Red Silo Homestead

He's a 20 year Navy Veteran with a background in electrical engineering and military law enforcement, She's a Navy Veteran with a background in law enforcement and corrections.  Both managed to escape California (where the Navy dropped them off) and finally made it to their forever home in Central Kentucky (Zone 6B). 

Starting out on a 6 acre homestead with a farm house built in 1905, Darren and Jestine are learning how to incorporate some of the old ways of doing things into a modern lifestyle.  

     * Gardening to grow healthy food for the family
     * Raising chickens for eggs (and the freezer!)
     * Canning and preserving the harvest
     * Raising Toulouse ("Two-Loose") Geese 
     * Rabbits
     * Recipes and cooking with Jestine
     * Building projects and upgrades to the homestead

This is their story as they recover from military life and start a brand new journey into Homesteading.