Introduction

 Hello, this is Rob from Lazywoods homestead. the point of this blog is to record our growth and lessons learned as we build up our small homestead snuggled into the Appalachian Mountains. 

We chose the name Lazywoods because our lives are hectic. My wife works 40hrs a week at her job, and I work 40 hours a week at one job, and usually 36hours a week at another. Because of this anything we start, or do we have to research ways to do as efficiently as possible, to the point that if we need to, we can walk away for a week, and everything still be functional when we return. Our property is overwhelmingly forest...these two together = Lazywoods

We started the lifestyle in short because it was how I was raised when I was younger. but as the Great parents and Grandparents aged and passed on the family as a whole cut back and stopped participating in this lifestyle.  So we have to relearn all the things I kind of paid attention to as I was a child "helping" Some things have gone well, others have had a steep learning curve. 

Our Longterm goal is to slowly build the infrastructure we need without going into debt so that as we grow older, we can work or jobs less and enjoy life more as well as enjoy a overall healthier and more sustainable lifestyle.

Our short-term goal is as we grow and learn our lessons, we are using the fruits of those lessons to earn some money to put towards the homestead and a little extra to spend on our four children.  We got to the point at the 1st of the year that we believed we should get our LLC to continue to grow correctly. 

In the first couple posts that follow this we will cover in short, the activities that got us to the point we are now, with a handful of lessons learned, a bakery running and making us money, the apiary, and equipment rentals all contributing to what we are trying to accomplish.