The Land is Beginning to Draw Us Back.
And personally, I blame Laura Ingalls Wilder.
She’s likely the one who started all this, planting the wild-sown seed of homesteading in our hearts and illustrating what it means to live a homegrown, dirt-under-your-fingernails kind of intentional life.
How it began
I was nine years old when I got my hands on a well-worn copy of Little House in the Big Woods. Within a few pages I was mesmerized by the natural, cycle-of-the-seasons rhythm Laura Ingalls experienced as a way of life. From that moment on, I felt a longing for an earthy connection to the land that my childhood mind could not articulate. Even as a young mother, raising my son in the bustling suburbs, I daydreamed about a wholesome, back to our roots liberation. Then one day in 2018 as a joke, my husband texted me a country house listing with a shorter commute to his work than our current home. The rest is, well, a wonderful story!
The Inspiration for this Website
As we began our journey, I wanted someone to tell me what to expect when I took the courageous leap away from our suburban neighborhood to a one acre plot of land outside of town, a half hour away from everything. No matter what basic search terms I used, I couldn’t find anyone to hold my hand and share the helpful details I needed to know when it came to micro-homesteading, growing a mini-orchard, gardening amidst a swarm of deer and free ranging chickens, maintaining a deep farmhouse pantry…and the microbic mystery that is septic systems. Discouraged, I opened a word document and began writing my own thoughts, questions, and the collected tidbits of knowledge I gained by experience. From it, this website was born.
My hopes for readers like you
I’m reaching a hand out to others, detailing our adventures in backyard food production and colored egg chicken breeding, while living a back-to-the-country lifestyle. I want to encourage all who feel their heart yearning for the quietude of wide open spaces to jump feet-first into their dreams! If I could go back in time and tell myself that moving to an outskirt home would bring this much peace, happiness, and healing to my family (who now spends 90% less time watching TV and much more time soaking up sunshine outside), I would have convinced myself to move years earlier.
Meet the author
I’m Tay Silver – and when I’m not writing website articles, I’m traipsing around in mud boots with my hair in a knot, tending to chickens, clipping herbs, digging in the garden, puttering around the peach trees and forever trying something new in the kitchen. I’m a graphic designer by trade (hence all the free stuff you can download) and I genuinely love creating things of all kinds.
Join us as we share what we have learned on this journey to create a little family homestead. And by join us, I don’t mean just read along. I mean push up your sleeves, get your hands in the bread dough, the garden dirt, or even the chicken poop and embrace this wholesome, fulfillingly rich life right along side of us!
Contact
Tay can be reached at Tay{at}silverhomestead.com
We do not sell hatching eggs or chicks.
Could My Dreams Fit on a Micro-Homestead?
We are homesteading on a single acre in Magnolia, Texas. If land prices seem to be inflating out of reach faster than your income is increasing, let me assure you that many of your dreams CAN fit on an acreage homesite, even if you only have a single acre! My 80 square foot chicken coop and 1500 square feet of fenced garden space takes up only one side yard…not even 1/7th of an acre. I have neighbors who keep chickens, honey bees, and a dairy goat on their property. If you have grown discouraged, let me tell you about our experience moving to the country, our chicken coop build, our gardens and how incredible it has been for our family to experience.
About Our Content
The Silver Homestead is all about hands-on learning and sharing our experiences. It is intended for everyone, even if you’re still daydreaming of one day owning chickens! We have absolutely zero AI generated articles. Everything on our site is written from what we’ve experienced on our mini-homestead.
