Social Media and the Modern Homesteader (#2)

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode two of the Roots and Refuge Podcast. If you're new here, I'm so glad you're here. And if you've been with us for a while, I'm so glad you're here, too!

One of the unique things about being a content creator is that I'm much more exposed to the outside world than I ever was before I started doing YouTube.

I hear stories from people all over the world that help encourage me, open my eyes, and give me hope. But on the flip side, I also have to be sure to take a break from social media from time to time as there's also a dark side to it all. The opinions, judgment, and overall loud voices of others can be great and positive, but they can also bring weariness. So there's a unique balance that must be struck in it all.

Join me in this podcast as I discuss what it's like being a content creator as well as what a modern homesteader means to me. For more information, visit the accompanying blog post to this podcast here.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast here at Roots and Refuge Farm. My name is Jessica Sowers. If you are brand
0:12.0	new here, I'm so glad you're here. And if you're not, I'm also glad you're here. My husband,
0:16.3	Jeremiah and I are homesteading on 27 acres in the Midlands of South Carolina.
0:27.1	We took the leap and moved out of the city onto a small farm in Arkansas about 10 years ago and recently relocated out to South Carolina for a big expansion, bought some raw land,
0:32.1	and have been developing it, putting our experience into play and making, I think, better decisions from the
0:39.5	beginning on this farm just from knowing what to do. I shared more about that journey in the last
0:44.8	episode of this podcast. So if you want to go back and check that out, it is available. And we will
0:50.2	be posting these regularly, talking about different things that pertain to the homesteading world,
0:55.7	kind of having a place to wax poetic, I guess.
0:58.2	You know, I like language.
1:00.1	Today, though, I wanted to talk about a topic that I think is very relevant for many people
1:05.5	who are going to be listening to this.
1:07.1	It's certainly a relevant thing that I've had to learn to navigate.
1:12.4	The topic is the place for social media in the world of the modern homesteader. So it's weird for me personally. I am on one
1:20.4	hand a homesteader. I love growing food, the slow life, the simple way doing things back to the land.
1:28.9	I just love the romance of it.
1:31.2	I love the simplicity of it and the sureness, the cyclical nature of the homestead.
1:39.3	I love the way that seasons come and go.
1:41.4	And there's something just so black and white cause and effect
1:47.3	um about a farm you plant a seed you get a harvest you don't plant a seed you don't get a harvest
1:53.0	um in raising animals just getting back to the very basic necessities of what it takes for us to live as humans.
2:02.6	It is extremely grounding, and that has been so valuable to me.
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