Lacy and her husband Dustin live in Southwest Missouri raising three (soon to be four) free range kids on 45 acres.They focus on pork, chicken, and eggs for local customers as well as growing the bulk of their own veggies and dairy.
It is equally important to them to cultivate their local community and they provide an event space, overnight getaways, and community gatherings to help bring their people together.
And its not easy. All the last minute shifts to make it work. The physical toll it takes on your body. The brain space that is continually occupied until the task is complete. The mental fortitude to not give up. The grit it takes to bare down and keep going. This is hard stuff mama.All the while caring for your little humans and shaping them to be well rounded capable adults. It would be much easier to let someone else do that part so I could focus on the task at hand until satisfactory completion. Especially in those first few early years of complete independence.But that’s not the gig I signed up for. And neither did you. And its tough. Yet, if you maintain perspective, it is so beautiful. Because NO ONE can do it quite like you.And that’s the beauty in it really. Because if beauty was easy, it would lose a bit of its alure don’t you think?Being a homestead mama is so nuanced, empowering, life giving, purposeful, and yet exhausting.
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I am not well traveled. I’ve never flown on a plane. I’ve never been north of Ohio or west of Texas.I’m not as well traveled as some may say one should be, but this piece of land has housed all of my fondest memories…
Do you ever worry that your kids will miss out because of this homesteading lifestyle choice? This fear crosses my mind time to time. I’m sure many, if not most of you, could agree that it can be extremely difficult to get extended time away from the homestead for more than a full day, especially in the busy summer months when daily chores demand our regular attention…
“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to ‘those who take care of us’ … the land knows you, even when you are lost.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass…
Babies, Business, and Bumper Crops: How I am Learning to Homestead with Babies in Tow
Have you ever had one of those days? You know the days when you are cleaning the baby’s diaper, milking the cow, scooping poop in the barn, wiping noses, and cleaning more poop off of kids’ shoes…
One year ago, I resolved that I would learn to make all of the bread products my family needed. With an ever-shrinking bank account battling current inflation prices, I would walk the aisles of our local markets frustrated that I did not possess the skills required to make most of the things I needed to purchase…
Hey there, Homesteading Mama’s!
I’m Rachel from @frontier_homesteading. My husband Ryan, three children and I have been homesteading for about 10 years now, first in Wyoming and now in Alaska.
We currently have milk goats, pack goats, sheep, a pig, a cow, chickens, rabbits, bees and a dog. Seasonally, we also have more pigs, meat chickens and turkeys….
Stained glass windows date back to the 7th century. With the earliest known reference dating
from 675 AD when workmen were imported from France to Britain to Glaze the windows of a
monastery…
Homesteading and growing food is not the easy way out of this life, i would say it is the hard way as there’s nothing convenient about it. It’s a lifestyle, a life change not a trend or hobby. Well, that’s my opinion any way…
Awakino Station is a child’s dream. There is the river to splash in, tussock covered hills to explore, animals to raise and a bustling kitchen with a baking tin full of something yummy to eat…
