The Big Lie of Modern Homesteading

[@AnneofAllTrades]

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[@nickmatney6605]

Living through the recent (and ongoing) devastation of Helene in western NC, I have seen first-hand the futility of trying to be a silo and go it alone. Community is not only the spice of life, but a necessity of it.

[@seaperson5704]

"You don't get purpose from fear." is so succinct and perfect.

[@BlacksTropicalHomestead]

Community Is so important! Together we are stronger. Absolutely love this message, we try to remind people how important it is to build a community so we are not trying to do everything alone. Thanks for this important message beautiful we love and appreciate you ❤

[@WhatDadIsUpTo]

I call it autonomy. Im autistic and wish to be my own island. So far, spot on. I'm 75 and going strong . . . All alone. I don't NEED to leave my homestead . . . Got all my needs / wants met right here, right now.

[@BlacksTropicalHomestead]

Good morning beautiful SoilSista! ❤

[@trbrig22]

Tears in my eyes watching the last few minutes!!! In today’s world everything is so fear based, especially with things heating up in an election year. Anne continues to be a beacon of light & hope for us all. What a beautiful reminder that fear will never win but love & purpose always will. 🤍

[@Rkok94]

Couldn't agree more

[@PrairieRoseHomestead-ri8bn]

I have found that going back to my original reasons. The fact that I LOVE this life, that I love old fashioned living, that I love nature and being in sync with it. That is what has kept me going past the burn out. Burn out is real, but if you’re doing this because you love it, because it’s your calling, you can keep going. Fear is a horrible motivator… I’ve been through all that as well, feeling the need to be self sufficient. Now I’ve just come back to doing what I love because I love it. If the world falls apart, it does. But I’m not living like it’s going to anymore.

[@kseniyav.orlova9221]

Hi Ann! I'm following you getting inspired to make my own mini farm outside of Saint Petersburg, Russia) For now making a foodforest on my hectar. Wish you all the best! Hope you come to visit us someday😊

[@Apastorfield]

I love your content!

[@goingagainstthegrain]

Anne, thank you! Well said! We thought the same. I, personally, wasn't interested in the doom and gloom side of self-reliance or prepping. My grandparents immigrated to one of the thirteen colonies to have a better life. As a child, I was taught many things since they were born in the 1800s. Along with the many chores (they had a root cellar) helping your neighbor pick tomatoes, grapes, figs etc...was one of the many things that moulded or influenced my way of thinking today. I'm grateful and fulfilled. 😉 👍 ❤

[@Consciouslightwarriors]

Isn’t the statistic that most homesteaders burnout after 3 years? I think you’ve nailed the reason why.

[@intouchwiththeheart]

Wow! This hit me hard. For a long time I have been wanting to grow my own food and found myself isolated instead of finding a community… also… not making enough money to have my own place, I’ve been living in other’s homes and none of them share my love and respect for the environment. I am so happy you found your people and a community to grow together. I have hope that soon I will find my own. Thank you so much for sharing this video. With all the natural disasters happening around us, it is paramount to remember that our connection to the earth and the power of community are what will elevate our experience through life ❤

[@ashrob12345]

A great message. Thank you for sharing.

[@midwestribeye7820]

I can't love this video any more! ❤ Thank you for being so open with your life and your heart. You remain a blessing to your family (2 and 4 footed), friends, local and online community.

[@polae5975]

I want that sense of belonging so much too. I hope so badly that I can find a homestead community. Can you make a video about finding those communities?!❤

[@seaperson5704]

I would be careful with a homesteading "community" and instead look for places where folks have some farms in their backyards. As she mentions earlier in the video, some homesteaders are very fear-based. Healthy homesteaders you can probably find at your local farmer's market.

[@PVJSLJ]

This video hits so hard! You are absolutely right about community and finding people who are going to be there for you. I am the product of farmers for many, many generations. I grew up in this way of life. We always planted more, hunted more, raised more not so that we could have an overabundance but because we shared so much with our family and friends. Even from a young age I remember everyone getting together to do all sorts of things involving farm life. The good times and the bad. These are some of my most treasured memories.

[@brennabrust709]

I absolutely love everything about this video. I have found my online community to follow and am currently trying to find my in person community.

[@diannebartkus9893]

Giggling...You're so 🤣 funny, "beautifully lit compost pile"! 😂😂😂

[@amywatkins9309]

Thank you for sharing your experience, strength, and hope. Community is everything.

[@BumblebeeFern]

Thank yooooooooooou for this. I’m a libertarian and fully back the 2nd, but there is so much fear mongering on both sides. It is my ultimate goal to get my family to the point of being self sustaining, but I have to remind myself that there are only so many hours in the day and it’s okay to barter for some of the things I don’t want to take on myself. At the end of the day, I think it is very fulfilling being a capable person and teaching my littles to not only survive, but thrive no matter the situation! Sweet blessings to you, Anne😌🐝

[@tamiwilliams72]

I appreciate all your wonderful wisdom Thank you!

[@krystalspringer]

An enlightened and heartwarming message

[@tinad6812]

So true. Purpose is our driving force and we need to “find our place and our people” to thrive in what we are doing. If everything is going to get tough soon, then it will be so much better with others on our same path. 😊

[@se5594]

Still looking for my people, but i dearly enjoy and learn from your videos! Thanks Ann, from a fellow Washingtonian ❤

[@gerardhuiskamp9660]

First of all, thanks for your video! It is appreciated! 👍 Doing something out of fear does not last long! Do something with passion and love and you will succeed! 😇

[@charlespelton7931]

That's the most beautiful video I have ever seen. Thanks Anne, Penny and I always look for your videos. Love you so much.

[@benmoffitt7524]

100% true, Anne. This needed to be said. Even if I had no concerns about the quality and security of our food and government, it would still do what I’m doing because I enjoy it. I find purpose in the work and in the community.

[@andralandi1108]

Thank you so much for this video. I’ve struggled with a lot of homesteading content because of the individualistic and fear-based mindset that you find all too often in the homesteading community. As a person living with chronic illness, being totally self-sufficient is just not realistic, and it’s important to build up resources and skills with those in my community to achieve resilience on a more collective level. Plus, gardening and homesteading are a lot more fun that way 😊

[@ronmack1767]

Enjoyed the video Anne. Thank you for taking the time produce the videos. Take care and God bless.

[@alamryfarms754]

Little homestead big dreams channel had a similar message today. Thankfully my husband is on board but most of our community and church don’t do what we do. I’ve learned so much from folks like you willing to share. ❤

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

The last time one of our ancestors was completely self sufficient, we still had fur and lived in trees.

[@CliffsideStables]

Words of WISDOM here!!! Pay attention homesteaders/preppers. Tim in northern TN

[@ChrisMakerOne]

…emotional, thoughtful, deep, true and motivating… I didn't know it before I saw your video but I kind of needed this today. Anne, thank you very much for that!🫶

[@betterlivingonabudget]

I really enjoyed hearing about how you decided to move from WA to TN. Dreams really do come true if you focus on what you really want! ❤

[@Vera-k5o]

Great message, hope I can find belonging like you've paved out for yourself someday!

[@nicholasbylsma6379]

So lovely. Thank you for that wonderful perspective.❤

[@AlineFlores-NaturaPT]

💗💗💗Find your place and find your people 💗💗💗 thank you for this message

[@joyceterra2265]

I agree wholeheartedly with you. No man is an island. My husband and I moved to MN thinking that wed would find that community. Did not happen. My husband became ill and has passed away. I am now alone. There us no community here. Now I am unable to move because of prices on land. It is a devastating realization that if you need help with something or are injured, that noone us there for you. We tried. We got involved with church and community but what happened was as long as we continued to do, we were accepted. The minute my husband became ill and needed around the clock care, everyone disappeared. They did not even come to visit with him or me. I am fed up with users. We thought that we had a good community connection until we didnt. How do you trust after that? How do you trust yourself in finding that connection when you have screwed up so royally? I have never vern a needy person and am very independent. Like you multiple skills and people around here find that very off putting. I do things around the farm that women should not be doing, according to them anyway. Like you with woodworking, running a chainsaw, helping with births, building barns etc. making me persona non gratia. Apparently I should not be trying to be a man. I am told often enough that women are not strong mentally or physically to do that type of work. Not sure what species they are but I was made mentally and physically different I guess. Live your podcast. It fits in so much with my lifestyle. Lol but you have taken it a step further. I do not have large stock anymore. Not enough land. Downsized the animals when my husband became ill because I could not do it all. I am slowly starting to rebuild.

[@Az4x4Taco]

One of the best in depth reviews and constructively critical examinations of the 'self sufficiency' do-it-yourself theme that drives most 'homesteading' and 'prepping' proponents today. Finding one's place in a supportive community of like minded hard working people who's collective aim is to encourage and assure the common good of all those involved is and always has been the 'secret to success,' no matter the goal we pursue.

[@diannabravo4978]

This brought me to tears. Alignment. What have I believed about community? Living in alignment with joyful others achieving individual, family team and community team goals that celebrate the miracle of existence on this great big beautiful planet. Gratitude

[@debrakasadine647]

Thank you so much for your honesty! I learn a great deal from You!!❤❤

[@bluebutterflywellness2273]

L😍❤E THIS ANNE! I feel exactly the same way.Ironically my interest in farming and homesteading began almost two decades ago while living in a major Northeastern city. At the time my goal was to discover all of the things around us that supported and strengthened life that were often overlooked so I began foraging and attending herbal apprenticeships. It was empowering to say the least. However when things unfurled in 2020 I switched my focus more to fear and began like everyone else looking for land that was expansive and isolated, feeling like the more I could do on my own the better off I would be. In the midst of my search, it became obvious that I would need community, so I began looking for places that not necessarily were intentionally agricultural but were more rural and people tended to know how to do these things as a way of life. This is where I am now. I still dream of becoming part of a focused agricultural community but this is a great launching pad for me as I am enjoying learning how to grow and to build and to do all the things that would make me a vital member of such a community. I'm still so excited for this journey but as you said it is no longer around fear but has once again returned to fascination. Thank you so much for sharing this message!

[@timmccarthy3500]

you have a habit of knowing what i needs to hear and when. thank you

[@MaiRaven3]

It takes a village.

[@pH7screwtube]

That might be the one thing Hilliary Clintoon said that was ever correct.

[@rickmccaskill7888]

I wish I had seen this years ago. I would have changed my life. Now being 77 I am too old. Thank you for sharing.

[@vudu8ball]

Very inspirational.

[@thomastieffenbacherdocsava1549]

Anne, keep on keepin on! LOL! Nice to know you're not alone. You didn't add Musician to your list of skills! Good words for any individual ! Makers connect to makers?

[@Oktopia]

In the best of ways, passion is contagious. Like a match in dry kindling, not everything is about cold hard loneliness. Self-sufficiency isn't about isolation. It was never meant to be. How modern society glorifies independence, suffering alone, and success in the face of adversity is not a healthy way to live in a world we're supposed to share.

[@Kacey135]

Love your story. Thank you for sharing!!

[@dollyperry3020]

You continue to impress me. God bless!

[@betteramwthanbmw]

First of all, thank you for your open and emotional confessions about your development and that of your family. It will certainly open the eyes of some ‘wannabies’. It is certainly no walk in the park to run such a business with all the responsibilities that come with it. And that's right: running such a project solely for self-interest cannot be the goal for a global community - so finding a common community without simultaneously slipping back into the commercialisation trap and dependencies of consumer-agricultural marketing is actually what I see as the biggest challenge that arises. Especially in the partly over-regulated countries of the western world - see the extreme handling of dairy products directly from the producer in the USA or what you mentioned about poultry farming. Here in Germany, even private poultry farmers had to cull their mini flocks of poultry after they were officially declared to have bird flu status. And livestock farming is of course also subject to rules in densely populated areas due to the resulting responsibilities towards the animals and neighbours. It is not easy to create agricultural land in densely populated areas - the only option here is to try to acquire abandoned farms or so-called ‘residual farms’ in order to then manage them in your own way, but if you want to use state subsidies for the industry, you have to be officially integrated into the production chain again, and then the above-mentioned dependencies arise again - not really what you would imagine ‘homesteading’ to be.

[@alexcroft1486]

Probably the most inspirational video on KZbin. Yeah, that hit hard

[@poodledaddles1091]

Keep smiling !

[@Highlander.7]

much love and blessings y'all

[@CulinaireZaken]

I'm not religious but, Amen! Thank you very much for this upload! My better half and i have a restaurant in the Netherlands. We do well but it's tough and hard work. We dream every day about leaving the rat race with our kids to our little (imaginary) homestead on an island far away... But then i think about the connections we build here with our local farmers who we have daily contact with. We buy all of our meat, most of our egfs and tons of veggies directly from our neighbours. We help them too with keeping an eye on the herd of cows in the fields near the restaurant and help catching the cows. (Better fences are on the to do list😅) You can't do it all alone, you need community! Thank you again for your open hearded story!

[@joshbrucksch]

Love this message! And completely agree.

[@barbarayorkwoodside3716]

What a sweet video. Hugs forever and a day!

[@ariel5186]

I need a community like that here in Washington

[@peterellis4262]

There's an adage "It takes a village". That's a crucial concept to grasp, because it simply is not possible to be completely self-sufficient as an individual or a family unit. The black smith isn't mining their own ore, for example. There isn't enough time in the day, week, month or year to do all of the things necessary for "self-sufficiency". Even if we pick One Thing in which to be "self-sufficient", it's a real challenge because the odds are there's some tool you rely on to do that One Thing that you cannot actually produce yourself. There needs to be a mutual support network with people that focus their efforts in certain areas and trade their product to others in the community for the things that they produce. With a network of some size it becomes possible to mutually provide a great many of the things that are needed within the community without anyone becoming hopelessly burnt out trying to "do-it-all".

[@jasonsullivan5343]

Thank you for another honest and heartfelt video. Instead of calling it self sufficiency maybe we should say community sufficiency

[@elizabethcollins8817]

Powerful video-as always 🌹

[@QT2789]

LOL I have the same pattern on my plates just over a minute in when talking about making butter and cheese.

[@dovh49]

I learned how to make videos and edit them to make them look cool and entertaining.

[@stacietaber8932]

first time ever commenting but I love your message

[@artistlovepeace]

You do a fantastic job. I love your videos.

[@Kristin-dv4zv]

Anne, can you describe what this community looks like? Is it made up of all your neighbors? Friends from across town? People you know from the farmers market? In what ways do you interact?

[@shellymcgrew4412]

Great lesson. Great advice.😊

[@Marilou-g5t]

Regenerative grazing on multispecies forages would cycle your nutrients, build soil, increase nutrient uptakes, build health,...minimize purchased inputs, maximize net profit... multi species can be grazed in separate paddocks or together, if the species can get along.

[@artistlovepeace]

Survival. It's the motivating influence.

[@trevortoop5166]

This is a woman who only grows more beautiful as she gets older..... naturally.

[@xephael3485]

Self-sufficiency is not a farce... It's just you want to have a good community to be part of and are more of an extrovert than an introvert when it comes to being around people.

[@SWHBOYCE]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="954">15:54</a>...Yeer Right !!...😃...

[@mitzibud6908]

Amen.

[@MysteriousSoulreaper]

Unless you want to mine your own rare earth metals for Solar and then build your own panels too it's impossible to live completely isolated from the broader system. At some point you need inputs from ourside your sphere even if most of the time you're providing for most of your needs. We also just don't live on a planet anymore where everyone can be a Homesteader. So people should live the life because they love it not because they think they "need" to.

[@CorwynGC]

People seem to love the idea that they are going to mow down their neighbors with a machine gun when they come starving to their door. When one understands that humans require a community to survive, one realizes the homesteading is a way to have a community that survives.

[@daylightmarch9966]

Thank you!!!

[@sherimatukonis6016]

She's 1--% that people here ( just south of Seattle) just don't get the homesteading lifestyle - I have yet to find "my people"

[@heatherlewis2332]

Hi! I love your cows, what breed are your beef mama's?

[@fredeerickbays]

yes but getting there is most of the fun I have been at this all my life. Im 77. I have never bought anything from a big box i could not brow myself. I buy anything I can form a little guy. Go to big box only when the little guy doesnt have it. Yes it may cost me more but money means nothing. It is community that matters. All else is crazy in that we as individuals have little of no control over it so why bother. Build community and the rest will take care of itself.

[@debiebrumley3104]

Love it !!!

[@hanks_backyard]

Excellent.

[@ronaldcummings6337]

Prenatal vitamins? Did I miss something? Are congratulations in order?

[@cottagefarm9799]

❤

[@ntule4073]

I envy your strength

[@petrstach-cv3pj]

Nice and clear cows.

[@Jim-t8v]

Amen

[@michaelmclaren7373]

Wow.

[@oldionecanobi9183]

Where in TN is your farm?

[@MaryL1144]

❤️❤️❤️

[@MrMagoo321]

Nice 👍 so you learned a lifetime of stuff in 12 years or whatever it was you said?? Dang good job 👍. Yeah we will need to barter with each other for something eventually so living long term self sufficiently isn't sustainable

[@gilbertcouto8537]

Do you have a husband?

[@pH7screwtube]

I guess you didnt watch the full video.

[@cfarr9764]

So good- thank you for the reminder❤