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A Farmish Kind of Life — 309 episodes

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343: The Most Important Thing a Homestead Produces

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342: Maybe This is Just… Life?

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341: Help! I (Apparently) Need Somebody

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340: Your Part of the Problem

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339: What Works… Changes

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338: Outrage Everywhere, Humanity Anyway

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337: The Double Standard No One Talks About

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336: It feels like we won’t recover. We will.

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335: What Crisis Taught Me About Homesteading

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334: Four Months Off. Here’s why…

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333: Be A Light But Don’t Burn Yourself Out

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332: Life is NOT an emergency

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331: Priority isn’t plural

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330: Perspective, Gratitude, and a Broken Smartwatch

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329: Calm as a Chaos Manager

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328: We’ve Forgotten How to Be People

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327: Go Visit Your Grandma

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326: What is the simple life, really?

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325: How Did We Get So… Soft?

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324: The Thing About Comfort Food

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323: Homestead excess isn’t success

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322: When You’re Not Sure What’s Next

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321: Food is medicine, but not a miracle

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320: We Were Made to Move

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319: Easy Doesn’t Fill You Up

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318: When the Systems Fail, Start Over

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317: Homesteaders, You Don’t Have To…

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316: Surviving Midlife on the Homestead

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315: How My Homesteading Worries Have Changed Over The Years

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314: You Don’t Have to Do it All, But…

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314: Overinformed and Over It

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Easy Gardening for Beginners: A Stupid Simple Start

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311: Why I Will Keep Showing Up Messy

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310: If You’re Gone… Then What?

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309: Chasing Nostalgia: Can We Really Go Back to the Good Old Days?

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308: No One Is Coming to Save You: Time to Get Unstuck

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307: Was Homesteading Just a Phase?

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306: Five Phrases Keeping Me Sane This Year

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305: It’s Ok to be Misunderstood

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304: Navigating Homestead Life with Opposite Brains

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303: The real reason you need to declutter

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302: Being Honest About the Year That Just Was

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301: The Cycle of Information… and Life

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300: 10 Choices for a Happier Holiday Season

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299: We’re All Just People Trying to Figure It Out

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298: A Quiet Rebellion: Living Life on Your Own Terms

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297: Nobody Cares (and that’s a good thing)

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296: 7 Things to Focus on Instead of the Election

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295: Fight for your Right… to Get Older?

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294: Make Your Phone a Tool, Not a Tether

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293: Who you gonna call?

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292: Make it STOP: A Rant about our Food System

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291: To do lists and real life: the reality

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290: Embracing busy times on the homestead

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Epi 289: There is so much we don’t know

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288: You’re Right

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287: The Ultimate Apocalypse Team – Are You On It?

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286: Cultivating Connection with Intentional Interactions

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285: Confidence Lessons From a Stray Cat

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284: Celebrate Your Homesteading Wins

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283: Five Reminders for ANY Homesteader

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282: The Use What You Have Food Challenge

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281: Be More Productive with the 220 Method

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280: When Your Goals Don’t Match Your Actions

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279: Why I (Actually Don’t) Hate People

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278: Don’t Be Fooled: “Savings” That Actually COST You Money

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277: 5 Ways to Prep When You’re Pinching Pennies

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276: The Best Reason to Prep Ain’t About You

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275: when convenience actually hurts: a health crisis of modern comforts

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274: Clucking Controversy! 5 Chicken Raising “Rules” We’ve Challenged

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273: Gasp, we’re skipping meat birds this year. But why?

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272: 5 SHTF Survival Strategies You Shouldn’t Rely On

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271: The Unexciting Secret to Homestead Success

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270: What you actually need in tough times

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269: The World is Ending. Again.

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268: Navigating the world’s craziness with 3 questions

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267: Why We Suck at Being Social

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266: Dear Introverts, Don’t Do THIS

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265: If it ain’t broken…

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264: Side dishes of yuck on life’s buffet

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263: You are what you repeat

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262: Easier isn’t always better

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261: the ONE thing you need for success this year

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260: The ONE THING to remember for holiday gatherings

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259: Christmas is (still) magical

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258: Christmas is not the season of giving

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257 You Don’t Even Know What You Have

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256: Take on the skills that suck

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255: Reminders We ALL Need to Help Save Money On Food

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254: The Monetization of Everything

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253: What if you have enough?

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252: A quiet revolution

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251: Waiting on a cup of coffee

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250: A New House

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249: You Are Your Solution

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248: Take Care of What is Yours

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247: You Can’t Find Yourself

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246: The illusion of control

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245: Calling all Lifesteaders

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244: The thing about time

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243: Make it a masterpiece

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242: The benefit of first impressions

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241: Why do you do it?

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240: Maybe you’re not a homesteader

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239: Today is your BIRTH day

106

Spicy Sisters 004 with Nicole Sauce

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238: What your social media post does and doesn’t do

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237: 5 Ways High School Prepared Us for the Real World

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236: None of Us Are Self-Sufficient

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235: Productive Homestead Planning

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234: A Farmish Take on Food Rules

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233: The Things We Need to Admit

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232: Sprouting seeds for chickens

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231: Count cash, not carbs

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230: Adventures and Mistakes in Hydroponic Gardening

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229: A rekindling of family

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228: How we lost big family gatherings

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227: Homesteaders, it’s okay to splurge

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226: Don’t get distracted by the why

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225: My Big Question for the New Year

121

224: Have yourself a ranty little Christmas

122

223: That Time I Ran Away From Home

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222: Preparing for real life, not the apocalypse

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221: We like what we like and that makes life tricky

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220: I’m Not Ma Ingalls. Neither Are You.

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219: You CAN talk about both

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218: Priorities Change. And That’s Ok.

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217: You Can’t Control How People React

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216: Your Perspective is Subjective

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215: Three Things Learned From Three Months Away

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214: A Bump in the Road

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213: A Toad Helped Me Figure It Out

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212: Be Your Own Kind of Homesteader

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211: Brutally honest and maybe backwards

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RP 005: Time Management Tips for Your Homestead

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RP 004: A Modern Problem with the Simple Life

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210: Helping Homesteaders by Farm Hopping

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209: Looking for Work and What Needs to Be Done

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Spicy Sisters 003 with Nicole Sauce

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208: On Creativity, Music, and Life

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207: 9 Takeaways from LFTN Spring Workshop 2022

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Farmish Chat 008: Trees, Bad Eggs, and Your People

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206: Cooking Tips You Need to Hear

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RP 003: Open Your Eyes. Prepare Accordingly.

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RP 002: Hard Times Teach Big Lessons

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RP 001: Should You Raise and Grow Your Own Food?

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Spicy Sisters 002 with Nicole Sauce

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Farmish Chat 007: hydro lettuce, wisdom, and excitement

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205: Personality matters

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204: Pay Attention

151

Farmish Chat 006: farm journals and a pretty mouth

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203: Garden Therapy

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202: You Can Only Do So Much

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Farmish Chat 005: seed math and an internetty internet

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201: LIVE until you die

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200: It’s a Celebration! Thank YOU.

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Farmish Chat 004: burritos, ma nature, gardening

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199: Getting Started in Ham Radio

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198: All About Chickens

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Farmish Chat 003: Blue Hair, the Gym, Real Food

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Farmish, Furious, and Free Replay

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197: What actually makes you a homesteader?

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196: Gettin’ real about judgment

164

Spicy Sisters 001 with Nicole Sauce

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Farmish Chat 002: Aldi, Garden Plans, and Date Nights

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195: It’s Not About Luck

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194: 9 Things to Consider Before Adding More Animals

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Farmish Chat 001: Grilled Cheese, Motorcycles, and Raw Tomatoes

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193: Building Community with Kerry Brown

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192: Does Prepping Make You a Target?

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191: Homesteading is not what you expect

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190: Does Sharing Your Self Reliance Success Equal Showing Off?

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189: Farmers Markets and What you Should Know

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188: At War with Rats on the Homestead

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187: Raising Meat Rabbits

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186: It’s Time to Do Something Else

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185: Moving to the Country, Lessons Learned

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184: Shut out the world and make a peaceful home

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183: Dealing with Negativity While Taking the Road Less Traveled

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182: It’s tricky: creating and consuming content in today’s world

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181: Making Goals, Changing Goals

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180: Want freedom? Avoid these two traps…

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179: Work from home: pros, cons, and tips

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178: 30 days to organize yo’ stuff

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177: Focus for a new year

186

176: 10+ Lessons from 10 Years on the Homestead

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175: What are you doing with your anger?

188

174: We Choose Our Problems

189

173: The line between hope and reality

190

172: This is Not About “Them”

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171: Why I don’t think we should go “back to normal”

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170: Know Your Neighbors

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169: Find the Path

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168: Many hands make light work

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167: My (rational) approach for how to start prepping

196

166: The SHTF Thing We’re Not Talking About

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165: Put Your Ego Away

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164: Build an In-Person Community

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163: 9 Tips for Taking Care of the Homestead When You’re Sick

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162: Why it’s more important than ever to take care of yourself

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161: 5 Uncomfortable Points to Consider

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Nobody wants to work? It’s more than that.

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159: The Truth about Growing Your Own Food

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158: Mouth Noises and Pathetic Plants: Two Random Lessons from the Homestead

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157: Stages of Homesteading

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156: Why We No Longer Raise Goats

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155: Don’t Get Stuck

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154: Now I Get It

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153: Today Will Someday be the Past

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152: 5 Things We Can Learn from Dogs

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151: The REAL reason to take care of your yourself

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150: Be Teachable

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149: The Importance of Unlearning

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148: YouTube, Odysee, and Tiktok – The 4 week experiment

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147: But what’s your actual goal?

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146: Alternative Social Media Sites – 8 Things to Understand

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145: Get started with raising turkeys

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144: Assumptions – What Do You REALLY Know?

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143: Normal life in the real world

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142: Nature vs. Nurture… as adults

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141: The secret to personal growth

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140: What is the right work for you?

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139: Starting Seeds – 11 Things I’ve Learned

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138: “Your Homeschooled Kids Will Never Get Into College”

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137: Supporting you… or your cause?

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136: My biggest fear as a homesteader content creator

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135: Learn to look up from your weather app: a metaphor

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134: Teach People… Without Being a Jerk

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133: How (Time) Scarcity Mindset Screws You Up

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132: Don’t be afraid to grow up

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131: Why we can’t have nice things

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130: Be involved in your life

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129: The problem with choice and opinion (itty bitty thought)

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128: The big secret about parenting (itty bitty thought)

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127: Participation is optional

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126: a weird thing we all do (itty bitty thoughts)

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125: a peg in many holes (itty bitty thought)

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124: a different kind of spring cleaning

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123: RAQ #9 – self reliant “enough”, homeschooling, homesteading books, frozen eggs, self-publishing

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122: Love in real life

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121: it’s not just you

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120: RAQ #8 – who should cook dinner, the future, death on the homestead, competitive frugal living, and buying baby chicks

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119: Three Things We Need Right Now

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118: RAQ #7 – missing the city, working fulltime, too many roos, meat bird terms, life is nuts

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117: 25+ tips to help you get through winter

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116: The 7 Gifts You Forgot

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115: Sometimes you have to wait

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114: I Worry and I Forget

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113: And I Hope

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112: The Chickens Still Need to Be Fed

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111: RAQ #6 – feeder pigs, ghost stories, kid chores, teaching butchering, and Facebook

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110: NaNoWriMo

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109: lessons, tiny farms, and other stuff

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108: RAQ #5 – homesteading skills, family issues, snow removal, leaving Facebook, and crocheting

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107: Deep Thoughts from the Woods

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106: If I May Speak Freely: Freedom of Speech

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105: Build the Life You Want by Saying No

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104: RAQ #4 – podcasts, multi-generational living, friends, quitting, and Ruth Stout

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103: How to Have an Actual Conversation

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102: What are YOU going to do about it?

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101: RAQ #3: packaging chicken, the gym vs. the farm, homeschooling, state of the world, nails

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100: Safety Tips for the Homestead and Beyond

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99: Being a Gray Man: What it is, Why it Matters

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98: You Can Be Both

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97: RAQs #2 – meat birds, keeping up, firearms, turkeys, guilty pleasures

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96: Eat The Cake While You Can Still Taste It

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95: The truth about tribes, support systems, and friends

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94: RAQs #1 — Sunburn, skirts, roosters, preserving, and vegan friends

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93: Okay, Now What? (Keep Going)

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92: Everyone’s normal is different

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91: When it’s time to dig, dig deep.

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90: when it all makes you mad, who really is in charge?

273

89: Is it really worth it to raise and grow your own food?

274

88: “When You Just Want to Sit in Your Barn and Drink Beer”

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87: A Homesteader’s Response to Everyone’s Sudden Interest in Homesteading

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86: When everyone needs help, take care of yourself first

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85: 5 Common Mistakes When Choosing Egg Bird Breeds

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84: 10 Lessons You Can Learn in Times of Crisis

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83: 9 ways to use technology to ward off isolation

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82: Keeping a Pantry Journal Helps you Prepare for Emergencies

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81: DIY your Pantry with Kris Bordessa

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80: 5 Reasons Homesteaders Need to Be Brave

283

How to Brine and Smoke a Chicken

284

9 Lists You Need for Homestead Organization

285

77: Because winter is hard (mental health for homesteaders)

286

76: Starting Over on the Homestead

287

How to make homemade bacon

288

74: Use less stuff – how to do it, why it’s hard

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73: Homemade Chicken Broth — it’s easier than you think!

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72: Homestead Goal Setting – The 3 Stages

291

71: Christmas Traditions – a celebration of ideas

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70: Homesteading with kids can be tricky – do it anyway (with Teri Page)

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069: The homesteader label – how it helps, how it doesn’t

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068: How to Grow a Year’s Worth of Food (with Melissa K Norris)

295

067: Butcher Your Own Meat: 7 Reasons Why

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066: Christmas Gift Giving Challenge

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065: 25+ Myths about Life on a Homestead

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064: Homestead Decluttering — the why and how

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063: The One Thing that Hurts the Homesteading Community Most

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Good Year, Bad Year: Homestead Failure

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061: Time Management for Smart Homesteaders

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060: Homesteading time assessment

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059: Homeschooling – Our Journey with Self Reliant Education

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058: Smart Homesteaders Pay Attention…and Prepare Accordingly

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Feeding Cornish Cross Chickens: How Much Should They Eat?

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Chicken Butchering Set Up: 7 Things You Need

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055: Smart Homesteaders Fix the Problem

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Episode 54: Smart Homesteaders Keep Learning

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Why We Started Homesteading: Episode 53