First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to read our first post on Steemit. We wanted to take a little time to introduce ourselves to the Steemit community.
We used to live in the Phoenix, AZ area where we both had high pressure corporate jobs that were very successful. The problem was, we were miserable. I (Kevin) worked in sales and Sarah was the head of HR for companies throughout the Phoenix area. We chased after the lie that in order to be "successful" in life you had to work long hours, make a ton of money, buy a big house, drive nice cars and do all of the other things that keep you in debt and a slave to the system.
In 2012, we decide enough was enough and started down a different path. We sold our big house in the communist style HOA neighborhood and bought a run down urban farm. It was in terrible shape. In fact, our realtor told us to bulldoze it and build a new house. We didn't listen to him and instead worked to restore the house and the land into a productive piece of land.
While living on that property, we worked tirelessly to get out of debt and learn homesteading skills. We learned how to garden, raise and slaughter our own animals, how to milk goats, how to preserve food and A LOT of other skills.
By 2016, we were completely debt free and ready to take what we learned to the next level. We quit our "good' jobs and sold the urban farm so that we could move our family to the Missouri Ozark's.
We have been full time homesteaders for a little over a year now and LOVE IT! We have never been happier and our relationships with each other and our children have never been stronger.
This is where the story picks up...We hope you will follow along as we continue to transition from city dwellers to full time homesteaders in the Missouri Ozark's!
wow.. what an inspiration @livingtraditions
great family... nice kids you guys are amazing... got me thinking of also joining the pack of new home steaders...
welcome also to steemit...am sure your experiences shared here will help educate others.. thanks for sharing!
Where there is love there is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Dude, thats an awesome! What part of Missouri are you in? Is love to meet up
Welcome to Steemit! I'm a fellow homesteader (newbie) and look forward to reading your future posts!
Thank you! We have been on YouTube for a while but just learning more about Steemit. I love what I am seeing so far. Seems like a good sense of community amongst the homesteaders that are posting. We will definitely be posting more soon. - Kevin
Awesome! I invite you to check out the SteemitHomesteaders.Slack chat channel where we all get together and support one another! You can read more about it here: https://steemit.com/steemithomesteaders/@greenacrehome/announcement-steemithomesteaders-slack-community. I am a member and I love it!
Also @livingtraditions, I run a Weekly Homesteading Newsletter that is posted every Sunday! I was wondering if I could include a link to this article in the next newsletter to help introduce you to the homesteading community/ get your profile seen! Just let me know! Thanks!
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Welcome! I've followed you on YT for a while, good to see you here, enjoy!
Welcome to Steemit! Glad to see you here. Hope to hear more from you.
Awesome! Best of luck! And I'm now following for future updates!
Great story! It is interesting to see how many people are going the route of homesteading these days!! I look forward to hearing more.
Thanks for following! We are about 6 years into homesteading and just over a year full time. Wouldn't trade this lifestyle for anything!
hello and welcome to missouri!! where rocks grow everytime you mow!! I'm so happy to hear you and your beautiful wife are enjoying the ozarks and are happier with life in general. We are on the getting to know how to do for ourselves bit. It's quite a change but somehow so much more fulfilling than what I was used to. Can't wait to see more from you and to learn a thing or two!!
You sure are right about the rocks! It's crazy....If only the garden grew that good lol! We are so much happier living this lifestyle. So glad you found us!
Have you got a chance to go floating yet? That's my favorite part about missouri ozarks, the wonderful view of the bluffs, banks and caves from the crisp water!! Nothing beats waking up on the river bank to the sound of nature waking and singing it's lovely tune!! potatoes and eggs on the campfire.
No we haven't gone floating yet but we do live very close to a really nice creek (Bryant Creek) and we spend a lot of time there fishing and swimming. It really is a beautiful place to live!
Lol, good one about the rocks!
haha we never got grounded as kids, we had to pick rocks from the field!! good raising!!
Hi from Australia and following your journey.
So glad you found us! And glad you are following along!
You sound a lot like us, but we traded a city in Wisconsin for the Arkansas Ozarks!
Welcome to Steemit. We should hang out some time!
#debtfree! Way to be!
Sarah and I both grew up in Wisconsin! I grew up in Oshkosh and Sarah in a small town called Rosendale. We would love to hang out sometime. We are less than an hour from AR.
Are you on https://steemit.chat/ yet?
I am papa-pepper on there. We can have a private conversation over there if you want.
You have a beautiful family. Upvoted and following
Thank you so much!
Looking forward to hearing about your ecperience!
So glad you will be following along!
Good on you guys! Welcome to Steemit. Glad to have you in the community and I look forward to reading about your homestead journey.
I just found out we might be neighbors. Chad and stacy are friends of mine. Hit me up some time