Let's blame it on the FIAR girls, shall we?    Those wonderful Five in a Row girls just inspire me too much sometimes.  A few years ago I got inspired to learn about grinding my own wheat and making my own bread.  So my MIL (gotta love her ... she is always buying me these kinds of things!) bought me a Whisper Mill and I promptly signed up for the "Getting Started" class at Bread Beckers (yes, I am fortunate to have them close by ). 

I learned so much that day and came home with my head swimming with info and my heart full of inspiration.  I began grinding my wheat and making my bread, and then my MIL bought me a Zojirushi Home Bakery Supreme !  Yummy!  There is NOTHING like fresh bread made from fresh ground wheat. 

But let's remind for a sec ... two summers ago I got fed up.  I got fed up with getting sick.  I was at the library with my daughter and came across "What the Bible Says About Healthy Living" by Dr. Rex Russell.  I just "happened" upon it ... right  ... the Lord led me to it.  I checked it out and proceeded to read it from cover to cover in about 2 hours!  I cried and cried when I realized that I had made food ... sugar namely ... a god and had given my desire for it power stronger than the Holy Spirit had to help me control myself. 

Right then and there my family changed out eating habits.  This is what we did:

I began shopping at Whole Foods for all my groceries

Organic everything

No hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated anything

No artificial flavors or colors

No preservatives

No hormones or antibiotics (only organic milk, meat, eggs and chicken)

No nitrates or nitrites

No pork

No shellfish or catfish

Nothing white - no white sugar, no white flour

Life drastically changed!  I no longer got sick, I lost weight like crazy (I was not watching calories or portions or anything other than the type of food I ate) and I felt great.

So fast forward past when I got my Zo to the past couple of months.  I really feel like the Lord has put this desire in my heart ... to live off the land, to eat what He intended for food the way He intended it.  I began planning next year's school for my daughter and became really interested in nature study.  As I looked into it more, the more my desire grew for nature ... not manicured nature that we have in suburbia ... real nature they way it is in the country. 

Then my husband took me to show me his new hunting club.  He didn't think that I believed how nice he said it was.  it is AMAZING!  On one piece of the property when you pull in you see a house with a big oak tree with a tire swing.  Down beside the house are animals ... free range chickens (this is where we get our eggs), goats (so happy and healthyh), horses ... my heart pounded as I looked around.  I wanted to live there ... I wanted to jump out of the car and never return to suburbia.

And thus began my dream.  The ladies on the FIAR boards have been so helpful and encouraging, and I also joined Mary Janes Farmgirl Connection, and those ladies are super nice and helpful as well.  I am learning as much as I can and planning on doing all the things that farmgilrs do until I get a farm of my own ... gardening, canning, bread making, sewing ...

My husband is dreaming with me and that is so nice!  Only time will tell when it will come true, but I know that it will ... some day ...

Blessings!

~Heather

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Posted by Carol

One of the best things I ever did was get a Whisper Mill. It totally changed our lives for the better health wise. We seldom every get sick. You might find this book interested Health Begins in Him by Terry Dorian. One of the best books I've read.
~Carol

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Posted by dhcfarm

Thanks for all the links!! I will be checking them out!

I have a big professional KitchenAid mixer and we're going to be buying the grain mill attachment for it as soon as we can afford it...I'm looking forward to grinding my own grain for bread & pasta!!

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