216. Grow a Year’s Worth of Food on a Small Homestead | Michelle Knox of More Than Farmers

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

You can accomplish a lot more on a small homestead than you think! I have had many guests on the podcast testify to this fact with the incredible ways they use their homesteads to produce surprising amounts of food. In this episode, Michelle is sharing how she and her family produce approximately 75% of their food from their five and a half acre homestead. She walks us through how to choose what crops you will produce and how to preserve them all while avoiding feelings of overwhelm and burnout. Join us for this practical conversation!

In this episode, we cover:

Swaps you can make when you are trying to minimize shopping at the grocery store
Changing your strategy from year to year as you grow your family’s food
Deciding what your staple crops will be in your climate
Finding the best method of preservation for your produce
Creating a meal plan that fits with what you grow and preserve
A simple approach to garden planning for a year’s worth of food
What to grow in a raised bed and what to grow in the ground
Practical strategies for avoiding or recovering from burnout
Minimizing your stressors by simplifying your home
The power of involving your kids in the garden and homestead projects

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ABOUT MICHELLE

Michelle is a homesteader, avid gardener, content creator, and homeschooling mom of 4. She and her husband, Codi, grow and raise a large percentage of the food they eat on their 5 ½ acre homestead in Ohio. Michelle and Codi have a passion for educating people on how to be efficient and avoid stress and burnout on the homestead.

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Strategies to Grow an Entire Year’s Worth of Food on a Small Homestead

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Transcript

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0:00.0	People ask, oh, how much should we grow of this specific thing?
0:03.7	There's so many different variables.
0:05.1	Like the weather is going to be different, different years.
0:08.5	The soil health, there's different varieties that you can grow.
0:11.8	Some will bear more than others.
0:13.5	Whether or not you prune and make the most of what you have,
0:16.8	how much you fertilize, if you trellis things,
0:19.0	there's so many different variables.
0:20.6	We just grow
0:23.2	things are going to be so different. I like to just grow more than I think I need and
0:28.0	often then one thing will do really well and then other things won't do quite as well.
0:33.0	My name is Lisa, mother of 8 and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farm House on Boone.
0:39.0	Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and
0:44.7	entrepreneur life along the way.
0:46.5	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast. Today we're going to be
0:57.0	chatting with Michelle Knox of the More Than Farmers YouTube channel. I was inspired when I came across a video that she
1:04.8	and her husband did that is called strategies to grow an entire year's worth of
1:10.0	food from a small homestead. I thought that it was very well presented in the way
1:15.1	they shared the things that they do differently in upcoming years, the failures
1:19.2	from the first couple of years of starting it, priority crops, priority foods to raise and grow. I have my baby waking up and I want to
1:28.2	chat with her about that. They're very knowledgeable and I think they can inspire a lot of you.
1:33.0	All right, so let's dive into this interview.
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