HOMESTEADING IN THE

BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS

How to build an Aquascape Pond

I wanted to have a beautiful garden. I had already achieved filling my Florida backyard with endless amounts of fruit trees, exotic flowers, and a massive Rainbow tree. But I felt convicted that a (bigger) pond would be essential to achieve my goal of having the *most* … READ MORE ON OUR BLOG

WILDERNESS CRYSTAL

IN 2024 WE MADE THE JUMP FROM CITY TO COUNTRY LIVING. THIS IS OUR STORY.

blue ridge mountains

Sometimes the best recipes require adding an extra spice. That is exactly what we’ve done with our lives. In 2024 we left our jobs, our comfy home, and moved to Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

This is our story of what we’ve learned along the way. This includes both our triumphs and many failures to learn how to start a small homestead.

#WILDERNESSCRYSTAL

Homesteading is: Being self-sufficient, living simply, getting back to our roots, breaking away from commercialism, growing your own food

— Unknown

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature- the assurance that dawn comes after night and spring after winter

— Rachel Carson

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself

May Sarton

Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots

— Shannon Mullen