140. How to Ease Into a Natural Lifestyle | Roxanne Ahern of Happy Holistic Homestead

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

If you desire to live a natural lifestyle—whole foods, less toxins, holistic health—it can be intimidating to know where to start. Many people are also concerned about the cost of living this way. In this episode with Roxanne of Happy Holistic Homestead, we tackle the question of where to start if you simply can’t afford to jump all in. What changes make the biggest impact on your family’s health? We also bust the myth that it takes a lot of money or a lot of land to begin prioritizing your health by sourcing high quality foods. You might be surprised by some of our money saving tips! No matter where you are starting from, may this episode encourage you to take the next step in your journey towards a more natural lifestyle.

In this episode, we cover:

How a health retreat changed Roxanne’s health trajectory
The easiest place to start if you want to live a homesteading life with limited space
Simple ways to use raw milk on your homestead
How producing your own food can simplify your meal planning
Tips for sourcing quality foods while on a budget
Encouraging our kids to follow their interests
An important perspective for the young mom who has big dreams
The benefits of giving older siblings responsibility in the home
How learning to forage can improve your gardening skills
A list of go-to quick and easy meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
The no-brainer meal prepping strategy that will keep you eating home cooked meals all week

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today I'm having on Roxanne Ahern from
0:06.7	Happy Holistic Homestead over on Instagram. So her account really caught my eye as a mother of
0:13.3	five girls, someone who homesteads, she does things from scratch like fermenting things and making
0:20.9	sourdough and milking goats. So many of those things that I also love to do, we are going to answer
0:27.8	a reader question. So I got a question basically asking, how do I make some of these changes
0:33.1	incrementally? It's overwhelming, whenever you look at it from the very beginning. So Roxanne and I
0:38.4	are going to dive into that topic and probably take a few twists and turns as well, just as we talk
0:44.4	about motherhood and living on a homestead. So join us for that interview. My name is Lisa, mother
0:50.9	of seven and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you
0:56.4	my love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life
1:01.6	along the way. Hi Roxanne, thank you so much for joining me. I really appreciate it. I'm
1:13.2	happy we can chat. So you have to come up to the library for internet. A lot of my homestead
1:18.6	guests, that's kind of the case. I do. I honestly wasn't sure what to do, but I do some work from home
1:26.3	and on Zoom and that kind of thing. And I thought I was being so smart by coming to the library.
1:33.2	I thought that internet connection will be so much better. So it's funny that it was giving us
1:38.4	trouble. Well, I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, thank you so much for joining me. Remind me what
1:44.4	state you're in. We're in Arkansas. Arkansas. So you're, it's so hot because I'm in Missouri. So
1:51.4	I'm just north of you. And we're experiencing record highs. And next week I have some friends
1:56.8	coming in town for a little blogging retreat. And we picked my house this year. And I'm trying
2:03.9	to tell them this isn't actually normal. Like yes, it can get hot in Missouri, but for it to be
2:08.7	100 degrees every day that you're here, that's not actually normal. But I don't think I'm ever going
2:13.2	to convince them. So are you trying, what are you going to do in there in town? Is there any way
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