Why Homesteading? A Candid Chat About the Homestead Tsunami | Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms
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- We fondly refer to Joel as the grandfather of the homesteading community. With decades of experience in the farming and homesteading world, he brings incredible insight to this discussion of the current state of homesteading. Joel’s upcoming book, Homestead Tsunami, serves as a source of inspiration and aspiration for those who desire to articulate a solid “why” behind their decision to live a homesteading lifestyle. No matter where you are on the homesteading spectrum, may you find encouragement that this way of life is worth it.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why are so many people flocking toward homesteading right now?
- Rejecting fear-based motivations and moving forward in faith
- A picture of homesteading in Israel
- How homesteading is like building an ark
- Raising hard working children of integrity in our current culture
- The power of disconnecting from manmade things and connecting to God’s creation
- Exploring what is behind the urban vs. rural mindset
- How to ignite meaningful change in our current climate
ABOUT JOEL
Joel Salatin calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. Those who don’t like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate.
With 12 published books and a thriving multi-generational family farm, he draws on a lifetime of food, farming, and fantasy to entertain and inspire audiences around the world. He’s as comfortable moving cows in a pasture as addressing CEOs at a Wall Street business conference.
Often receiving standing ovations, he prefers the word performance rather than presentation to describe his lectures. His favorite activity?-Q&A. “I love the interaction,” he says.
He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products. When he’s not on the road speaking, he’s at home on the farm, keeping the calluses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems.
Salatin is the editor of The Stockman Grass Farmer, granddaddy catalyst for the grass farming movement. He writes the Pitchfork Pulpit column for Mother Earth News, as well as numerous guest articles for ACRES USA and other publications. A frequent guest on radio programs and podcasts targeting preppers, homesteaders, and foodies, Salatin’s practical, can-do solutions tied to passionate soliloquies for sustainability offer everyone food for thought and plans for action.
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"Don't expect me to get off the ark to argue with someone who doesn't even know its raining." That went straight to my soul! What a blessing Joel is to this community!
Saving that quote!!!
Yesss I agree ! I loved that and gonna use it lol
I keep trying to hand out umbrellas but everyone is asking for sunscreen and just laughs at me!
Exactly! That was epic!
@@treskarina so true!
My husband and I moved our family to a run down farm in September of 1981. Such an experience! First thing that got repaired was the chicken coop! Chickens, cows, turkeys, ducks, rabbits, horses, cats, dogs, orchard, bees, and both vegetable, herb and flower gardens. It was a wonderful place to raise our children to be productive contributing adults. Wouldn’t trade that time for anything! Now getting to share that with our grandchildren. Teaching them to make bread, jams and jellies and fermented foods. This is the way we are meant to live!
Praise the Lord and to God be the glory 😇 We were born for such a time as this and we are seeing Bible Prophecy coming to pass before our eyes 👀 MARANATH LORD JESUS ✝️ FAITH OVER FEAR DEAR SAINTS 👍 This is not our home we are just a passing through. Yeah God wins 😇 l have read the end of the book 📖
Sounds like * The Dream ❤ really beautiful
So wonderful to hear brave Christians! God led me to my 2 1/4 acres to build a farm and grow my food at 60 years old and been at it two 3 years now❤
Amazing!! Similar story here, 51 years old, adopted 5 kiddos and 2 years in with a homestead. Loving it!
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God bless you!!
So wonderful to hear💖 God Bless you!🙏🏻
Keep going with it all! It sounds like you have this!
We had no idea about the “homesteading tsunami”! We had just adopted a sibling group of 5 and discovered that the school system was just that, a SYSTEM! Took our girls out and prayed. The Lord directed us to teach them what we loved. I’d never really grown a vegetable but loved gardening so we started driving 40 min. to pick up horse manure, made our compost - TONS! Raided people’s yard waste, bout some rabbits and quickly outgrew our beautiful little property. So we bought an old run down dairy farm/mink farm. Started a garden. 2 years later we now have rabbits, sheep, chickens (dual purpose) and pigs. We’re growing more of our own food every year, make all our own maple syrup, can, preserve etc. and I guess we’re riding the tsunami…. AND WE LOVE IT!!!!!
You guys are amazing! ❤
Dreamy 😍
Saving your kids from that dysfunctional system is the smartest thing you could do to I sure they grow up to be intelligent, thinking, problem solving, responsible, high functioning, good citizens and competent adults! God Bless you!
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God has gifted you with family and bravery. Go team!
Joel is the real deal he truly cares about the future of farming in America 👍.
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I've been building my arc for my family despite my husband and teens thinking mom is off on a tangent. They don't see the value and think it is unnecessary effort. I live in the suburbs and have built a number of raised beds in the garden, built a small greenhouse and chicken coup, taken up canning.... I wish they could see that building self-sufficiency needs to be valued at this time. My teens won't learn these skills since my husband doesn't value it. So....I am building a manual as I go in case they need it as a "how to" some day.
Please keep persevering. I was one of those kids at one time. I now have children and realize I should have paid attention. I am grateful my mom is here and still willing to teach me. Now that my parents are divorced, I am grateful the land was more important to her during the divorce and my dad wanted to move on in the more metropolitan area. I am now about to move me and my children back to my mom’s land and plan to start my three kids working in the farm to establish work ethic and self sustainability. Not that I want them to follow that lifestyle but to educate them, knowing how to use their abilities to be self sustainable if they choose or need it. I just want my children prepared to care for their future family.
@@bmcdonald7303 Awesome! Thanks for the hope and inspiration.
Well done, Mom! Keep doing, they will appreciate it. May God bless your efforts.
Wise woman! Praying for you...keep on. God bless. ❤🫂👍🙂
I remember when I forced my oldest daughter to “just pick the flowers you would want in a pit or hanging basket, you don’t even have to plant them”. She was so annoyed. But he’s we got home, she planted them too. Three years later, at her apartment, I gifted her some tomato plants. At the next apartment, she cleaned out the weeds and planted grass and a flower bed dedicated to her son…so HE could pick his own flowers (at age 2). Then when she bought her house a year later…. it’s obvious that she is now a full fledged flower and vegetable gardener. And she is passing on the love of soil.
I believe one of the worst things that ever happened to America was Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz during the 60's and 70's. His push for "go big or go home" drove a lot of people who otherwise would have stayed in agriculture off the farm. I was one of them. I was completely turned off by the move towards industrialized agriculture that my family took that I left for the military. Now, my grown children and I are looking to move back to a homestead. Fortunately, we have the necessary skills to homestead part time (we all have full time jobs). And you're right - homesteading is as much about a lifestyle choice as it is about securing food. It was always about the lifestyle, but we are just more cognizant of it these days.
That was bad, but I think the worst is yet to come. The people who want to control everything want everybody off the land and living in the cities. Where People are more easily controlled.
Capitalism gone crazy, destroying what made agriculture sustainable and healthy!
My dad was raised on a farm in the 50s and 60s - he went to college for ag journalism and immediately became disenfranchised with how things were industrializing compared to his upbringing. He moved to the cities, his brother inherited the farm and only recently in retirement due to health issues they sold their last cattle. Now my husband and I are getting back to our roots. My husband’s dad was military intelligence, not farming tho ha. We just moved from the city to a small town with lots of space around our first house to start homesteading! My husband loves gardening and I’m excited for chickens :) our dog is much happier out here too frolicking in the wooded area around our house. We are 36 and 30 years old respectively, he in IT and me a lawyer (tho I am more a novelist and small business consultant). We want flexibility from the rat race and to live a simple, wholesome life.
@@schuylergeery-zink1923 I hope as a lawyer you have been fighting against the tyranny & all of the illegal edicts, etc.!
You should watch “ the other Israel “ for a counter perspective on whether Jews should be in Israel. From what I understand they actually kick people out of where they had been living for hundreds of years to make room for the new Jewish population
To add to Joel's list of why people want out, crazy schools that aren't schools any more, TV and entertainment that is anything but, and work environments that are becoming more and more hostile to normal healthy people.
So true, I homeschooled 8 yrs. Workplaces are consentration camps.
@@deborahjoyvalentine6180 "concentration camps"? 😳 Wow!
Except that homesteading improves very little of that. Home-schooled kids on average test considerably lower than those in public education and have higher rates of social problems in group environments, TV and entertainment media is no different in the sticks than it is in the city and is consumed at considerably higher volumes in more rural areas, and 90% of homesteaders have to continue working their town jobs in addition to the labour they need to perform looking after their property.
Homesteading has a ton of redeeming qualities that make it a great thing, but most people that are getting into it for the reasons you outline are setting themselves and their families up for failure.
@@bradsimpson8724 Couple of quick things on that. I would need to look at the data again, but I suspect that is probably old data. Home schooling has gotten a lot more advanced in the last 20 years, and I suspect that may not longer be true. Second, even if it is true allowing child abuse for better test scores is not a great idea. Also, the public school system is a disaster which is only getting worse. Baltimore in one year had zero students test proficient in math, ZERO. There are other cities with similar issues in their public school system. The quality has been nose diving, particularly I'm the last fifteen years or so. I saw this first hand with my kids recently finishing school in a district you might have thought would have performed better. So you have to account for different areas having wildly different results. So the short version is, that is a pretty pessimistic outlook that is not taking everything into account, and you are missing some key points there.
@@marcus3457 You can feel however you like about it. I'm looking at a series of studies from 2017-2021 covering the bulk of the US and Canada; we're not talking about ancient history from far-flung places. You're are absolutely 100% dead wrong, but you're welcome to whatever garbage opinion you like. And that's just the testing and actual education side, that's not venturing into the wealth of social problems kids isolated from proper education among their peers develop, which are also well-documented. I pity the kids that are being effectively handcuffed by their idiot parents and their arrogance, and I will laugh hysterically when these same parents begin to complain about how stupid and societally unproductive the younger generation is.
If you have a lick of common sense and any interest in good parenting, anyone reading this will keep their kids in school, and invest heavily in making sure that it's the best school you can provide. If you think that's your own home, you're a complete idiot and completely 100% wrong.
My daughter and I are attending the Coeurdalene homesteading conference in July and I so hope that Joel talks about the things that are going on in the world like he does in this video. I feel that so many people are still asleep and are clueless about what’s going on in the world!
There's an event in Coeur d'Alene? Do you have a link to it? Thanks!
We, too, are attending the conference in Idaho in July. Say hi if you meet a tall guy in a brown Ford baseball cap. We hv been beginning our homesteading journey since 2018.
And I’m tired of trying to tell friends and family, who firmly believe things will go back to normal. No one likes to get bad news, and would rather think you’re misguided or no fun anymore.
KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS ✝️ FAITH OVER FEAR DEAR SAINTS 👍 Please know that Jesus Christ has already won this spiritual battle and He is coming back any moment Y'all 🙏😇 MARINATHA LORD JESUS ✝️💜😇🙏✝️👍
@@flippincrazyfarmboy1849 do you have a link? We are in North Idaho and would love to go
Joel is directly over the target. We were city bred 60 somethings that moved to southern Missouri two years ago to build a legacy homestead on 28 acres with a 5 acre lake. Our motto is “Spend each day in the best way possible while preparing for the worst tomorrow possible.” The world cannot eliminate the sustainability of a multi- generational self reliant homestead. We’re learning many things every day and look forward to an active lifestyle well into the future. Advice, you don’t(can’t) do it all today, take deep breaths, do what you’re confident doing and learn from YT videos when you don’t, and DON’T PANIC! Blessings.
Good advice and God bless you and your family.
Joel's knowledge and experience is beyond measure, one of the best!
Truly a blessing to all and there is nothing that God will not do to bless them that diligently seek Him.😇🙏👍 FAITH OVER FEAR DEAR SAINTS 👍 Please know that Jesus Christ has already won this spiritual bat and He is coming back to take His precious children home 🙏
My husband and I were "Back to the Landers" in the early 70's so you can guess our age. We have felt compelled to keep going, retirement isn't an option. the Lord has brought together many pods of folks in our community to learn and support each other. It brings me so much joy to share what I've learned about gardening, raising animals for meat and milk, canning fermenting, bread baking dehydrating, herbal medicine etc. Listening to you two talk is so encouraging and confirming. I dont think what we are doing is just for us, I think we are leaving something for others.
Us too!!😂
And God took this man and placed him in the garden to till it and care for it Or keep it which means to conserve or preserve. Thank you Joel. Bless you and family Genesis
Wow! Thank you for sharing! We bought a 62 acre island on a lake in the Canadian wilderness in British Columbia this past summer. The challenges are many, but the rewards are so incredible!! We couldn't have imagined how much we would have loved the solitude, the peace and the online homesteading community we would grow to treasure. Oh boy! What a learning curve! Life is so much better and we are grateful! ❤
I have been a Homesteader on 10 acres for the past 17 years & I am now 76. We have our vegetables, chickens for eggs. We grow out about 140 day old chickens to point of lay every month, we have a small flock of Dorper sheep that we breed & sell the offspring to other Homesteaders. We live in Victoria, Australia & have followed Joel Salatin & others many of whom do not do what they teach & talk about whereas Joel Salatin, Pete from A few Acres Farm do. Be careful who you listen to. We love our Homestead.
My family homesteaded in Alaska in 1956. Soil was clay and only 4 inches deep; so we did enough to prove up on it. I've always been a food storage and prepper-type girl. We just moved from Nebraska to Missouri and are starting over on two acres. We got our orchard in first. Now we have 16 black-laced silver Wyandotte chickens that are beginning to lay. It will be a way we can serve others to pass eggs out. After 30 years of my "nagging," my sister has gotten the growing --her- own- food and storing food bug. She calls me weekly to report on her lettuce and carrots. Our kids couldn't care less; so we store enough for the whole family. If the balloon goes up, their problem will be how to get here from Omaha and Kansas City to our place. God bless us all. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
Ty
My 40 year old daughter is lost in the matrix but I think when things go south she’ll come around. I hope.
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Hey I'm in kc too! I would love to be able to get some land and be able to do more homesteading. Last fall we did our first ever batch of 10 broilers with a mini salatin style tractor in our back yard. It was a great experience. About to get another batch now that spring is here.
But I want to teach my kids more about lifestyle stuff, being resilient, hearty, hard working and self reliant, not to mention learning life skills. Wish we could get goats do more chickens, pigs. Would love to have horses.
That's just great!
Thank you... so refreshing to meet a No Apologetic Christian! I started my homestead 5 yrs ago... God was nudging me to “get prepared” I didn’t know why at the time. Your chicken tractors have been feeding this family ever since
Farming is a calling. That's why we have to encourage these new homesteaders.
Hi Janet where are you from?
We are happy with three main areas, an annual garden, a food forest, and eggs and dairy. Our pastures are perfect for our goats. We do very well with less rather than more. Every time we start to grow something, Mother Nature interrupts which tells us where we are comfortable. We have dairy, eggs, hunt, garden, and robust perineal harvests. Every year even if the garden does poorly there are berries, apples, pears, persimmons, figs, etc. as the year developers. As we get older or life happens, we are so happy for the less labor intensive areas of the homestead.
Thank you! Listening to the two of you makes me feel less crazy. ❤🐂🐄🐖🐥🐓🦃🦆🌱🌳🐝
Yah right they gave voice to everything I was thinking
We are so thankful for the two of you and your patient and wise teaching. We’re a few years into this journey now but both my husband and I grew up in town so we were the “city kids” in our families. There was always an attitude of “You seriously don’t know that” from family members that did farm. We have never felt that from any of your teaching and all the speakers at your events are so gracious. It’s like you’re all saying “Come do this with us because we know you can”. We will be forever grateful for your practical teaching and “come join the fun” outlook.
Amen
God provides for His precious children 😇 and Jesus Christ is coming back any moment Y'all 🙏 FAITH OVER FEAR DEAR SAINTS 👍
Homesteading is the only real life that promotes a meaningful and purpose filled LIFE. The "world" wants to take that away from you.
Exactly 💯
When Joel said it's a way of life, how do you want your children to grow up, he hit the nail on the head. My home is my world.
The tank story gave me chills. God is great!
I've been expanding my garden the last 3 years. Started some fruit trees this spring from some neighbors' trees. Just bought my first 5 pullets. Making the best of my 1/2 acre yard in a city. God bless all!
You are BLESSED w 1/2 acre and in Christ 🙏
@@deborahjoyvalentine6180 Yes, definitely blessed in Christ!
Joel's tin hat is da best! Everything I want to do is illegal. Love this guy.
The big wigs don't eat at your table. If growing food is illegal, well..... 😅😅
Yes! Now w we can see what’s happening to the world and see how important it is. We are on the land and trying to take care of ourselves. With the good Lord’s help yes.
offgridwithdougandstacy got me hooked on the whole homesteading thing. Love them!!!!
Excellent information. Thank you for speaking so clearly about what is going on and our responsibility in it. God's Word tells us our part in all of this, we need to do.
I'm in the group where people are TRYING to tell me I'm crazy. i want the 5 to 20 acres, a couple of beef cattle, a milk cow, chickens making compost, pigs to clear up the rough spots, turkeys strutting around my yard. i want fresh eggs, smoking my own ham, fields of potatoes and veggies. Yes, I'm older and can't do as much, but I am growing and canning my own food. I will have chickens in the back yard before the 4th of July! I will make my own compost! As long as I'm not dead yet, I will do what I can to make sure my family has a home with food on the table!!!!!!P.S. Joel I have your MICO book and I LIKE YOU!
You are NOT crazy. You are brilliant sister-friend!
I really appreciate your support for the agricultural farms in Judea and Samaria. They bravely face many challenges.
Shalom from Israel
I saw a Facebook comment that homesteading was just a fad. To some it is. Others are very serious about it being their lifestyle. Many were already doing it before it became a CZcams sensation.
Grew up in the Appalachian mountains... It's been part of life here for hundreds of years and still is. If hard times ever come for economy you can still eat like a king or queen.
There is a book called "ten acres enough" and it was written in the 1860s or something like that. It's about a guy who has a dream to live off the land and he does his research and he takes his family to the country to do homesteading I suppose. He runs a farm of berries and fruit, and he describes how he goes about it. It's a true story (I think)
Some homesteading may be a fad now, and it was also a fad in the 1970s, 80s and even in the 1860s....seems to be a thing to do through much of history.
In fact, New Zealand was largely settled by city people who dreamt of owning their own bit of land, so you could say that homesteading was a fad that affected British people in the 1840s right through to the present day, and Dalmatians from Croatia during the late 1800s, and Scandinavians at some point that settled around Dannevirke...and on and on
I think there has always been a desire throughout history in some people, especially in urbanites, to own a bit of land and meet some of their needs from it.
Even people in Roman and Greek times would have liked to do that. And all the settlers who migrated to the USA and indeed all of the colonised lands around the world. I think they all wanted their own piece of land.
Like many others my wife and I were tired of the congestion and traffic. We were both native Houstonians and the greater metropolitan area had a population of 6 million people! In November of 2021 we sold our suburban house of 22 years and bought 10 acres in a VERY rural town with a population of about 700! Best decision we ever made!
You guys are great! Thanks for having Joel on
Wonderful interview - very timely. America, and the world - needs to listen.
I also highly recommend reading The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher. It absolutely applies here. Especially important for those who think that they don't have many options if they live in the suburbs or the inner city. Everyone has options.
My wife and I moved to remote King Island - part of Australia after I retired from the New South Wales Police force. We have 30 acres and put in an orchard, have ducks, chooks and geese We bought a house cow from who i make butter. We breed highland cattle and have Mareema dogs. All our cooking and bread making is done on a Rayburn stove which heats our home too.
All this from someone who knew nothing of this lifestyle.
Ain't life grand?
Actually, the only difficult thing about moving away from our community in the suburbs, is dear dear family and friends who need us and belong to us. Giving up pizza delivery and comforts is a no brainer... It's the people factor that is so difficult!
Totally agree.
For its my kids. My 10 yo son is really good at hockey so leaving the burbs means taking that from him.
If you have a backyard, and you can use it, use it. If you do not have one, ask around. Family, friends, neighbors. You might be "taxed" for it (they get some of the food) but it would be worth it for everyone involved. Food can bring a LOT more people together than many realize.
Yep, it's like leaving your tribe.
What good Goys you guys are! So glad you stand with Israel, I would love this channel and HoA to send all of their money to Israel!
Great video for encouraging homesteaders! I really appreciated the information about Israel. Joel is spot on!
Wow, at least half of everything he said is factually incorrect.
@@dcg1976 seriously, i thought john hagee was speaking!! what a disgrace, how can joel be so naive, he spouted every zionist 'trope' that any good shill would repeat. is he gonna siddle up with the ADL next?
well, he better watch out for publically complaining about those in the US who are Warmongers, Communists, Globalists & America Haters, because according to the World Jewish Congress and the ADL, doing so is anti-semitic & those complaing need to be shut down!
it was shocking to hear joel say those things, he's either brain-damaged about what's actually happening in the world, or he's taken the big payoff.
...and from his own mouth, he said it, i took the big trip to israel. ...i wonder if he knows that they just passed a law criminalizing Christianity there, or should i say outlawed any public display of being a practicing Christian?
good lord, what is wrong with that man? put a big round red ball on his nose, as he's now a big ole cheer leader for clown world. what a shame!
I can't tell you how much this resonates with me! We are definitely one of those homesteads that Joel talked about being a couple of years in and looking for inspiration! I believe that God called us during 2020 to find a place so that we could feed ourselves and others, so Amy, your comments about that was uplifting and confirming! We started our journey in early 2021 and are slowly but surely transforming this old abandon farmstead into what we hope becomes a beacon for God's Glory! It's a slow process for us two old turtles but with God's guidance and blessings we will make it! Thank you so much for all you do for this community AND BTW Tik Tok is owned by the CCP and that's why you were censored! The CEO is being questioned by Congress today - Good riddance to them - there are plenty of other platforms that would welcome your content!
How did you find your "old abandoned farmstead"?
Yes, Rumble or Telegram for instance!
Joel talking about mans works vs the lords creation I really get. I have a home with a bit a acreage now not a lot but nice . What really got to me as far as desire to move rural was I was so upset being severed from nature in every way living in an apartment I cried and cried. Now I’m around the trees and water and dirt and I feel better. I still don’t know how to do the homestead stuff yet but taking baby steps. We sure did loose a lot of skills as a society as a whole. I really could relate to a lot of things discussed and really enjoyed the listen
Ty
Reach out and learn from people who have walked the road a few steps ahead of you. Fail while daring greatly and dance in the rain when you succeed. May God richly bless you and your land beyond your ability to dream. May the wonder bring you to tears of joy . You got this sister-friend!
Thank you so much for this. I went to order tickets the 1st of March and missed out...missed last year too. Can't wait to finally get to your conference. We have been homesteading with Chickens, learned to process our own, i started selling my eggs and plants, we also grow more vegetables each year. Every year has been bigger and bigger for us. Talking to friends and more and more are starting to think I am not crazy.
Just bought your book Joel! It's deep and satisfying to those who love God's earth.
Thanks, this really helps me move forward with my homestead plans
God bless you as you grow! You’re gonna love it ❤️
Have 1/2 acre on this we have 15 blueberry bushes..pear tree..plum trees grape vine..fig tree ..15 chickens..and garden..it can be done..small pond..pool…and this is in a suburban area…prepping ..fenced and private..constant work and I love it…
You are winning! The rest don't even know there is something to win!
Sitting here listening to this podcast and being reminded of the stark difference between HOA as Homesteaders of America vs. HOA as Home Owner's Association. We just moved out of a neighborhood with an HOA that tells us what we can and can not do and moved into a home that will allow us to be part of an HOA that encourages and allows us the freedoms of doing with our land what we want and need to do! This podcast has helped me think through what I've been feeling led to do in my heart and not really understanding the how and why of where my heart and mind are. Realizing that God truly does give you the desires of your heart. I didn't wake up and decide to grown my own food, have chickens, etc. but rather He has changed my heart and mind and has led me to where I am today. Hope that makes sense!
I love Joel’s ark example. It is especially true when he says people don’t even know it’s raining. I also like to say that I’m just getting oil for my lamps. So many people are going to be unprepared when the unexpected comes!
Thank you, Joel for still pluggin' along spreading encouragement to homestead! I read one of your books 11 years ago when I was pregnant with my #2 and could hardly move, and I walked away wanting to have a pick-your-own berry farm 😂👌
Finally -- an environmentalist that believes in small government, and a separation of state and economics.
Thanks Amy and Joel.. I really enjoyed this. It is funny the whole time I was watching this I kept on looking at one of the signs in my kitchen that says "Into the forest I must go to lose my mind and save my soul". Thanks again!
When he sticks to the topic and talks about homesteading, Joel is really informative and interesting and I could listen to him all day. I'd love to chat chickens with him for hours. The other stuff: good grief, it's scary that people's religion dictates their geo-political views. What has any of that got to do with homesteading?
Because a relationship with God dictates our world view about everything…
Does your secular humanism dictate your geopolitical views? Asking for a friend
Homesteading is amazing. we lose so much when we separate ourselves from nature
Wonderful podcast! Would love a women's retreat.
Hi Kathy where are you from?
We are very excited to hear Joel speak in Idaho this June/July!
I really love Joel's humble personality.
We live on 5 acres (also in Shenandoah Valley) and this is my year to begin pouring everything into making it a haven. My boys are grown/ teens now and they can really help me. Maybe I can get in on next year's event!
Writing from Italy. I loved listening to this. We moved away from the city with the vision of building a refuge. The urgency of this has been on my heart the last 3 years. Praying that God opens the door for us to get land.
Joel, this was just as excellent as your farm talks, but even more important
I am one of Joel's biggest fans and followers. Used to almost be neighbors when I worked in his neighborhood for USDA. Joel's demographic is unique. It does not exist in most other parts of the country. He needs to start his talks out with that statement. I have to wonder how many have gone bankrupt following his dream. I know of one who lost a Centennial farm but he was a poor manager already.
ThankQ and much appreciated
Never thought about “building an Ark”, but that’s exactly what we’re doing. Not much rain in this part of the country, we are near a river and have good underground water, so a pond was a must for us. So far, our big focuses have been chickens, fruit trees, fencing, and a pond with catfish.
Love it!
We were looking for land in Sevier county TN, and that was the year it caught fire. Translated, God said stay put. So we prayed for what we wanted. A ranch on some land with woods and a pond that we could afford. We just celebrated 6years on this land. It has everything. Stocked pond. Multiple OLD hickory and oak trees, diverse species from corkscrew willow to dogwood to old old pear and apple trees. We planted more. A stocked pond constructed in 1956 we are figuring out how to dredge without ruining. From a suburbian lot, I now run a zero tun, chainsaw, broadfork AND tiller. I can do small engine repair and have built all my chicken and quail coops, and I am building a duck coop now. We have the tomato tornado this year. Last year was the year of a thousand cukes. One year i will get it right. The fig is happy and so are the spawning bass. The nightly bullfrog roll call around the pond shore just makes me smile like a fool. Making jewel weed plantain salve and comfrey calendula salve all off the land. Who needs vacation when home is so doggone awesome?
Thanks y'alls!
Fabulous conversation! Thank you to you both! 🙏❤️
Great conversation! Thank you for sharing this. 🙏 You give hope to folks who want a better life. ❤
I just bought 25 acres last year and my passions organic tropical veggies, plus pasture raise chicken, goats, ducks , gesse etc. DITAWA Farm is doing it the ancient way. Healthie for a stronger and healthier you.
I am convinced that homesteading can be for everyone. I am 71 year old handi-cap. I think that even I could be a homesteader. I beleve there can be a way for older people to be self sufficient, in a limited way. We that are older, poor health, very low incom, could be able to do this if we had a little help. For us there is no help.
I just rewatched for the 3rd time.
love the wisdom and get something new out if it each time. I've been to 2 conferences and am tossing the idea around of starting a small one here. We have a vibrant homesteading presence in mid Missouri and good tourism to boot. Any tips?
Look at other festivals like Back to the Land or Midwest preparedness festival, and emulate that. Talk to organizers and get a bullet point list started
Dates, permits, bathrooms, product vendors, speakers, musicians, food vendors, sanitation, and volunteers.
Awesome video, thank you!
The ONLY HOA I'm okay associating with. 😂
Son of promise V the son of impatience. Love this!
My generation of my family, us Boomers, was the first generation on both sides of the family that did NOT grow up on "the homestead." I'm talking about the 160 acres of Native American Indian land given away to 19th century and early 20th century homesteaders.
My point is this: I agree with Joel that we have lost the skills AND the work ethic that enabled our ancestors to first SURVIVE and secondly THRIVE. My generation became lost urban dwellers who followed the American Culture down a rabbit hole of despair. The whole story is of course more complicated than this simplistic recitation. The basic fact is that in my family we lost something. We lost the REALITY of an admittedly hard scramble life which was actually much more real and much more stable and, just my opinion, more satisfying. So growing up of course I heard LOTS of stories of hard work, near disasters, real danger and more hard work. One truth stayed with me. Both sets of grandparents made it through the Great Depression, raised families ON THE LAND, and prevailed. Luckily my son has seen fit to go back to the land, something I didn't do until I retired. He took his extended family to 140 acres to change their way of life. It is a fairly new venture still unfolding. I am very proud of him! The "town job" is still a necessity of course. But then Joel could tell you about that ...
In my seventies I do recognize what I "lost" or "missed" or whatever. I admire every family that is doing anything to make a change in their family story. Much love to HOA and Joel for what you folks are doing. Via con Dios.
Love Joel!!!
Hello Vivian where are you from?
I’m so excited for the new book!
Love your talk.
Very inspiring
God's word is truth. Thanks Joel.
This was informative.thx
one thing i have learned growing as a GenXer ... Real life adventures are 10x better than "virtual' adventures.
You just became so wise to anyone reading your comment. Good on ya.
I want to go to the women’s retreat!!!❤
“Make them help!”….I say the same thing when moms tell me they can’t get their kids to do anything
Fantastic interview!
You have to start rules early in age, when they reach the teenage years it's too late to be starting discipline.
Such a great podcast! ❤
Great video.
So empowering to remember how to can, pressure can, garden and freeze dry. You all encourage us. To try with what we have in our hands to do what we can. Anything is good. Just starting is the thing. Thanks. My purpose is to prepare not just for us, but to help others when times get hard to and/or leave for others when we are raptured. Maybe it will save them in more ways than one. My books also. :) So glad Joel understands Israel.
Controversial ag podcast?? Interesting. 😅 I'm in!
@12:56 We were just talking about this tonight. We concluded "The Gospel" is honestly the foundation of faith and we should probably return to that. Without the Gospel our faith can be challenged in the Torah. Without the Gospel we our faith can be challenged in the epistles. Return to our first Love. (Just an opinion and just a conversation)
16:20.. How great is our God. He reigns.
Inspiring wise guest!
Wonderful. Thankyou. God bless. 🫂❤✝️🙂
Hello and love all this!!!
Responsibilities rather than rules. No need for rules. Just individuals choosing what responsibilities they will share in the household. They live there don't they? I love Joel's view of what we humans are, in relation to the cosmos and this magnificent cornucopia called life.
Just like to make mention of Joel's use of people needed and only mentioned the needs that men usually provide (mechanic, plumber, chain saw operator, woodworker) and this happens a lot, the dismissal or devaluation of the women's-type chores like knowing how to feed her family nutritious meals, tending to injuries, keeping the home clean and running smoothly, tending to details that men usually dismiss, etc. Not having a shot at anyone but just wanted to show how the world we live in is seen almost exclusively through the male lens.
I started homesteading because I wanted to know what food actually tastes like. Now after seeing what’s happened to this world the past 5 years I am doing it for food security. Especially with the mRNA animal vaccines and vaccines for your veggies rolling out this month.. it’s all about food security and getting closer to God
Guy put his rep on the line to tell the truth! Respect to JS!
Good for you for getting kicked off TikTok!😅 You ARE doing something right!❤
What's crazy to me is this is how we as humans lived for 1000's of years. People that say you can't do that are the ones living "abnormally". There is nothing normal about living in small apartments surrounded by concrete.
Being stacked up with other people and willingly limiting your ability to secure resources gives me anxiety just thinking about it. Increased crime, less resiliency, worsening depression. Gah! Not for me.
Manifest and attract the good.😊🐣