623. Soil, Sovereignty, & Sacred Self-Reliance: Accelerate Your Homesteading Journey w/ Curtis Stone
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 121 minutes
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It’s time to dig into one of my favorite topics: true independence and off-grid living. Curtis Stone is a renowned small-farm educator and author of The Urban Farmer who has built a thriving 40-acre homestead in British Columbia. We trace his journey from punk-rock musician to urban farmer, and how a brutal winter storm in Montreal sparked the realization of just how fragile our modern systems are.
Curtis also gets into the realities of homesteading: what it takes to live seasonally on the land, why fencing and livestock dogs are non-negotiable, how to protect against fire, and the importance of building community with your neighbors. Visit lukestorey.com/startfarming and use the code LUKE to get 50% off your first month of the Freedom Farmers Pro membership.
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MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
(00:00:00) From Punk Rocker to Urban Farmer to Homesteader
(00:12:26) How to Choose Land Like a Pro
(00:39:14) Wildlife, Fencing, & Powering the Homestead
(00:56:41) A Realistic Path to Food Independence
(01:10:00) Going Off-Grid While Being EMF-Aware
(01:33:43) Walking Through Grief With Courage
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| 0:00.0 | why we have to pay to exist on the planet. |
| 0:03.8 | And I always think about wildlife, right? |
| 0:06.0 | You look at a deer, you look at a bear. |
| 0:08.0 | Every other animal just like exists. |
| 0:10.1 | They travel where they want to. |
| 0:11.4 | And somehow we have this superimposed matrix system |
| 0:14.9 | that not only controls us, |
| 0:17.4 | but also embeds scarcity into our psyche. |
| 0:21.1 | The system wants you just to think it's all money, but it's actually your experiences, your knowledge, your spiritual capital, cultural capital, all these things. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm living off-grid on 40 acres and doing all the things that I dreamt about for a long time. |
| 0:32.6 | You have the key ingredient, I think, which is independence and freedom. |
| 0:36.6 | I spend most of my time surrounded by God's creation, not man's creation. |
| 0:40.3 | It's almost like I'm in a constant state of meditation. |
| 0:42.3 | My kids are barefoot outside, day in and day out. |
| 0:45.3 | What are some of the things you would look for in land in terms of sun exposure, |
| 0:50.3 | water, the availability of soil, like what are some of the key points. |
| 1:00.7 | All right, Curtis Stone. |
| 1:02.9 | There we go, brother. |
| 1:04.2 | So many things I want to talk to you about today. |
| 1:06.3 | I think top of mind is your area of expertise, homesteading, living off-grid. I've seen a rise in |
| 1:14.4 | the popularity of this way of life in recent years for obvious reasons. People, I think, are starting to |
| 1:20.0 | understand that dependency on the state means you get state privileges and therefore fewer rights. |
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