Hey you guys, it's Carolyn from homesteading family. Now I've been preserving food for almost two decades,

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Hey, you guys, this is Josh and Carolyn with homesteading family and welcome to this week's

episode of the pantry chat food for thought. This week we're talking about seven reasons

you should be homesteading. And we're drawing on these from Joel Salatin's new book,

Homestead Sonami. If you guys haven't seen this book, you really

need to check it out. We'll talk a little bit more about it. And these are the seven of the heavies,

but they're things we need to stop and think about for a moment once in a while. You guys know

us, if you've been following us for a while, you know that we're usually solutions-oriented.

We don't like to spend too much time poking around the problems, right?

It's like, you just have to watch the news for that. You've got to, you get a lot. But it is important

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