The beginnings of our homestead story… I guess you could say that I grew up pretty country, but homestead wasn’t exactly in my vocabulary. My family owned a cattle ranch in the coastal mountains of California. I spent my childhood riding horses and quads, hunting, raising 4-H animals, and working cattle. My mom had a garden that I think I noticed in passing, but I was very comfortable with my black thumb. The problem was that I took all of this for granted as this was just our way or life. And at that point, homesteading was something that wasn’t talked about, we were ranchers. As I reached my teens…