A little about me

[K-S ranch]

Hi all! I am new to the idea of homesteading buy husband and I live in 15 acres west of Helena, Montana. We have started raising beef in the last few years and purchased the property a little over 6 years ago. My health has been our ultimate setback and concern. I am a two time cancer survivor ( Hodgkin’s lymphoma2000, tongue cancer from radiation treatment from the Hodgkin’s in 2019!! Then December of 2021, I suffered a massive ischemic stroke) thankfully my husband recognized the stroke and called 911. For the past year I’ve been diving into homesteading. I already love to cook and bake but wanted to push myself more to become self sufficient. I’ve got goals from doing the homestead challenge from Facebook and doing the Homestead playbook training put on by Jill Winger. In the past year I’ve learned to water bath canning and forage for huckleberries. I also have a dozen chickens. We hunt fish and camp too. I’m eager to learn and have a life not dependent upon stores for our food sources.

 

[havasu]

Welcome to our forum!

 

[Patchouli]

To the neighborhood

 

[Peanut]

Welcome from Bama!

 

[FarmersDaughter]

Welcome. I am jealous of your location

 

[snappy1]

Welcome from Mississippi! Nice to meet you! Montana is beautiful!

 

[Ray1965]

Hello from Wisconsin, so glad you joined the forum. Have a blessed day

 

[Morgan101]

Welcome from Eastern Missouri. Good to have you with us.

 

[sonya123]

welcome from Virginia

 

[Amish Heart]

Welcome from Kansas

 

[Bacpacker]

Welcome from Tennessee

 

[dademoss]

Welcome from Ohio!

 

[Magpie]

Hello and Welcome!

 

[Magus]

Welcome from North Georgia!

 

[Pearl]

Welcome from north central Texas! Glad you joined us, a lot of good info and people here!!

 

[rice paddy daddy]

Welcome from NE Florida.
Be careful, keeping chickens can be habit forming.
My wife’s been doing that for 30 years now.

 

[Sourdough]

Welcome from Alaska.

 

[joel]

Welcome from S.C.
My son spent the summer at nine Quarter Ranch, near Yellow Stone. Says it is the best Summer of his twenty-nine years.

 

[lonewolf]

welcome from the UK.

 

[Cascadian]

Welcome from Oregon. Your story is an inspiration to not let things keep you from doing what you can.

 

[LadyLocust]

Welcome! There is a wealth of knowledge among these threads~
Also, you live in a gorgeous area. We have a niece up north of you a ways out in Timbuktu

 

[Tim Horton]

Greetings from a bit west of Lake Superior..
It has been many years since I was in the Missoula area..

 

[backlash]

Welcome aboard.

 

[Caribou]

A warm welcome from Alaska.

 

[montanabill]

Hello from Helena. You have probaby seen some of my sculpture.

 

[Swing]

Welcome to the forum, and it sounds as if you are making good headway into being a homesteader.

 

[winds-of-change]

Welcome. It sounds like you are an amazing woman.

 

[viking]

Hello and a warm welcome from S.W. Oregon.

 

[Alaskajohn]

Welcome from Alaska!

 

[jazzy]

howdy! jump right in