127. Starting a Farm When You Didn’t Grow Up on One | Jess Sowards of Roots and Refuge Farm

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Many people think that beginning a farm or homestead requires you to have previous farming experience, but this isn’t necessarily true. Even if you have never set foot on a farm yourself, it is possible to begin living the homesteading lifestyle. In this episode, Jess shares how her lifelong dream of owning a farm became a reality, one step at a time. We also delve into the topic of making money on a homestead. Whether you have a goal of replacing your full-time income or of simply allowing your homestead to pay for itself, Jess has some really interesting entrepreneurial ideas!

In this episode, we cover:

Starting to live a homesteading lifestyle even without acreage
Nurturing a healthy food culture in your home
The connection between food and homesteading
Exciting upcoming developments for Roots & Refuge Farm
How a homestead can pay for itself

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0:00.0	Right, welcome back to the Simple From House Life podcast.
0:02.4	Today, I am bringing on Jessica from Roots and Refuge Farm.
0:07.0	Now, you might already follow along with her over on YouTube.
0:10.2	She is sharing homestead information, gardening.
0:13.6	She shares so many great vlogs
0:16.6	that will really inspire you.
0:17.7	She does garden tours and seed starting
0:20.3	and so many tips for the upcoming season.
0:22.5	She and her family just purchased a new farm
0:26.1	about seven or eight months ago
0:28.2	and they are building it just from the ground floor from scratch.
0:32.8	So we're going to chat about that.
0:34.5	We're also going to talk about having a farm
0:37.8	even when you didn't grow up with those kind of skills
0:41.1	or if you didn't grow up on a farm at all,
0:43.1	what that is like, what the transition is like
0:45.5	into learning new things.
0:46.9	We also talk about the economical side of it.
0:50.2	So how can you have a homestead
0:52.3	with all of the feed costs and the infrastructure
0:55.0	and it not cost you anything?
0:56.7	How can you make the things on the farm pay for that?
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