Confessions of a former homesteader
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Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever daydreamed about leaving your office job, moving to the countryside, and living off the land? In 2008, Laura Griggs and her husband did just that: they moved to a small farm in rural Missouri and raised their family there for nearly a decade. Reema talks with Laura about the real cost of homesteading, and why she ultimately had to leave it behind.
And later in the episode, we’ve got another edition of Alice Gets Her Life Together, where producer Alice Wilder shuts down a high-interest credit card and learns why it’s so easy to get into debt.
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| 0:54.8 | The kids loved running around outside and pitching fireflies, but that's all of the existence |
| 1:00.2 | you can afford. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm Rie Mechres and welcome to This Is Uncomfortable, the weekly show from Marketplace about life |
| 1:07.0 | and how money messes with it. |
| 1:09.0 | I think a lot of us have had this fantasy at some point. |
| 1:12.5 | You know, what if we just left? Bought a piece of land, grew our own food, lived a slower, |
| 1:17.9 | more intentional life, or we're not constantly worrying about money or work. I daydream about |
| 1:22.9 | this all the time with friends. It's a fun thing to imagine. But recently, I met someone who actually tried it. |
| 1:29.4 | This week, I'm talking with Laura Griggs, who set out to build a life off the grid. |
| 1:34.4 | In hearing her story, it made me rethink what it takes to make that kind of life work, |
| 1:39.1 | especially when things don't go as planned. And then later in the episode, I check in with our |
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