146. Misconceptions About Homesteading | Ash Turner of Turner Farm

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

With the growing popularity of homesteading on Instagram, it’s easy to look at this lifestyle through a romanticized filter. No one would say that the homesteading life is 100% glamorous, but it’s hard to fully grasp the weight of the difficult moments until you are in them. Ash of Turner Farm wrote a beautiful article for Homestead Mamas on this very topic, so I’m excited to bring her on the podcast to dive deeper into this conversation. Ash shares about the ups and downs of starting and growing her homestead from scratch— everything from losing newborn livestock to milking her cow in a field under a beautiful sunset. Whether you are dreaming of starting a homestead or you are already in the trenches, may this episode inform and encourage you about the challenges and blessings of this lifestyle.

In this episode, we cover:

How most of us aren’t prepared to experience the hard parts of homesteading until we get there
Some of the challenges that come with livestock births and deaths on the homestead
The surprising moments of beauty that make homesteading worth it
How you can start a homestead with modest resources
Stories of different animals’ fencing needs
Does homesteading truly save you money on food?
Why you might want to wean a calf from its mother
The best ways to learn about homesteading if you don’t have a background in it
Why now is the perfect time to start homesteading
Ash’s favorite sourdough recipes and what she is currently experimenting with in her kitchen

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the simple farmhouse life podcast. Today, I am in between going to the county fair
0:07.2	So this morning we went to the fair. We're going back this afternoon
0:10.0	Luke's there with the oldest four. I'm here at the younger three
0:13.5	During this conversation
0:15.5	Definitely had some issues with kids not wanting to take their naps
0:18.7	So bear with me as we try to get through that and some technical difficulties
0:24.1	This discussion is going to be worth the listen even still
0:27.8	I am chatting with Ashley Turner from on Instagram. She's at Turner period farm
0:34.3	We are going to be chatting about homesteading misconception. So things maybe you thought before you got into homesteading
0:41.9	That we're a little bit different than you expected or things that maybe you're still thinking about homesteading
0:47.5	Some of the things that maybe are
0:50.3	Misconceptions she and her husband have a homestead in Nova Scotia
0:55.1	They raise beef they have chickens garden all that good stuff. So she's going to be sharing a lot of her wisdom there
1:00.0	She also shares
1:02.0	Really beautiful sourdough content. So if you like me are obsessed with sourdough
1:06.1	I love watching sourdough reels Instagram totally knows what I'm into because when I press that little search button
1:11.9	All it is is people like stretching and folding dough and doing all kinds of beautiful things her account is one of my favorites for that
1:19.8	You'll be so inspired with so many different ideas for things to do with sourdough from
1:24.7	Chocolate bread to what was she telling me?
1:27.6	Lindor chocolate bread that she did amazing. So anyways join us for this discussion. It's going to be a really good one
1:34.0	My name is Lisa mother of seven in creator of the blog and YouTube channel farmhouse on boom join me as I share with you
1:41.0	My love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way
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