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Homesteading 101
An experienced veteran farmer offers top tips to those thinking of homesteading
Reprinted with permission from Scott Lisk, Lisk's Heritage Farm & Apiary, Linesville, PA
July 29, 2016
Three years ago I retired from the US. Army. My wife and I relocated to Linesville PA where my grandparents farm was. It is a small farm (43 acres) comparable to the other farms nearby. On this land there was an old farm house built sometime in the late 1800's, an old barn and no fencing for pastures. In the past 3 yrs we have rebuilt the old farm house. We replaced the windows, rewired the electric, insulated the walls, updated the kitchen and baths, resided the house and replaced the roof. Read on...