Welcome to the Old Fashioned On Purpose Podcast.

So I talk a lot about the happy and fulfilling parts of homesteading,

because let's face it, there's a lot of them,

whether you're making your first loaf of bread or because let's face it there's a lot of them

whether you're making your first loaf of bread

or you're getting that first egg from your chickens

or planting tomatoes out in your garden.

There's just a lot of pieces of this lifestyle that are amazing and satisfying and make

you feel like you're on top of the mountain. But I would be remiss to not also bring you along for some of the hard parts of the journey to because they do exist.

And in today's episode I want to share with you something that haven't on our homestead recently.

That was really, really hard.

And I've hesitated a little bit to talk about this, but I think I need to share it because I want you to see both the good

and the hard parts of this homestead lifestyle.

I'm your host, Jill Winger, and this is the podcast for the Trail Blazers, the Mavericks, the

Mavrics, the Mabrocks, the Mabrocks, and the Backyard Farmers.

If you're ready to boost your food security and create more of a homegrown lifestyle,

well, you have found your tribe.

So I have not talked about this at the time of this recording on social media or the blog yet just mostly honestly

it was it was too raw to talk about and I didn't feel like I could handle the comments from people.

Sometimes even when I post normal everyday things that are completely non-controversial,

you know, there's always the peanut gallery of people either criticizing or telling you how you

messed up or how you could have done it better and like I'm not saying this to make you feel sorry for me because this is my job and I very willingly accept this as part of being a public person online so I'm not like complaining about that but sometimes you know most the time I can handle it I'm ready for it I can't do it. I can't do it. I don't have the emotional bandwidth to handle the comments and the questions and a criticism.

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