Welcome To The Farm
How-to Wisdom From The Elliott Homestead
Most of you landed on my blog because you were, in some capacity, interested in homesteading. Maybe for you it was because you wanted to make your own chicken feed. Maybe it was the idea of finally beginning to make your own homemade bread. Maybe it was because you were interested in putting a greenhouse on your property and needed to know how to do it. But regardless of the reason, we all share in one ideal: we're do-ers.
We want to do things.
Not because they're easy or without their struggles – but because that DIY, homemade spirit grabs ahold of our being and forces us to labor over the soil of our garden, the sink of our kitchen, and the udder of our dairy cow.
We can't get enough.
It was with YOU in mind that I wrote Welcome To The Farm. 300+ pages devoted to teaching you how to grow your own food, build your own homestead – whether you're on 1/4 acre or 100 acres.
Our ‘how-to' guide is filled with over 200 photographs and stories, sharing with you both our victories and extreme failings, as we've built our very own farm these past five years. I don't take things lightly, in fact, I feel like I often bare things heavier than I should, so it wasn't with a passive heart that I approached writing all 75,000 words of this book. I took on this project, my very first with a publisher, with the intention of giving it the best I had. So that's what I did.
I wanted to offer you something special. Something of deep, sincere value to your homesteading journey. And I think we've done just that.
On sale now at AMAZON and BARNES AND NOBLE.
Just in time for spring chicks, seed starting, and farmers markets.
It's my farming heart in book form and I'm humbled to share it with you.
May it bless your farm for years to come!
Much love to you all,
Shaye
Taylar
So excited!! I ordered my copy off of Amazon yesterday, should have it in my hands by tomorrow…I cannot wait!
Heidi
Just ordered my copy, Shay! Looking forward to receiving it 🙂
Courtney
Shaye,
I purchased your book last week and I am loving it! I have lived on a farm for most of my life, but your advice and perspective are just great. I can’t wait until spring so that I can start putting some of that advice into perspective!!
PS: Fellow Alabama-girl here. It’s a small world, right? =)
Rosa
Just got your book in the mail today! It’s beautiful..and wonderful! Thanks for putting so much into this book…. I will be gleaning from it for years to come. 🙂
Lacy
Shaye, my husband bought me this book last week and I’ve been reading every chance I get!! We live on an acre just south of Kansas City and I love everything about this book! I’m so glad you put out a “how to” book as I love your cookbooks!!
Elizabeth Beard
Just ordered it! Cannot wait!
Roz
Congratulations guys! I can’t wait to get my copy!
Tarah McPherson- The White Barn Farm
Hi Shaye (and family!),
I have ordered your new book, and I can’t wait to receive it this week! I have been devouring everything on your blog since I’ve discovered it! I’ve recently been hearing more about your story from mutual friends who know you guys as well. We seriously need to get together soon! Our kids do CC together… just in different classes so I don’t usually get a chance to catch up with other mamas who aren’t there for lunch afterward. But I’d love to chat with you more sometime soon. You’re super inspiring and I’m loving getting to know your story more here on the blog and youtube videos. So fun! We just got our first ‘farm’ animal…a bunny, Lol. Starting small…dreaming big.
Blessings,
Tarah
Julie @ our provident homestead
I ordered the book when it was on sale last week and I love it! It is beautifully done and I love the photography! Thanks for putting it together for us! I will tell everyone I know how awesome it is! Thanks!
Alicia
Just woke up from my Sunday afternoon nap. In my dream I noticed my mom reading a magazine article about you and told her that I follow your blog. Then I commented that you have a new book out that she might be interested in…hmmm…sounds like my mother is getting a new book for Easter. Just thought I’d let you know that you’ve infiltrated my dreams. Too funny!
Sandra Grecki
Ok. I have to get this off my chest or I will BURST!!! I have just read through your first pages of your book and I am sitting here smiling and giggling through tears (odd!) because your story is so good and “raw and real” (as you put it) and the biggest inspiration to me!!!
We have moved to our farm over a year ago and I will use this book as my farming bible – yes I will!!! I have been following your whole story for a long time now – including your beginnings and your move and all the losses and gains and kids and gardens …. and you were one of my main sources for getting chicken last spring!!!
You are amazing!!! Thank you for your books/blogs/humor/spirit!!! Bless you all!!!
Tracy Harvill
I absolutely love this book. I love the photographs and stories. I like the complete overview of what goes on in the farm, and the many tips and lessons learned that you shared. I can also see the love and compassion that you feel for your farm come through in the pages of your writing. It’s very inspiring. I am feeling the homestead urges strongly recently, and have started a small urban garden and am contemplating getting chickens (layers). MY QUESTION: I know for a fact that I do not have the ability to kill my own animals for food. No matter how logical, compassionate, humane and responsible it is… I still could just never bring myself to do it. Does this make me a wimpy homesteader? Is it frowned upon in the farm/homestead community to raise your own broiler chickens but ask someone else to process them?