Ep 47 - Moving to Our New Homestead

Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism

Hi, friends! We're back with our second episode with my partner, Mike, as a guest. We're continuing this series discussing the process of restarting our homestead out here in Colorado. Today's episode focuses on our actual move from Tennessee to Colorado and some of the big decisions we had to make and the logistics that we had to organize. I hope this episode is helpful to anyone who finds themselves in the position of needing to move their homestead in the future. And I hope everyone else finds it entertaining to hear about our adventures!

Some topics we touch on :

• Deciding when to actually make the move.
• Deciding where/what to live in once we got to Colorado -- we bought raw land so we were starting completely from scratch!
• Working to get our TN homestead on the market to sell.
• Moving in stages -- we needed to have infrastructure ready to go for the animals before we brought them out.
• Our first work trip -- what we accomplished; help from friends.
• The actual move -- worrying about our animals; finishing fencing in the dark.
• The rush to beat winter -- getting ourselves situated; not letting solar equipment freeze.

The cover photo for this episode is the first selfie we took on our new property, the morning after we arrived and started stumbling around our land for the first time. If we look sleep-deprived and a bit wild-eyed, it's because we were!

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As always, we appreciate your support of this podcast and our work! Please check out the spring seasonal items in the Fox and Elder shop! Lymph Love, our favorite herbal vinegar, is back in stock. We also have violet leaf salve and calendula salve available in two different sizes now – both are great if you’re dealing with dry skin from winter still. And of course we still have our normal stock of delicious herbal teas and tinctures. Thanks so much for supporting our farm with your purchases! It means the world to us, especially as we work to get our farm re-established in a new location this year, which comes with a lot of expenses.

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Until next time, keep your hands dirty and your heart open <3