what's the average age for homesteaders?

I'm 51 and hubby is 50. We're getting back to gardening this year and hope to find land out in the country to expand - bigger garden, chickens and goats - within the next couple of years. Sure wish we would have done this a long time ago!!

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24 here. The boyfriend is 64 and not much into homesteading, but he helps and he enjoys the food we get from it. We're somewhat starting over, since we literally just moved (have been here for a week), but we have the birds still. Now we just need to get a garden in, get fruit trees, etc.

Wait a minute... Did Bill just correct someone's grammar?!

My parents moved to upstate NY in 1987 to help out with my dads aging parents. I was ten at the time (you do the math... But don't tell me!!). I have been "ageless" for a number of years. When I was 25 I decided the number was meaningless, since somedays I feel ancient and other days like a ten year old. When they moved, my dad went from being a professor to being "retired" and from being in town with all the conveniences to 120 acres with two improvements---a pond and a small concrete slab. We: 1) built the barn 2) built the lean-to off the barn to live in 3) built the house. They were off the grid until last year. My mom has always canned and taken in critters. We once had six baby possums in the house! People drop off their unwanted pets at the bottom of the road and each one she says, "I am not doing it! They need to find a home!" Yep, ...ours
They got their first chickens three years ago and my dads coop design made it in the local newspaper.
When I was a teen I decided I was going to move to the city and live in a big house with electricity and a rich boyfriend. Somehow I found myself living in a tent, working three jobs and hitch hiking to and from work. Met my husband and we had a couple major life moves. I decided I was a country girl at heart.

I'm 31 and hubby is 32 and the little guy is 3.

I'm 22 and only have six rabbits. only about 400 sq ft of garden space but hey its a start I'm hoping to have some laying hens and many more rabbits by the end of the year...

Started seriously doing what we do about 12 years ago. Of course, it meant taking a run down farm and turning it into something useable. It was mostly gardening at the start then chickens. It was several years before we got the goats and pigs. I am 42 and my husband is 43. Blessings, Kat

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I am 59. I bought the farm in 1983. In years since I raised hogs, cattle, sheep, guineas and chickens. Had an escaped Emu running around the farm for a few months till it kept tearing up sheep fences. I shot it. At one time or the other I have raised barley, wheat, oats, corn ,soybeans, milo, turnips, rape, and more different kinds of forages than I can remember. Today it is cattle, sheep, alfalfa, corn and various forage. Garden and orchard.

Well, I'm a wee bit late to the game but I want to add my 2¢. We have the property, we have the travel trailer to live in while we build a cabin, earth home or whatever ... I'm just busting at the seams to get out to the sticks and get started. Hubby wants to get out of debt first. I guess I can't blame him, but time is ticking away and I feel a sense of urgency to get outta dodge. Plus I ain't getting any younger! I'm 54, hubby is 50. Great thread! SO envious by how long some of y'all have been homesteading. I've wanted to be living this lifestyle since I was knee-high to a grasshopper.

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I'm 40.
my dad was doing homestaeding of sorts when I was a kid,wood heat,garden,chickens and chores.
I wasn't thrilled with it when I was a kid but looking back it was good times,I cam e back to the lifestyle10 years ago when we moved into my wifes grandparents and dads farm.

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I'm 20, started the day I turned 18 but I'm just now getting serious about it.
I have a garden, chickens, ducks and adding rabbits. My bees will be here the 2nd week of May and I compost. Learning to can, quilt and knit. I did have a few goats but I decided it would be better to wait a few years before I try that again. I knew this is what I wanted my whole life, even though it wasn't something I was raised around.

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42 and still dreaming of living the dream

Born and raised in the city (a few of them actually), lived in a logging town for a few years, and in the middle of the E.WA desert for a bit before moving to the mountains of VA where I stumbled into the middle class for a decade or so. SHTF 4-5 years ago and I wasn't prepared.

That will not happen again. ASAP, I'll be home in the PNW and if the cost of realestate there doesn't kill me, I'll find myself a few acres of heaven somewhere in the foothills of the Cascades or Coastal range.

-NTY

Bought land at 24, now 34.

A little late as well on this but the husband and I both grew up on farms. Started with taking care of our poultry at age four and from there it grew. Learned how to cook, can, garden and sew around five or six. Also learned to hunt and fish around that time. Both my husband and i learned that anything we killed didnt go to waste. There was always use for the left behinds. Still can, garden, raise poultry and sew a lot of things! Hoping that soon we will have our little place in the country. Oh yes and main question I'm 28 and the husband is 32.

Itarted 79 years ago where I was born on a farm. I've been doing farm work ever since.. The first year I done the milking and spread manure..

I guess that would make my average about 40..

We've been working on it for a couple years. We're in our mid-twenties. We're still in town, but doing the best with what we have and trading for everything we can. The idea has kind of slowly evolved. A couple winters ago I thought, "Let's plant a garden in the spring," which evolved to into our current ideal life.

I am 33 almost 34, been trying seriously for the last year and toying with ideas for the last 3 years. Not a ranch on a half acre by any means. But we try!

Started studying and reading in 2004, moved to the country, different places to try out, starting in 2008, husband died in 2009, got my own place that year, now I've had to go back to the city to earn a living, but some day, some how, I'll be back. It's the only life I truly enjoy.
I'm fifty-one.
Congratulations on your move, and best wishes. Listen, learn, practice, repeat Don't be afraid to fail, just get up the next day and start again.

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I'm 66, so my "average age" is 33...........Joe

My average is 28. I am 54 and and I act like a 2 year old.