• Homesteading

    Introducing Off The Rails Homestead

    You wouldn’t think a lot could be done with a suburban 1/2 acre homestead. You’d be wrong. Here, we fully embrace the philosophy of “do what you can with what you’ve got”. Six years ago, we landed in Sumter, SC and bought a little place beside the railroad tracks. We cleared out overgrowth and removed strangled trees, we fenced the backyard for our little dogs, and we set about making a plan. That plan outlined a beautiful raised bed garden, hexagon shaped, with spaces for vegetables, herbs, and strawberries. While year one was growing in the backyard, we added floor…