The Farmhouse Edit: Real Food, Real Life: Homesteading & Motherhood with Meg of Hollar Homestead
Simple Farmhouse Life
Lisa Bass
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m joined by Meg of Hollar Homestead to talk about what it really looks like to raise a large family on a homestead. From cooking from scratch and homeschooling rhythms to livestock management and letting go of perfection, Meg offers a refreshingly honest take on simple, intentional living.
We are diving into:
- Starting a homestead with pigs and raised beds
- Stepping away from dairy cows (for now)
- Nourishing meals for large families
- Letting kids cook and carry the load
- Emergency prep after Hurricane Helene
- Encouragement for moms in busy seasons
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| 0:00.0 | Having, like you said, like a handful of meals that you can pull out on any of those certain occasions, it is from scratch, but it's not going to impress anyone. I think people take from scratch and they take it to mean it has to be way more than it even is. And then also, there's definitely something to be said for getting good at something. If you make bread, you've made it hundreds of times. It's not even hard. It's not something you have to think about. That's a really good advice. It's just finding a couple things that you can really focus on and become really good at. So when it comes to the point where you're just tired or whatever, you can just throw it together. My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. On this podcast, |
| 0:38.0 | I like to talk about simplifying your life so you can live out your priorities. I help you learn |
| 0:42.3 | how to cook from scratch and decorate on a budget through this podcast and my courses simple sourdough |
| 0:47.5 | in the simple sewing series. I also help people reach their goals from home through my business |
| 0:52.3 | course in YouTube Success Academy. I will leave links to these resources in the show notes and description box below. |
| 0:57.7 | Now let's get into the show. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | Today I'm having on Meg Holler of Holler Homestead. |
| 1:10.1 | She came on about a year ago and we talked about the |
| 1:12.7 | homestead, about getting it all done as a mom. I believe we talked about some pregnancy and |
| 1:17.6 | postpartum stuff as she was about to be expecting their sixth child. Well, today we're going to have a |
| 1:23.0 | similar conversation. A lot of you wanted to hear from Meg again. A lot of you follow her over on |
| 1:28.0 | YouTube and wanted her perspective on cooking from scratch, managing a large family, homesteading. |
| 1:34.5 | So I think that if you like those topics and you want to be encouraged by those topics, you're |
| 1:38.7 | going to really like this episode. Meg, welcome back on. A lot of people put in your name as a request. They wanted to hear from you. I told some of them she's been on, but we will do another episode. So there's a lot of audience questions, a lot of requests for you. So I don't remember when you were last on. I should have looked this up. But what is new in your world since then? I feel like you either had a brand new baby or you were pregnant. |
| 2:04.1 | Am I correct? |
| 2:04.6 | I was pregnant. |
| 2:05.7 | Yes. |
| 2:06.0 | Okay. |
| 2:07.5 | Yeah, I thought that was like something very imminent. |
| 2:10.5 | So how long ago was that? |
| 2:11.4 | You would know then. |
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