- Joined
- Mar 26, 2015
- Messages
- 679
- Location
- Preston, QLD
- Website
- asmedical.webege.com
- Climate
- Temperate (all seasons)
This has been a difficult decision, spurred on by the constant work that needed to be done to keep the acreage that we moved into just over a year ago functional and sustainable. We are moving back into town. We are only 15 mins out of town as it is, but the sheer size of the plot that needs mowing, the inability to adequately care for the fruit trees in the difficult black soil and the subsequent lack of time to spend with the family when I wasn't working has taken its toll on me. And we didn't even get the chance to put chickens and livestock on the place, which would have added more onto my plate to manage. I did my level best to make it work out, but all my efforts were creating too much of a self insufficient culture.
The acreage is for sale, with a signed contract in place for later on in the year, and the suburban home is in our sights come mid-Feb. My self-sufficiency hopes will still be pursued there, but clearly there will be less space for my initial desires of an orchard. I will be limited to just a few fruit trees, and a small vege patch that we will find easier to access and manage. Most importantly, I will have an important part of my life back, the family. I will be able to spend more time in the home considerably less concerned about how much work that needs to be done outside.
To you all who do this acreage life well, I tip my hat off to you. But as for me and my family, we would find self-sufficiency more doable and enjoyable in a smaller place. So that's where we're headed. And after our move, I will also have more time to be online to share and bounce ideas around on SSC...
The acreage is for sale, with a signed contract in place for later on in the year, and the suburban home is in our sights come mid-Feb. My self-sufficiency hopes will still be pursued there, but clearly there will be less space for my initial desires of an orchard. I will be limited to just a few fruit trees, and a small vege patch that we will find easier to access and manage. Most importantly, I will have an important part of my life back, the family. I will be able to spend more time in the home considerably less concerned about how much work that needs to be done outside.
To you all who do this acreage life well, I tip my hat off to you. But as for me and my family, we would find self-sufficiency more doable and enjoyable in a smaller place. So that's where we're headed. And after our move, I will also have more time to be online to share and bounce ideas around on SSC...