With the price of gas and all the other necessities of our modern life, homesteading is on it's way to be the norm for every day people. Raising your own vegetables in your organic garden with no chemicals means no contaminated vegetables on the table. It means being able to have fresh vegetables and fruits in your families' diets daily. It means that you will not have to pay an arm and a leg to get to the store for some outdated wimpy greens for your salad bowl.

It's really not that hard to do. I built a couple of raised beds with field stone from my horses' paddock. Filled it with composted dirt that came from my horses' manure and planted my seeds. Then my husband seeing how much easier that was than plowing a garden, he built me more raised beds out of rough cut lumber. Now they are all filled with beautiful green plants! Food!

All summer we will eat the fresh vegetables. Salads every day all summer. I can enough food from my garden to get us through the winter. Then it's time to start the whole cycle all over. You can plant a garden anywhere. Even in an apartment or in the big city. This way you will have food when the price of everything skyrockets.

My Homesteading Journey is a book I have written about my life becoming a modern homesteader in these troubled times. It isn't easy. But it didn't just happen. We worked for it. Most of my book is about the way I live in my "off-the-grid" home. How I generate my own electrical power and cook on my wood cookstove. I also have gone into some detail on how I got to this lifestyle. How the day to day troubles that all people go through make you turn to an alternative lifestyle. One where you are in control. I am still not to that point completely yet.....but hope to be in the near future.

One of the most important aspects of the homesteading lifestyle is how to make a living from your home. Selling on eBay, or your own website, or both, fit perfectly into this puzzle. When we first moved here, our mailbox was a mile from our house. So when I started selling on eBay I had to have my husband take my packages to the mailbox to wait for the mailman. He walked or road his bike (unfortunately, his brand new mountain bike that he bought on eBay NEVER worked properly and was dangerous to use!) to the mailbox deciding he would never drive to get the packages out. He did well. So well, that the new mailman assisted us in FINALLY getting the USPS to let us have our mailbox in front of our home. We love our mailman!!!!!!

I will be listing my book on here for sale soon. For the time being, I cannot list it as a download until Paypal FINALLY sends me a letter to prove that I live at my billing & shipping address, which they have had since 2001. I also have their Virtual Website checkout on my website and they take that fee from me monthly, but for some reason now, they do not where to send this important letter (the same place they sent my debit card!).

I hope to share this important book with all you homesteaders soon!