The Dream For Sabine River Homestead

I have dreamed of having a homestead for over 35 years, and back then I wanted just my homestead for my family and I, but over the years I have come to realize the importance of working together and sharing, what we have learned , and giving the opportunity to others to learn from what we have. For we have learned from others and its up to us to give that opportunity to others too. It has taken a lot of time, hard work and money to get to the point of having this place and it being payed off, but nothing worth anything comes easy and if it did, would not be as cared about.

I wish to set this place up as a sustainable eco-agriculture homestead for teaching and learning. A place to show others how they can set up their homestead through agri-tourism, educational tours, u-pick operations, farm store, agricultural festivals as well as bed and breakfast opportunities in cabins, tipis or yurts.

Teaching "back to basics" like training oxen, farming with oxen, pottery, raising livestock, tanning and taxidermy, blacksmithing, cooking and canning, arts and crafts, soap making, cheese making, carpentry, boats and kayak building, wilderness survival, butchering and preserving meat and a lot more.

I would like this place to be the focal point for the intentional community set up here and nearby, giving those working and living here the security of a stable lifestyle that a homestead should provide. A place producing what it needs and buying what it can't produce with money made from what we make and sell. There are lots of opportunities here with the Sabine National Forest here and Toledo Bend Reservoir, which is almost 80 miles long and 3 to 5 miles wide , with its great fishing.

Because this is not just about me , I'm hoping that people wishing to be part of this will put in their ideas. With their help there's lots of possibilities. One of them could be a horse Trail ride into the Sabine National Forest, as well horse stables. The possibilities are endless. We just need people wishing to be a part of it all.