January Reading Wrap Up on The Homestead // *NO SPOILERS* // Reviews & Ratings

We tend to do quite a bit of reading on the homestead during the slower winter months. January was a good quantity and quality reading month for all of us and we can't wait to share those reads with you guys!

Join us over on Instagram @kristlesbookclub and read one book a month. Meetings are on the last Wednesday evening of every month via Zoom. Click the link for this year's reading list and more information:   / kristlesbookclub  

Join me over on Facebook @OurMaineBookClub and read one book a month. Meetings are in person on the last Thursday evening of every month at Veteran's Memorial Library, followed by a virtual discussion in our FB group page. Click the link for this year's reading list and more information:   / ourmainebookclub  

---------------------Welcome to Our Maine Homestead!

We moved onto 200 + acres of raw land in northern Maine in September of 2018. We’re building our off-grid homestead, literally, from the ground up with our own four hands.

Our goals are to share our simple, self-sufficient, and sustainable lifestyle using traditional, old fashioned on purpose, and natural methods the same way our grandparents, great grandparents, and those who came before them did.

Along the way we hope to pass on the best parts of this lifestyle to our daughters and to all of you. We want to share the experience of how we live and the challenges we face as we build our dream homestead, raising animals, growing our own food, and working on the many projects required to live this lifestyle.

We’ll show you, not necessarily how to do things, but how we do things. We’ll also share video series that go deeper into specific aspects of our lives and what it’s like to live the way we do in the 21st century.

There’s a saying, “There’s a first time for everything.” Here, there’s a first time for EVERYTHING, because almost everything we’re doing here, we’re doing for the first time.

While our life is simple, it’s not always easier. It’s a lot of hard work, but we were raised knowing that nothing worthwhile comes easy and as you’ll see there are way more positives than negatives.

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