All of my reat grandparents were homesteaders, as were both my grandfathers. my father did not homestead his farm but I grew up with homesteading practices. Home canning, gardening, fruit orchard, berries, rabbits, pigs, chickens beef, calves, learned to sew on a singer treadle machine, making quilts out of scraps from the rag bag, cooking on a wood cook stove and and supplementing the coal furnace with a fireplace. Pretty much just simple living in general. Left that all behind for the city life when I got out of high school. Seven years later moved back to the country and have been living the good life ever since. Taught my kids how to do it too.
