What Kind Of Person Makes A Good Homesteader? ~ Make IT Or BREAK IT! 📷 [Video inside]
The One THING You Need To Make It!
There is a big movement going on around the world. It's called Homesteading! People who live in urban areas wanting to move to rural areas and re-learn the lost ways of our ancestors. How to raise and grow food, provide for our own needs like water and composting toilets and live a more fulfilled life away from the stress of the city.
So many families are making this jump and were sad to say that some are having problems. This video will address what we feel is the largest issue in becoming a homesteader. ATTITUDE! Having a GREAT ATTITUDE is key to making it in anything in life. But because of the stress of a change in your families environment, a positive attitude is so much more important.
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Attitude and gratitude! Thanks to AH and to all the homesteaders, gardeners, preppers, survivalists, and bushcrafters out there! Keep 'em coming folks🌻
Thanks so much!!
Thanks for your great videos! Love off-the-grid living! Hope to be able to live this lifestyle too one day! For now, we are just moving too much, but we plant some food everywhere we go!
Thanks for watching! You are appreciated! Yeah, grow food everywhere! Check into sunchokes...they grow great! Lots of food in the winter.
Hehe always summer here ;) Love Jerusalem artichokes... wonder if they would grow in tropical setting too! Thanks for te tip!
I always wanted to live a homestead off-grid lifestyle but I know my wife would not be into it and I love my Martial Arts School business that I'd have to give up.
But...
A few year back, I decided that living off grid is a continuum and nothing is stopping me from doing everything I can in the suburbs to get as close as possible. It's amazing how much food you can produce on a 1/3 of an acre, we have 17 fruit and nut trees, hunt for meat, and I even compost my humanure even though I am hooked up to a sewage system.
How long have you been homesteading? Three years?
I've lived through Homestead Mania a dozen times at least. I was busting ass on a "real farm" (as opposed to a YouTube farm) as kid before the first issue of Mother Earth was published. I watched the hippie movement, including commune farms all all that crap, sprout and then die... One of the most pathetic times I witnessed was Y2K... Remember that? A flood of people moved out into the country including all around my farm. Starry eyed homesteaders they were. And not even one made it past the three year mark before the weeds took over. Yeah, you spoke of divorce and broken families. Seen that myself. Those folks would have been better off keeping their jobs, savings and 401 k... Some would be millionaires right now if they just kept their 401k...
Look, bud, I'm not trying to throw ice-water on your party, but you got the "attitude" thing ass backwards... It's OK to be positive, but a healthy dose of negativity keeps people grounded in reality. It's like a car battery. You both positive and negative to make it work...
Congrats on the three year mark, you made it further than most... Personally, I'm glad I'm retired and living near a city were I can take my 92 year old father to some of the best doctors in the world... They saved his life a few years back.... Something a country hospital would have never been able to do... Think about that next time you let your dad climb up on the roof... I like eating out. I like not smelling like cow shit everyday. I like to hunt, fish and travel without having to worry about who's gonna milk 30 or 40 cows, or who's gonna bust ass in the garden.
Keep it real, folks, farming is dangerous work. Look at the statistics .. In fact, the last time I checked farming posed a greater danger of bodily injury or death than police work... And, yeah, I knew more than a few examples of good men and women who are now pushing up posies because farm life took its toll...
Good luck, I really mean that, and God's speed.
You raise a lot of good point so I'm not going to accuse you of being a "debbie downer" but I have learned in my 40 years of life that attitude is everything. Life will give you lemons...will you make lemonade or not? Most people romanticize homesteading to be all peaches and little house on the prairie. It's hard work. We bust our forth points of contact on a daily basis. We hauled water by hand for the first 3 years and sucked it up.
You're right, some people would be better off keeping their day jobs and 401k. We have seen lots of people try this and fall aside only to go back poorer and in poor spirits feeling defeated. We will never leave this land we have built. Very soon we will begin clearing home sites for my 2 sons on our 56 acres. I'm working this week on getting a track loader running for that task. We've also looked into the hoops to jump thru so my inlaws (who live with us) can be buried on the property on day. Life doesn't last forever. If ours ends because we don't have immediate access to close medical care down the street, then that is what's written.
An old timer who has seen the Homestead mania just like you, once told me, if you can make it 5 years, then you can make it. Everyone he has seen has quit before that. We are coming up on our 5 year mark this November. We'll still be here in 10 years, I promise you. :) Thanks for watching! You are appreciated!
Oh, and I LOVE the animal manures. They make we want to get up every morning! :)
"We have seen lots of people try this and fall aside only to go back poorer and in poor spirits feeling defeated"......
Agreed, and you did warn people about the hardships and the subsequent consequences, so I commend you for that. And that's really what some of these young people need, a fair warning..... and the truth...
I hope as many people as possible go out and become successful homesteaders. And if cow shit is what motivates a body, then I think that person has choosen the right occupation.. no offense.
Tip of my hat to you...
Thanks and followed!
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Good remarks. We retired to this private spot and got the land first. Then came the ideas to develop it. We are not trying to make a living here and we certainly enjoy the benefits of nearby community, stores, electricity, internet and the mail service.
I am enjoying and learning from others in these gardening and homesteading groups. I does help to share our knowledge and experience, heartbreaks and blessings.
Ya, it's nice to be retired, but, honestly, I still spend 3 or 4 hours a day on agronomy. I like writing and such, but my oldest son is trying to convince me to take a piece of high desert land that we own and prove to everybody that a successful small-scale operation can be profitable in less than a year even under the most unfavorable conditions... He said he'd shoulder the hard labor, so I might just move forward and get my hands dirty one more time before I'm shoveled into my grave... I ain't shovelling any more horse shit, tho...
Happy trails in your retirement ....
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We are not here to put each other down man. You have this experience or that experience good for you. But by the way you discount the feelings of the people in this community who do hard labor work on a farm or homestead......I THINK YOU HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM.
My only "attitude problem" is my persistent intolerance of bullshit... And I don't think you understand the difference between putting somebody down and setting somebody straight.. What I wrote above was a dissenting opinion based on a lifetime of cold hard experience that straightened out an incorrect and impractical view. You want to wear a set of rose colored glasses, be my guest...
That's my point.
You do not have to AGREE with everyone, but I guarantee you time on this earth would be much more pleasant not only for you but everyone around you....if you just live and let be.
Wrong.
So why don't you practice what you preach and just ignore a grumpy ol' farmer and "let it be"? Because I struck a nerve? They say the truth hurts, but I wouldn't know because I've always embraced it..
Actually, you acticulate like a true hippie/ hipster. You do. Did they teach you how to think like that in highschool? Some Liberal Prog teach you that?
My time is best spent how I see fit. And telling somebody the truth, including you, young lady, is what I choose to do in my retirement; which, by the way, is probably a complete waste of time ...
Your job, as a young mother, is to keep your family together just like my wife of 36 years has done. And what will help you out is to look past a romanticized viewpoint expressed far too often and instead use your God given power of reason to judge what's true or not true. And then to at least have a back up plan just in case your homestead fails... Make sense?
yes, a healthy dose of reality is needed. you'll work 10x's harder for 5x's less profit. try telling the livestock that you clock out at 5 pm, regardless.
One of the best videos I've ever seen on line no matter of content.
Thanks Zac! Oh and nice badges too!
Have to resteemit, it hits on what is important!
Wow! You pulled all of that out of that one question? Well thought out for sure! I look forward to seeing the rest of these!
Sincerely-Oily
Enjoyed your video very much. It's important to just get started, even if it means moving out of the city today. It's a huge learning experience and you broke it down very well.
Zac, every time I watch this video it gets me more motivated to get out of the city. The wife and I do have a plan, however for us to be totally free it'll take us about 5-8 years. We're plugging along at it one day at a time. Thanks for the videos and the motivation to keep going.