125. Learning New Skills on the Homestead | Melissa K. Norris

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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When you look around the homesteading world and see other people doing all the things, it can be overwhelming to know how to get started. In this episode, Melissa K. Norris, a homesteader for over 20 years, joins me to talk about where to start when you want to learn new homesteading skills. She reminds us not to be afraid of starting small and learning as you go. She also provides many tangible tips for getting started. Whether you have been homesteading your whole life or are still contemplating jumping into this lifestyle, there will always be more to learn, so these tips on self-education are for you!

In this episode, we cover:

One prerequisite for becoming a homesteader
Deciding what to start with on your homestead
How to start researching a new skill or endeavor
What made Melissa decide to get a dairy cow
Questions to consider when adding livestock to your homestead
What Melissa’s 20-year homesteading journey has looked like
The mindset shift that makes homesteading accessible to anyone

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast.
0:02.4	Today, I am bringing on long-time homes that are Melissa Kay Norris of
0:07.5	MelissaKnorris.com. She's on Instagram, YouTube, and she has so much
0:12.8	information to share, so much wisdom with all of her years of experience.
0:17.2	Today, we are going to talk about getting started. So I received a message from
0:22.3	a listener about a few months ago where she was just wondering how I
0:27.6	research things to get started and how the process looks going from
0:32.2	I want to do this thing to get a gathering all the information to do it and then
0:36.7	to actually implementing some of those things in my own home. So what that looks like
0:40.4	the whole process. So that's what we're going to chat about in today's episode.
0:44.5	Now today's episode is brought to you by Tubes & Co. More on them in a bit. They are some
0:50.5	wonderful organic skincare and I'm really excited to share them with you because I have
0:54.8	definitely been enjoying them in my own home for my own skin. So more on that in a
0:58.8	bit. My name is Lisa, mother of seven,
1:02.0	and creator of the blog and YouTube channel FarmhouseOnBoom.
1:05.4	Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch
1:09.6	cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
1:18.2	Well thank you so much for joining me, Melissa. I have all of your stuff pulled up,
1:23.4	just looking through your Instagram and your YouTube and your podcast and your website.
1:27.6	You have so many resources for home stutters and people
1:31.1	getting started in this lifestyle. So thank you so much for joining me.
1:35.1	I ended up having my propane guy because we're getting a propane stove. I can't wait to cook.
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