After not writing, at all, for 15 months and only writing five times since we moved into our new house/property/homestead/”The Farm” over two years ago — I’ve decided it’s time to start writing again.

I stopped writing, in a large sense, because we were now “doing.” When we lived in suburbia, it was easy to wax eloquently about the virtues of prepping, while imagining what we’d do if we had a homestead and acreage. In suburbia, we were some of the most prepared people around.

Then we moved to “The Farm,” and quickly realized, 1) there was a lot to be done, and we were no where near our preparation goals, and 2) we really don’t know shit about any of this.

I hardly felt qualified to tell people about prepping when everything I needed to do I had to Google first and/or watch, sometimes numerous, YouTube videos to figure out how to do it. Nothing in our past, other than a desire to do so, qualified us to be able to live this life. Both Sarah and I had grown up in middle-class suburbia, and since we don’t have any (physical) community or relatives to teach us, everything we learned had to be self-taught.

Fast forward two years: We’ve sorta figured some things out. Trial and error have become our constant companions. Our mantra has become, the best way to learn about something is to just do it. At this point I feel qualified to discuss our experiences and what we have learned.

In addition to writing new posts, I’m also going to revisit some of my old posts, adding commentary and updates now that we have “real life” experience.

As a side note, my web address is now tracemypreps.xyz (no longer .com). Our domain registration expired, and by time we went to renew it it had been bought by some overseas company (who were willing to sell it back to us at an outrageous cost).

P.S. Switching web addresses caused a lot of things not to work, especially pictures and some links. Also there are things that are just outdated and need to be redone. We appreciate your patience while we get everything back up to speed.

the kids, in front of the barn, with a sampling of the animals we now have