This is just to shed light on the other side of this life, not just glamorize everything. This is not me complaining, l genuinly love this life. If you want to live this life l recommend you pursue it. Just stock up on knowledge, and you will be fine.
by Medium-Advantage-162
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Itās like camping, but forever!
lol. My own growing pile of plastic trash is a concern.
honestly I think people need more of these just to show the true means of what it takes, so they don’t change their lives based on fairy tales.
Also, I love your projects, and you said you get them from this book ([reddit.com/user/Medium-Advantage](https://www.reddit.com/user/Medium-Advantage-162/comments/1qnmv14/this_is_where_l_get_my_projects_from/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)). Just wanted to clarify if that’s correct, because it seems more like a book to help get started and set up.
Most beautiful homeless person iv seen lol love your paradise!!
Ooh here’s my list of least favorite things š
– Watering in winter. This involves a lot of extension cords for tank heaters and hauling a 250 ft hose from the well pump spigot in the basement through the house, out the window, and across the yard to the barn every 2-3 days
– Mud and Wet everywhere all winter, dirt everywhere all summer, straw everywhere always
– Trying to keep suicidal baby turkeys alive. Why are they like that?
– Cleaning everything up after harvesting honey. So sticky.
– The people who get irrationally mad I eat the animals I raise. My vegan best friend approves of the way I humanely raise and slaughter, so everyone else can kick rocks.
– This is more a me problem because I have a connective tissue problem, but constant sprains and bruises. More than once I’ve had someone think my husband is hitting me. No. I just bruise easily and have livestock.
Ive dealt with most of these things on the homestead, but the point is you get sick of that so you work on improving systems.
First thing I solved was water. Seperated well and ag systems. Well fills the ag tank, then ag tank goes to irrigation and animals, non-potable uses. Its still pretty clean water as that tank is constantly cycling, but not what id consider human safe drinking water. Fresh water from the well goes to locations where humans need it (expanding over time.) We also have a spring that Im developing, but at the moment thats only for irrigation.
Power has been a hodge podge of affordably sourced (mostly second hand) gear, until a couple weeks ago. I found some very cheap decommissioned panels which are working great. Solar array has been expanded to 15kw. Found some well made, but cheap, batteries that require some modification to work on a 48v system, but well worth it. When that project is done we’ll have 60+kwh of storage.
Garbage we have to haul out, but we do our best to minimize that in the first place by burning combustibles composting compostables and repurposing anything possible. All food scraps can go to the goats, chickens, pigs, horses or dogs.
Thankfully I now have a toilet inside hooked to a real septic, but it wasnt always that way. Protip: you can get away with a lot, but a legal septic system is biggest thing the county is going to require to leave you alone.
Have you considered an incinerator toilet? I have trouble falling back to sleep from the 20 steps to the bathroom. No way Iām sleeping after wandering outside especially in the winter to go.
Why not get a chemical or DIY a composting toilet for inside the house during the worst of the weather to use at night?
It can always be emptied in the morning?
https://youtu.be/utteZ3crv38?si=xzc1de4F1noKzxCi
Woman built š
I like honest videos.
need more of these videos and less of “just my simple homestead life as I cook breakfast on a $20K oven in my $750k “homestead””
I figured (as someone who has never spent more than 3 nights camping in a row) that homesteading would essentially be swapping the problems of “civilised” life for all the problems of self reliance, and the question boils down to ‘which set of problems do you like best?’
I think I might prefer a more self reliant life, but I’m sure it comes with all kinds of problems I can’t imagine.
The appeal, I suppose for at least some people, comes from the idea that it’s up to you to find a way to make things work, rather than having to do things according to someone else’s standards and demands.
Best of luck to you – part of me is envious, even when I’m sitting here with WiFi, running hot water and central heating
Thanks for keeping it real! I have been in the middle of a shower and run out of water, everything in my life in the winter is the color of mud, we have used tarps and sleeping bags as walls while in the middle of building, itās a wild life but I wouldnāt trade it for anything. When things get tough I remind myself that someone is sitting at their desk in an office day dreaming about being able to āhomesteadā because I used to be that person!
I was today yrs old when I learnt a receding hairline was a side effect of homesteading
Sounds romantic until it’s not.
If you get sick (like I just did) you’re likely to not have a back up person to do your barn chores. I lucked out and had my spouse, but if they were to get sick we’d still be dragging our sick butts out to the barn in negative temps and 2 feet of snow to give water to ungrateful chickens.