The Worst Case Scenerio (A talk about sustainability)

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Hey, y'all! Join me for episode 51 of the Roots and Refuge Podcast.

Don't let the title fool you; this isn't a scary talk. I love to challenge myself and grow. I'm always looking for ways to make steps towards better. Today, I'm talking about what it actually looks like to grow your own food sustainably. What does it really look like? Can we honestly assess our dependence and think about it practically?

In today's podcast, we delve into the resources it can take to become self-sufficient and the importance of being a long-term thinker.

We also explore the reality of cultural roadblocks to living a homesteading life and we trace the origins of the sustainability or back-to-the-land movement. Today you'll also gain insight into the historical context of my interest in food growing self-sufficiency and the wisdom of learning from human history.

We touch on worst-case scenario thinking, envisioning what a sustainable chicken operation could look like on our farm, and exploring the details of a sustainable beef, dairy, & pork operation. We emphasize responsible stewardship, discuss the concept of community sufficiency vs. self-sufficiency, and share thoughts on sustainable gardening, including improving soil health. Ultimately, we're here today to reflect on symbiotic relationships, doing what we can where we are, and regoznizing that there is good, better, and best in everything we do. You'll also discover my next goal to learn to be more sustainable in our household.

Thanks so much for listening. If you’d like to join our Patreon page, you can get early access to all our podcast episodes and monthly live Q&As with Miah and me (including past lives). Visit our Patreon Page to learn more and check out past episodes of the podcast on our website, rootsandrefuge.com.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Sowers. My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too. And here on my podcast, we talk about all things homesteading, growing food by raising animals, growing gardens, preserving that food, preparing it, enjoying it, sharing it, and overall just trying to live a little more mindfully in relationship with each other and with the earth.
0:22.1	We release new episodes every Wednesday on all the mainstreaming platforms and a week
0:28.6	early on our Patreon.
0:30.8	So if you like an extra podcast episode, you can hop over there and get the most recent one.
0:36.0	And of course, a huge thank you to our patrons for getting
0:39.2	behind us and helping support us do what we do, as well as all of you have been buying coffee and
0:45.0	loose leaf teas from our new company, Beulah Roasting Co. I'll put the links for those things in the
0:52.1	show description for Patreon as well as Bula. And you can always find
0:56.0	tons of free content at Roots and Refuge on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, as well as Roots and
1:00.5	refuge.com. So today I want to hop in to the subject that I'd like to discuss with you, which is a
1:06.3	big, broad one that gets talked about a lot, and that is sustainability and self-sufficiency. And these
1:13.5	terms get thrown around so much by people who have, you know, a vague idea of wanting to
1:19.6	homestead. And of course, as people get into it, people very loosely and casually use the
1:25.3	term sustainability and self-sufficiency.
1:28.4	And today I'd like to have a discussion kind of sharing some of my thoughts.
1:32.6	I don't necessarily have a one, two, three, ABC point to make or instruction to give you.
1:37.8	But I do think that there are some good topics here you could put in your thinker and come to your own conclusions.
1:43.5	They may be different than mine. That's fine. But I do think that these are things that we should talk about.
1:48.5	So there's kind of like an evolution of a person who is wanting to grow their own food. And I'm
1:53.8	speaking from a place of having been in this movement really for the last 15 years heavily, really dreaming about it maybe
2:04.3	ignorantly for years before that. And by ignorant, I mean, I just wasn't educated. I just didn't
2:08.9	have a lot of knowledge. I think we think the word ignorant is such an insult, but sometimes it's
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