80: Everyone Is Quitting Homesteading. DON'T Make Their Mistake

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Fear got a lot of people into homesteading, and it's the exact reason most of them are walking away.

Five years ago, homesteading felt like the beginning of a movement. Now Marketplace is full of chicken coops, freeze dryers, incubators, and canning supplies, and I've been noticing the shift.

People who once posted daily about their gardens haven't planted one this year. Some are openly saying they're done. Others have moved on without much explanation. That got me asking why so many jumped in around 2020 only to walk away a few years later.

Fear is a strong motivator. Empty grocery shelves pushed millions of people to learn skills they'd never considered before, and I think that was a good thing. Once fear fades and life gets comfortable again, most people drop the lifestyle… but I'm still out here living it. The goats still yell at me on Saturday mornings. The weeding never ends. Canning butter at 2 a.m. is a real thing that happens.

There's also a comparison problem worth naming. You can't see the family money, the inherited knowledge, or the nanny behind the picture-perfect homestead you're measuring yourself against.



This episode is my honest read on why people quit, what the ones who stay have in common, and why starting small in your kitchen matters more than trying to run a full operation on day one.

You’ll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[3:44] The fear behind the 2020 homesteading boom

[6:13] Butter-canning at 2AM, and what it taught me about homesteading

[7:54] Why biting off everything at once burns new homesteaders out

[10:28] The sunshine-and-rainbows myth versus losing livestock and storm-wrecked gardens

[14:26] Why anyone can homestead, and the gatekeeping that says otherwise

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