In 1998 we bought a 1970’s ‘BC box’ family home in need of updating and a small acreage on southern Vancouver Island and moved in with our little ones – ages three, eight and ten.<\/p>\n
Fast forward 20 years; many family adventures, lots of renovations, a few dogs (currently 3) and a few horses (currently 1) and donkeys (currently 2),\u00a0 way too many short-lived cats and a bunch of birds, rats, and guinea pigs later; and here we are, middle aged with our three beautiful daughters all grown up.<\/p>\n
All three girls traveled, and schooled, and lived on their own, and two are now back home again for now. Youngest is a temporary pandemic refugee; middle is a couple hours away, and oldest moved back, with an environmental technology diploma in her back pocket and few years of working under her belt, and built herself a tiny home. The next goal for her is a chunk of land, and until then, we enjoy a successful illustrator, motivated farm manager and ambitious resident gardener.<\/p>\n
Like many others,\u00a0we have grown more interested in self-sustainability, in trying to live more \u00a0lightly on our beautiful planet, in eating contaminate-free healthy happy food and in reducing our participation in the\u00a0consumer-driven\u00a0world. We spend a lot less time at the mall, and a lot more time outside with work gloves on than we did ten or twenty years ago.<\/p>\n
I have also discovered the wonderful world of chickens. In 2012 I got my first six day-old chicks, and now in 2020 I have several flocks and enjoy breeding and selling hatching eggs and a few young birds. I like to write too, thus this blog.<\/p>\n
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