Goal Setting for 2016: Herbal, Homestead and Others

Happy New Year folks! I hope you all had a great holiday season and a fun new years eve. If you’re like me you spent it doing exactly what you love; watching Star Wars (Empire Strikes Back) with my hubby and crocheting! While I’m not big into resolutions (they always seem like a set up for failure), I do like to have a list of goals for the coming year. I’m a goal and project oriented person so this helps keep me focused. I’m also a big dreamer so some of the things on my list might be a BIT out of reach but that’s perfectly fine by me. Dream big or go home!

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Herbal

  • Design, plant and maintain my herbal medicine garden

  • Based on an assignment from my school days, I have 50 herbs that I would like to have fully in stock for my clinic (in tincture form)

  • Write my final exam

  • Look into local farmers markets for selling my products

  • Create and run herbal workshops on our homestead this summer (watch for them postedhere)

  • Start myself and my husband on a herbal treatment and run through the protocol I was taught in school

Homestead

  • Start a homesteading binder and thanks to Reformation Acres, I can do that with ease!

  • Get baby chicks and start raising our own free run eggs

  • Design, plant and maintain our 1200 square foot vegetable garden plot

  • Look into local farmers markets for selling my products

  • Build a mini rocket mass stove in the backyard for canning

And the dreamer in me also wants:

  • Start a homesteading binder and thanks to Reformation Acres, I can do that with ease!

  • Get baby chicks and start raising our own free run eggs

  • Design, plant and maintain our 1200 square foot vegetable garden plot

  • Look into local farmers markets for selling my products

  • Build a mini rocket mass stove in the backyard for canning

And the dreamer in me also wants:

  • Hoop greenhouse built in time for fall next year

  • Solar dehydrator constructed

Family

  • Go hiking more often – ideally twice a week

  • Share family meals together – one a day minimum and at least two on weekends

  • No phones, tablets or music players during meals (music player might be a tough one for Monkey Man to get rid of!)

Food

  • Incorporate ethical and healthy meat back into our diet

  • Here is an awesome local CSA farm that we are thinking of joining – Stubborn Farmer

  • Eliminate soy products all together (except Miso)

  • Add more lacto-fermented foods into our diet

  • Source out and use grass fed butter

  • Make my own bone broths for soups and chili

  • Drastically reduce sugar consumption and change sugar sources – namely maple syrup, local honey, coconut sugar and rapadura

Me

  • Journalling at night before bed – maybe not every night, but as often as I can

  • Reading books that aren’t kids books! Here’s my list:

  • Take some time to do yoga daily – even just 10-15 minutes

  • Meditation and working with my spirit guides

Well that’s my massive and exciting list for 2016! What are your goals for the coming year?