Hello everyone, new guy here, follow us on our journey.

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Hi, my name is Branden and I live in central Pennsylvania, US. I recently joined Steemit in hopes of documenting me and my loves new journey (as well as some other hobbies of mine). My wife Tabitha and I recently purchased some land with a barn, and over the next year or so we are going to be converting the barn into our home. We want to try and slow down and live a simpler life and actually get to enjoy friends, family, and each other. We are tired of the everyday grind and decided at this point we work very hard and have alot of nice things but if you can't enjoy them and share them with others then what is really the point. As I get older I realize time is the most valuable assest and we want to enjoy the time we have here.

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This was taken along the Susquehanna River a couple miles away from our new barn.


We want to take this property and make it into something that we can be more self-sufficient. We have some ideas of doing gardens and raising chickens and rabbits. Cutting our own wood for heating, also working with neighbors by helping each other and bartering. This is going to be a big project but we are dedicated.




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Looks pretty rough right now!

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Sun coming down on the hill after a long day.

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We recently got some of the brush mowed down around the perimeter of the barn in this one.




So if you're interested check in from time to time to see what kind of progress we are making. I will hopefully along the way be posting some how-to's for some of our projects as well. But I'd like to keep you up to date on some of the stuff that we like to do for fun too. Thanks for reading and I hope you'll come with us!

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     7 years ago 

    Welcome, I hope you choose the right pill.
    I followed you and resteemed your post, follow me back please :)

    Thanks for your attention.

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     7 years ago 

    G'day and Welcome, I love your barn and in such a beautiful location, best of luck with your journey and the sharing of it. @kiaraantonoviche shared you post here in the SteemitHomesteaders Slack channel so I came to greet you from there!

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     7 years ago 

    Hello, thank you so much, we are in love with it! Can't wait to make progress and show more. Thanks @kiaraantonoviche for sharing, I'll have to setup Slack so I can check it out.

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       7 years ago 

      welcome @Banewrath to Steemit ! . I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community :) Nice post, i will follow your account, please follow me !

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       7 years ago 

      Hi there, thank you! I followed you in return.

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         7 years ago 

        Awesome! Welcome to Steemit guys! As @overthewait said, you were featured on our "new-steemians" channel on our Slack community. So... welcome (again)! That barn look amazing, what character. I really like the stacked rock basement/foundation. Also what a great looking property! 100% upvoted and following you guys.

        I see now, you're on the slack channel. :-)

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         7 years ago 

        Here's a link to the announcement post for the SteemitHomesteaders community if you want to read up more on it, etc.

        https://steemit.com/steemithomesteaders/@greenacrehome/announcement-steemithomesteaders-slack-community

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         7 years ago 

        I thought the same thing when I saw that foundation. I have a crazy love affair with old buildings

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         7 years ago 

        Thanks for the kind comments, looking forward to contributing!

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           7 years ago 

          Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by greenacrehome from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, and someguy123. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows and creating a social network. Please find us in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.

          If you like what we're doing please upvote this comment so we can continue to build the community account that's supporting all members.

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           7 years ago 

          Welcome to Steem @banewrath I have upvoted and sent you a tip

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           7 years ago 

          Hi Branden, welcome to steemit. If you are looking for like-minded people here you might want to check out the list of Homesteaders and Preppers on steemit :

          If you would like to be added to the list let me know.

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           7 years ago 

          Welcome to steemit, there are a lot of homesteaders here also, I will share this to get you seen...

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           7 years ago 

          Hey bro welcome to the team! I hope you will have an amazing journey here, make a lot of friends and have a lot of fun as the rest will follow. The land that you purchased looks very nice... hmm and looks like you and your wife will have a lot of work to do but please don't forget as well to be eco-friendly... and always Steem on!