129. Learning Old-Fashioned Skills | Carolyn Thomas of Homesteading Family

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

When diving into the world of homesteading, it can quickly become overwhelming when you realize just how many skills there are to learn. Where should you start? I’m so glad Carolyn of Homesteading Family joined me for this conversation. As a long-time homesteader and mother of 10, Carolyn shares how she got started building her skillset to support the homesteading lifestyle she desired for herself and her family. Carolyn is a wealth of information, and she is passionate about teaching others how to live this beautiful way of life, too.

In this episode, we cover:

- The most important old-fashioned skills in 2022

- Why learning new skills is actually easier than you think

- How to fit in learning new skills when you are already maxed out

- The benefits of saying no to convenience

- What our children gain from growing up in a homesteading lifestyle

- A few areas where we choose the convenient route

- The one thing to get in order before you start learning old-fashioned skills

RESOURCES

The Abundant Pantry: Canning | 25% off your purchase of this canning course using code FARMHOUSE

Also check out The Abundant Pantry: Preserving Eggs

View all Homesteading Family classes

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0:00.0	Right, welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today, I am having on
0:05.2	Carolyn from the home setting family. We're going to talk about learning old-fashioned skills. So
0:10.9	where we first started learning them, tips for already having a busy schedule and feeling like
0:18.5	you can't add on anything else, yet learning things like canning, food preservation, fermenting,
0:25.3	all the skills that maybe you're wanting to learn, but maybe you feel like right now there's
0:30.0	just no way. She really brings up some great tips about household management and trying to not
0:35.5	add on certain things to an already chaotic home and laying the foundation for actually getting
0:40.3	to be able to take on something new. So that was really helpful. She is a mother of 10 kids,
0:47.4	so she definitely has a lot of wisdom to share in these things, like running a household,
0:53.2	learning skills while having children. If that's something that you find is difficult,
0:58.4	she definitely has a lot of wisdom to offer there. So without further ado, let's join
1:02.4	Carolyn for this conversation. My name is Lisa, mother of seven in creator of the blog and YouTube
1:09.1	channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from
1:14.5	scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
1:23.8	Well, it's great to get to actually meet you. In person, I missed our last meeting regarding
1:29.2	school of traditional skills, but glad to get to be here today. Yeah, I know. It's so nice seeing
1:35.2	you after seeing you on YouTube. That's my favorite thing about the podcast is I get to so many people
1:39.7	I feel like after we have a podcast together, I know them. So you get to get to have a little chat
1:44.4	together. It's a nice introduction. So yeah, exactly. So are you going to come to whenever your
1:51.4	husband comes? I will not be, you know, it's a it's a kind of fine balance of keeping the house
1:58.1	in the homestead running and shifting to travel. But Josh will be coming out and actually my
2:04.6	13-year-old daughter will be joining him. He's taking one kid on kind of each of the film shoots just
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