Ep 47 This homesteading life with Sarah Stutzman

Come with us to a homesteading, homeschooling farmhouse in Pennsylvania where the days start early and the blessings are abundant. Grab a yellow chair on the porch (to the tune of morning crickets) and meet Sarah Stutzman, the down-to-earth powerhouse behind Wellfolk Revival, a place to meet belly to belly and up-skill yourself, your kids and your community.This is one of those rocking chair chats that offers a glimpse into someone else's world; their daily habits and ways of thinking. Their challenges and triumphs. Their personal paradigm. And even if you don't aspire to be a modern day homesteader, this convo could very well revive whatever latent life dreams you've got hiding in there. Time to action them?SHOW NOTESRaising kids in a “new normal”The value of community sufficiency What is homesteading?Her childhood on a Christmas tree farm surrounded by exotic animals before moving to life in a subdivisionAccidentally homesteading via a desire to know where her food came from Using skills to teach people how to start a garden, grow their food and take baby stepsBuilding communityResources needed for up-skillingCraving community Bringing people around the table to learnPivoting business around CovidEating organ meats and head cheeseEmbracing the chaos and imperfectionBlowing the romance perception and keeping it realBe the ripple effect by inviting people to your real house (messy and all) at any time  and encouraging them to share their new skills with othersGetting the kids involved so the foundations to hold them during the rebellion phase are strongLetting kids feel their own way and encouraging them to learn through mistakesGetting past our own failures, focus on our successesIntegrating with the local Amish, traditional farmers and new wave of micro farmsConnecting!Reconciling the process of taking life to sustain our own nutritional needsCounting the things on your plate that you have a connection to Avoiding the throw away mentalityUsing the ENTIRE animal to honour the WHOLE and not just the best partsLooking for the blessings in between the constant hard workNourishing our bodies with good food and our minds with beautiful thingsStopping and embracing the simple moments as a measure of successSeeing success through the eyes of a childThe power of pulling out other people's gifts and talentsAvoiding the overwhelm of the emergency by doing the small things every day  Haste makes waste so just make paceLINKS YOU'LL LOVEWellfolk Revival online + on InstagramSupport the show