You're listening to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast, where ambitious people master the art of returning to their roots.

Have you found yourself disenchanted with society or wishing you could

opt out of the rat race? Perhaps you're craving a life that's meaningful and tangible,

a life where you can create and produce instead of merely consume.

I'm Jill Winger, best-selling author and longtime homesteader.

Over the last 10 years, I've helped thousands of families create more connection, grow amazing organic food, and find the ultimate fulfillment through an old-fashioned lifestyle.

And I can do the same for you. Now on to our episode.

We are officially into my favorite part of the story. In today's episode I'm going to introduce you to the impulse by of a lifetime and how we went against our friends advice to run the other direction as fast as you can and ended up with the saddest little tumble-down farmstead that you ever did see.

So there we were in our single wide trailer and the cool thing about that trailer like I mentioned in the last episode is that the rent

was dirt cheap because it was a trailer and it was in this little town that no one wanted to live in so it was perfect and paying that cheap rent allowed us to put a big chunk of our incomes into savings. So we had

squirled away enough for a down payment on our first house. And so Christian and I

knew I think we'd been in the trailer for close to two years after we got married.

And we had our little dogs, our little garden and our goose.

We had a goose. And we were starting to feel this urge to start looking for our first home.

And what kind of started that I remember we had some friends that were going to our church at the time and

We went to have supper at their house and they had purchased this this old farm and it had old barns and silos and it was this teeny little house that they were fixing up and it was so cozy and so sweet and so special and they walked us around and showed us their projects and their dreams

and we're gonna do this here and we're gonna build that here and here's my garden

and I was just so enthralled with this idea and I think you know they didn't call it homesteading they

didn't I don't even think they knew what homesteading was but just this lifestyle they were

living which was so simple and so sweet I just was like I I want this so badly and so

looking back now I can see these little seeds of the homesteading life that were

in me and were germinating, but I still didn't know what to call them.

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