215. Suburban Homesteading + Backyard Beekeeping | Katie Brandt of Sweetgum Spot

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

I hear from many of you who are dreaming of life on a homestead, but you are currently living in the suburbs. While it can be discouraging to search and wait for that dream property, there is so much you can do in the backyard of your neighborhood lot. Join me in listening to Katie’s story about making the most of where you are. Katie now helps other homestead dreamers begin their homesteading endeavors no matter how small their property.

In this episode, we cover:

How Katie began homesteading using only her balcony
Why beekeeping should be the gateway venture for homesteaders
Getting started raising meat rabbits in your backyard
A cost breakdown for raising meat rabbits
An argument for being involved in the raising and processing of the meat you consume
What benefit is there to keeping bees on your homestead?
Issues to watch out for in your bee hives
Navigating hive swarming and splitting
How much honey do beehives produce?
Is beekeeping safe? How often do you get stung?
How to get plugged in to your local beekeeping community and find a mentor
All about the helpful resource Katie has created to help you get started with beekeeping

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0:00.0	We kind of had had enough of waiting and so we decided to just start where we were even if that was just a garden with three beds
0:06.4	Started learning how to bake bread preserve and can we decided to get our first time of backyard bees because we're not allowed to have chickens in our
0:14.6	HOA and I know that's everyone's go-to whenever you first had homesteading.
0:18.9	Bees it turns out are actually protected by the law in almost every state I believe even if your neighbors are
0:25.0	grumpy they can't do anything about it I think they should be the true gateway
0:28.5	to homesteading because you can't get turned down my name name is Lisa, mother of 8, and creator of the blog and YouTube channel
0:36.2	Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking
0:42.0	and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
0:47.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast. Today we are going to be chatting with
0:56.6	Katie Brant from Sweet Gum Spot, all things suburban homesteading.
1:03.0	She has really figured out how to turn about a quarter acre, I believe she said,
1:08.0	of land right in town, right in a subdivision, or I'm not exactly sure where she's. I think she said a subdivision or I'm not exactly sure where she is I think she said a subdivision
1:15.2	into a profitable home said that they can actually harvest meat from honey
1:20.3	garden vegetables she has taken such a small amount of space and turned it into something that really serves her family, which so many of us want to do, but feel like we really have to wait until we can afford larger land or get out of an HOA.
1:37.4	We're going to be talking about all that because she actually has an HOA and has figured
1:41.0	out things that she can raise that don't really violate that.
1:45.8	So without further ado, let's jump into this very inspiring interview.
1:50.5	Katie, thank you so much for joining us and sharing your knowledge on beekeeping and
1:56.9	suburban or urban homesteading, however you want to look at it.
1:59.9	A lot of people have the dream of wanting to have a homestead.
2:04.3	And so this topic is really near and dear to my heart because I feel like I was a homestead
2:08.4	or long before we moved to an actual homestead with acreage. And so many people can have that and they feel like they can't.
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