All of those are things I've been involved with. I homeschooled my eldest son and he is currently in college with a full scholarship and a dual major in computer science and math. I am still homeschooling my youngest, who is 17 and has Down Syndrome and I will probably homeschool him until he is 21. I live on several acres and have gardened and raised chickens and rabbits, but my homesteading kind of fell apart last year. Between running a business, homeschooling, raising a special needs son, and becoming a writer, I didn't have much time for homesteading. I didn't have an annual garden last year (don't know about this year) and had to get rid of my chickens a few years ago due to a lung sensitivity. I had to choose between eggs and breathing. With staying busy, I haven't bred my bunnies in about a year. I've learned a lot, but can't say I'm doing many of those things at the moment other than the homeschooling. I'm hoping to have time to get back to some of the homesteading, but we will have to see.
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Would love to hear your advice on homeschooling and more! Our homestead was forced to downsize some last year while I was postpartum. I tried to garden but couldn’t keep up. I’m hoping this year will be easier with a toddler. We also have cows, and we have baby chicks arriving in a few weeks to re-establish a layer flock. We also do pastured broilers and pigs seasonally.
Very nice. Definitely ask any homeschooling questions you have. Homeschooling has been wonderful for both of my sons, as different as they are. It did require being creative and flexible because they were so different and anything that was ideal for one was horrible for the other and vice versa except one history curriculum, but even that has been used completely differently for the two.
fruit trees & perennial edible plants in general might be an option when time is very scarse. You plant them once, harvest "forever"
I've got a fair number of perennials: strawberries, currants, cherry trees, apple trees, and asparagus, etc. I've also got some carrots, that didn't get fully harvested, that went to seed and reseeded.
perenial kales, roket, chives, aromatic plants, asparagus, edible flowers (including the wild ones). I got a degrated/overgrazed plot of land and working to regenerate the soil applying the syntropic forest garden principles ( https://agendagotsch.com/en/ ) and it's all so exciting. Good luck with your projects! :)