By Elizabeth Clarke, LCU News PINEVILLE, La. (LCU News) - When Elijah and Kaleigh Jones aren’t on the campus of Louisiana Christian University, you will probably find them—if you try hard enough and have a GPS—at home about a mile-down a heavily forested long, red dirt road in Grant Parish. The area is so remote, in fact, Kaleigh said they can choose between three “nearby” towns for the place they live. The nearest grocery store is Walmart, 40 minutes away. And the couple makes a daily hour-long trek to campus for classes. Keeping up with these Joneses wouldn’t be the choice for many in our culture, but this couple has chosen to live a modern homesteading lifestyle. Contemporary homesteading is marked by growing your own food and making other essentials, raising livestock, making homemade products for use and resell, and living a simpler lifestyle close to nature. Their lifestyle isn’t for the faint of heart. But the couple said the struggle has only brought them closer together and closer to the Lord. Elijah, a senior business administration—marketing and management major from Winn Parish, and Kaleigh, a junior public relations major from Shreveport, met in the fall semester of 2023 in Dr. Scott Pickard’s … [Read more...]