Simple Living in Practice, Lesson #5
Welcome back after the weekend. We hope you had a restful Sabbath day studying and keeping the Sabbath holy, and enjoyed pondering the new ideas we have been discussing lately, too.
Last week, we laid the practical foundations for living a God sufficient life in a remote place, telling you step by step what would be needed to get started. You need land, you need a roof over your head, you need to produce as much of your energy and food as you can yourself, and for all these things, it is important to wise up a little and plan ahead.
Now that you are established on your little patch of land, that the house is built ans the well dug, and that the seed is growing in the garden, what else do you need to consider ?
One thing many homesteaders do is keeping livestock. It certainly is a very biblical idea, and if you are not vegetarians, it is the safest way to get meat to eat, too. Having chicken will provide you with eggs, and even having a cow might be profitable to you, both for the milk and for the meat. If you are living in an area where keeping sheep works out well, you can also benefit from their wool when it comes to making clothes, which will be the topic in a different blog.
Make sure, however, that tending livestock is what you really want and can do, since some livestock needs more attention than other, and it binds you to a place as well as its daily rhythm. The decision to keep livestock should be thought through well. Make use of the internet and your local libraries to wise up well on all the aspects it involves. Scott and Helen Nearing, for example, from whom you can otherwise glean a lot of good advice, decided against keeping livestock and reasoned well, so look into matter from different perspectives and decide on what to do. If you decide to keep livestock, it will certainly be an investment, so taking you budget into consideration too (and not only romantic ideas about it) will be necessary.
We will leave you with this for today... Stay tuned for lesson #6 tomorrow, and remember to commit all your works and decisions to the Lord, so that your thoughts may be established.
Technorati Tags: simple life, Helen and Scott Nearing, livestock, God's creation, nature, homesteading, self sufficiency, separation, SAHM, plural marriage, polygamy, dominion covenant, multi-generational family, Joshuah's House
Last week, we laid the practical foundations for living a God sufficient life in a remote place, telling you step by step what would be needed to get started. You need land, you need a roof over your head, you need to produce as much of your energy and food as you can yourself, and for all these things, it is important to wise up a little and plan ahead.
Now that you are established on your little patch of land, that the house is built ans the well dug, and that the seed is growing in the garden, what else do you need to consider ?
One thing many homesteaders do is keeping livestock. It certainly is a very biblical idea, and if you are not vegetarians, it is the safest way to get meat to eat, too. Having chicken will provide you with eggs, and even having a cow might be profitable to you, both for the milk and for the meat. If you are living in an area where keeping sheep works out well, you can also benefit from their wool when it comes to making clothes, which will be the topic in a different blog.
Make sure, however, that tending livestock is what you really want and can do, since some livestock needs more attention than other, and it binds you to a place as well as its daily rhythm. The decision to keep livestock should be thought through well. Make use of the internet and your local libraries to wise up well on all the aspects it involves. Scott and Helen Nearing, for example, from whom you can otherwise glean a lot of good advice, decided against keeping livestock and reasoned well, so look into matter from different perspectives and decide on what to do. If you decide to keep livestock, it will certainly be an investment, so taking you budget into consideration too (and not only romantic ideas about it) will be necessary.
We will leave you with this for today... Stay tuned for lesson #6 tomorrow, and remember to commit all your works and decisions to the Lord, so that your thoughts may be established.
Technorati Tags: simple life, Helen and Scott Nearing, livestock, God's creation, nature, homesteading, self sufficiency, separation, SAHM, plural marriage, polygamy, dominion covenant, multi-generational family, Joshuah's House
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