188. You Can Become a Stay-at-Home Homesteading Mama | Katie of Lost Oak Sheep Farm

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

I hear from countless women who have a dream of starting a homestead and making it their full-time lifestyle. Katie of Lost Oak Sheep Farm had the same dream, and she put her nose to the grindstone to make it a reality. In our conversation, we talk through what it looked like for Katie to leave her full-time career as a teacher and begin her life as a stay-at-home homesteading mama raising sheep with a baby strapped to her back. Whether the homesteading lifestyle seems like a far-off dream or it is your current reality, I know this chat with Katie will inspire you with what is possible!

In this episode, we cover:

Why Katie decided to go full-time in raising sheep on her farm
How Katie’s efforts to save her household money turned into homesteading
The reality of what it looks like to go from two full-time incomes down to one
How to make money raising sheep
Navigating work on a homestead with young kids in tow
Adjusting to a new definition of productivity as a stay-at-home mom
How to start a homesteading journey if you don’t have a lot of land
Embracing the learning curve of homesteading skills
Using the skills from your education or career to serve you in your role at home
Addressing the financial concerns around transitioning from a career to home
Adapting to each new season and challenge life brings
How many acres do you need to raise sheep?

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ABOUT KATIE

Katie is a homesteading wife, mama, and shepherdess who spends her days raising lambs, growing cut flowers, working on farm projects, preserving garden food, and trying to glorify the Lord through it all. Tapping into those skills of self sufficiency allowed her to step away from her career and into the role of a stay-at-home farm mom. As a former teacher, she now hopes to teach and encourage others to pursue the simple life.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast. Today, I'm going to be chatting with Katie from
0:06.9	Lost Oak Farm. If you've ever wanted to start a homestead or you've had some dream of starting a
0:13.6	homestead, which I think a lot of people in the listenership really has, but felt like, okay,
0:19.6	is it the right time? I have small children, which how am I supposed to do this with small children?
0:23.9	Or I have a full-time job. Katie has been there. She quit her job. She started a farm and has these
0:32.8	two small children along the way that she is doing all of this with. So she has a lot of inspiration
0:39.0	to share. If that is the situation that you're in, I think you will be intrigued with this. And
0:43.6	even if you're not, or you've already had a farm for a long time, I still think that there's lots
0:48.2	of nuggets to glean from this episode. My name is Lisa, mother of seven,
0:54.0	and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love
0:59.2	for creating a handmade home from scratch, cooking, and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
1:10.5	Well, thank you so much, Katie, for joining me. I know that my listeners are really going to
1:14.8	enjoy hearing your story in a nutshell. And I'm going to have you majorly like go into this.
1:20.7	You went from being a teacher to coming home and home studying. And we have so many questions
1:26.5	about that. Like what did you do about the loss of income? And how did you even begin? It's a very
1:32.0	unique story, but it's also very aspirational. A lot of people want to do something like that.
1:37.3	So yeah, let's introduce yourself and tell us about you, your family, your business, and your
1:42.8	homestead. Yeah, of course. Thank you so much for having me on. So as you said, my name is Katie.
1:48.3	My husband and my two little boys and we raise hair sheep in Kentucky. That's the primary thing
1:53.5	that we do. My oldest is two and a half. And my youngest is just seven months old. So it's very
1:59.5	entertaining around here. But my husband and I were both involved in agriculture from a very young
2:06.2	age. So he was raised around beef cattle and tobacco. My family also raised tobacco and horses.
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