I’ve been curious about the homesteading movement for a long time, albeit from a non-tradwife perspective. For a few years I subscribed to Mother Earth News, whose pages of solar panel installations and gardening tips filled my head with pastoral fantasies. (It’s possible that growing up in rural Pennsylvania planted a seed of affection for farm life, even though I suspect I would be terrible at it.) So I have nothing against people who decide to abandon the corporate world, or soulless suburbs, to live close to the land. I’m just not so into oppressive gender roles and unpasteurized milk.
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My neighbors are homesteaders, but not the type you see online. It’s work at first but honestly the benefits are awesome once they got the ball rolling
They do a lot of gardening, have chickens, apple trees and just built a small sawmill to make and store lumber. I buy eggs and firewood off of them
It seems that a lot of the real hardcore lifestyle people don’t spend half of their day filming and posting about it
Chicken are 100% pro.
But they sure are messy and needy
so is my gf, but my gf doesn’t poop breakfast
not with that attitude
Your gf’s a chick
Friends of ours raise chickens. Sometimes we get free eggs. It’s the best of both worlds.
Just like boats and cottages, best to have a friend with one than own one yourself.
And swimming pools!
Tell me you never had actual chickens
Agreed, although I could see an argument for roosters. However, I love mine.
if you luck into one that doesn’t scream all damn day, awesome. otherwise, i get not allowing them in city limits
A few of those “tradwife influencer” types are actually the main income earner for their family.
Only because her husband told her to
You know Jen, you don’t have to do all of those things to do some of the ones you want to do.
why go “trad” when you can go full anprim?
Fuzzy orange shape that’s why
My vegan perspective on homesteading has always been “Damn, that looks like it would all be 300% easier if they just didn’t have those freakin animals.”
Only if you live in a super specific climate that you could grow enough variety of plants or drastically change the definition of homesteading.
Beans, nuts, a hardy grain, berries, vegetables, fruit trees, mushrooms, a yeast culture… I guess I’m missing the particular difficulty. Seems like typical homestead proximately-grown fare to me.
