1KHO 538: You Can Change Everything in Three Years | Janelle Anderson, The Haven Farmstead

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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What if your whole life looked different just three years from now? In this moving episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, host Ginny Yurich sits down with Janelle Anderson of The Haven Farmstead to share an extraordinary story of family, faith, and legacy. Janelle and her husband left behind their cattle ranch in North Dakota, sold nearly everything, and started over on raw land in Tennessee—with no power, no water, and a dream of raising their children with intention. What they’ve built in under three years is nothing short of remarkable. This episode is a tribute to generational resilience and bold obedience. Janelle shares how childhood lessons became lifelines, how cheese-making became ministry, and how being “forced to wait” in daily tasks invites real rest. If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s too late—or too crazy—to change your life, this conversation will light a fire in your heart. Visit The Haven Farmstead, tune in to The Farmstead Revival Podcast, and explore the Homestead Hive to learn more. Let this episode remind you: the seeds you plant today may grow faster—and wilder—than you think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Yeritam the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.
0:35.2	And I have a new friend with me today. We met at the Homestead Festival in Column. It was in Columbia. No, it wasn't. Yes. Yeah, no, you're right. Columbia, Tennessee. It was so cool. Janelle Anderson, welcome. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. This is awesome. So you have, okay, it's called the Haven Farmstead. But what's really interesting to me about your story, Janelle, is I think a lot of people's
0:59.0	stories about homesteading.
1:01.1	They move from the city or they were in the suburbs and they go and they don't have any experience
1:06.4	and they're kind of getting their feet wet with it and they're kicking off their homestead. But you've got a unique
1:12.2	story because you actually have some of this in your roots and so does your husband. And what it
1:16.8	makes me think about is what a gift that is generationally. Like if you start now, then your kids
1:23.6	would be like you and Ben where you have some of that already in your lineage and it's not so
1:28.3	foreign. Yeah. And as we're talking about it, here's your mom in the background doing something
1:33.7	with your milk. Thanks, mom. This is a legacy that can be passed along. So can you just give us a little bit
1:39.9	of that story? Because I think it gives people a vision for trying something that's hard and new.
1:45.2	Yeah. So for myself personally, I grew up in rural Wisconsin. I mean, we lived in the city for a
1:49.3	little bit, but when I was very young, we moved out to the country. And I tell people all the time,
1:54.7	like what we were doing there, what my parents were doing, what my dad was really focused on,
2:00.2	we would have been called homesteaders now today.
2:03.1	But we were just living country or living rural.
2:05.8	We hunted a lot for our food.
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