Bob; have you considered starting your Homesteading experience by joining a CSA (community supported agriculture) where you are now? You can actually work at the farm for your share, harvesting or packing bags for pickup. It would give you fresh vegetables and a feeling of what it's like to be on a productive piece of land.Or there are all sorts of apprentice situations around here, although living at one's own home and commuting to an 'apprenticeship' is never going to give the "feel" for homesteading. Check and see what's there. Here there are weekend opportunities (pretty short but better than nothing), episodic deals (such as lambing season only, or a week to butcher large animals and put up the meat, etc), by-the-month, by the season (usually market gardening or other gardening-related), things that focus on one specific part of living on the land (logging with horses, setting up a sheep dairy, etc), and so on all the way up to full-year or 5-year situations. Some are paid, some are not, some are exchanges of various kinds. Look at WOOF or MOFGA for ideas. Then look and ask around to see what's where you are, or what's where you might like to spend a month, a year, learning. There's a lot to learn, even part-time or in small chunks, and much of it has not so much to do with the subject at hand but with the peripheral (well, peripheral to the task at hand) lifestyle and living information.
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