My story: Why I ABANDONED my dreams and started homesteading to feed my family // SELF SUFFICIENCY

Homesteading was never my dream. This videos tells the story of how I made the drastic change from typical suburban housewife to processing our own pigs and everything in between. Growing food was never important to me. This was the last thing I ever imagined thatI would ever do. But one day, everything changed and so did I.

[@eduardoHMYT]

If your videos don't encourage people, certainly 7 dollar apples will!

[@MorganHillFarms]

Food is incredibly expensive and they say it may double from what it is now. Not sure where the 4% inflation number comes in!

[@midwestribeye7820]

I'm with you! I work a busy full-time job and am tired when I get home, but I'm putting in potatoes as I listen and will do chicken chores and water my seedlings afterwards. Keep up the good fight and give the rest to God. ❤🙏

[@MorganHillFarms]

I am so glad to hear that you are working to prepare even though your time is limited and you are tired. You will be so much better off in the future!

[@Boringcountrylife]

So glad to see a family jump and make the move and learn quickly. We've been in the country, growing food and encouraging others to do the same for a decade. Still breaks my heart that family members haven't left the city yet.

[@MorganHillFarms]

I am so glad we did! It was terrifying at the time, but I never imagined how good it would be. I also wish more people would start to become more self sufficient.

[@Mel-vu9ss]

Congrats for hitting 8K. I’m so glad your eyes were opened.

[@MorganHillFarms]

Thank you so much!! Me too!

[@shelbywalker9699]

My sweet sister.... We are on the same page. Thank you for showing your transformation. I am building a fruit orchard and garden in the desert. Next step... Green stalks. Different areas, same mindset.

[@MorganHillFarms]

That is wonderful to hear. The desert always seems so daunting to me but I remember when we lived in AZ, there was citrus everywhere! I wish you the best garden season yet!

[@dudeusmaximus6793]

You look at any military, and in some cases nations or empires, who's supply lines/chains are so long as to be impractical to maintain, what follows quickly is defeat or collapse. The USA is very much in that situation right now. We have traded modern convenience for the very real danger of hardship and deprivation should the assumptions our goods distribution system relies on break down. The pandemic very starkly illustrated that.

[@MorganHillFarms]

I completely agree. We need to bring manufacturing back to our soil and actually start to produce our countries necessities here. I think we could do it but it'll be a long road.

[@ssfoste]

Amazing, I have the same problem you had, no animals except horses, The most destructive environmental animal there is. I just hate where I am, and do you know we can have 1 horse per 1/4 acre. I is obscene and insane.

[@MorganHillFarms]

I feel your pain. Horses have become very much a status symbol in certain communities. It is no longer about sustainability but rather has changed to how pretty your house can look with a beautiful horse running in the front yard. So sorry you are facing this.

[@MicheleDorn-s8t]

Loved hearing your journey and watching your videos! Very inspiring! It's so good to hear stories about those of us who learned early on what was really going on.

[@MorganHillFarms]

I wish I had started sooner, but I am so glad I began to understand what was happening when I did. I would be a mess if I was only just now beginning to start on this journey:). So glad you enjoyed the video.

[@ht6684]

Those strawberries.........so awesome.

[@MorganHillFarms]

When I cleaned them in late winter they looked so sparse. I topped them with composted horse manure and WOW! they just took off:)

[@JamieSantos]

I made the mistake of not listening to God in 1986. I heard a message to take my sons out of this society or I would lose them. I did. So glad that you listened and you are giving your children the best life possible. God Bless.

[@MorganHillFarms]

Thank you! It is a constant battle with trying not to be of this world. Even with us homeschooling, my kids still have a romanticized idea of what public school is. I know they will change their thinking when they are older and wiser.

[@JamieSantos]

@@MorganHillFarms They will. You are saving them from a Spiritual death and possibly a physical one. I believed in serving one's Country so when my son said that he was going to join I thought it honorable. Little did I know we are no longer a Republic with a Constitution and that it would cost him his precious life. I pray that all mother's not make the same poor choice that I did. My nephew, raised in a very nice neighborhood in Mt. Juliet, attended private Christian school died last May from Fentanyl poisoning. He was only 24. When Jesus said that we throw our children to the wolves He was not speaking of just those ancient days. It applies to all eras. You are doing the good and right thing for them.

[@SandcastleDreams]

​@@JamieSantosWhere's that passage about throwing our children to the wolves? I haven't read that one. Sorry you lost your son. That must still be heartbreaking. You are correct that it seems as if our Constitution has been upended and rarely nowhere to be seen. The lockdowns were totally unconstitutional.

[@takeitslowhomestead5218]

Thank you for sharing your story. I often wondered how you got started. Keep up the good work of not only being a great homesteader, but also inspiring others to get going or keep going. 🌱

[@MorganHillFarms]

That is so sweet. I’m so glad you are enjoying the videos and find them inspiring!

[@SandraGarner-q3r]

I grew up on a small farm in central Florida and raised all of our food. Many large gardens, lots of chickens, Guinea fowl, ducks, rabbits, pigs etc. we always had a years worth of food. So this is not new to me except that I got Covid seriously bad, and wound up in an assisted living for 3 years. I haven’t been able to do anything except buy a dolor generator, extra freeze dried food enough for at least 1 and 1/2 yrs. I’m so thankful that my parents always taught us to be prepared, living in Florida we have many hurricanes so I’ve always had my hurricane box. P- but butter, crackers et. Some of my family used to tease me about it but after they lost their power for awhile and the grocery was empty they now have boxes also and hopefully they’ll come around to enough food for an extended period of time.

[@MorganHillFarms]

I am so sorry to hear about how sick you were/ are. That is terrible! I am grateful that you have a generator and freeze dried food:) Covid really hurt a lot of people. My husband lost his best friend to it:( I pray that each day you will become stronger and stronger!

[@iamkarmenvolmink]

Thank you for sharing this. We are definitely on land thats too steep. Its been really tough to grow food. Also soil just eashes away and we keep building soils, but you know water.. its a force of nature. We frequently run out of grazing due to the rocky terrain, and moat of this land isnt suitablenfor planting. Im trusting God for something new!

[@MorganHillFarms]

That definitely sounds like difficult terrain. What about terracing raised beds on some of the land? I am praying that God will bless you beyond anything that you could ever imagine!

[@gardengrowinmawmaw8642]

I am so proud of you!! Thank you for listening to God. If we all listened when He speaks, life would be much easier. You have done a wonderfully with your gardens and homestead. Welcome to the way things used to be. I grew up doing what you are now doing, so it's second nature to me; and now it is to you, too.

[@MorganHillFarms]

Wow, thank you! I appreciate your kind words:) We just had a conversation with our kids tonight about how it is so important that they pay attention and learn from all that we are doing because someday, they will need these skills.

[@FoxMcloud]

Homesteading is my dream but I abandoned it.

[@sassyherbgardener7154]

Wow, it is so hard to believe that you were that uninformed!! So glad your eyes were opened, and before it was too late. That crisis 4 years ago was a warning. What if there was no warning for you? That is what is going to happen to some people, who still have their eyes closed. They did not heed that warning. I know some of them. They have nothing stockpiled, and joke that we preppers and homesteaders are hoarders and doomsday crazies. I pray for them. I don't panic, or live in fear, but I'm stocked and confident. We will eat and thrive. What a blessing!!

[@MorganHillFarms]

It is truly amazing that I have really gone from zero to 100 in just a short amount of time. Praise the Lord that he opened my eyes. I do truly believe that things will get bad and I just hope that along with being able to provide for my family, that I will also be able to help our friends and neighbors who cannot do what we are doing:)

[@SandcastleDreams]

I kept getting a passage in Jeremiah about famine in the city and a sword in the wilderness. I could not get away from it! But in 2018, God got my attention like...PAY ATTENTION! So I read the passage to my husband and I said, I keep getting this passage and I think God is trying to warn us. So I read it to him and he said, "Keep praying about it. I need to check the weather there's a storm coming." So, I turned back to my computer and figured I'd check out the radar. Behind me, I hear the weather forecastor say, "And there's hail out in the wilderness!" We both laughed. Hubby says, "He'll never live that down! Who talks like that?" And then he got quiet and said, "Wasn't there a wilderness in that passage you just read to me??" So, I read it again and it suddenly started hailing. I went to look out the back window and there was a little hail in my backyard but the neighbor's backyard was totally white with hail. So, God confirmed that in a strange way. That was in 2018. And it sent me into a tailspin of persistently and insistently seeking God. Our old home was leaking like a seive because we had been through so many hurricanes and a tornado. We were stuck. We were both on disability living paycheck to paycheck and I feared we would end up homeless. Our backyard flooded during the rainy season because we were in a swampy part of FL. It just wasn't condusive to growing a lot of food. Since then, God got my husband his VA benefits and we were able to sell the place and get a Repo doublewide with more storage than I ever thought possible. 4BR/3BA on an acre. Zoned A1. The house payment is cheaper than what renting an apartment in Orlando would have been. I never would have dreamed of the prices skyrocketing like they have. I never would have dreamed that there would be so much violence and robbery like there is these days. It's going to get a lot worse!

[@jameshill4005]

WOW AWESOME AND AMAZING VIDEO 📹 ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@MorganHillFarms]

Thanks 😄

[@latoyametheny2302]

Hi Morgan! I live in Camden SC. I enjoy your videos, thank you so much! My husband and I are interested in having dairy goats. I would like to see how you take care of your dairy goats.

[@MorganHillFarms]

Thank you for the input. We will be prepping an area for our does this coming weekend so they will be closer to the house. They will be giving birth around May 10-20. I’ll definitely get some footage and get a video out in the coming weeks for you:)

[@latoyametheny2302]

@@MorganHillFarms Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my message. So exciting about your does giving birth soon! I look forward to your video in the coming weeks! Your garden is absolutely beautiful! I'm learning so much on how you feed your family for a year. So glad I found your channel!

[@northcountrytrapper5607]

Your doing the right things, my people die for lack of knowledge!

[@MorganHillFarms]

Thank you!

[@12acresfarm]

Thank you so much for sharing. ❤ Your story is very much similar to ours, and how we ended up at our property. It was a God thing and I am so thankful that we listened. Lately I felt a push to start my own channel and share the gardening skills that I have learnt over the past few years. I hope I will be able to inspire others too. 🌻🌱

[@MorganHillFarms]

That is wonderful. You really should start your our channel. The more people that we can bring to garden and become self sufficient, the better. I am so glad to hear that your journey has been a successful one and that God has blessed you!

[@12acresfarm]

@MorganHillFarms Yes, I definitely agree. 😊 Learning how to grow and preserve our own food is such an important skill. It's such a shame that it is not passed down through the generations like it once was. I ended up starting a channel a couple of months ago. It is still very small (slowly creeping up to 100 subscribers), but the goal is to encourage others, so I'll keep doing that, no matter how small the channel is. 😊God bless. ❤️🌻🌱

[@GardeningwithDave]

Congratulations on your subscriber count Morgan! I’m getting closer to getting 700 subscribers soon 😂. Keep being yourself and enjoy life.

[@MorganHillFarms]

Thank you! You too! You’ll hit 1K before you know it!

[@amystamper129]

Thank you for sharing your story! Your garden is beautiful!!

[@MorganHillFarms]

You are so welcome!

[@jjj32801]

Long time subscriber. Love your passion and content.

[@MorganHillFarms]

Thank you! So glad you’ve been here since the beginning:) I so appreciate your support!

[@susielansford9500]

Thanks so much for sharing your story. Mine is scary similar. I love seeing you on your journey while being on my own. And I SO agree that there is peace in the garden.

[@MorganHillFarms]

That is wonderful to hear. Glad you are sharing in this journey with us:)

[@rschroeder6460]

Totally agree!!!!!

[@MorganHillFarms]

👍🏻

[@paulabrown5685]

Wonderful story….you are a joy to watch!

[@MorganHillFarms]

Thank you so much!

[@Extranjera76]

Thanks for sharing your story. It is time to listen to God the path to us.

[@MorganHillFarms]

Absolutely!!

[@stitchyreispeices]

Love when your vidoes pop up! :) I know God lead me to our new homestead also. I did have a desire for country living and growing my own food but I was definitely more city. But overtime I changed and so did the world!! Definitely in the last 4 years my feeling of urgency in learning to do these things has ramped up! And thanks to God, we now have the acreage to be able to build up!

[@MorganHillFarms]

That is awesome! I love to see the I am not the only one on this journey:) I am so glad to hear that you are in a place where you can continue to learn and grow and keep preparing. God is so good:)

[@NateSmith-en3qn]

Living the dream…

[@MorganHillFarms]

You nailed it!

[@bobgreene7338]

God gave us a brain and gifts to use to thrive and prosper. You and Nate have used yours well. Don't hide them under a bushel of tomatoes, keep on sharing! Congrats on the 8K! Love watching and listening! Thanks so much.

[@MorganHillFarms]

Yes! Thank you! We will continue to share what we are doing in hopes that it helps everyone to see that they can do what we have done:)

[@ymwyoyo-p6w]

Hi from DownUnder. I'm so happy to have come across your videos and find them so educational and inspirational even though i'm in my late 70's. I grow my veges and love to harvest and have even taught myself to water bath can and have made quite a few jars of tomato chutney and sauces. It is such a great feeling to be able to achieve all this in my very late 70's and have never been afraid of hard work. It all pays off in the end. Luv listening to you talk. Keep up the good work and God bless.

[@MorganHillFarms]

Awesome! I am so glad to hear that you have been able to accomplish all that you have! Keep learning and keep on growing food:). I wish you the best gardening and preserving season yet!

[@ed2276HomesteadandGarden-hs8zp]

Thank you for sharing your story. Very inspirational! I'm a city boy myself, but moved onto 5 acres in the country in Missouri 4 years ago. I've got my chickens and garden, too.

[@MorganHillFarms]

That sounds wonderful! I am so glad to hear that you are doing what we are. It is very encouraging to see that we are not the only ones on this journey. Thank you for sharing.

[@s0p0lished]

You are so inspiring!

[@MorganHillFarms]

Wow, thank you!

[@karenbrooks9251]

Thank you for your story! I really enjoy your videos!

[@MorganHillFarms]

Glad you like them!