E5: Hot Takes, Our Homestead Festival Recap

Send us Fan MailHomestead-ish hits the road and attends the Homestead Festival in Columbia, TN. An annual two-day event, the Homestead Festival combines music with meaningful homesteading-related experiences. It features speakers, demonstrations, and vendors focused on sustainable living, including homesteading, farming, and related skills like herbal remedies and animal husbandry.In this episode, recorded on the way home with our hearts full and our brains buzzing, we share a candid recap of the weekend: a play-by-play of our experience, standout speakers, surprising takeaways, hilarious mishaps, lessons learned, and more.Listen and find out where Homestead-ish aligns (and doesn't align) with the mainstream Homestead movement! Thinking of going next year? We've got you covered with tips on how to prepare and get the most out of the experience. Links:thehomesteadfestival.comGet the Official (and also extremely comfy) Homestead-ish Tee on Etsy!Food Inc DocumentaryRuthAnn Zimmerman on IGMandi Pickering of Wilk Oak Farms on IGKaylee Richardson of the Honeystead on IGNatural beekeeping with Suburban Sodbusters on IGHigh Tunnels with mindfulfarmerarkansas.com            Darryl Patton, the Southern HerbalistCheck out homesteadish_pod on IG, and as always you can find Kristin at growingpaines_ and Devon at devonballardhudson on IG!