I am a stay-at-home-mom of two boys. We have moved a lot because of my husband’s work, but now we have our own land and are looking forward to developing it into our dream homestead. We are very interested in everything to do with homesteading: construction, livestock, gardening, farmers markets, woodworking, alternative energy, water conservation, heating with wood, etc. This blog is my way of chronicling our journey as we move away from being city dwellers and toward being country bumpkins.
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November 11, 2013 at 12:46 pm
Melody DeLury (@SolsticeSunFarm)
Hi! Just found your blog via a FB group. I consider myself a secular humanist, mostly agnostic homesteader. I keep a blog http://www.secularhumanistprepper.blogspot.com although I barely keep it up..ha! Anyhow, glad to find you ! :)
April 21, 2014 at 7:59 pm
Lori Walker
Just found your site, I’m a vegan, atheist, homesteader type, working toward self sufficiency anyway I can. Would love to hear more about your journey.
April 21, 2014 at 10:08 pm
atheisthomesteader
Hi Lori! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. I almost have two hundred posts now dating back four or five years. Lots to sift through! If you are interested only in certain topics, you can use the search bar or click on particular categories. My husband is helping me organize a bit better, so I’m hoping in the future to be able to sort things easier.
What sorts of things are you striving for? I’d love to hear about them. Do you blog, too?
July 9, 2014 at 4:54 am
Bobby from down under
I envy you and your husband. Good on you for the carriage and the effort.
I gather from your blog name that you don’t have an imaginary friend looking after you (Aka GOD). Unfortunately my wife has found god in Jesus and this is making my life very difficult. I only wish she would transform into a free thinker like yourself and would agree to leave all this city life style and the sheeple behind. I love her too much to give up on her. How did you overcome your the shackles of religion and government brain washing? Any tips or suggestions for my wife?
July 12, 2014 at 1:03 am
atheisthomesteader
I was never shackled, per se. While my parents were both raised in Catholic households, they were never very into it. We weren’t part of a church growing up. We were encouraged to learn about religion at our own pace. I was allowed to attend services with family friends when I was a teenager, and took full advantage of it. I’ve been to so many different churches, and each trip I learn something new… though mostly what I learn isn’t very enticing or exciting. I think exposing myself to so many different beliefs and so many different variations of the same beliefs led me to question everything and accept nothing.
I think the best think anyone can do for someone who is falling for religion is to help them push even further. Explore. Read not just one religious text, but several. Attend not just one church’s services, but several. Pick a religion they know nothing about and ask to learn about it together. Once I began to see the similarities between the thousands of different beliefs practiced all around me on a daily basis… I saw they all had something in common and they were each right about it – everyone else is wrong. From every religious person’s view point, every other religion and its followers are wrong. They’re all right, in a way… they just forget to include the fact that they themselves suffer from the same delusion as the rest.
It’s all a matter of perspective. It’s easy to fall for anything if you are willing to stay inside of a tiny box of limited, coveted information. Not so easy when you are faced with a broader perspective and comparisons.
Never stop questioning. Never stop learning.
Good luck, Bobby. Hope I see you around again.