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Black People Homestead?

February 15, 2018 By Deidra

black farmerOf course!! Why wouldn’t we? For years here in America, good ole’ U.S. of A, my ancestors worked the land. I’m not going to go deep into the torrid history of our ancestors’ enslavement in all of the Americas, but I will point out that the act of homesteading is not a new thing to us.

Unfortunately, when one thinks of homesteading what may come to mind is covered wagons, “Little House On The Prairie”, “Ma and Pa Kettle” – pretty much that homesteading is a “white” thing. But it’s not. [Read more…] about Black People Homestead?

Filed Under: The Journey Tagged With: African American Homesteaders, Black Farmers, Black Homesteaders, Homestead, Homesteading

Don’t Ever Buy Land That Won’t Perc

February 8, 2018 By Antoine

Photo of the GroundSince we started our journey of purchasing a home again, we flipped back and forth on many things. At first, we were looking for a home with more than 5 acres and under $300K. Uhm, yeah…good luck with that in our area of North Carolina. That may have been the case about 8-10 ten years ago, but you would be hard pressed to find any homes with sizable land for cheap. With the influx of so many people to the area, it has become a seller’s market. People will pretty much buy homes sight-unseen by the time you realize a new home is on the market! Yep, a crazy crazy market it is around here. [Read more…] about Don’t Ever Buy Land That Won’t Perc

Filed Under: The Journey Tagged With: Acreage, Journey, Land, Perc, Septic

Decisions, Decisions….

February 2, 2018 By Deidra

Two Paths in Field

Hey y’all! Deidra here. So, I wanted to share with you all a little of our journey.

We used to own our own home a few years back. Unfortunately, Antoine was caught up in the technology bubble bust and was laid off. While he had some time at home, he decided to build our first garden. We had two young children and a dog and we knew we had mouths to feed.

He was really good at it. He grew okra, tomatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon, strawberries, peppers….anything that could fit in our square foot garden. I think that’s when the bug really bit him. From that point on, no matter where we landed we tried to grow something. [Read more…] about Decisions, Decisions….

Filed Under: The Journey Tagged With: Acreage, garden, Homestead, Homesteading, Journey, Land

Our Journey Begins

February 2, 2018 By Antoine

Open RoadHello, hello, hello!  My name is Antoine and I would like to welcome you to our blog.  This is the first of what will be many entries by my wife, Deidra, and myself.  We have long talked about having our own land where we could grow our own food as well as raise our own animals.  We are not there yet, but in December of 2017, we decided to chronicle our journey whether we make it or bust!

[Read more…] about Our Journey Begins

Filed Under: The Journey Tagged With: garden, home made, Journey

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