{"id":788,"date":"2014-12-15T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/?page_id=788"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:51:22","slug":"homestead-planning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/homestead-planning","title":{"rendered":"Homestead Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homestead planning is a lot of work. There&#8217;s a lot to think about. This series should help answer some questions, fill in some blanks and probably make you ask more questions. This series is also great for people who are homesteading now and planning to expand, change course or possibly even stop doing a particular activity. <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">homestead planning<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Homestead Planning - Will you want poultry?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/homestead-planning-poultry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Poultry<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nWill you want to raise birds? When I first got chicks nearly 20 years ago someone made a point I\u2019ll never forget. He said, \u201cChickens are as simple or difficult as you want to make them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_781\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-781\" class=\"wp-image-781 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/buff-orpington-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Buff orpington, layers, laying hen, homestead planning\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/buff-orpington-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/buff-orpington.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buff Orpington<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Homestead Planning \u2013 Where Do You Want to Live?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/homestead-planning-where-do-you-want-to-live.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Where do you want to live?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRemote living is great if you don\u2019t want to be near a lot of people. What\u2019s your definition of a small town? Is it 1000 people? 400 people? 20,000 people? Be sure your real estate agent knows what you\u2019re thinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Homestead Planning \u2013 Cooking &amp; Heat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/homestead-planning-cooking-heat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cooking and Heat<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>We quickly learned that life is a lot easier when you have a way to cook a hot meal,\u00a0 make coffee or heat water for tea and hot chocolate, and be warm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-691 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/firewood-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"firewood, homestead planning\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/firewood-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/firewood-624x326.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/firewood.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Homestead Planning \u2013 Will you want a garden?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/will-you-want-a-garden.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Do you want a garden?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGardening seems like a given on a homestead, but it isn\u2019t. Not everyone likes to garden, or knows how to garden. None of us were born with everything we need to know about growing food. Don\u2019t let that stop you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Water <\/strong>Coming soon!<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Power<\/strong>\u00a0 Coming soon!<strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homestead planning is a lot of work. There&#8217;s a lot to think about. This series should help answer some questions, fill in some blanks and probably make you ask more questions. This series is also great for people who are homesteading now and planning to expand, change course or possibly even stop doing a particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-788","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}