139. Building a Debt-Free Homestead from Scratch | Katie Metka: Mother of 9, Photographer, Homesteader

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If you dream of starting your own homestead but worry that you don’t have the skills or time or money, you’ve got to hear Katie’s story. Six weeks after giving birth to her ninth daughter, Katie and her husband moved their family from their established homestead in Texas to a piece of raw land in Missouri to start over. They are building everything themselves and doing it debt-free! Katie shares how she and her family of 11 found joy in the simple pace of living in a small shanty without electricity or running water. Whether you have a homesteading dream or are pursuing another goal, may Katie’s story remind you of all that is possible with patience, sacrifice, and hard work.

In this episode, we cover:

How Katie’s family of 11 is living in a one-room shanty
The sacrifices Katie and her family have made to build their homestead debt-free
Several creative ways they plan to make money from their farm
How Katie moved her family and farm animals from an 11-acre homestead in Texas to an 80-acre piece of land in Missouri
What to look for when searching for property to build a homestead from scratch
The surprising blessing of living in a shanty with no electricity and no running water with nine kids
What mistakes they have made along the way and what they might have done differently
Involving your kids on the homestead without using chore charts
How to enjoy the in-between stages while building your dreams
How to pursue a homestead dream even if you don’t have a lot of money or skills

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast.
0:03.2	Today I'm having on a guest who moved their family across the country,
0:08.5	well not really across the country, but quite far to start a homestead completely
0:13.6	from scratch in the Missouri Ozarks.
0:15.4	So you may know we live in Missouri.
0:18.0	So this guest lives somewhat close to where I live.
0:22.0	And I was just curious to hear more about her story.
0:25.6	She and her husband and their nine daughters are taking
0:29.3	raw land, building their house, the fencing, just this homestead completely
0:35.7	from the ground up.
0:36.8	I find that fascinating and also encouraging because they're doing it
0:40.7	entirely debt-free, which a lot of you have similar goals.
0:44.0	And so I want to introduce you to Katie Metka.
0:46.7	We're going to discuss how they plan for this, how they were able to
0:50.8	live through times of no water and no electric and endure all of that
0:56.3	and actually sort of enjoy it.
0:58.0	I do want to do a quick disclaimer and tell you that we did have some internet
1:02.4	issues. Now as you can imagine with some of these homesteader guests that I have,
1:06.4	they live in rural areas that don't have access to the best internet.
1:10.5	That happens to me too.
1:11.6	Sometimes it's my internet.
1:13.0	So as you know, sometimes things can be a little shaky.
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