First or 2nd generation Homesteader?

Great-great, and great grandfathers on my mother's side were farmers. My mom ran away from the farm and small-town life, but she and my dad did the back-to-the-land natural thing in the late 60's-early 70's, which I participated in. Mom had a garden after she and dad divorced, up until she moved into an apartment. But we will be the first to homestead in the self sufficient sense (eventually), if, and when, we find our homestead property.

If my dad sees the word homestead, he's thinking about mortgage and tax usage of the word and has no use for the 'farm' concept at all. Can't even believe he's ever actually gotten dirty, but I do remember him building the chicken coop when I was little I don't know much about his family; we're not close.

Sue and I are first time Homesteaders…”Green Acres” is the place to be!

4th Generation in franklin county Indiana . Do not know before that but I know that are family came over from England . Most just worked on the farm for a living . My Dad worked in factory untill he retired . He is retired now even though he worked off the farm he never quit the homesteading lifestyle .I worked off the farm untill I was 40 but have been homesteading full time for the last 12 years.
Indiana Country Friend Jack

My dads side has the farming gene. He was raised on a small farm in Ohio, no inside plumbing till 60 or so. Big gardens raising their own beefers and such.
My moms side is a long line of non farmers including travelling minstrels in Ireland.

As a kid we always had huge gardens and usually only ate beef we had raised. Mom was always sewing or crocheting something. The few times we lived off a farm we usually had enough stuff in freezers and jars that we didn't buy too much.
While not neccessarily homesteading it was close enough.

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My parents homesteaded (homestead act) 160 acres in Alaska. Mom's parents and grandparents had farms that were homesteaded in Oregon in the 1870's. Dad's parents farmed and gardened whenever they had a place to do it. As far as I know, all of our family has been farming back to when the first ones came here in the mid-1600's, and probably before that in England and Europe. Other than one great-great grandfather, who was a London Bobby!

Kathleen

my family have been farmers and ranchers in this country since 1635. The latest immigrants in my family came in 1704. We are born with dirt under our fingernails.

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Both grandparent's, grandparents on my father's side, came to America so that they could own land and continue to farm.
Majority of the offspring were/ are very much into growing and preserving their own foods- animal and vegetable.

Mother's side? No farmers there that I'm aware of

1st, and family all think I'm nuts. Think it's too much work when you can go to the store !!!

5th generation farmer in this county. Before that relatives were farming in Pennsylvania and Ireland.

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Since the beginning of time here also. Long line of farming families on Mom's side, long line of farming families and Cherokee heritage on Dad's side. Since I grew up on the farm and helped with canning, gardening, caring for livestock, etc it was just natural for me to go back to it as soon as I could. All Mom's sisters got away from farming as fast as they could. Mom got back into it when she got some land. Her only brother moved to Texas so he could play at farming all year around.

We personally would be doing more homesteading if we could get hold of more land. One and 1/4 acre just doesn't provide a lot of livestock room.

I live more modern than my parents, and they live more modern than their parents, but we have all raised our own meat animals, and gardens.

I grew up on a dairy farm. My dad grew up on a dairy farm. His dad grew up farming whatever they could grow to eat, and sell. His dad grew up homesteading with a milk cow, a coiuple beef cows, a garden, and lots of hunter/gatherer activites.

So, there hasnt been a break in our self sufficient lifestyle cycle.

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7th or 8th generation, at least, for Dh. First for me. They were always dirt poor, even in the good years, so I think they qualified as homesteaders rather than farmers, but alot of that was trying to farm in West Texas and the Texas Panhandle. Once they moved north, their fortunes improved to the point they didn't have to go to Old Mexico once a year and buy their food! (Seriously, until the lat 60's they went once a year to Old Mexico and bought anything they needed that they could not grow - otherwise if they could not grow it they did not eat it.)