Scaling down

I just received this book in the mail and am so excited. As you know I just came from selling my ten acre farm where we raised cows, goats, pigs, chickens, rabbits and a pretty niced sized garden. We make a lot with our hands, can and freeze fruits/veggies, line dry our clothes, grind our wheat, sell at our local farmers market...BUT one of the reasons we sold our place was it was large scale and a bit overwhelming for us. We were trying to be good at everything while not really enjoying and getting great at the things we actually felt called to do. So I ordered this book...Little House in the Suburbs with the hopes of helping me get better at doing things "smaller". While we don't live in town and I don't work outside of the house(and no desire to) I want to have a smallish set up here at the new little homestead. We have scaled back to only goats and one dog as of right now. Hoping to add back chickens in the near future. In terms of growing, I'm planning to do some raised beds. I'm not good at the whole garden thing. Im hoping this book will help me get a grasp on smallish gardening and teach me how to be good at the basics. It's supposed to cover goats, chickens, bees, and gardening. Mostly I just need to "see" what a smaller homestead could look like.

I will let you know if it meets my expectations...

I thought the book was great if you know nothing about homesteading. It was probably a bit to basic for me, nonetheless I enjoyed reading it mostly. I did learn a few things about gardening and I do feel encouraged to go small and build up to bigger. I feel like it could have been a bit bigger with more pictures(I love pictures:). It's a cute book I would loan out to beginners.

Blessings,
JM