Jenise is a content marketer by trade and a homesteader by passion. She lives in the San Bernadino mountains with her husband Mike, two dogs - Lucy and Chuck and 11 chickens.
Are homesteaders just moochers living off of “civil” society?
A recent opinion piece in Forbes magazine suggests that they are. And a brilliant homesteading blogger named Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper blog, articulately countered the argument on Zero Hedge.
I read Daisy’s article and thought it would make for an interesting discussion on our latest episode of the podcast.
But first Marianne and I share a little bit about how we are “mooching” on our respective homesteads!
We’re back with some EASY sustainable tips from our listeners today!
But before we get into them, Marianne shares a personal story about an issue she’s been going through regarding health care.
The future of humanity may very well rest on the success of the small, sustainable farm.
If that sounds like a severe exaggeration to you, you might find today’s interview with author Elvira Di’Brigit quite illuminating.
Marissa Vicario is a certified integrative nutrition coach who is helping people to embrace holistic health.
She is the author of the best-selling, award-winning book, Your Holistically Hot Transformation: Embrace a Healthy Lifestyle Free of Dieting, Confusion and Self-Judgment – about her own journey to wellness and the unique philosophy she uses in her coaching practice to teach women how to trust themselves to make slimming, nutritious and energizing choices without resorting to fad diets.
In this interview she shares some valuable tips to help us all create healthier habits.
I embraced feminism at an early age. It seemed like a no-brainer. Women should have the same rights as men. Period.
I honor and appreciate all the pioneering women who came before me and through their efforts, made it possible for me to vote and choose to have the career that I want. Many continue fighting for our rights to this day and I am grateful.
Our journey on the sustainable living path led Marianne and I to create a weekly podcast a little more than two years ago.
This episode marks 100 times we’ve recorded and shared our thoughts, interviews and tips via the podcast.
In celebration of this milestone, Marianne traveled to my Big Bear homestead last weekend to brainstorm about our future plans and to record this episode.
Permaculture and agorism.
Both offer methods for changing the world for the better. And both have become hot topics over the last several years, thanks to independent thinkers and alternative online media.
In this week’s episode of the podcast, I had the chance to engage in an exhilarating discussion about these topics with Eric McCool. Eric is using his webisite, Permagora, to highlight ways in which people can combine permaculture with agorism for the betterment of humans and planet Earth.
I’m excited about food swaps. Why? There are SO many reasons! I mean who doesn’t like fresh, locally grown food? Or building community with your neighbors? Or trading your excess garden produce for something that you really need?
Healthy, handmade food was hard to come by when I was a child.
My mom would be the first to say that cooking was not her forte’. But, lucky for her, Mr. Swanson, Mrs. Stouffers and many others provided pre-cooked meals that could be bought at the super market and stored in the freezer until needed.
So, for many of us, cooking amounted to opening a package and heating a frozen or canned meal up on the stove or in the oven.
Hey, it was the “modern” way, wasn’t it?
Jennifer Osuch
Jennifer Osuch discovered the art of self-reliance through parenting.
As the mother of two children with asthma, she wanted to do whatever she could to reduce toxins and support their health. Through her research she learned techniques and skills that really made a difference. She began to make healthy meals from scratch using old-fashioned techniques like canning and food dehydrating that also saved her time and money.
Jennifer and her husband Bill teach people how to do these things and more on their website, Self Reliant School.
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