Haven Acres Homestead
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This site is meant to help people see the development of a grounds up built homestead on an extremely minimal budget. It's a work in progress, come see!
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Mancelona, MI
49659
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| Monday | 9am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 5pm |
| Friday | 9am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 5pm |
| Sunday | 9am - 12pm |
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The Homestead Adventure
Hello from Haven Acres, we’d like to give you a little insight to our homestead and the way we wish to live here. First off, meet us, The Sinkler Clan: Matriarch and Momma [Teresa], Chieftain and Father [Ted], Squirrel [Emma], and Chipmunk [Olivia]; This is our land, an injury forced Ted from his job of 26yrs, and now we’ve decided to down size and live a much simpler way of life. Our passions are the animals we raise for food, monetary gain, and the foods we will grow. I am a natural writer, but was a chef and continue to have a passion for rustic home cooking. Our two girls are young Emma 6 and Olivia is almost 5. We feel that raising our children to have an understanding of nature, where their food comes from, and living a simple life is far more valuable a lesson than that of which they will learn from video games and tons of television [which we do not have cable only some dvds].
Now on to the second half of Have Acres. On our journey to build this 10 acre plot of land into a livable place, we’ve in all matter of speaking have gone through hell. You see, sometime after the accident my husband had we were forced to leave our former residence and as this land was one of the only things we managed to keep from loosing; this is where we came. When we moved here all we had was a shed my husband and I, a great deal was me, built together; and a camper. We had a tent but it got a bit mangled at one point, still usable but nothing we could live in all the time. The camper became our home. So much has gone wrong here, first we had no floor in the bathroom. So we fixed that, and then the leaks in the bedroom nearly drove us insane. However, when we got somewhere with workmen's comp and such, we were able to begin the glorious build of our Tiny Dream Home.
Everything, well nearly everything about the Tiny House is completely reclaimed. The frame is an old steel frame from a 32ft camper trailer. Then we used pallets and some wood framing for the floor supports, adding cedar decking to make the interior floor structure which we reclaimed by ripping it up for free and hauling it away, free windows we collected, a sliding door we got on the side of the road, a toilet a business gave to us, a bathroom sink which was donated to us, as well as a front door for our future main entrance into the sunroom that will connect to the Tiny House. Much of what we got to build the house was reclaimed, salvaged, or bought discounted as a means to save money and build a home on a budget. It is doable people, just hard and terribly stressful but oh so worth it to see it almost habitable.
We’ve lived here since June of 2017 and still live in the Camper as of now, but that will soon change. When Ted had a medical scare, we were limited even more on how much we could do before the snow fell. And it was a race against time. I reached out on Facebook, and by the grace of god, people responded. Anthony and Joslyn Bristol stepped in to help us out along with a few friends. It was so good to have the help we needed. Times were hard, and trying to use our money, what little there was, to build the house just didn’t seem like it could get done in time without help. Amazingly, we got the walls shelled in and roof up with that help. We offered the Bristol’s a place to stay in exchange for helping out here on the homestead, and they did some. However, life is changing that now as they have bigger priorities in southern Michigan. Though we continue to work on the homestead, and one day plan to make it a very small Tiny home community. Those that wish to live here will go through a screening of our caliber, and be asked to have a small test trial, and need to have their own self sustaining homes to live in. We have the farm and land to house, but those wishing to use electrical will be asked to pay more for their living here. Though the options of what can happen here and what you want your life to be, are all up to you and what you have to offer to Haven Acres.
