Foolish Raven Farms

We have moved to our homestead, and started down the next phase of our growth here at the new Foolish Raven Farms. What an awesome new experience, and I can't wait to explore the new skills, relationships and life paths this will create. The Farm has been run as a sustainable, organic farm, which we are excited to continue and maintain. The previous farmer and I both are not interested in getting

the organic "Certification", but the farm will be run as an organic in concept farm, as I strive to make the best choices for improving the homestead as I can make. My concept for Foolish Raven Farms started with the realization that as I was progressing through my life, I was learning quite a number of skills that had application to the technological world, and lots of theory and philosophy about our reality as humans, but I was learning close to nothing about how to do “real” things. In everything that I say on this website and my blog, I am stating my opinion. It is my goal to learn new things and always try to keep an open mind… and I can almost guarantee that at some point I am going to say something that will be disagreed with by someone or everyone. I am always willing to discuss and talk about any viewpoint, but that is what we are talking about: Viewpoint. My opinion and yours don’t need to be the same. I want to learn from everyone I meet, but reserve the right to not agree with you while still thinking you have every right to disagree with me as well. So, let’s get back to the word “real” that I used above. I originally set out to learn a few skills that were totally foreign to me (gardening, raising rabbits, woodworking, etc.); and as my knowledge started expanding, my desire to know more expanded as well. This has led me to various new things, but most of them can be grouped under a really rough interpretation of the self-sufficiency / homesteading label. Being in a very urban setting has created some specific challenges to this path. It often seems odd, even to me, to call a relatively small apartment a farm, but I do not wish to be completely ruled by my current limitations. I am an avid grower of vegetables via hydroponics, and look forward to putting this into practice on a larger scale soon with either apprenticing myself to someone on their farm or getting land of my own. I have experimented with small livestock in the past, but give my current place, choose to wait on this aspect until I have a more outside space to further this goal as well. It is my intention to share information with people as I learn in my blog, and share things that I produce with anyone whom I can give value to. This website is to be my portal into sharing my road to becoming as functional a productive homestead as I can be. That being said, be patient with my website as it grows, as I don’t really know what will be added in the future as I expand my projects.