Holistic Homestead with The Schoolhouse Life
Adrenal Fatigue (Part 2) (what I quit doing)
So, what did I quit doing to improve my adrenal fatigue? So many things, but nothing was all at once or dramatic. It was a little thing here, and another there. Really, it has been a great re-evaluation of what is serving me and what is not. I’ll walk mo...
Adrenal Fatigue (Part 1)
a 4 part deep-dive into my on-going efforts to heal my Adrenals.
If you’re like me, this term ‘Adrenal Fatigue’ has been popping up in my belly (yes, my belly, it’s where most my good ideas come from) for almost a decade. My naturopath officially diagnosed me with and gui...
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My hay was bad.
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That the broomsedge was going to take over my whole field
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That I needed to p...
“The best marketers are farmers, not hunters. Plant, tend, plow, fertilize, weed, repeat. Let someone else race around after shiny objects.”
― Seth Godin, This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See
“If you can bring someone belonging, connection, peace of mind, status, or one of the o...
Instead of asking what grain do you like to eat, ask what grain do you like to process?
Here's to making it a year of accomplishing less, scrambling no more and retreating into rest, deep wholeness and the MOST satisfying sense of completeness.
The new year tends to be a time we reflect on what we've accomplished in the last 12 months, take stock on where we could...
For way too many years we waited to add cows to the homestead. We are 10 years into our current property and just got a bull and a heifer. Take a look at their picture below.
I gonna go out on a crazy limb and say that now I would suggest cows over just about any other animal as the started animal f...
Have you noticed? There's a migration happening right now, from the desk chair to the garden bed. From the e-business to the dirty fingernails, from the fast-paced hustle of the corporate world to the demands of crafting a truly nourishing home base. From reliance to resilience.
It's about time.
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead. - Joel Salatin
Let's change what presents are. Let's take them away from little plastic toys that break in a couple of weeks.
Let's stop buying things just to buy them.
Let's keep giving gifts but let's make them something impactful.
This week we are talking about gifts, wrapping paper, and things we can do differ...
"Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness." –Anne Frank
I'm sure you are wondering if this holiday is for yo...
“Children more than ever, need opportunities to be in their bodies in the world – jumping rope, bicycling, stream hopping, and fort building. It’s this engagement between limbs of the body and bones of the earth where true balance and centeredness emerge.”
David Sobel
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'We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: your body is not a lemon.' -Ina Mae Gaskin
I CANNOT wait to share this week's podcast! We're putting the final touches on it right now, but...it'...
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity - Albert Einstein
But and this is a big but!
The farther we stray down the technology path t...
In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.
- Michael Pollan
Last week we...
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. - Malcom X
There is no way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an ins...
“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” – Abraham Lincoln
What is a homesteader?
After spending a few days with about 5,000 homesteaders it's had me really trying to define what a homesteader is.
Bart and Erica had the question t...
"Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath
In this week's podcast, we are talking about Smita one more time. There's so much to talk about and think about. But really what we are seeing is a gradual...
