Agrarian New Year's Goals
According to the old agrarian ways, March 25 marks the beginning of the new year. You can read all about it in this post, so for now, I’ll just say that this makes more sense to me than sticking the new year into the middle of winter.
Spring is a great time to start working on new goals, and Dan and I spent the earlier part of the month making lists and discussing priorities. 2025 is going to be the year of maintenance and repair. We honestly don’t have any major improvement or building projects. I guess finishing the last two rooms in the house would be about closest to that.
Seasonal spring tasks focus on planting, so that’s the upcoming priority as we approach last frost. Then summer will give way to harvest and preservation. Besides that, there are less pressing things like spring cleaning, annual fence maintenance, cleaning up areas that have become messy (like where our dead fig trees are), purging saved building supplies we’ll likely never use (old storm windows and T&G from the front bedroom walls), repairing the foundation of our little garden shed, and repainting the outbuildings.
It’s nice to have nothing pressing on the horizon. I know many people strive to avoid the mundane, but being able to take life day by day, to appreciate the little things, to maintain contentment, is so much less stressful than the habit of seeking excitement. It’s one of the biggest reasons we chose this lifestyle.
How about you? Are you making plans or just winging it? Anything interesting coming up in your lives?
Source: https://www.5acresandadream.com/2025/03/agrarian-new-years-goals.html
