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VIDEO: Are You Too Old To Homestead?
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Older people…. ( I am older myself) will sometimes limit themselves by saying they "can't do it" for what ever reason. Jump in to it. Even if you can only plant a few veggies or get two hens. It's a learning curve to learn HOW to garden in your area or to care for animals. If the time comes when you need to live on what you grow or raise, then you can expand, maybe get some help and raise more. It is also beneficial for older folks to go outside and be active. Do what you can! Great video, by the way and I love all your others, too!
Hi from Australia.
OK, first, Love ,love ,love y'all! Second, I'm in my 50s. got the chickens, ducks, turkeys, pigs every couple of years, garden, bake, home cook, and come spring the goats will be joining us! That said I have a question. Is it OK to house my goats with my pigs?
This video made my morning! I live in suburban Chicago and given that I have two in college, work full time (telecommuting) and I'm taking care of a husband still recovering from a stroke, my dreams of having what most people call a homestead are not in my immediate future. But thanks to this lovely video, I realize that I have a Homesteading Spirit and have skills I haven't given myself credit for. I bake my own bread, make my own pork sausage, sew quilts and clothes for my family and even cooked thanksgiving dinner on an open flame cowboy grill. So, while I may never own 30 acres and raise my own livestock, I still feel like a kindred spirit. Thank you for giving me that gift today!
Just found your page today, thanks to Starry! You have lots of good videos, and now you have a new subscriber. Thanks!
Love this! Just the pep talk I needed today! Skills, skills, skills!
I had a grandmother, aunt and uncle that did all those things too! I always loved visiting with them and my fondest memories are of them and helping do chores etc. I have always liked the old things and we live in a small town on 5 acres and I have started to renew and learn some of these skills again! We are in our 50's and sometimes I wonder if it's too late but I'm always trying to learn something new and improve on the garden etc! Thank you for this video! It was so appropriate in timing as to my insecurities! Ty!
all about health and freedom for me. and a physical legacy for my sons.
my disability brought me back to homesteading. but I feel if you are asking if you are to old to homestead you are, because it is a mind not an ability
I'm looking for my new homestead property right now. I'm 62 years young and have wanted to take this step throughout my entire adult life. So, onward and upward. If it kills me, at least I will die happy! Thank you Patara. For a young one, you are pretty darned sage!
Thank you for the inspiration!
thank you so much!
I am a 74 year young granny and learning about homesteading. I truly believe you are never too old to acomplish whatever you like. Patara is very inspiring for me and keeps me upbeat with my ideas. Love her!
I would like to reach as many as I can to learn this past technique that our ancestors started. It is so gratifying.
My wife and I are in are low 50s and we have some health issues. We want to homestead and we discussed the matter with are children. Our Son and his Wife jumped at the opportunity. We are renting in the area we want to live in to get to know the area and people. The kids work nearby and a gentleman who says he's retired works with them. He has a 15 acre farm, he says he's to old to farm. He has offered us the opportunity to farm is land. He has equipment and is willing to teach us and help us. We are going to meet him at his farm this weekend. We are going to start small. a 40 by 40 garden to learn to grow the produce we eat. He is going to be invaluable, not because of the land, but the knowledge he will pass on to me and my family.
Great video.
That's great info! thank you!
Thank you petara im excited to get started but scared of my new handicap just knowing im not the man i was i figure i will just have to find my limits thanks for the faith with realization also
Women have to use their brains to get things done because we dont have the brute strength but we are like a good Quarter horse. We are more versatile than most men..
❤Be happy with the life you chose☺
Thank you so much for being honest, that an old person can homestead with limits. I hav, we e been a little, here in the city, and it has worked well. This year is the our time, just purchased five acres in Speedwell Tn hope to be on our land by the fall, to build and get it going.
I grew up in eastern Kentucky on a little hill side farm. Never heard the word homesteading when we grew up, but that’s how we lived. I still live on the same plot of land & this is the first summer I haven’t had a garden and put up the produce. This year we have delved into raising chickens, and we do have 8 of them. Love your videos. Forgot to say I’m 71 and a Quilter.
There are six farmers over the age of sixty five for just one under the age of thirty five so I reckon we still got you youngsters outnumbered 🙂
The place I'm looking @ is where gettibg started to hokd off on livestock & will be in an area where family nembers like to hunt, thus they can just share the meat in lieu of leasing land to hunt. I Garden, Bake & have worked/trained in woodworking (reading blueprints & making cabinets), fishing, sewing, knit, crochet, raised rabbits & the like & grandkids love learning.
I miss these types of videos.
The older folks your speaking of are established. They have barns heavy eqiupment. friends and family connections all around. Live stock etc.. I think the question is for older folks with nothing but no how.
I’m 66 and just started raising chickens. I only wanted 2 but RK had a minimum of 6 then I got 7 more. I just sold 2 of the 1st batch which increased my desire to keep going.
Well said. Although I grew up on a farm I was one of the younger kids, so by the time Mom & Dad quit farming (the farm never supported the family, off-farm jobs were a constant) there were a lot of things I hadn't learned to do, including not much cooking. So here I am, in my 60s, retired, no spouse or kids – I live in an area with rough winters & lots of snow – I have a limited amount of money. The reality is, I'm not going to be buying an acreage & getting large animals, or even sheep/goats. I live in town, I have about 2500 sq ft of growing space. I've planted apple trees, a cherry tree, grape vines, a currant bush, a gooseberry bush, elderberry bushes, raspberry bushes, asparagus bed – I currently have one raised bed for strawberries and one for veggies, and will be adding two more beds come spring. I've made my own cheese, ketchup, shrub (a medieval drink), hummus – am making my own ACV & vanilla. I've done water bath canning, but need to learn pressure canning. I'm learning to cook from scratch, but it's difficult because cookbooks don't even use basic ingredients anymore (add one can of this, one box of that). I got yeast (if I really wanted self-sufficiency I'd make sourdough starter) but haven't made bread yet – that's one thing I have done, in my younger years when my job wasn't enough to exhaust me. I'd like to buy bulk grain & grind my own flour. I'd like to raise rabbits and/or quail for meat & chickens for eggs, but all are illegal in my small town (you'll find cities allow these things, small rural towns are too afraid they'll look like…wait for it…country hicks…so they outlaw it – cities have no fear of being mistaken for country hicks and they allow it). Now that I've written a book…carry on everyone, do what you can, where you can!