What Is The Modern Homesteading Lifestyle For ?

This is a question that covers past, present and future. It's about working together for all those living on and around the homestead and their security, of food, living space, kids, grandparents, jobs, water, fuel, you and your partner and the savings associated with working together, Like the dumbness of sending your kids to day care to be taught by other who knows what and sending your grandparents to the rest home to be treated badly too. It would be smarter to have the grandparents living on the homestead in there little cabin or just down the street and having the kids and the grandparents taking care of each other when you're working on or off the homestead. Then there's the help making meals and the savings that come from the fact that it takes almost as much time and energy to make a meal for 1 or 2 as it does for 6 and is much more fun eating together. Growing a garden is a lot better too. The grandparents cant do all the digging , but there are lots of weeding and watering that they can do , especially if you find ways to make it easier, like dip irrigation, a seat with big wheels that can go down the rows for weeding. The list of reasons for homesteading will grow as you start thinking in this way and living this way. When you're the grandparents farther down the road, you will be a lot happier there than in the rest home. There on the homestead you will get to see your grand kids growing up and helping you do the watering and weeding .