Ancient Path

Magical Cedar Tree: A Home School Tale to Spin Since the beginning, we have sat together listening to the stories of our ancestors. Storytelling is the vehicle for which we learn.  Forest Schooling on the Homestead Our very best memories are made during our Forest Schooling hours. Most afternoons are spent wondering through the acres of forest behind our home. We have adventures and find all sorts of living things … many of which I never knew existed. Our recent adventure accompanied a story called, " The Legend of the Cedar" In the Waldorf pedagogy, stories from the ingenious people of the land are told to the children to help them connect with the earth beneath their feet. This generally takes place in Second grade, but the Native American stories all tie in wonderfully with our afternoon Forest Schooling. One of the books I'm using for activity ideas is,  Forest Schooling . The idea for a magic wand made out of sacred tree branches, came from this book. Earlier...

Location, location, location! There are two options when purchasing a property to homestead on. 1. Develop a piece of raw land, or 2. Buy property that is already established. I highly advise the latter, unless you are filthy rich, in which case this entire article is not for you. Carry on. When my husband and I started out on this adventure a little over a yea ago, we fell in love with a parcel of land in Western Oklahoma. The landscape was beautiful, and the fact that the mineral rights were being sold with it was defiantly a plus. There was an existing pump jack on the property, so it is very likely the property is on top of an oil deposit. That however is a whole other machine and won't be covered here either. Our youngest pictured on the parcel of land we wanted to develop. What I would like to cover in this article is costs to develop raw property. The obvious cost is the land itself, but there are many more that aren't so obvious. Keep in mind, these estimate...