{"id":1150,"date":"2022-01-16T19:18:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khetwise.com\/blog\/beginners-guide-to-self-sufficient-homesteading\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T19:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T19:18:43","slug":"beginners-guide-to-self-sufficient-homesteading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khetwise.com\/blog\/beginners-guide-to-self-sufficient-homesteading\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginners Guide to Self Sufficient Homesteading"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past year was our first year on our 5-acre, self sufficient homestead and we dove deep into growing enough food to feed our family all year. We came a long way, supplying 80-90% of our own food with a basement full of storage crops, freezers full of meat and frozen fruit, and plenty of dried and canned produce foraged or from the garden to last us through the winter.<\/p>\n

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How we got here<\/h2>\n

Our formerly suburban family purchased a foreclosed, 5-acre<\/a> farm in the summer of 2020, fixed it up, and moved in just in time for our third child to be born. That first partial year on the farm was a whirlwind, but we still managed to get a rotational grazing system up and going with our couple of cows and start a good-sized garden. In 2021, we wanted to take it to the next level and see if it was possible to feed our family year-round and create a more self-sufficient homestead.<\/p>\n

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