StartFragment A few people have asked me how we knew that this was “the farm”. The short answer is that we just knew. We both just said, “Yep, this is it. Let’s try to get it.” The long answer is that we have been looking and dreaming of this for a while. We’ve read countless books, magazines, and blogs about homesteading. We’ve gone to the Mother Earth News Fair for the last few years and we have begun to do many of the activities that we will do on our homestead. Some of the more specific considerations were: Location: We knew that we would be moving closer to my parents. We started looking in the Centralia/Chehalis/Toledo area as it was a lot closer to them and Eric is still able to go