One of the questions I get most often is like how do I start this homestead thing?

I'm not going to move to Wyoming like you did

So what do I do? And I always start with the food. I especially love growing something

It could be a tiny garden in your backyard

It could be our garden on the windowsill if you live in an apartment

You could put some stuff on your balcony if you have one because just the mere act of growing something of

Creating a deeper relationship with nature of getting your hands in soil. It does something for us as humans

It changes us and I feel like if I can just get people to take that first step

Then I know nature does the rest this collection of skills and just this way of moving through life is really important

It carries a lot of the pieces that keep us human that keep us content that keep us mentally healthy

We got to have a way to weave these pieces back into everyone's life regardless of if they live on acreage or not

So have you ever wondered about just kind of running away from a lot of the madness and the complexity and the

pace and the grind and the hyper connectedness of quote modern life and finding a simpler

More ease-filled option or wonder what living a truly connected grounded meaningful life in this modern high-speed world

Really looks like or had a buck convention and

Expectations and find true contentment outside of societies prescribed paths

Well, my guest today Jill when you're did exactly that and her unplanned journey into the world of

What she calls modern home-steading it not only changed her life

It touched a nerve when she started sharing it and sparked a movement guiding thousands back to their roots

Jill has become a leading voice in modern home-steading

She describes what that is in our conversation bringing together the wisdom of rural farm life and old-fashioned

Approaches to work and life with a modern context and tools and applications to really help us

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