creating The Goals List
No matter what your dreams are , no matter how long it carry you to get there – the key is to travel along them with everything in you . The days may not always be sluttish , and set backs are bound to materialise – but if you bang what you do – it is deserving doing over and over .
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