Hello everyone, and welcome to my wife's and my blog about our adventures in more natural and sustainable living in the modern city. We hope to make this blog a chronicle of what we learn and what we do to try and take our urban property and use it to produce food and other goods that our family can use. Before we begin this adventure, please let me take a moment to introduce myself (my wife, known on this blog as "the Missus", will be introducing herself in another post, which she is typing as I type this one).
I am your average urban yuppie in Sacramento, California. I am 31 years old and work as a training analyst for the consulting arm of a large corporation, which I have been doing for a couple years along with serving in the Army Reserve. I have been married for a number of years to my beautiful wife, and I also have four wonderful children, ages 9, 4, 2, and less than a year. I have grown up in a number of rural communities in Northern California, but I would hardly call myself handy with gardening or home production of anything. Thus, this blog will chronicle an adventure indeed.
As for why the Missus and I are undertaking this process with our home in the first place, there are many reasons. The first reason is that we really want to know more about our food. Modern agriculture is becoming less transparent and more reckless with how it operates, and that kinda scares me. If I can produce my own food for myself and my family, then I don't have to worry about contaminants, additives or harmfully modified foods causing problems for my family. The missus and I are also worried about any potential disasters that may strike, natural or otherwise, and the more we do to become self sufficient, the better we can handle any possible emergency situations that might arise. In short, we hope to be as independent as possible so that we don't have to rely too heavily on any one source for our own support.
The Missus and I have plenty of ideas for what we want to do with our property, but we are starting with just a few basics, which are vegetable gardening, beekeeping, and a small flock of chickens. We will be writing about those as we get closer to doing them, so if you want to join us on this adventure, be sure to subscribe to our blog and post any comments and questions of your own along the way. We look forward to hearing from you!
I am your average urban yuppie in Sacramento, California. I am 31 years old and work as a training analyst for the consulting arm of a large corporation, which I have been doing for a couple years along with serving in the Army Reserve. I have been married for a number of years to my beautiful wife, and I also have four wonderful children, ages 9, 4, 2, and less than a year. I have grown up in a number of rural communities in Northern California, but I would hardly call myself handy with gardening or home production of anything. Thus, this blog will chronicle an adventure indeed.
As for why the Missus and I are undertaking this process with our home in the first place, there are many reasons. The first reason is that we really want to know more about our food. Modern agriculture is becoming less transparent and more reckless with how it operates, and that kinda scares me. If I can produce my own food for myself and my family, then I don't have to worry about contaminants, additives or harmfully modified foods causing problems for my family. The missus and I are also worried about any potential disasters that may strike, natural or otherwise, and the more we do to become self sufficient, the better we can handle any possible emergency situations that might arise. In short, we hope to be as independent as possible so that we don't have to rely too heavily on any one source for our own support.
The Missus and I have plenty of ideas for what we want to do with our property, but we are starting with just a few basics, which are vegetable gardening, beekeeping, and a small flock of chickens. We will be writing about those as we get closer to doing them, so if you want to join us on this adventure, be sure to subscribe to our blog and post any comments and questions of your own along the way. We look forward to hearing from you!
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