226. Can Anyone Be a Homesteader? Making Room for Homesteading in Your Busy Life | Beth Declercq of Intentional Homesteading

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

You want to start homesteading, but you can’t imagine how you will fit it into your full life. Do homesteaders do farm chores from sunup to sundown? Do you have to stay home full-time to start homesteading? The feelings of overwhelm can be paralyzing in the beginning, but Beth helps homesteaders from all walks of life create realistic goals for their homesteads so that they can start putting one foot in front of the other. In this conversation, we dive into the what, the why, and the how of Beth’s homesteading life in hopes that it will inspire you to get started wherever you are!

In this episode, we cover:

How do you “do it all” on the homestead with a large family?
Navigating a family rhythm that changes with the seasons
Thoughts on keeping dairy animals– processing milk, calf sharing, pros and cons
Best advice for getting started on a homestead when you have no background or skills in homesteading
How a desire for improved health led to a homesteading life
What motivates you to put in the hard work that a homesteading life requires?
Discerning when a homestead endeavor is not working and when it is time to move on
Adopting the appropriate mindset around the reality of farm animals vs. pets
Can you start a homestead if you can’t afford to buy heavy equipment and farm vehicles?
Prioritizing your commitments if you want to make room for homesteading in your life

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0:00.0	the best advice for somebody who's new is the number one thing they don't want to hear, but it's to just start slow.
0:06.7	If you want to do something in a sustainable way, like we had already talked about, like you have to add things little by little you have to create those
0:15.2	habits and that second nature otherwise it becomes overwhelming and you get burnt out really easily.
0:21.7	My name is Lisa mother mother of 8, and creator of the blog and
0:25.6	YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for
0:29.6	creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life
0:34.0	along the way.
0:37.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farm House Life Podcast. Today I'm having on Beth
0:45.0	de Clerk. She's on Instagram, YouTube under her name, but then also on
0:49.6	intentional homesteading.com with over a decade of homesteading experience. Seven kids, she just
0:56.7	has a lot of experience with an integrating homesteading into your family life and
1:02.1	getting started. I think she has a lot of
1:04.4	encouragement and wisdom to share so let's dive into this great conversation.
1:07.7	Beth, welcome on. I'm so glad to have you on and you're we're talking about your internet a bit and just so you know it's very normal for the homesteading guests to never have good internet so this is like par for the courts whatever I have on somebody to talk about homesteading so no worries there let's start first with
1:24.4	introductions to tell us about yourself and your homestead and what you share
1:28.3	online in a nutshell. All right well thanks for having me. I am Beth de Clerk, and I live in Mid Michigan with my husband
1:39.2	Tommy. We have seven kids, and we have a small five acre homestead that we are going into our
1:47.0	fifth summer growing here I think fifth summer but we've been homesteading at
1:52.4	like some capacity over the last
1:56.2	about 12 years or so. Nice. Okay, so seven kids, one of the most common questions I get when it comes to home setting and having eight kids is, you know, this is a loaded question, but how on earth are you able to get all of that done while also, you having the kids maybe I'm presuming you
2:15.1	probably cooks from scratch some maybe even homeschool I don't know do you what all
2:19.1	do you do and how do you get it done so we to give you kind of a overview of what we have yes lots of
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