Ep 47 This homesteading life with Sarah Stutzman

Come with us to a homesteading, homeschooling farmhouse in Pennsylvania where the days start early and the blessings are abundant.

Grab a yellow chair on the porch (to the tune of morning crickets) and meet Sarah Stutzman, the down-to-earth powerhouse behind Wellfolk Revival, a place to meet belly to belly and up-skill yourself, your kids and your community.

This is one of those rocking chair chats that offers a glimpse into someone else's world; their daily habits and ways of thinking. Their challenges and triumphs. Their personal paradigm. 

And even if you don't aspire to be a modern day homesteader, this convo could very well revive whatever latent life dreams you've got hiding in there. Time to action them?

SHOW NOTES

• Raising kids in a “new normal”
• The value of community sufficiency 
• What is homesteading?
• Her childhood on a Christmas tree farm surrounded by exotic animals before moving to life in a subdivision
• Accidentally homesteading via a desire to know where her food came from 
• Using skills to teach people how to start a garden, grow their food and take baby steps
• Building community
• Resources needed for up-skilling
• Craving community 
• Bringing people around the table to learn
• Pivoting business around Covid
• Eating organ meats and head cheese
• Embracing the chaos and imperfection
• Blowing the romance perception and keeping it real
• Be the ripple effect by inviting people to your real house (messy and all) at any time  and encouraging them to share their new skills with others
• Getting the kids involved so the foundations to hold them during the rebellion phase are strong
• Letting kids feel their own way and encouraging them to learn through mistakes
• Getting past our own failures, focus on our successes
• Integrating with the local Amish, traditional farmers and new wave of micro farms
• Connecting!
• Reconciling the process of taking life to sustain our own nutritional needs
• Counting the things on your plate that you have a connection to 
• Avoiding the throw away mentality
• Using the ENTIRE animal to honour the WHOLE and not just the best parts
• Looking for the blessings in between the constant hard work
• Nourishing our bodies with good food and our minds with beautiful things
• Stopping and embracing the simple moments as a measure of success
• Seeing success through the eyes of a child
• The power of pulling out other people's gifts and talents
• Avoiding the overwhelm of the emergency by doing the small things every day  
• Haste makes waste so just make pace

LINKS YOU'LL LOVE

• Wellfolk Revival online + on Instagram

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