Living Simply… Parenting by Instinct

So I have this theory that the "bad" stuff that may be in whole foods is generally better for us than the "bad" stuff in the industrialized processed foodstuffs. I figure that human’s bodies evolved along with the whole foods in our environment. So even when we leave our native soils and try new foods, if those foods are close to their source our bodies can deal with whatever toxins they may produce while breaking down in our bodies. But the foodstuffs developed so quickly that our bodies haven’t had time to come up with coping mechanisms for what bad things they put into our bodies. This I believe is the reason behind so much disease and just general unwellness in our modern industrialized societies.

So a bit about me: I’m a 26 year old mother of two boys Austin 2 yrs old and Xander 6 months. We live in Northern Ontario my husband, children and I. We currently rent an apartment in a block of 4, on a good sized chunk of land about 6 km from town. The lot has a couple of large garages and a little barn, garden and greenhouse all of which we are free to use and plan to start using soon. We’ve just moved in and pretty much are free to do whatever as the neighbours don’t care and the landlady lives about three provinces over. 

I am very interested in natural living, simple back to the basic type and instinctual, respectful parenting. We plan to have at least two more children and plan to unschool or use child-led learning with all of them. 

Our plan for the next few years is to raise our own livestock (mostly pigs, chickens and probably rabbits), grow our own food using greenhouse and outdoor garden in summer and indoor vegetables in the winter. We’re gonna save up our money and hopefully in the next five to six years buy and build our off-grid home on a good sized patch of land to raise a self-sufficient (as much as possible) hobby farm. My husband also dreams of starting a chain of eco-apartment buildings across northern Ontario but we’ll  have to see.