All Episodes
A Farmish Kind of Life — 309 episodes
343: The Most Important Thing a Homestead Produces
342: Maybe This is Just… Life?
341: Help! I (Apparently) Need Somebody
340: Your Part of the Problem
339: What Works… Changes
338: Outrage Everywhere, Humanity Anyway
337: The Double Standard No One Talks About
336: It feels like we won’t recover. We will.
335: What Crisis Taught Me About Homesteading
334: Four Months Off. Here’s why…
333: Be A Light But Don’t Burn Yourself Out
332: Life is NOT an emergency
331: Priority isn’t plural
330: Perspective, Gratitude, and a Broken Smartwatch
329: Calm as a Chaos Manager
328: We’ve Forgotten How to Be People
327: Go Visit Your Grandma
326: What is the simple life, really?
325: How Did We Get So… Soft?
324: The Thing About Comfort Food
323: Homestead excess isn’t success
322: When You’re Not Sure What’s Next
321: Food is medicine, but not a miracle
320: We Were Made to Move
319: Easy Doesn’t Fill You Up
318: When the Systems Fail, Start Over
317: Homesteaders, You Don’t Have To…
316: Surviving Midlife on the Homestead
315: How My Homesteading Worries Have Changed Over The Years
314: You Don’t Have to Do it All, But…
314: Overinformed and Over It
Easy Gardening for Beginners: A Stupid Simple Start
311: Why I Will Keep Showing Up Messy
310: If You’re Gone… Then What?
309: Chasing Nostalgia: Can We Really Go Back to the Good Old Days?
308: No One Is Coming to Save You: Time to Get Unstuck
307: Was Homesteading Just a Phase?
306: Five Phrases Keeping Me Sane This Year
305: It’s Ok to be Misunderstood
304: Navigating Homestead Life with Opposite Brains
303: The real reason you need to declutter
302: Being Honest About the Year That Just Was
301: The Cycle of Information… and Life
300: 10 Choices for a Happier Holiday Season
299: We’re All Just People Trying to Figure It Out
298: A Quiet Rebellion: Living Life on Your Own Terms
297: Nobody Cares (and that’s a good thing)
296: 7 Things to Focus on Instead of the Election
295: Fight for your Right… to Get Older?
294: Make Your Phone a Tool, Not a Tether
293: Who you gonna call?
292: Make it STOP: A Rant about our Food System
291: To do lists and real life: the reality
290: Embracing busy times on the homestead
Epi 289: There is so much we don’t know
288: You’re Right
287: The Ultimate Apocalypse Team – Are You On It?
286: Cultivating Connection with Intentional Interactions
285: Confidence Lessons From a Stray Cat
284: Celebrate Your Homesteading Wins
283: Five Reminders for ANY Homesteader
282: The Use What You Have Food Challenge
281: Be More Productive with the 220 Method
280: When Your Goals Don’t Match Your Actions
279: Why I (Actually Don’t) Hate People
278: Don’t Be Fooled: “Savings” That Actually COST You Money
277: 5 Ways to Prep When You’re Pinching Pennies
276: The Best Reason to Prep Ain’t About You
275: when convenience actually hurts: a health crisis of modern comforts
274: Clucking Controversy! 5 Chicken Raising “Rules” We’ve Challenged
273: Gasp, we’re skipping meat birds this year. But why?
272: 5 SHTF Survival Strategies You Shouldn’t Rely On
271: The Unexciting Secret to Homestead Success
270: What you actually need in tough times
269: The World is Ending. Again.
268: Navigating the world’s craziness with 3 questions
267: Why We Suck at Being Social
266: Dear Introverts, Don’t Do THIS
265: If it ain’t broken…
264: Side dishes of yuck on life’s buffet
263: You are what you repeat
262: Easier isn’t always better
261: the ONE thing you need for success this year
260: The ONE THING to remember for holiday gatherings
259: Christmas is (still) magical
258: Christmas is not the season of giving
257 You Don’t Even Know What You Have
256: Take on the skills that suck
255: Reminders We ALL Need to Help Save Money On Food
254: The Monetization of Everything
253: What if you have enough?
252: A quiet revolution
251: Waiting on a cup of coffee
250: A New House
249: You Are Your Solution
248: Take Care of What is Yours
247: You Can’t Find Yourself
246: The illusion of control
245: Calling all Lifesteaders
244: The thing about time
243: Make it a masterpiece
242: The benefit of first impressions
241: Why do you do it?
240: Maybe you’re not a homesteader
239: Today is your BIRTH day
Spicy Sisters 004 with Nicole Sauce
238: What your social media post does and doesn’t do
237: 5 Ways High School Prepared Us for the Real World
236: None of Us Are Self-Sufficient
235: Productive Homestead Planning
234: A Farmish Take on Food Rules
233: The Things We Need to Admit
232: Sprouting seeds for chickens
231: Count cash, not carbs
230: Adventures and Mistakes in Hydroponic Gardening
229: A rekindling of family
228: How we lost big family gatherings
227: Homesteaders, it’s okay to splurge
226: Don’t get distracted by the why
225: My Big Question for the New Year
224: Have yourself a ranty little Christmas
223: That Time I Ran Away From Home
222: Preparing for real life, not the apocalypse
221: We like what we like and that makes life tricky
220: I’m Not Ma Ingalls. Neither Are You.
219: You CAN talk about both
218: Priorities Change. And That’s Ok.
217: You Can’t Control How People React
216: Your Perspective is Subjective
215: Three Things Learned From Three Months Away
214: A Bump in the Road
213: A Toad Helped Me Figure It Out
212: Be Your Own Kind of Homesteader
211: Brutally honest and maybe backwards
RP 005: Time Management Tips for Your Homestead
RP 004: A Modern Problem with the Simple Life
210: Helping Homesteaders by Farm Hopping
209: Looking for Work and What Needs to Be Done
Spicy Sisters 003 with Nicole Sauce
208: On Creativity, Music, and Life
207: 9 Takeaways from LFTN Spring Workshop 2022
Farmish Chat 008: Trees, Bad Eggs, and Your People
206: Cooking Tips You Need to Hear
RP 003: Open Your Eyes. Prepare Accordingly.
RP 002: Hard Times Teach Big Lessons
RP 001: Should You Raise and Grow Your Own Food?
Spicy Sisters 002 with Nicole Sauce
Farmish Chat 007: hydro lettuce, wisdom, and excitement
205: Personality matters
204: Pay Attention
Farmish Chat 006: farm journals and a pretty mouth
203: Garden Therapy
202: You Can Only Do So Much
Farmish Chat 005: seed math and an internetty internet
201: LIVE until you die
200: It’s a Celebration! Thank YOU.
Farmish Chat 004: burritos, ma nature, gardening
199: Getting Started in Ham Radio
198: All About Chickens
Farmish Chat 003: Blue Hair, the Gym, Real Food
Farmish, Furious, and Free Replay
197: What actually makes you a homesteader?
196: Gettin’ real about judgment
Spicy Sisters 001 with Nicole Sauce
Farmish Chat 002: Aldi, Garden Plans, and Date Nights
195: It’s Not About Luck
194: 9 Things to Consider Before Adding More Animals
Farmish Chat 001: Grilled Cheese, Motorcycles, and Raw Tomatoes
193: Building Community with Kerry Brown
192: Does Prepping Make You a Target?
191: Homesteading is not what you expect
190: Does Sharing Your Self Reliance Success Equal Showing Off?
189: Farmers Markets and What you Should Know
188: At War with Rats on the Homestead
187: Raising Meat Rabbits
186: It’s Time to Do Something Else
185: Moving to the Country, Lessons Learned
184: Shut out the world and make a peaceful home
183: Dealing with Negativity While Taking the Road Less Traveled
182: It’s tricky: creating and consuming content in today’s world
181: Making Goals, Changing Goals
180: Want freedom? Avoid these two traps…
179: Work from home: pros, cons, and tips
178: 30 days to organize yo’ stuff
177: Focus for a new year
176: 10+ Lessons from 10 Years on the Homestead
175: What are you doing with your anger?
174: We Choose Our Problems
173: The line between hope and reality
172: This is Not About “Them”
171: Why I don’t think we should go “back to normal”
170: Know Your Neighbors
169: Find the Path
168: Many hands make light work
167: My (rational) approach for how to start prepping
166: The SHTF Thing We’re Not Talking About
165: Put Your Ego Away
164: Build an In-Person Community
163: 9 Tips for Taking Care of the Homestead When You’re Sick
162: Why it’s more important than ever to take care of yourself
161: 5 Uncomfortable Points to Consider
Nobody wants to work? It’s more than that.
159: The Truth about Growing Your Own Food
158: Mouth Noises and Pathetic Plants: Two Random Lessons from the Homestead
157: Stages of Homesteading
156: Why We No Longer Raise Goats
155: Don’t Get Stuck
154: Now I Get It
153: Today Will Someday be the Past
152: 5 Things We Can Learn from Dogs
151: The REAL reason to take care of your yourself
150: Be Teachable
149: The Importance of Unlearning
148: YouTube, Odysee, and Tiktok – The 4 week experiment
147: But what’s your actual goal?
146: Alternative Social Media Sites – 8 Things to Understand
145: Get started with raising turkeys
144: Assumptions – What Do You REALLY Know?
143: Normal life in the real world
142: Nature vs. Nurture… as adults
141: The secret to personal growth
140: What is the right work for you?
139: Starting Seeds – 11 Things I’ve Learned
138: “Your Homeschooled Kids Will Never Get Into College”
137: Supporting you… or your cause?
136: My biggest fear as a homesteader content creator
135: Learn to look up from your weather app: a metaphor
134: Teach People… Without Being a Jerk
133: How (Time) Scarcity Mindset Screws You Up
132: Don’t be afraid to grow up
131: Why we can’t have nice things
130: Be involved in your life
129: The problem with choice and opinion (itty bitty thought)
128: The big secret about parenting (itty bitty thought)
127: Participation is optional
126: a weird thing we all do (itty bitty thoughts)
125: a peg in many holes (itty bitty thought)
124: a different kind of spring cleaning
123: RAQ #9 – self reliant “enough”, homeschooling, homesteading books, frozen eggs, self-publishing
122: Love in real life
121: it’s not just you
120: RAQ #8 – who should cook dinner, the future, death on the homestead, competitive frugal living, and buying baby chicks
119: Three Things We Need Right Now
118: RAQ #7 – missing the city, working fulltime, too many roos, meat bird terms, life is nuts
117: 25+ tips to help you get through winter
116: The 7 Gifts You Forgot
115: Sometimes you have to wait
114: I Worry and I Forget
113: And I Hope
112: The Chickens Still Need to Be Fed
111: RAQ #6 – feeder pigs, ghost stories, kid chores, teaching butchering, and Facebook
110: NaNoWriMo
109: lessons, tiny farms, and other stuff
108: RAQ #5 – homesteading skills, family issues, snow removal, leaving Facebook, and crocheting
107: Deep Thoughts from the Woods
106: If I May Speak Freely: Freedom of Speech
105: Build the Life You Want by Saying No
104: RAQ #4 – podcasts, multi-generational living, friends, quitting, and Ruth Stout
103: How to Have an Actual Conversation
102: What are YOU going to do about it?
101: RAQ #3: packaging chicken, the gym vs. the farm, homeschooling, state of the world, nails
100: Safety Tips for the Homestead and Beyond
99: Being a Gray Man: What it is, Why it Matters
98: You Can Be Both
97: RAQs #2 – meat birds, keeping up, firearms, turkeys, guilty pleasures
96: Eat The Cake While You Can Still Taste It
95: The truth about tribes, support systems, and friends
94: RAQs #1 — Sunburn, skirts, roosters, preserving, and vegan friends
93: Okay, Now What? (Keep Going)
92: Everyone’s normal is different
91: When it’s time to dig, dig deep.
90: when it all makes you mad, who really is in charge?
89: Is it really worth it to raise and grow your own food?
88: “When You Just Want to Sit in Your Barn and Drink Beer”
87: A Homesteader’s Response to Everyone’s Sudden Interest in Homesteading
86: When everyone needs help, take care of yourself first
85: 5 Common Mistakes When Choosing Egg Bird Breeds
84: 10 Lessons You Can Learn in Times of Crisis
83: 9 ways to use technology to ward off isolation
82: Keeping a Pantry Journal Helps you Prepare for Emergencies
81: DIY your Pantry with Kris Bordessa
80: 5 Reasons Homesteaders Need to Be Brave
How to Brine and Smoke a Chicken
9 Lists You Need for Homestead Organization
77: Because winter is hard (mental health for homesteaders)
76: Starting Over on the Homestead
How to make homemade bacon
74: Use less stuff – how to do it, why it’s hard
73: Homemade Chicken Broth — it’s easier than you think!
72: Homestead Goal Setting – The 3 Stages
71: Christmas Traditions – a celebration of ideas
70: Homesteading with kids can be tricky – do it anyway (with Teri Page)
069: The homesteader label – how it helps, how it doesn’t
068: How to Grow a Year’s Worth of Food (with Melissa K Norris)
067: Butcher Your Own Meat: 7 Reasons Why
066: Christmas Gift Giving Challenge
065: 25+ Myths about Life on a Homestead
064: Homestead Decluttering — the why and how
063: The One Thing that Hurts the Homesteading Community Most
Good Year, Bad Year: Homestead Failure
061: Time Management for Smart Homesteaders
060: Homesteading time assessment
059: Homeschooling – Our Journey with Self Reliant Education
058: Smart Homesteaders Pay Attention…and Prepare Accordingly
Feeding Cornish Cross Chickens: How Much Should They Eat?
Chicken Butchering Set Up: 7 Things You Need
055: Smart Homesteaders Fix the Problem
Episode 54: Smart Homesteaders Keep Learning
Why We Started Homesteading: Episode 53