200. Candid Chat with Essentially Erin: Moving Across the Country to Start a Homestead + Why We Love Home Birth

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Erin is a mother of six, new homesteader, retired nurse, and guru on all things natural health and wellness. You may know her from Instagram which is her main platform for sharing information and resources to empower and educate mothers. We sat down and answered some of your questions about their journey from California to Tennessee to find freedom, how they got their homestead off the ground, and how Erin is preparing for her fifth home birth. If any of these motherhood topics interest you, join us for this fun conversation!

In this episode, we cover:

What led Erin and her family to leave California and begin their Tennessee homestead
The characteristics that make Tennessee a great place to homestead
How Erin jumped into the homesteading life quicker than she expected
Some of the challenges of being a brand new dairy cow owner
Identifying your priorities and navigating the limitations that come along with homesteading
Breaking down common misconceptions about the safety and risks of homebirth
Discussing mindset and preparation in the last weeks of pregnancy

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ABOUT ERIN

Erin is a registered nurse, wife, and mother to 5 (4 bio + 1 step) children, and currently pregnant with her fifth baby. Her and her family moved from California to Tennessee in 2020 in search of a life that would lend to more self sufficiency. Erin isn’t afraid to take on new challenges and loves to travel and adventure with her family. She talks and educates authentically online about life, motherhood, health and wellness, birth, and her journey as a new homesteader.

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0:00.0	I think especially as a nurse because I have seen birth in the hospital that really influenced
0:05.1	my decision.
0:06.1	Not that those experiences weren't beautiful.
0:09.0	Anytime a life is created and born, it's like the most amazing thing.
0:13.1	But I did feel like it was just conveyor belt of like women going in and having this
0:18.2	same experience and it was medicalized.
0:20.5	There were lots of interventions that I didn't feel like needed to be done.
0:23.5	And I just remember thinking like I want to experience it as I was created to like as
0:29.1	my body was made to experience it.
0:30.9	I want to experience birth that way.
0:32.9	And I just had this desire to know what that was like.
0:35.5	This peaceful way that we were intended to birth.
0:38.4	I just knew home was my best shot at that.
0:40.9	My name is Lisa, mother of seven, and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse
0:45.7	On Boom.
0:46.7	Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little
0:51.4	mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
0:59.3	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast today.
1:02.9	I am having on Aaron, she shares over on essentially Aaron on Instagram natural living content
1:10.0	like raw milk home birth, all of those things that we talk about a lot on this podcast.
1:16.1	She's also pregnant with her fifth and I don't remember when this one's coming out.
1:20.9	So maybe she's had the baby and I'm pregnant with my baby as well.
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