Homestead Chatting with Morgan Gold

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hey y’all, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge Podcast!

Today, I’m joined by my dear friend Morgan Gold of Gold Shaw Farm for an honest and fun conversation about homesteading—the dream, the reality, and everything in between. Morgan and I started our homesteading journeys around the same time and have been good friends ever since starting YouTube. Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about what works, what doesn’t, and the importance of staying flexible as life changes.

In this episode, we talk about the biggest surprises of homesteading, scaling up (and scaling back), and learning to prioritize what truly brings joy on the homestead. We also chat about Morgan’s unexpected love for goats (despite swearing he’d never get them), the importance of knowing your “why,” and how to avoid getting swept up in doing too much, too fast.

Whether you're just dreaming of a homestead, knee-deep in farm chores, or somewhere in between, we hope this conversation reminds you that there’s no one right way to do this life. It’s about finding what works for you, embracing the process, and making space for the things that truly matter.

Thanks for being here—we’re so glad to share this journey with you! 🌱💛

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Sauerz. My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too.
0:13.7	And here on my podcast, we talk about all things, homesteading, growing food, by raising animals, growing gardens, enjoying that food, preserving it, preparing it,
0:22.9	and just trying to live a little more mindfully with each other and with the earth.
0:27.9	Today I have a very special guest with me.
0:32.7	I like to tell you where I'm coming from.
0:34.9	We're on the farm right now on a beautiful late winter South Carolina Day, which I think for you is maybe...
0:42.8	It's a bit different than what I left when I came down here.
0:46.3	So you left Vermont and left three feet of snow on your pastures and snow banks that were taller than you.
0:56.8	And flew down here, flew south for the winter well for a few days exactly a little break uh if you guys have not met my very dear friend
1:05.2	morgan gold let me introduce him uh Morgan gold of Goldshaw Farm, I guess most notably, but Morgan and I became friends
1:17.0	really kind of at the beginning of content creation for me, that first year. Me too. I mean,
1:22.8	it was my first year or two on the farm. Kind of off together and you know at the same time and have
1:28.6	really been friends over all of these years and that's developed into just a really sweet thing so
1:34.4	thanks for coming to visit us it was nice to be able to fly south i mean you came up i guess it was
1:38.8	september was the last podcast that we did together too was then and so yeah now here it is
1:43.2	february down here yeah and interestingly
1:45.8	I came home from Vermont when I was up there for homesteaders of New England and I took a little
1:51.6	detour and spent a couple days at Morgan's farm and that week I put my buck in with my doze and this week
2:00.0	Morgan was coming and I was so hoping that the doze would hold
2:03.9	out so we've had two kids born while you're here I mean the first one came within I think about
2:09.3	15 minutes of me arrived yes I got my wish I was like hold out for Morgan to get here
2:14.1	they did and we have another one we're watching very closely. I would be
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