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Roots and Refuge Podcast

What is a Homesteader?

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5646 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Hey, y'all! Welcome to episode thirteen of the Roots and Refuge Podcast. Today I’m going to be answering the question, "What is a homesteader?"

Homesteading looks different for all of us and we're all at different stages in our journey. I have a very deep-rooted belief that we can all turn our waiting room into a classroom.

This can apply to anything! If you have a dream in your heart, the very best way you can steward that dream and that promise is to do everything within your capacity, where you are, to receive the fulfillment of that promise.

Don't give up when it gets hard, or when mistakes are made. That will come, it's inevitable with growth.

Please, just know that I am proud of you, I am rooting for you, and I am here for you, cheering you along each step of your journey!

For more information and any links mentioned, visit the blog post here. Or to join our Patreon to get early access to all our podcast episodes, monthly live videos with me and Miah (including past lives), and to be entered into a drawing to win a trip to Roots and Refuge farm, visit our Patreon Page.

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For past episodes of the podcast, visit the podcast page on our website Roots and Refuge.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast here at Roots and Refuge Farm. My name is Jessica

0:09.7

Sowers. I'm your host. My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too. My husband,

0:14.1

Jeremiah and I have been homesteading here on 27 acres in the Midlands of South Carolina

0:18.1

and sharing our journey through homesteading on social media

0:21.4

over the last 10 years. We grow a substantial amount of our food and here on our podcast we share

0:26.5

all about the homesteading life, gardening, raising animals, raising children, and trying to do all of

0:31.7

this in a mindful way. Today I want to take on a really broad topic and I hope to leave you with some inspiration and some hope in regards to growing your own food and food security.

0:43.3

The question that I want to answer today is what it really means to be a homesteader.

0:50.3

So my story is that I had a lifelong dream of having a farm.

0:56.8

It started when I was really little.

0:58.9

It was a very romantic notion.

1:00.6

My favorite children's books were about the barn cat and about the little calf that was born in the springtime.

1:06.6

And I had this very romantic idea of what farm life would be.

1:11.8

I imagine the big red barn and the beautiful neat garden rows

1:14.9

and having a life that was completely intertwined with animals.

1:18.9

And I didn't grow out of it.

1:20.0

I like to joke that when all my peers were pledging sororities,

1:23.0

I was reading books about goat husbandry.

1:25.4

I was completely obsessed with having a farm. And that sort of

1:30.5

caught fire to a new level when my second son Asher was born and had really serious allergies.

1:37.6

And I had to start reading food labels in order to breastfeed him. And that was extremely eye-opening

1:44.0

to the brokenness of our food system. I was like,

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