Our new life together.

My family and I have just finally moved from our 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home with the Desire for a more simple life. We want to become more self sufficient. We have already taught ourselves how to live without allot of things that we really don't need. Now we want to be able to live off of the land and the earth around us. We now live in a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom cabin on 5 acres of beautiful land with a nice creek running through it. We do have running water and electricity right now.
Our dream is to build a couple of echo-domes and use solar panels to generate our own electricity. Soon we will start to get our goat and chicken pens built and we hope to accomplish this before winter is here. Unfortunately that might come sooner than we hoped. It has been raining for 4 days strait and there is snow on the mountains just above us.
Anyway, I am very new at this whole homesteading thing but want to become better at it so if anybody has good stuff to share with me I'm all ears.Thanks