Hi! I'm Andi from Farm and Adventure! We have about 200 acres of nearly untouched Old Florida pasture for our herd of cows and our chickens, ducks, turkeys, quail, pigs, garden, and one very happy bunny.
The farm has been in the family since the 60s, but when my husband and I got married we decided we were going to live as much off the land as possible. Solar was not an option when we moved here but I am hoping to add some solar features little by little. We have a tractor but don't use it much. I prefer hand tools and hands-as-tools as much as possible.
We have a small YouTube channel and I am learning what people like to watch, mostly the animals. Here's my latest raw footage video of our ducks first time swimming in their pond:
We would love you to Follow us on our Adventures on the farm and on Steemit! I only resteem quality content or posts that brought some happiness to my day. I DO NOT FOLLOW FOR FOLLOW, please dont ask. I want to see Steemit stay quality for everyone. HAVE A HAPPY DAY!
Hello and Welcome to Steemit Andi,
that looks like you are living a dream !
I am @digital-gypsy - nice to meet you !
I would just start following and talk to the people here first, with the time
i am sure the trend is going up with you !
bienvenida, willkommen and velkommen
Good Luck & Cheers
Solid advice! Thanks for stopping in
Hi @farmandadventure Welcome to steemit community. It's very nice to meet you! Hope you enjoy creating content here. Sounds like you have a lot of fun stories to share with us in the future. I'll be looking forward to reading them! Happy steeming!
Looking forward to making them for you. Thanks for stopping by!
Welcome!
There are more than a few homesteaders on Steemit.
welcome. Enjoy the resteem to 2k people. Glad to have homesteaders here!
Check out our Discord channel to meet lots of nice new people. It's in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Channel home to the Minnow Support Project
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You sir are a gentleman....thank you
Welcome to Steem @farmandadventure I have sent you a tip
Thank you!
Hey Andi, welcome to Steemit! You're doing a great job, will keep an eye out for your posts. Good luck!
Looks fantastic. My family (@scarletleonard) and I are looking to set up a homestead in the future but are stuck where we are for a few years yet.
Florida would be far too hot for us though I think, we're in the UK and looking at places like West Virginia, Oregon or Washington state.
You've got a follow from me, lots to learn!
Keep your dreams in front of you and you'll make it! Florida is very very hot. We were in the 90s in February. If you want to homestead in America, research states that are supportive of this lifestyle. Some states are not, unfortunately. Nice to meet you!
I'll definitely be reading up more and more. I have a few posts planned to cover the questions but generally I think I'm looking at:
Also high on my list is woodland (for timber) and a stream/creek as I have a strange desire to make a hydro-electric power generator!
Also, we don't mind a few feet of snow (but that will limit what we can grow) :P
I also recommend An American Homestead on YouTube, and here they are called @MericanHomestead. They are in Arkansas in the Ozarks and they are not regulated like we are in Florida. Best wishes!
It sounds like you have a well defined vision of what you are looking for in a homestead. I live on a hundred acre extended family homestead in New England, and from what you've described the northeastern united states would be a solid bet be it upstate New York, rural Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine.
The main advantages of the northeast are as you have already described, most of the region is covered in both hardwood and evergreen forest depending on local climate and altitude. Additionally, there is abundant precipitation year round (although this can ruin more than one lovely summer day...) so there is ample surface and ground water, which also makes water harvesting and its associated headaches in drier parts of the world a relative non-issue. Also, being a temperate region we have four distinct seasons with winter temperatures as low as -30F to occasional summer highs above 100F!
Expert advice right there! Helping each other, thats what makes life great!
Thanks @newenglandsavage. I honestly thought hard about NE coast but thought that it might actually be too expensive to get land there (being near New York etc). I always equated New Hampshire as being where the rich go for holidays? Too much TV?
When I'm able to catch games I'm a Patriots fan too :)
Yes land up here can certainly get a little pricey depending on where you way be looking. New Hampshire is not quite what you've seen in the movies haha, up here we call it the "south of the north", and it's actually a pretty awesome state to live an off-the-grid lifestyle as they have very few laws regarding rights to farm, water access, firearms, and much more. Just remember the states motto is "live free or die"!
Well, we're forming the plan. We're working towards buying the house we're renting as we get a discount on it, then we have to live here for 5 years or sell it back with the discount.
We're hoping to own it outright in those 5 years or as close to it as we can then take the plunge and buy some land :)
40 isn't too old to start homesteading right? :)
Welcome, welcome, welcome @farmandadventure! I wish you happiness, health, light and happy steeming! =)
That is a beautiful sentiment, thank you!
Let the adventure begin . Looking forward to learning some on self sufficiency .
Youre in the right place!
Beautiful land, animals and veggies! Thanks for sharing ! Happy Hardforking!
Thanks, and you too! Ive enjoyed your posts and looking forward to more!
Cool deal, guessing you must be in Northern FL, maybe Ocala area or so. I'm down in South East FL....not nearly as much open land to work with.
Thats true, so much construction and spread in S. fl. We are very near Ocala. Maybe there will be a meetup for Floridian steemers one day!
Welcome to the Steemit family! Your life looks wonderful :D
Upvoted and followed!
Thank you, we try! Hubby has an illness so its tough some times. We make the best of it! Looking forward to getting to know everyone!
welcome to Steemit.
Love the duck videos, I could watch them all day.
I have watched ducks all day.
Upvoted, resteemed and following you.
Thank you, looking forward to making more animal videos for yall!
The ducks were our favorite to watch, followed closely by the chickens.
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Thanks baden! Nice to meet you!
Welcome can I call you a friend?
Wonderful to hear your story. I am following.
Love your username! Thanks for the warm welcome!
Warm welcome to you! I look forward to reading your stories!
Thank you! I followed you a few days ago so looking forward to bumping into one another :0)
I did the same! Sounds like fun!
wow great, welcome and i wish you always health and happy :)
Thank you, you also!
Welcome to the platform, I wish everything work out for you. It’s not easy here but not difficult neither but just ask an extra effort, engagement is the key good luck I’m @goodaytraders Start by following people and they will do the same.
Very nice advice, thank you!
welcome to steemit :) upvoted and followed
Thank you!
Love what you are doing, wonderful to see homesteaders at work and what they achieve...kudos to you :)
Thanks! Its hard work but I wouldnt change it for the world!
Great post, love your animals, the pigs are so sweet, what breed are they?
A great welcome to you and Iook forward to reading your posts.
I would say there are quite a few homesteaders here. I haven't as much land as you have but try to make it all count, although lately I have had to cut back due to a few health issues. Maybe I can get a few tips from you. 😀
I hope we can all learn and grow with each other! Piglets are Hampshire/Yorkshire/ Berkshire mix and they are absolutely the best Ive ever seen! Nicely sized and sweet temperment. Looking forward to us sharing!
Thank you so much for your reply. 😀
Youre welcome! Feel free anytime :0)
following! looks interesting! :)
Oh, we're interesting all right! We have alot planned this summer so thanks for coming along with us!
Ik work at dairy cow farm, organic milk, also daycare for special people :-) Nice to see y'al.
Nice to meet you!
Is that a miniature jersery cow you have? Or just a young calf?
Thats a little Hereford mix calf.
I'm an aspiring homesteader so I am definitely following you! Best of luck and welcome to Steemit!
Thanks! We look forward to sharing even more!
Great start @farmandadventure Welcome to Steemit community! Upvote🙂
Thanks! Today is a great day!
welcome family!!!
Thanks! Love your light out series!
Welcome, I live in Ocean Grove FL. It's always nice to see fellow Floridians on Steemit :)
I love the fresh food!
I'll have to look at where that is..welcome to Farm and Adventure neighbor!
HEHEE Thanks and Welcome to you too! :)
Welcome! Wow, 200 acres is quite a handful. I love that you like using hand tools. Are you a fan of the broad fork? To me, it's almost like doing a dance with the soil, great to get kids involved too. My fiance and I just got 11 acres last year and we're living in our camper as we get our homestead started. Great to connect and follow you!
I borrow a broadfork for now. I need to just make one, but Im fortunate enough to live next door to an old farmer. Anything I dont have, i can borrow ;0) 11 acres is outstanding! I started my first CSA with just 3 and we fed more than 100 families in 9 counties. Go for it!
Wow, that's amazing! What an accomplishment to feed so many families and create meaningful connections with them. My goal is to start a fruit tree and perennial nursery and gift/trade with others to get food planted throughout our communities. I like to daydream about our streets lined with gardens and fruit trees. Here's to an abundant future!
Hi there @farmandadventure. Good to see a bit of your homestead particularly as I have you on my Homesteaders & Preppers on Steemit list.
Oh hey thats a great idea! Maybe you could post your list..I would love to discover more of us! Thank you and great to meet ya!
Version 1 of the list is here : https://steemit.com/homesteading/@pennsif/preppers-and-homesteaders-on-steemit-my-list-so-far
I've had a great response to this and found a lot more steemians to add - version 2 coming out this evening.
Very nice! I upvoted and resteemed👍
That's great - thank you.
Nice post thank you for sharing We home schooled our daughter ;-)
Nice to meet you! I need to make some home school posts but I also need to figure out how to squeeze more than 24 hrs out of a day Lol
Nice to meet you! I remember the feeling of not having enough time in the day. That space is usually reserved for Moms that have to much to do and to much responsibility ;-) In my humble opinion that is.
What an adorable cow!
Welcome to Steemit, @farmandadventure
It's good to have you around :D
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Hello there! Nice to see you here, and I am really curious to see your further posts! Maybe you could give us some tips and tricks about farming, that would be really nice, especially since it is really hard to find real advice about farming these days.
Cheers!
All great ideas! We hope to share more about farming and homesteading so stay tuned!
Hi @farmandadventure. You live an awesome life. I always dream of living in a farm like that one day. Followed! Welcome to Steemit. :)
May your dreams come true 🌻
Learn as much as you can so when the time comes you'll already know how to overcome some of the obstacles. Best wishes and welcome!
Thank you @farmandadventure. I am really looking forward to your future posts. :)
Welcome to Steemit! I look forward to seeing your homesteading and farm posts! I live on a farm in Oklahoma.
Ahhhhh, Oklahoma, my scary-weather twin state! I almost went tornado chasing two years ago there. Looking forward to seeing your posts too!
Followed. Upvoted. Resteemed!
LOVE THIS POST - thank you for being the heartbeat of America.
Awww shucks, this cowgirl is blushing! I hope we can bring you helpful and fun posts!
Hello! I look forward to reading your posts on off grid living. I am seeing an increasing number off self sustainable folk showing up on steemit. Very inspiring.
Thank you, I hope we are all able to share and learn together!
Hey. Interesting, always envied the farm lifestyle.
Love ur post and story :0) really amazing. Upvoted and resteemed. Thx for sharing. Good luck!
Thanks a bunch! We're here to share and learn with everyone. Hope to see ya soon!
Absolutly :0) see u soon!!
wish you success in your endeavors
A happy day is a successful day! Thank you🌻
Thanks for the positive
Welcome to steemit. I hope to lesrn some fatming techniques!
Welcome to Steemit. I am jealous of your vegetables. Have good day and good luck!!!
Looking good guys! Love the piglet photo!
Oh your baby animals are so cute! I would love to come pet that little calf!
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