Suburban Intro to Homesteading

Everyone knows the phrase "Space, the final frontier". Because you know, Star Trek is awesome. Who doesn't love Yoda and the Jabarwakis?? Exactly. But let's be real here and look at this differently. I don't think Space is the final frontier. It's time. Our futures. The only thing we have left to explore is everything. Nothing exists 5 seconds from now, it only exists now and in the past. Our futures are the final frontier. Ok, put to doobie down and lets get to work. Anyone who knows me in the realm of fitness knows that I talk about the five year change. Anything can happen in 5 years. Lets be honest, 5 years are going to come and go. in fact, 10 years are going to come and go, but that's a little harder to wrap your head around. So for context, lets stick with 5 years. Right now, you could decide that your done with your desk job, your tired of being single, your ready to have a family, and your ready to become healthy. In 5 years you...

Lets have a Friday night discussion about life.   There is a common conversation that I have on a daily basis with pretty much anyone I bump into, and it goes something like this....   Stranger: Hi, how are you? Me: Hi, I'm living the dream thanks, how are you? Stranger: Huh, more like a nightmare, right? Me: Naw not really. If I wasn't living the dream, I'd wake up and do something about it, right? Stranger: *Confused* Umm, yeah I guess. Me: I hope you have a great day. Stranger: *Crickets*   This conversation breaks my heart. Every time. I hate it. It tells me there are to many zombies walking around. To many people who have already died, and are just keeping their bodies in motion for as long as they generate heat.   Here's the first point. A large amount of the general population has been convinced to live a life where they work a 40-50 hour a week job that they don't like, take a one week vacation every year, retire and...