We aren’t just about growing all the things, but the more species our land can support, the greater diversity and resiliency abounds.
Synergy Central FL Homestead
Despite the complexity of our systems, homogeneity, a cohesive, single, simple, and integrated whole, working both in tandem and in cooperation with all of the other parts is both vital and inevitable in an all but self-sustaining system.
If you can’t relate at all, you perhaps would have difficulty fathoming our purpose in working so ridiculously hard to accomplish as much food independence as possible – especially given the challenges that come with raising a large family *without* looking to homestead.
What we get out of synergistic homesteading goes far beyond the merely utilitarian efficient use of resources. What my kids learn are invaluable skills about their own self-sufficiency capabilities, about not depending on a remote system from which they are all but detached, about valuing the amount of work that goes into producing high quality, nutrient dense food, and about how using nature as an advantage and a benefit to the system as opposed to a disadvantage and an interference allows for greater diversity and thus, greater resiliency and vitality.
And it doesn’t stop at food. As a microfarm dedicated to all aspects of self-sufficiency insofar as we are capable (not all ambitions are achievable), we are learning traditional homestead and pioneer skills that our forebears relied upon to not only survive, but thrive in an environment without modern amenities.
