Our new blog is finally up and running!

Please check out www.radioacresfarm.blogspot.com to check out our newest ventures!

In a (crazy) nutshell and on a whim, we bought an urban farm plot together! We all are in the process of moving in together to continue our journey together. Follow our emotional travels as we strive to build our farm, friendship, community and faith together at Radio Acres!

To be continued...

Moving right along...

Just a quick update. It seems as though things are moving right along! We had the inspection done about a week and a half ago and the appraisal right after that. Everything is checking out just fine, it really seems like this project is going to be a go. Begin hyperventilation phase...

We just got pictures taken of our house so that we can begin trying to sell it. Wish us luck in that arena. We also found that the house directly across the street from the new one we are purchasing is just being listed as a foreclosure. It's on about 1/2 to 3/4 of an acre. Anyone want in? Anyone want to be an investor? It would be very cool to have you!

As it goes right now, escrow should close on the third of May. Sarah already purchased two dozen new chicks for us and we are figuring out how to get a fence around the property sooner rather than later. What's next? Goats? Alpacas? A mini-cow? I'll let you know what we decide!

Project #2

hi, guys! It has been too long since we've posted this, and for a while I thought we were just going to throw it to the wind. Everything seemed to just be peddling along fine with nothing too exciting to post. Oh, sure, there were random things. Our chickens have probably finally paid for themselves in eggs, for instance! It's been forever since I've done a price breakdown and I should do that again just for fun. We hit our 1 year anniversary with the car share, and it's been fantastic! Well, along the way someone gave us another car, so I suppose we weren't really as eco as we should have been. That happened sometime in December, so we made it ALMOST an entire year on just half a car. Right after that, someone threw a full time job at me. It seems like our life has been so wrapped up in making ends meet and working that this blog project has kind of been thrown to the wayside. My aspirations to live simpler and with less consumption have been tossed to the wind with mounting bills and a ridiculous mortgage. Just scraping by was getting tougher and tougher as our side incomes were getting whittled away and raising a family of four off of just one teachers salary wasn't cutting it. Anyhow, I joined the rat race at the end/beginning of the year and have been a little bummed about it ever since =) And then comes project #2...

Sometime in the last week of madness, we have decided close our eyes, hold our breath and jump into a communal living project. I feel like such a hippie. My husband says we need to get more tattoos or something and revolt against the stereotype. Anyhow, we'll see what the next crazy year will hold! It will be fun to blog more and have new material to write about, record the process and experiments that we have in mind. See how it goes barn-raising, kid-raising and chicken-raising. We will be on 1.6 acres here in the beautiful city of San Diego, roughly 6 miles from down town. Our lovely counterparts happen to be the same people we started this blog with over a year ago, so it should be fun for you all to keep up on this and get varying perspectives along the way. Hopefully this will coax us all back into writing a little bit. It's a massive project, and we have a lot of stuff planned SOON! Will keep you updated =)