A community homesteading cooperative is an idea I've had for quite a while!! Different crops, meat and dairy. Land that produces the ability to barter and thrive in a healthy simple lifestyle.
The problem is that these large tracts of land are being bought up and developers pack them full of cheap houses. I wish people would stop selling land to developers!!
Like your comment @craftygranny....gives me more hope as I am a granny too and would love a small property to homestead....I see I am not alone at this age. It is sad....quite a bit o property here is sold to foreign interests. Continued prayer is essential regarding all of this. Thank you
That is such a good idea Jess. You could section off one acre of land each and rent them out and even start their garden beds for them and help and teach them homesteading. A LOTTT of people would love to live in a community like that. Learning and teaching each other things about gardening and about life🥰
I love this community living idea, it’s like a homestead iteration on permaculture communities! I helped to start co-op housing at my university years ago and it was such a fulfilling experience. There is something to being able to lift each other up through forming supportive communities and establishing communal resources 💛 Edit to add - I have recently experienced some health challenges and was thrilled to learn there was a medical supply loan closet in our county. Such a huge benefit to be able to access a wheelchair and accessibility devices at no cost when insurance is playing games. Feeling very grateful 😊
@@teresamariner4238 Thank you Teresa 💛 It really has been a blessing. I’m certainly putting in the work to try and stabilize and get back to work, but it’s definitely a marathon and not a sprint. Just got to take it day by day as it comes, it’s a lot like tending to a garden in that way.
Jess, I can only imagine what the future looks like for your family...your boys have so many doors open for them through the dreams of your family! So happy for Noah! I say it all the time in comments but your laugh and joy just makes me smile. Much love from Texas! :)
I feel the same way. It's nerve racking to think of buying a place and doing this on your own (as is my goal), but having like minded people and resources would be awesome, even just for trading, and encouragement.
We have had that dream too Jess and frankly, the way the world is going, not a bad idea. Having community of like minded people with different skills and still enough space that you are not on top of each other is a dream of great worth. We are so very blessed and thankful that we are out here in the "middle of nowhere". Many of our friends are town dwellers and love coming here for dinner or just to hang out and help in the garden, learn to can food and we love having them. We are so very blessed by that and they in turn bless us by their friendship and love. Congratulations to Noah!!
You just described the exact dream I’ve had for a while! I keep telling my husband that I’d love to have a community where everyone owns their own property, but where we’re surrounded by other families living in community. Of course I’m the dreamer and he’s the practical one, so he always brings me back down to reality, but I would so love to make the dream a reality someday.
That dream of a rural self sufficient community is alive and well and in the hearts of many who aren't farmers at all, and others who are started in farming, but the times generate such dreams in all of us, and certainly RUclips is one reason this vision is afoot.
My father and I are both Realtors in east Texas, us and my brother regularly talk about developing a homestead community of sorts! YES PLEASE KEEP PUTTING THAT DREAM OUT THERE! You might not have to buy the land all y’alls selves when it comes to real estate there are many ways to buy and share property.
How can we do that!? I feel so sick letting the most beautiful 50 acres In a rural area get scooped up by developers and bulldozed. Ive tried researching but to no avail. How can someone purchase land and do this with essentially no capital to start? Thanks for any info
✨Im just going to say it...✨ Not only are you a wonderful, brillient, teacher and friend but I love love love that you are a trail blazer for learning itsself. I love that you instill in me to dream and learn how to make my dreams come true. 💫 BLESSED BE 🦉
Community is very important SoilSista! We started an yearly homesteading event called SoilFamily Expo here in Savannah Georgia where we invite our RUclips family to help encourage and teach homesteading. Absolutely amazing seeing everyone and learning for one another. I think an event for homesteading should be held everywhere!! It was nice meeting you over the weekend at HOA and we hope to visit your farm soon 💜
You know when you’ve done well when one’s children have to ask where the lighters are. Or the matches, candles and kitchen knives. Not to mention the painkillers or cold remedies. After hosting at Abundance +, Jess, you’re positively glowing. It’s heartwarming to see. 🇬🇧 x
Last summer season (New Zealand based) I grew 25 tomato plants from seed in my little backyard garden for the first time because of you. At the same time I fell pregnant and the smell of tomato plants and the taste of fresh tomatoes made me sick! This season I am hoping I will finally get to enjoy my harvest. I hope next summer you get to enjoy your tomatoes too! Thank you for everything that you do :-)
A little note about planting leek. It works best multi sowing the seeds in cell trays, because we generally want the long white stem. You can grow them about 10 inches tall, then separate them out and plant them about 6 inches deep.
That's what I keep dreaming of!! I've called it a "compound" when telling my family about it. I saw a documentary about a green community with no cars, all kinds of gardens, a community center and several ponds. So, to me, it's what I'd call a modern Amish type community, where everybody contributes their time and skills. There's even a main Kitchen where everybody rotates working and they cook for everyone. I can't imagine anybody living there still having an outside career. It seems so self-reliant and sustainable. They've built different parts of this community over the years, and you can tell by looking at the different types of structures of those pieces. The most recent area that they developed was very similar to an apartment building. It was multi floors and there were nice balconies. I can't, for the life of me, remember where it is. Nobody ever is moving, and if they are it's typical for a child to purchase that property and move in. It's sort of a legacy neighborhood and very expensive. That's what got me thinking about expanding my dreams!! Maybe it was about you voicing your idea and someone else actually making it possible. Maybe it's something one of your boys can tackle. Either way, I'll keep watching your journey ❤️
I think that's an awesome idea - a homesteading community area! You don't have to 'make' it happen, dreaming is a great start. God and the universe are capable of amazing things. Thanks for all the awesome videos and letting us into your lives. 🌻
Jess, we had 3 pigs our 1st year in the country. The next summer my husband discovered several tomato plants with ripe tomatoes that were doing better than our garden tomatoes were. We were so excited .This was back in 1971 1972 . We had 15 acres and lived and loved that old farmhouse and land for the next 39 years. We retired and moved to the mountains 12 yrs ago. Have 13 acres here and once again love where I live alone having lost my husband last year. Now have raised beds and growing my own food.
You feel like using grow lights and got it in your you- could always set up a grow area indoors over the Winter. Anyway I'm straight going for it I'm gonna see how long I can grow peppers indoors this year!😉
Jess, I love you, Miah and your family (friends). You make me feel like I could hope again in a hopeless/dreamless life. When I grow up (I'm 60) I would like to be more like you. I pray that all your dreams come to fruition as they line up with God's will for your life. I bless you.
Just the other day I was talking with my brother about a homestead community and how I wish there was a way to make that happen. I was feeling a little crazy for thinking that but I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has that distant dream.
One of the things I love about our 7 acres is that I aspire to make it a community for our 8 children to live on someday. We have one daughter living here already and another moving here in February. They are ready to help me make this a reality slowly. This will also be several years in the making. We are going to start with our blackberry labrynth while we build garden beds etc. it is going to be great. Keep dreaming.
Your ten acre plot idea is a beautiful dream! You are a leader and a voice for us all. This community dream is one of my own! I love everything about your channel!
I had to pause the video halfway to comment lol -- the community homestead is something I've been dreaming of as well!! But, like you, the means of even starting a project like that is so far and away, it may never come to fruition. However, you guys have proven to me countless times over the benefit of DREAMING BIG!! ✨ Even if we can never accomplish those seemingly impossible dreams, it is SO worth it to continue dreaming, as you'll find new, smaller ideas along that path that will prove just as worthwhile 💕 I'm planning on having my own little "farm stand" at my home to sell edible food starts, some of my homegrown produce, and maybe even some little bouquets! This dream has been largely fueled by your continued passion~ THANK YOU!! 💕
Jessica, I want to share with you some of the tips I've learned from my own journey with sensitive skin. I know you're already making changes to your wardrobe. Stick with natural fibers for anything that touches your skin, socks, underwear, t-shirts etc. I've switched to organic laundry soap and face cleanser, organic makeup (when I wear it), organic shampoo, apple cider vinegar and spring water conditioner and a little dab of coconut oil to tame my flyaway hair. Organic coconut oil is my choice for face and body lotion. Everything we put on our bodies in absorb through our skin. I feel your pain and wish I could take it away. Blessing dear one, this too shall pass.
There are so many different ways that people could set up homesteading communities! For people who just want to have a few neighbors that they know and can help each other out when needed, to those who could live on a smaller plot of land to just have a garden, and support a central farm for grains, staple crops, and livestock. I hope many people all over start developing the idea.
For everyone asking about homesteading communities, I know that there's something of the sort in Utah, called Riverbed Ranch. They bill themselves as a "resident-owned off-grid farming community," and they make various buildings using haybale construction, compressed earth, and earthbags. Beyond that, I know nothing about them, but just thought I'd put that information out there.
Jess, I also hold a dream of living in what I call a community based compound one day, so your dream resonates with me, and I will put you in my prayers for that dream, no matter when it comes to fruition for either of us. Be well. I love your channel.
Volunteer plants making it feel like home 😁 It is exciting when the land starts taking on the vibe and vision of the person that tends it! Homesteading neighborhood: Angela of parkrose permaculture mentioned a similar desire. I suggested she talk often to her neighbors and try convincing them to adopt the lifestyle.
Jess, something that came to mind as I listened to you talk about the land. 1. All things are possible with God. 2. How do you know you can't afford it. 3. Land doesn't have to be fed or tended UNTIL you are ready. Wonderful dream God bless
This dream speaks to my heart SOOO much! I’m so lucky that where I live I have amazing neighbors who are living similarly and ate willing to help. Plus my parents bought 40 acres 5 minutes away and we plan to help each other in our self sufficient journey.
Thank you for taking the time out of your crazy busy life to do these videos for us. You were a big player in inspiring us to chase our dreams. A few months ago arrived on our forever homestead! We left the city behind and never looked back! The only downside is the land is totally raw so we have to build all our barns, fencing etc so we are having to wait to get our livestock. BUT we are planting perennials and fruit trees and building gardens! I grew up on a homestead and I am impressed by your knowledge. Bravo!!! Sending much love from Canada
The hardest thing for us to find in our land was privacy. Many of the large lot real estate we saw, the house is right on the road. We wanted a home that you couldn’t see from the road and wouldn’t even know it was there if you didn’t know. We found the perfect little piece of property that is completely hidden but around the house has plenty of space for pasture and gardening, surrounded by lots of woods. It’s a dream. I think that’s something a lot of homesteaders also look for is privacy and it’s harder to find.
My heart sank and my breath was taken from me when you mentioned your dream. God’s pulling me towards You more then I want to admit and I’m struggling with “dream big”.
Hi Jess, Loved hang'n out with you today"Welcome Home!" Those white clouds in the sky look amazing...Surprise to you with your awesome clothes line. I have one and always will.🌱🌻🌻🌻🍁🍂
I think is totally good and valid just to be present at events like HOA, we get a lot of you throughout the year, and we’re more than grateful for that. 🇦🇺🙂
I’m thankful your diet is helping the eczema. I’m praying for your complete healing. I’m a 40 year rheumatoid disease warrior. No matter how I feel just moments in my garden singing & thanking God lift my spirit and then my body. Our spirit, mind program is working!!! Because of you, my grand daughter Marigold & I had our last Dr. Wyche tomato sandwich of the season. We love our tomatoes on sourdough but this one was on wheat because it was better than nothing. I would have never believed I could grow such an awesome fruit. Our sun gold tomato seeds must have crossed with something because the fruit were the size of golf balls. But Mari still enjoyed fresh tomatoes up to last Friday when our first frost struck one week early. We’ve gotten all the peppers, tomatoes & herbs for teas & cooking.
I've been watching that war time kitchen and garden show since you've mentioned it and it's great! My husband liked it too! I think the chickens in that garden area are the happiest little things at the moment.
There has been a huge movement in Canada of off-grid communities turning “Clear-Cut” areas into sustainable communities! Just thought I would mention it, in case anyone here wanted to look into it! Hope you are all doing well!!🇨🇦😎🇨🇦
@@Kelleena1on1 GoodMorning Kelleena ~ the communities I’m referring to are in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and British Columbia. The most recent documentary I watched was online at GEM TV under the heading of “Land and Sea” (I cannot remember the season or episode - sorry…about CLEAR CUT communities that have become successfully off-grid, sustainable, net zero communities. They are wonderful places. I hope you can find the heading. Carolyn mentioned that she too found it online last night, so it should be available if you search. It is a FREE online CBC documentary show by GEM TV. I hope that helps! If you still cannot find it, I will be home this Sunday and can do some digging into it for you, but let me know how your search goes? Wishing you the best and take care! 🇨🇦😎🇨🇦
@@amyreesor8128 Hi Amy ~ I told a few others about CBC’s online GEM TV show called “Land and Sea”. I cannot remember the season or episode, as there are decades of videos! But, if you search for the community in Nova Scotia with the key words CLEAR CUT, OFF GRID, and NOVA SCOTIA, it should take you there. I know the others were successful in finding it. It was only 1 of many in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and BC, but it’s the only documentary that I know off by heart. I hope this helps. Please, let me know if you cannot find it, and I can help when I return home on Sunday. Wonderful to hear from a fellow Canadian and someone who wants to make a better, sustainable life! Cheers🇨🇦😎🇨🇦
What you described is basically what I believe is going to happen around the country and possibly the world. But it's what I am hoping and praying toward for my future farm/ministry community. So many of us are starving for community!! We need like minded, like faith, like goals folks to set up and grow these dreams with.
Your piglets are so cute! I share your homesteads community dream Jess, I think it is the future for the world as people are realising how unsustainable modern life is. It will come to you - you are already living your hopes and dreams xx
I just want you to know how much you have inspired me. First off, I live in South Georgia. My husband had a job change this spring and so we moved into a rental while we search for the perfect property for us. I have since gotten permission from my landlord to put in a garden and have chickens! I need to do a lot of clearing to get more sunlight but in the meantime I've gotten two green stalks to plant and six chicks. I am struggling with some health issues that slow me down but I'm determined. And I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Thank you for sharing your journey. Thank you for inspiring and encouraging me and so many others.
My Memaw used to to watch a show called Victory Garden, and if you look for GOOD gardening shows these days... ugh. That is how I found you!!! While living through the LONG deep snow winters by a mountain in Colorado I needed something and there you were. Peace
I love leeks! We have grown them FROM SEED for two years now. They grow so well for us. They look like grass at first but get huge! I have learned a lot about them by watching Huw Richards' channel. We preserve them by dehydration.
Oh Jessica, it sounds like many of us have the same idea! I live in Albuquerque, NM on a little over 1/2 acre. We use every inch of it! We have 4 does and two weathers, chickens, and small gardens. I have dreamed about such a place! I broke my shoulder and must sell my tiny herd, but it is a challenge to harvest while in this condition. Don’t get me wrong my husband and my daughter help however, I daydream about having others to offer support… what a wonderful dream. Even if you cannot complete this dream right now others may be able to and there will be families that will benefit ❤️🙏👍🏼🌻❤️
I love that you talked about your dream of a homesteading community. I too have had this dream for the last couple of years. I feel strongly in my heart I am to do that.
Sounds like an eco village! People do them, and some are houses where people share a farm, and some are individual homesteads that center around a community.
I don’t know what it is….!?? But we r definitely kindred souls. Been watching your videos for years and community living is something I would love to do!!! Except I have spent the last 6 years building a house/ farm and raising a family. I know next to no one that gardens or cans or has animals they “actually kill”. A community living situation , where people share excess harvest and barter with time spent instead of money, would be a dream come true. Thanks for all the inspiration and reminding me that others have similar dreams❤
Hello 👋, Holy Waters Homestead here.. Have you looked into Babington’s Top Setting Perennial Leeks? The Backyard Larder has a lot of great info about it but in short it’s Cold Hardy to USDA Zone 5, with mulching. This plant is similar to the walking onion in that it forms bulblets on the flowering stalk, which can be replanted the following year. This leek also forms an underground bulb from which many new leeks emerge from the follow year allowing this perennial leek to be dug up and spread throughout the food forest very easily and you ll have leeks for dayzzzzzz. ❤ watching God bless 🙏
We have the same dreams. Only my children are grown and gone. I've always rented and I'm ready to own and have a small farm. A dream I never knew I had until my last child left lol. I'm praying I find it. I'm a Carolina girl born n' raised 😊
Hooray! I was really hoping you'd have a new video today so I could spend my birthday lunch break with my favorite garden gal. Thanks, Jess! You just made my special lil' day that much more special!!
Life done free is doing something similar in his area. As he sees property available he reaches out to like minded people to see if their interested in buying. Great idea
Lmfao I choked on my coffee trying not to burst out laughing when I heard the joke about "my kids looking like the milkman"!!! Maybe it dates me a little bit but that was pretty hilarious and awesome timing with him being the one to get the milk and putting dates on the lids 😂😂😂 Oh yes please Homestead Community you're dreaming about sounds beautiful. I think it would do the world some good and ivwould love to do that
I didn't film much this weekend either, just the video you were so wonderful as to film with me and a whole bunch of animal footage. 🤣🤣🤣 Again I appreciate you so much taking the time to do that and for everything else you do! I've always loved the idea of a commune except it lacks the independence and autonomy of ownership! Anything that's not yours entirely can be taken from you and I have had enough of that with landlords selling properties I've lived in! A homesteaders community though... That sounds lovely!!!
Totally agree with you Dani. Another benefit would be that you know that your neighbor would not be spraying harmful chemicals right next door. Also, as neighbors/neighborhoods with the same mindset and goals, would truly be a great support for one another. Hope you are doing well. Blessings on your day Kiddo!🥰🌻🌼🍁🍂🌾
A friend and I have talked about a homestead community where the houses are on their own 1 acre plots on the edges, and there is shared infrastructure in the centre for growing food, educating children, processing animals/crops etc.
Two summers ago I found 726 acres on a mountain in Utah … I had the dream of my family and closest friends to create a compound of sorts…. But they weren’t open to it then. NOW that things are what they are, the land is gone! 726,000 would have been a steal! Two ponds with a running brook between the two… two wells, it was a dream! So crushing
Love your future homestead community idea. I also want to suggest since you have discovered that linen is what your skin likes that if you haven't tried linen bedding yet you will absolutely love it. It's rather spendy but so, so worth the investment. I will never go back to cotton sheets. I can see them billowing in the fresh air on that awesome new clothesline of yours!
Your far off dream actually answers my prayers. Keep up that attitude of building a community of homesteaders. Maybe start with taking a small portion of your current land and creating a community garden where people from in town can come out and work small plots to grow their own food. Don't know if you really have enough farmable land at the community center or if you would have to do it on your home property.
I have literally been looking for property in SC for a while now. I currently live in Ohio and I want so badly to move south and start a homestead. I love Ohio, but I want a longer growing season, and to move closer to the ocean. I would ABSOLUTELY buy land in a homesteading community in SC once we had the funds to do so! This is such a great idea!
The homesteading community dream spoke to me. In the near future, I think community is going to be essential. I live in a little suburb surrounded by farmland, so I'm hoping to make good connections with my neighbours - now to figure out how to do that!
girl.... i guess i was a bush crafter... way back when i was a kid... i built forts in the woods all the time. that is where we played, rode bikes, and just had lots of fun
A community homesteading cooperative is an idea I've had for quite a while!! Different crops, meat and dairy. Land that produces the ability to barter and thrive in a healthy simple lifestyle.
Sounds great just don't list it with the government website☝🏼💖
Same!
I've had this dream too!
There is 120 acres for sale in next town over and I wish I had the capital to make 5 acre homsteads!!!!
The problem is that these large tracts of land are being bought up and developers pack them full of cheap houses. I wish people would stop selling land to developers!!
Like your comment @craftygranny....gives me more hope as I am a granny too and would love a small property to homestead....I see I am not alone at this age. It is sad....quite a bit o property here is sold to foreign interests. Continued prayer is essential regarding all of this. Thank you
That is such a good idea Jess. You could section off one acre of land each and rent them out and even start their garden beds for them and help and teach them homesteading. A LOTTT of people would love to live in a community like that. Learning and teaching each other things about gardening and about life🥰
I love this community living idea, it’s like a homestead iteration on permaculture communities! I helped to start co-op housing at my university years ago and it was such a fulfilling experience. There is something to being able to lift each other up through forming supportive communities and establishing communal resources 💛
Edit to add - I have recently experienced some health challenges and was thrilled to learn there was a medical supply loan closet in our county. Such a huge benefit to be able to access a wheelchair and accessibility devices at no cost when insurance is playing games. Feeling very grateful 😊
Prayers things get better health wise. God bless. So glad you had that option available for loaner equipment .
@@teresamariner4238 Thank you Teresa 💛 It really has been a blessing. I’m certainly putting in the work to try and stabilize and get back to work, but it’s definitely a marathon and not a sprint. Just got to take it day by day as it comes, it’s a lot like tending to a garden in that way.
Jess, I can only imagine what the future looks like for your family...your boys have so many doors open for them through the dreams of your family! So happy for Noah! I say it all the time in comments but your laugh and joy just makes me smile. Much love from Texas! :)
Believe it or not, I have that same dream, Jess. No necessarily purchasing all that land, but living in a homesteading community is my ideal dream.
Me too!
Me, three!
Me four!!
I feel the same way. It's nerve racking to think of buying a place and doing this on your own (as is my goal), but having like minded people and resources would be awesome, even just for trading, and encouragement.
We have had that dream too Jess and frankly, the way the world is going, not a bad idea. Having community of like minded people with different skills and still enough space that you are not on top of each other is a dream of great worth. We are so very blessed and thankful that we are out here in the "middle of nowhere". Many of our friends are town dwellers and love coming here for dinner or just to hang out and help in the garden, learn to can food and we love having them. We are so very blessed by that and they in turn bless us by their friendship and love.
Congratulations to Noah!!
You just described the exact dream I’ve had for a while! I keep telling my husband that I’d love to have a community where everyone owns their own property, but where we’re surrounded by other families living in community. Of course I’m the dreamer and he’s the practical one, so he always brings me back down to reality, but I would so love to make the dream a reality someday.
That dream of a rural self sufficient community is alive and well and in the hearts of many who aren't farmers at all, and others who are started in farming, but the times generate such dreams in all of us, and certainly RUclips is one reason this vision is afoot.
My father and I are both Realtors in east Texas, us and my brother regularly talk about developing a homestead community of sorts! YES PLEASE KEEP PUTTING THAT DREAM OUT THERE! You might not have to buy the land all y’alls selves when it comes to real estate there are many ways to buy and share property.
How can we do that!? I feel so sick letting the most beautiful 50 acres In a rural area get scooped up by developers and bulldozed. Ive tried researching but to no avail. How can someone purchase land and do this with essentially no capital to start? Thanks for any info
The thing about dreams is that they belong to you and no one can take them away, they stay in your heart
✨Im just going to say it...✨ Not only are you a wonderful, brillient, teacher and friend but I love love love that you are a trail blazer for learning itsself. I love that you instill in me to dream and learn how to make my dreams come true. 💫
BLESSED BE 🦉
Community is very important SoilSista! We started an yearly homesteading event called SoilFamily Expo here in Savannah Georgia where we invite our RUclips family to help encourage and teach homesteading. Absolutely amazing seeing everyone and learning for one another. I think an event for homesteading should be held everywhere!! It was nice meeting you over the weekend at HOA and we hope to visit your farm soon 💜
Love the community dream, I can envision it happening all over the world😊 Glad you're feeling better❤
Me too! Such a beautiful vision!
You know when you’ve done well when one’s children have to ask where the lighters are. Or the matches, candles and kitchen knives.
Not to mention the painkillers or cold remedies.
After hosting at Abundance +, Jess, you’re positively glowing. It’s heartwarming to see. 🇬🇧 x
Last summer season (New Zealand based) I grew 25 tomato plants from seed in my little backyard garden for the first time because of you. At the same time I fell pregnant and the smell of tomato plants and the taste of fresh tomatoes made me sick! This season I am hoping I will finally get to enjoy my harvest. I hope next summer you get to enjoy your tomatoes too! Thank you for everything that you do :-)
It blows my mind! All of those volunteers THRIVING with no tending
A little note about planting leek. It works best multi sowing the seeds in cell trays, because we generally want the long white stem. You can grow them about 10 inches tall, then separate them out and plant them about 6 inches deep.
I'm all about homestead neighborhoods 💗💗💗 this is a wonderful idea 💡
🎶..dream a little dream with me.. 🎶 All great things start as just a dream. We're with you!
That's what I keep dreaming of!! I've called it a "compound" when telling my family about it.
I saw a documentary about a green community with no cars, all kinds of gardens, a community center and several ponds. So, to me, it's what I'd call a modern Amish type community, where everybody contributes their time and skills. There's even a main Kitchen where everybody rotates working and they cook for everyone.
I can't imagine anybody living there still having an outside career. It seems so self-reliant and sustainable. They've built different parts of this community over the years, and you can tell by looking at the different types of structures of those pieces.
The most recent area that they developed was very similar to an apartment building. It was multi floors and there were nice balconies. I can't, for the life of me, remember where it is. Nobody ever is moving, and if they are it's typical for a child to purchase that property and move in. It's sort of a legacy neighborhood and very expensive.
That's what got me thinking about expanding my dreams!!
Maybe it was about you voicing your idea and someone else actually making it possible. Maybe it's something one of your boys can tackle. Either way, I'll keep watching your journey ❤️
I think that's an awesome idea - a homesteading community area! You don't have to 'make' it happen, dreaming is a great start. God and the universe are capable of amazing things. Thanks for all the awesome videos and letting us into your lives. 🌻
Jess, we had 3 pigs our 1st year in the country. The next summer my husband discovered several tomato plants with ripe tomatoes that were doing better than our garden tomatoes were. We were so excited .This was back in 1971 1972 . We had 15 acres and lived and loved that old farmhouse and land for the next 39 years. We retired and moved to the mountains 12 yrs ago. Have 13 acres here and once again love where I live alone having lost my husband last year. Now have raised beds and growing my own food.
Hello from Ohio! I had to start “packing up” my garden… the frost is here😢. I will be living through these videos the rest of the winter 😅
You feel like using grow lights and got it in your you- could always set up a grow area indoors over the Winter. Anyway I'm straight going for it I'm gonna see how long I can grow peppers indoors this year!😉
Jess, I love you, Miah and your family (friends). You make me feel like I could hope again in a hopeless/dreamless life. When I grow up (I'm 60) I would like to be more like you. I pray that all your dreams come to fruition as they line up with God's will for your life. I bless you.
Just the other day I was talking with my brother about a homestead community and how I wish there was a way to make that happen. I was feeling a little crazy for thinking that but I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has that distant dream.
Ooooo... I didn't know sunflowers pulled toxins out of soil - you really do learn something new everyday 😄 p.s... love the jumper and scalf Jess! 😍🤩👌
Look at all that life and beauty in the "sick" high tunnel 🤩🌻 it's wonderful to see
Good morning everyone happy Thursday morning and I hope you all having amazing day today and I loved your vlogs and you all amazing Supporter
Oh my goodness, that's my dream. A community like that. Caring for each other.
One of the things I love about our 7 acres is that I aspire to make it a community for our 8 children to live on someday. We have one daughter living here already and another moving here in February. They are ready to help me make this a reality slowly. This will also be several years in the making. We are going to start with our blackberry labrynth while we build garden beds etc. it is going to be great. Keep dreaming.
Your ten acre plot idea is a beautiful dream! You are a leader and a voice for us all. This community dream is one of my own! I love everything about your channel!
Fall is my favorite time of year too! I love seeing the harvest come in for a season of rest
I had to pause the video halfway to comment lol -- the community homestead is something I've been dreaming of as well!! But, like you, the means of even starting a project like that is so far and away, it may never come to fruition. However, you guys have proven to me countless times over the benefit of DREAMING BIG!! ✨ Even if we can never accomplish those seemingly impossible dreams, it is SO worth it to continue dreaming, as you'll find new, smaller ideas along that path that will prove just as worthwhile 💕
I'm planning on having my own little "farm stand" at my home to sell edible food starts, some of my homegrown produce, and maybe even some little bouquets! This dream has been largely fueled by your continued passion~ THANK YOU!! 💕
I have had the same idea for years and years. Hoping one day I get to see my dream come to fruition.
Jessica, I want to share with you some of the tips I've learned from my own journey with sensitive skin. I know you're already making changes to your wardrobe. Stick with natural fibers for anything that touches your skin, socks, underwear, t-shirts etc. I've switched to organic laundry soap and face cleanser, organic makeup (when I wear it), organic shampoo, apple cider vinegar and spring water conditioner and a little dab of coconut oil to tame my flyaway hair. Organic coconut oil is my choice for face and body lotion. Everything we put on our bodies in absorb through our skin. I feel your pain and wish I could take it away. Blessing dear one, this too shall pass.
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Good morning 🦉
There are so many different ways that people could set up homesteading communities! For people who just want to have a few neighbors that they know and can help each other out when needed, to those who could live on a smaller plot of land to just have a garden, and support a central farm for grains, staple crops, and livestock. I hope many people all over start developing the idea.
I LOVE your Homestead neighborhood idea! Love it!
For everyone asking about homesteading communities, I know that there's something of the sort in Utah, called Riverbed Ranch.
They bill themselves as a "resident-owned off-grid farming community," and they make various buildings using haybale construction, compressed earth, and earthbags.
Beyond that, I know nothing about them, but just thought I'd put that information out there.
Jess, I also hold a dream of living in what I call a community based compound one day, so your dream resonates with me, and I will put you in my prayers for that dream, no matter when it comes to fruition for either of us. Be well. I love your channel.
All kinds of news this episode. The kids are creating, and finding treasures. Noah, is starting a path he’s been dreaming of.
I absolutely Invision a homestead communities too.
Volunteer plants making it feel like home 😁
It is exciting when the land starts taking on the vibe and vision of the person that tends it!
Homesteading neighborhood:
Angela of parkrose permaculture mentioned a similar desire. I suggested she talk often to her neighbors and try convincing them to adopt the lifestyle.
Jess, something that came to mind as I listened to you talk about the land. 1. All things are possible with God. 2. How do you know you can't afford it. 3. Land doesn't have to be fed or tended UNTIL you are ready. Wonderful dream God bless
Congratulations Noah! That is so awesome that you have achieved your dream. Jess I love the ideas of your heart!
This dream speaks to my heart SOOO much! I’m so lucky that where I live I have amazing neighbors who are living similarly and ate willing to help. Plus my parents bought 40 acres 5 minutes away and we plan to help each other in our self sufficient journey.
That’s awesome! Did you and your parents want to do this for a while or how did it develop?
Fall is Nature's way of slowing down and getting ready for the resting and revitalization winter brings to the land.
I really love the idea of a like-minded communal living situation with permaculture and friendship as main goals :)
The dark fiber arts? Sounds like an elective at Hogwarts, love it.
That’s an incredible dream and hoping to see this happen in all areas of our Country. Blessings to you and your family, Cindy
Thank you for taking the time out of your crazy busy life to do these videos for us. You were a big player in inspiring us to chase our dreams. A few months ago arrived on our forever homestead! We left the city behind and never looked back! The only downside is the land is totally raw so we have to build all our barns, fencing etc so we are having to wait to get our livestock. BUT we are planting perennials and fruit trees and building gardens! I grew up on a homestead and I am impressed by your knowledge. Bravo!!! Sending much love from Canada
The hardest thing for us to find in our land was privacy. Many of the large lot real estate we saw, the house is right on the road. We wanted a home that you couldn’t see from the road and wouldn’t even know it was there if you didn’t know. We found the perfect little piece of property that is completely hidden but around the house has plenty of space for pasture and gardening, surrounded by lots of woods. It’s a dream. I think that’s something a lot of homesteaders also look for is privacy and it’s harder to find.
I'm so thrilled for Noah and his new business adventure. It's going be so
Successful !!! Good for him and his family to get started so young. 👍
My heart sank and my breath was taken from me when you mentioned your dream. God’s pulling me towards You more then I want to admit and I’m struggling with “dream big”.
Hi Jess, Loved hang'n out with you today"Welcome Home!" Those white clouds in the sky look amazing...Surprise to you with your awesome clothes line. I have one and always will.🌱🌻🌻🌻🍁🍂
I think is totally good and valid just to be present at events like HOA, we get a lot of you throughout the year, and we’re more than grateful for that. 🇦🇺🙂
I’m thankful your diet is helping the eczema. I’m praying for your complete healing. I’m a 40 year rheumatoid disease warrior. No matter how I feel just moments in my garden singing & thanking God lift my spirit and then my body. Our spirit, mind program is working!!!
Because of you, my grand daughter Marigold & I had our last Dr. Wyche tomato sandwich of the season. We love our tomatoes on sourdough but this one was on wheat because it was better than nothing. I would have never believed I could grow such an awesome fruit. Our sun gold tomato seeds must have crossed with something because the fruit were the size of golf balls. But Mari still enjoyed fresh tomatoes up to last Friday when our first frost struck one week early. We’ve gotten all the peppers, tomatoes & herbs for teas & cooking.
That is an awesome idea and Dream. Now that you have spoken this dream out loud, the universe has begun to prepare the way.
A beautiful dream!
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I've been watching that war time kitchen and garden show since you've mentioned it and it's great! My husband liked it too! I think the chickens in that garden area are the happiest little things at the moment.
There has been a huge movement in Canada of off-grid communities turning “Clear-Cut” areas into sustainable communities! Just thought I would mention it, in case anyone here wanted to look into it! Hope you are all doing well!!🇨🇦😎🇨🇦
Hello can I ask you where these communities are located , please ty
@@Kelleena1on1 GoodMorning Kelleena ~ the communities I’m referring to are in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and British Columbia. The most recent documentary I watched was online at GEM TV under the heading of “Land and Sea” (I cannot remember the season or episode - sorry…about CLEAR CUT communities that have become successfully off-grid, sustainable, net zero communities. They are wonderful places. I hope you can find the heading. Carolyn mentioned that she too found it online last night, so it should be available if you search. It is a FREE online CBC documentary show by GEM TV. I hope that helps! If you still cannot find it, I will be home this Sunday and can do some digging into it for you, but let me know how your search goes?
Wishing you the best and take care!
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very interested in knowing more as well. I'm in Ontario and NEED this
@@amyreesor8128 Hi Amy ~ I told a few others about CBC’s online GEM TV show called “Land and Sea”. I cannot remember the season or episode, as there are decades of videos! But, if you search for the community in Nova Scotia with the key words CLEAR CUT, OFF GRID, and NOVA SCOTIA, it should take you there. I know the others were successful in finding it. It was only 1 of many in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and BC, but it’s the only documentary that I know off by heart. I hope this helps. Please, let me know if you cannot find it, and I can help when I return home on Sunday.
Wonderful to hear from a fellow Canadian and someone who wants to make a better, sustainable life!
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What you described is basically what I believe is going to happen around the country and possibly the world. But it's what I am hoping and praying toward for my future farm/ministry community. So many of us are starving for community!! We need like minded, like faith, like goals folks to set up and grow these dreams with.
LOL. Your teaching your kids well. They are able to identify some plants. Awesome 👍👍👍 love the clothesline your hubby made for you.
💯🔥 love it!!! Dream and dream again!!!
Your piglets are so cute! I share your homesteads community dream Jess, I think it is the future for the world as people are realising how unsustainable modern life is. It will come to you - you are already living your hopes and dreams xx
I just want you to know how much you have inspired me. First off, I live in South Georgia. My husband had a job change this spring and so we moved into a rental while we search for the perfect property for us. I have since gotten permission from my landlord to put in a garden and have chickens! I need to do a lot of clearing to get more sunlight but in the meantime I've gotten two green stalks to plant and six chicks.
I am struggling with some health issues that slow me down but I'm determined. And I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Thank you for sharing your journey. Thank you for inspiring and encouraging me and so many others.
My Memaw used to to watch a show called Victory Garden, and if you look for GOOD gardening shows these days... ugh. That is how I found you!!! While living through the LONG deep snow winters by a mountain in Colorado I needed something and there you were. Peace
Your dream of that type of community living reminds me of the Amish communities!
Helping and sharing with neighbors…. Passing on invaluable knowledge
I love leeks! We have grown them FROM SEED for two years now. They grow so well for us. They look like grass at first but get huge! I have learned a lot about them by watching Huw Richards' channel. We preserve them by dehydration.
Oh Jessica, it sounds like many of us have the same idea! I live in Albuquerque, NM on a little over 1/2 acre. We use every inch of it! We have 4 does and two weathers, chickens, and small gardens. I have dreamed about such a place! I broke my shoulder and must sell my tiny herd, but it is a challenge to harvest while in this condition. Don’t get me wrong my husband and my daughter help however, I daydream about having others to offer support… what a wonderful dream. Even if you cannot complete this dream right now others may be able to and there will be families that will benefit ❤️🙏👍🏼🌻❤️
I love that you talked about your dream of a homesteading community. I too have had this dream for the last couple of years. I feel strongly in my heart I am to do that.
Sounds like an eco village! People do them, and some are houses where people share a farm, and some are individual homesteads that center around a community.
I don’t know what it is….!?? But we r definitely kindred souls. Been watching your videos for years and community living is something I would love to do!!! Except I have spent the last 6 years building a house/ farm and raising a family. I know next to no one that gardens or cans or has animals they “actually kill”. A community living situation , where people share excess harvest and barter with time spent instead of money, would be a dream come true. Thanks for all the inspiration and reminding me that others have similar dreams❤
Beautiful garden tour. Congratulations Mr. Noah on your own business 👏
Hello 👋, Holy Waters Homestead here..
Have you looked into Babington’s Top Setting Perennial Leeks?
The Backyard Larder has a lot of great info about it but in short it’s Cold Hardy to USDA Zone 5, with mulching. This plant is similar to the walking onion in that it forms bulblets on the flowering stalk, which can be replanted the following year. This leek also forms an underground bulb from which many new leeks emerge from the follow year allowing this perennial leek to be dug up and spread throughout the food forest very easily and you ll have leeks for dayzzzzzz.
❤ watching
God bless 🙏
A homesteading commune has been a DREAM of mine!
Congratulations Noah!
We have the same dreams. Only my children are grown and gone. I've always rented and I'm ready to own and have a small farm. A dream I never knew I had until my last child left lol. I'm praying I find it. I'm a Carolina girl born n' raised 😊
I know you’re dream I have felt it every day for more than 5 years now. I pray God provides for that dream, it is such a needed part of living
Hooray! I was really hoping you'd have a new video today so I could spend my birthday lunch break with my favorite garden gal. Thanks, Jess! You just made my special lil' day that much more special!!
Happy Birthday!!! God's rich blessings for your new year!! God bless!!
@@teresamariner4238 Thank you Teresa!
I wish all of us could live in a more self sufficient community. How you are living is a dream to the rest of us, though so inspirational!
Life done free is doing something similar in his area. As he sees property available he reaches out to like minded people to see if their interested in buying. Great idea
Lmfao I choked on my coffee trying not to burst out laughing when I heard the joke about "my kids looking like the milkman"!!! Maybe it dates me a little bit but that was pretty hilarious and awesome timing with him being the one to get the milk and putting dates on the lids 😂😂😂
Oh yes please Homestead Community you're dreaming about sounds beautiful. I think it would do the world some good and ivwould love to do that
Putting citrus in the pots is a great idea because it loves heat so you could move it out in the summer when the rest is getting shade in the tunnel
I didn't film much this weekend either, just the video you were so wonderful as to film with me and a whole bunch of animal footage. 🤣🤣🤣 Again I appreciate you so much taking the time to do that and for everything else you do!
I've always loved the idea of a commune except it lacks the independence and autonomy of ownership! Anything that's not yours entirely can be taken from you and I have had enough of that with landlords selling properties I've lived in! A homesteaders community though... That sounds lovely!!!
Yes, it does!!!
Totally agree with you Dani. Another benefit would be that you know that your neighbor would not be spraying harmful chemicals right next door. Also, as neighbors/neighborhoods with the same mindset and goals, would truly be a great support for one another. Hope you are doing well. Blessings on your day Kiddo!🥰🌻🌼🍁🍂🌾
@@marking-time-gardens Hi Carolyn!!! That is a great point! There would be so many benefits to a community like this!!!
@@WickedAwesomeGardening Another bonus could be that I might be so very blessed to have YOU as my neighbor... LOL! Blessings Kiddo!🥰🌻
@@marking-time-gardens Aaaaaawww blessings to you as well sweetie!
A friend and I have talked about a homestead community where the houses are on their own 1 acre plots on the edges, and there is shared infrastructure in the centre for growing food, educating children, processing animals/crops etc.
Two summers ago I found 726 acres on a mountain in Utah … I had the dream of my family and closest friends to create a compound of sorts…. But they weren’t open to it then. NOW that things are what they are, the land is gone! 726,000 would have been a steal! Two ponds with a running brook between the two… two wells, it was a dream! So crushing
Good dream, a homesteading village!
Hello from in a rainstorm
The kids can pretend they are wild foraging on volunteer melons. That's adorable.
I love hearing your dreams. It really encourages me to keep dreaming as well.
Love your future homestead community idea. I also want to suggest since you have discovered that linen is what your skin likes that if you haven't tried linen bedding yet you will absolutely love it. It's rather spendy but so, so worth the investment. I will never go back to cotton sheets. I can see them billowing in the fresh air on that awesome new clothesline of yours!
Congratulations Noah. Lots of customers coming your way in the future.👨👩👧👦
Your far off dream actually answers my prayers. Keep up that attitude of building a community of homesteaders. Maybe start with taking a small portion of your current land and creating a community garden where people from in town can come out and work small plots to grow their own food. Don't know if you really have enough farmable land at the community center or if you would have to do it on your home property.
Jess, I’ve been watching your Wilder Still show & your words are poetry to me. I hope one day you are called to write a story.
I have literally been looking for property in SC for a while now. I currently live in Ohio and I want so badly to move south and start a homestead. I love Ohio, but I want a longer growing season, and to move closer to the ocean. I would ABSOLUTELY buy land in a homesteading community in SC once we had the funds to do so! This is such a great idea!
The homesteading community dream spoke to me. In the near future, I think community is going to be essential. I live in a little suburb surrounded by farmland, so I'm hoping to make good connections with my neighbours - now to figure out how to do that!
Love the idea of homesteading community
Congratulations Noah! Noah and Jerimiah look and sound alike, wow. Beautiful.
Omg! I love that bbc show! I even recommend it to history teachers while teaching ww2 as a way to show what average civilians were going through!
Love the wartime farm show! They have a great Tudor era one and a few others as well. I’ve gotten so much great information from those show!
girl.... i guess i was a bush crafter... way back when i was a kid... i built forts in the woods all the time. that is where we played, rode bikes, and just had lots of fun