Make THESE Mindset Shifts to Homestead Effectively

[Music] hey guys this is Josh and Carolyn I'm with homesteading family and welcome to this week's episode of The Pantry chat food or thought this week we're going to be talking about the necessary mindset shifts that you need to Homestead and some really exciting news about the school of traditional skills Summit and how it's kind of addressing some of those things well and some free training a week's worth of free training coming up here that's really good and it yeah we'll we'll get into it I'm excited about it and I'm excited about the angle and the the way it's going to really help with some really specific things that we've seen people struggle with so before we jump into the main topic though time for a little bit of chit chat a little chit chat you betcha what are you up to oh lots of harvesting we're here harvest season is on we are in the thick of harvesting right now um we had a really warm may this year so we're actually we're struggling with the opposite problem that we usually have usually we're like you know hurry hurry hurry here comes the frost like we we've got to get it in hopefully it gets right before the frost hits okay we'll probably still bump into that with some things but yeah probably but right now we're going uh this thing's ready to harvest and it's not cold out and that's kind of a problem for a couple of things that should be root cellared because our Root Cellar is not cold a basement and it's not cold it's it's actually quite warm right now and so I'm kind of trying to figure out what to do about that um cabbage is the number one problem right now for this we successfully grew gorgeous cabbage this year last years of cabbage last year 65 foot row packed filled with cabbage and it's already right now and it's hot outside and so there's no just like sticking it in The Root Cellar um so we're making a little extra sauerkraut right now all the heads that are like ready to burst we're we're turning into sauerkraut early and getting those packed away but the crab apples are ready the plums are almost ready we've already had the early apples in we've had a bunch of applesauce made so we're just kind of like humming right along in some ways it feels a little more spread out it's like every week we have a major preserving project instead of like two weeks of just like every day is a major preserving project um but in other ways it's just kind of a weird year it's a little off and a little I don't know what is normal anymore is there such a thing as normal I don't think there ever was I think that that's a you think a myth to a degree I mean there are certainly patterns that stabilize and maybe we're very destabilized we're definitely destabilized in a lot of different ways but I think weather I think a lot of different things that we want to see is normal there's often a lot more variability and I think that's the reality of working with nature and the homesteading life in our Modern Life we've gotten used to we can normalize the temperature in our house we can normalize the work day or the school day there's a flow there's a pattern that's very easy to control we can take our vacation here we can do this and that and so I think actually what we struggle with is the reality is we stepped into a home state life and we have to deal with more of the realities of nature of biology the intersection of biology and chemistry and weather and personality that we realize there's actually a lot more variability in in the natural life than we become accustomed to the Modern Life I like that the myth of normal that is kind of like yeah that's good there so what's the what's the thinking about mindsets which we're going to be talking about a lot here today and over the coming weeks and honestly we do in one way or another all the time what's the mindset that goes for you with the shift of wow this is a very different preservation year I've got you know we work hard to kind of spread things out and and make the Harvest doable that's one of the mindsets right but then it's not going that way and it's like so what's the mindset that that you have to adapt to deal with that because obviously that affects other areas of life because now you're having to preserve a lot more in a season or worry about like what am I going to do with the Cabbage since right it's uh not cold enough yet to get it in the cellar we'll call it the mindset of fluidity fluidity yeah I I don't like flexibility because flexibility implies some sort of like rigidity that can break right like okay if you're flexible it means you're breakable somewhere there's a Breaking Point very flexible and into the flexibility you're going with the flow I like it okay so we're calling this you can't get too hung up honestly on it yeah like you can't I can't be like but I was going to root cellar those and just stick them in The Root Cellar anyways right now it wouldn't work right you would right root sellers it's not cool enough right now it's just not going to work and so we're having to be fluid and just kind of go with the foot same thing with the milk cow some of you guys have been following along with our uh 2023 milk cow drama that we have right now I think we've we're wrapping up the drama but uh Tilly our long-standing wonderful milk cow came up open this year um and honestly we were really maybe paying enough attention to catch it before it was a surprise that wait isn't she supposed to be having a calf sometime and uh and then there was no milk yeah which is a big deal right like the cheese cave you can't see it right now but there's cheesecake sitting over there it is empty which is not good for this time of year it should be half full to start getting us through the winter and so we do now have a milk cow sweet little June June everybody calls her June bug the milk cow she's very nice and she's giving us a little less milk than we'd be expecting from Tilly this time of year we're getting about four four and a half gallons a day the we also have the goats now so we're getting one and a half to two gallons yeah so we're doing well so we're gonna start catching up on the cheese department but you know it's it's being fluid with the season and not getting too hung up on what it should be and just taking the next step to solving the problem fluid mindset I like it yeah yeah absolutely anyways what have you been up to wow well um you know the big Focus right now is Barn Edition that might sound like old news because we did that last year we're adding on to the other side so that we've got space to store all our wood shavings and a place to feed our cows and do the Deep padding and all of that and they're saying up here in Idaho North Idaho just can't have enough roof space and um but we're growing the animals are increasing you know we've got uh one Sun at least that's interested in um homes in farming right not just homesteading I just separate them right there myself right um so anyways that's the big project right now that I need to get done before the snow flies and we got plenty we got a lot of time I don't know that we have plenty of time we have a lot of time but I don't know if it's plenty of time so that's that's a big project besides just general um maintenance and keeping the keeping the animals rotating around the pasture and yeah and dealing with a lot of things breaking I mean vehicle what we had like two or three cars in the shop at one time and this thing's breaking and this stuff's breaking all over the place so that's that just takes a mindset of fluidity right there and not letting it get to you because it just seems like every time I turn around something's breaking we're pretty good at maintaining things we don't generally have a lot of problems with that but right now he walks in the door and I'm like do you want today's report do you want the list of things that are broken now yeah so so that puts me to research to try to find parts to like push to like hey Connor can you fix this go watch YouTube you know just a lot of scrambling but there's that but then there's getting ready for the school traditional skill Summit which is a high focus for me because that is a week of hanging out with a lot of our instructors and well-known instructors and and teachers as we're going to be talking about a lot of different things around systems and mindsets and I'm reading a book right now that I wanted to share a little bit with you in this book if you guys I don't know if you're familiar with John Lovell the warrior Poet Society now he's mostly speaking to men here and but this is a book about mindsets mental mindsets and the warrior and the poet and the complete man really but John is while he's if you know him from YouTube he's a Firearms trainer at special forces guy neat guy but he's also a homesteader and I wanted to share with you something that just is a little bit motivating it's not so much mindset but taking us back a little bit to some past mindsets and kind of why we're doing what we're doing so this is uh out of the warrior poet way Europeans in the 18th century seeking freedom from Britain tyranny fled across the Atlantic Ocean and droves to settle in North America what they were looking for was a little patch of Earth to call their own uh that sounds like us in a lot of ways today even though we're not going across the ocean they wanted to build a home plant some crops have some kids and be left alone from those who sought to control and exploit them I think we can definitely relate with that today Freedom didn't just mean the opportunity to do what you wanted it was to them the right to be left alone to live as they pleased classically a home was considered less a presentation of one's social status and thought more of as a pragmatic means of survival the home was meant to be a refuge from the world it was set up to self-sustain a family against cold Winters starvation wild animals and Marauders there was no power grid to plug into and no grocery stores down the street a family lived surrounded by their livestock and crops they cut firewood and seasoned it for cooking and heat your vocation may have supplemented your ability to stay alive but your homestead was the real way you endured and I actually wanted to read quite a bit more but that's going to take some time let me just end with this there's never been a better time to learn to live more self-sufficiently taking care of yourself and providing for your basic needs is an essential part of the masculine Journey again he's speaking mostly to men here but it applies to all of us it's an opportunity to become a better provider too because you've insulated yourself against all kinds of socio-economic crises that may arise and I love that mindset John I don't know if you'll ever see this love the book um and I just love the thought of the mindset that we need to have here in these day and times and remember what we're doing and what a home is and what a homestead is they didn't call that homesteading but they were doing the same thing they were looking to break free from the systems that they were in bondage too and create real security and health for you know themselves their families and ultimately Society yeah you know in that goal and that that's that's a lot of what we're doing here today it is a lot of what we're doing here today you know I find it interesting that historically land was valued based on what it could produce yes right not on the social status aspect right all the and we've totally lost that and now it's yeah now it's the view or it's the location or it's you know whatever it is and um and I find that fascinating that you know I look at prices of something like in a apartment in New York right you don't you don't even have enough real estate State hardly to turn around and you're paying this huge amount and I think oh my goodness if something went wrong like and you were living in that place you have zero capability of taking care of yourself and I think and then you're paying exorbit and you're painful you have no self-sufficiency it just is I think there's a time that we are going to regret that as a culture that there are going to be a lot of people who are going to be like I was paying for the wrong thing I think that time is now I mean you know it is happening now people are moving people in that situation they're they're realizing where security is where real freedom is real Freedom isn't just doing whatever you want to do you know it's it's wrapped up in security and taking care of the people that you love and a healthy culture and Society yeah and being able to organize that the way you want and live that the way you want today we want just the freedom to just be comfortable and consume and do whatever we want whatever whatever that's actually a path to bondage this is what that is yeah yeah well anyways there you go I'm thinking a lot about those things and we're going to talk about the summit a little bit today and because while we're always talking skills uh we're going to be talking about uh you know these Concepts yeah that's the theme of The Summit but before we get to that and mindsets uh we had a question or two here question of the day you said um question number two from Becca hi Josh and Carolyn I hope you are all well we are thank you Becca I have a question about the fermented ketchup recipe every time I make it I'm sorry I just need my glasses to read uh every time I make it the consistency by the end of the fermentation has solidified in my jar do you know why this happens I have never seen that happen um it hasn't happened to us I have I actually got to wonder about the tomato paste you're using if it has any strange thickener in it that it's then thickening down so I would check the ingredients on that maybe use a different one but then a different brand of tomato paste and just try that and see what happens but you might also try changing whatever fermented starter you're using whatever liquid you're using and try something else you know go to the if you're using a kombucha right now as your starter go to like a you know vegetable the brine off of a vegetable that's been fermented and try that and see if that helps because ours definitely does not do that it um maybe gets a little bit looser during the fermenting process but not not more solid yeah okay uh Amanda Vandenberg an old-fashioned egg preservation do you have a preference of taste between freeze dried or glassed eggs interesting question good question so if the water glass eggs are fairly fresh meaning you know they're we're not pushing their storage ability then the two of them taste pretty much identical I don't think that there is a big difference um so for me it would really come down to how long am I wanting to store these eggs and what am I wanting to do with them if you're wanting to just store them for the year then the water glassing is absolutely fine especially if you're wanting to be able to do something like fried eggs out of them then you know go go that direction if you're wanting to go you know a year and Beyond with your freeze-dried eggs and you don't mind having only like scrambled eggs then or eggs for baking then the freeze-dried eggs are great that way but but you can definitely put up more water glass eggs more quickly than you can freeze drying freeze drying you have the limit of you know the tray size and how long it takes to run it well and a lot less expensively obviously that's why it's the method that it is historically right because it was very simple to do and they didn't have freeze dryers or canners or anything else and it was yeah I mean even nowadays doing a whole buckets of eggs are super inexpensive assuming you're you know not counting the cost of the egg but the actual preservation of it itself is super cheap you do have a volume issue that's one of the things I've noticed you know how many eggs you can store from the freeze dryer when you're trying to put up a lot of food you do get a volume the glass eggs takes a lot of volume the water glass eggs take a lot of volume yes they do because they you're storing them in their shell so they don't all settle in yeah yeah so they taste about the same though as long as those water glass eggs are still not old very cool yeah all right so today we're talking a little bit about mindset when it comes to homesteading and I think this is something that Josh and I have both seen as we've had on Farm events we've had interns even our own children is that you kind of have these two different parts to learning homesteading and one is you have the actual skill yeah right the skill to do a particular thing whatever it is you know you want to can you have to learn how to can you want to raise chickens you have to actually learn how to do that and the steps to doing that but then the other side is the mindset side because the mindset has to be different to be a successful Homesteader than it is from your average everyday City Life there's actually significant differences and we've started seeing that this is the place where a lot of people are getting really hung up and they're starting to have challenges because of this mindset thing the shift that needs to be taken and I don't know if we even have it all 100 qualified like what are the exact Minds that's hard to say mind set shifts that need to happen um but I think we have a few that I've been noticing in people that really could help them be successful in homesteading yeah so I think by mindsets it's a way of thinking about things and approaching things right it's great to know how to can freeze dry water glass eggs how do you apply all those things in a way that works for you in your situation right in space and time when one Garden year is different than the next right there's all these dynamics that affect the skill that you do right and when and how and what's the best skill for you to do it's a it's really a hard thing to articulate so it's something I mean it's something the pantry trap was really created to articulate when we realized years ago we needed another way to talk about things that wasn't just teaching a skill how-to video skills how do we explore these ideas and thoughts I think we're getting to the point like how do we start to better articulate and talk about mindsets right and so do you have do you have one in mind well I have a few of them that one is observation okay I think it's very natural for us in our modern world to just go do right to just go and you've talked about this a lot in regards to like property planning and design of the property with permaculture but even just in day-to-day life like it's very easy to want to just go do things and go practice that skill like okay I'm going to learn how to can and tomorrow I'm gonna can like you have to put it into the context of the whole what all is going on and especially as you get different systems and different things running in the homestead you've got the garden you've got some animals you know you're running the kitchen you've got you know your preservation going on one has to always be affecting the other right and in order to be able to see that system as a whole you have to stand back and you have to look at it you have to give yourself some room to think and to plan and this is one thing that I've talked about quite a bit when I talk about household management Homestead management is this like walking around with a notebook and not doing anything like don't stop and weed the garden just walk through the garden and look and observe and take your notes like that's your only job that you're doing is looking at things what's going to need to be picked you know what what do I need to pick today what do we need to pick tomorrow what's going to be coming in shortly what's not coming in on schedule you know how is this all going how do the plants look are they healthy are they not healthy um but doing that in the context of your whole Homestead like walking through your kitchen walking through your pantry walking through the barn walking through all these areas and just giving yourself time to observe because I think we really have this lack in modern day we're so used to being maybe a little bit the Cog in the wheel like just that one little piece and we just are going to focus and just do our one little thing we're not used to standing back and having to observe the whole thing and make adjustments based on all these other things that are happening well then it comes with the Modern Life in an older life when you have to deal with weather more you have to deal with Predators more you have to deal with Marauders John's mentioned in there in his book you know whatever the threat is we don't have to deal with I think those are flea beetles in our property yeah right yeah um we don't have to deal with as many of those threats and so we don't have to be observant yeah you know but we do as homesteaders we do as we're re-engaging and honestly if the world's going where a lot of US thinks it's going we need to really be using our homesteads and our homesteading life as training because we are going to face more different kinds of threats that we need to be more observant about and so it becomes a continual mindset you know I trained the kids I was just talking to one of one of our little boys today about weed whacking and he had just kind of gone through and done the job and you know I tell them you haven't done the job if you haven't stopped and observed yeah you don't just go through and weed whack an area right when you're done preferably while you're doing the job you stop and look before you leave an area You observe but when you're done certainly you actually haven't finished a job if you haven't stead back looked and observed your work and said did I get everything right that's just another angle and observation but yeah that's a that is a I mean I'd put that up there we haven't listed these out yet somewhere maybe that's a project to do but I'd put that up there as a pretty high yeah important mindset yeah I think so too yeah I think another one that I've really seen in people especially right now and this is this is really important I think is that there there's this such this urgency to like learn and get these systems in place and start filling the pantries and the Barns and everything else that's going on um and just this urgency to do that there is a lack of balance in the enjoyment and the being still side too and that's you and I are bad at that you know we're just gonna go go go go and it's this is how people burn out this is one of the reasons people burn out and they go go go go go until you know they're five years in they're like I just don't want to live this way this is crazy and to assume all their resources that on the other Financial physical right whatever yeah but approaching things with the balance and that's another mindset that has to be you know built in there another one is um slow as fast and Fast is slow oh this is so good very applicable to animals but as I've talked to people as the kids and I have talked and they I watch them bring it out in different areas and I'm having a hard time recalling somebody was just recalling this in another area but um you know with the animals it's very prevalent we're just so conditioned to want to like push through that mentality to do but we want to get it done so we're often pushing and moving fast it almost always slows us down the work's got to be redone we cause problems uh if you're working with animals and you're trying to push those animals hard they go every which way but when you're willing to go slow it's so it's always faster and I remember very poignant conversation with our oldest son Tristan trying to get a bowl in in a like three acre field One Bowl two of us on foot and we're feeling in a hurry we need to get somewhere you know yeah and having to slow down and go you gotta take your time yeah slow as fast fast is slow and that's very good good one to remember it's it's I mean it's really unlimited and this is a is a fun type of conversation to have and I would encourage you guys to be thinking about the mindsets on each of your own homesteads stats and that you need but we are about to have a week-long session at the school of traditional skills the second annual traditional skills Summit here starting September 11th where the theme is talking about mindsets and systems right around homesteading skills yeah and so we're going to dive into this and I'm going to dive into this with a whole lot of neat people Sean and bet Doherty Justin Rhodes well Carolyn Thomas I'll be there Dr Patrick Jones uh Adam Martin who I'm really excited to introduce a lot of people to he is a mostly natural beekeeper and I like that mostly because he keeps it real um he's found a very very good balance that I think is awesome for us Homestead oh good yeah and um so anyways we're going to be talking about mindsets around these people's different you know Specialties and skill sets yeah I know that I'm going to be talking about mindset shifts that need to happen around getting three meals on the table every single day and like how you actually do that and it does take shifting your mindset you you have to approach it differently than you approach it you know going to the grocery store all the time and having convenience foods and you know going to take out and all of that you actually have to change your mindset in order to make that work and when you do it actually can all fall into place and so you know each of these different subjects has these little lunch set things that have to change in order to make them really really click and really work and so it's so exciting to be able to have so many different Brilliant Minds can I say that since I'm on the way but I mean Joel saliton coming Dr Patrick Jones Sally Fallon Morel I mean that's this is exciting to get to talk to all of these people and understand how their mindset shifts have helped them be successful at what they're doing right you know we've got Sean and bet Doherty who are new instructors this year for the school of traditional skills and they're going to be talking about making the most of what you have so that mindset of making do right is the old phrase and the short phrase making do and they've been home saying for 27 years on low budget and thoroughly providing for themselves and so that is a mindset is looking for opportunity you know to make do and working with what you have so that's a great one that's coming yeah another one that's going to build on what you're talking about or maybe you're going to build I don't know quite the differences but that's Shannon Hayes uh really excited about in creating an efficient kitchen oh that's a good one efficiency in the kitchen I mean a lot of what we're doing is about food right so whether it's the three meals a day or whether it's just managing the kitchen and how to be efficient through there yeah you know just a lot of neat neat uh stuff here Sally Fallen Morel is talking about creating a legacy of Health oh that's a good one yeah yeah it does yeah but even Brandon Sheard talking about becoming a home butcher becoming your own home butcher like that that seriously I know for us there were mindset shifts specifically for me that really had to take place in order to get to this like oh we can do this this isn't a problem and I can cook off the meat that we've got like this but it's actually more mental all of these things you can get the how to's and the how to's are so important you have to learn the actual skill of doing it otherwise you're kind of dead in the water but until you're able to take that how-to and combine it with that mindset shift yeah you can't actually effectively apply it it just becomes this thing that you know but you don't know how to turn it into a lifestyle and not integrate it yeah to integrate it and that's really the difference here so this is going to be really exciting to get to spend a whole week focusing on how to make that mindset shift yeah so really really want to invite you guys if you haven't signed up I know a lot of you probably already have but if you haven't get signed up for this I know you probably can't make it to all the sessions you know but there will be replays and um you know what another cool thing I don't know that they'll be talking about so much about mindsets but we have sponsors this year that are going to be doing some free trains Redmond is going to be doing some free training between the instructor sessions oh yeah and um going to be teaching about salt and salt and minerals and soil and a lot of good stuff so I don't know that their angle is mindsets but it's going to be really neat so we've got that this is packed full so really exciting I'm gonna have to go back over the next month or two and yeah some of them I mean I'm not going to be all in the main ones but we've got another group that's coming and talking about the mindset of money and and financial investment as well a little bit different than what we think of the homesteading skills but it is a little more putting your your value your investments in more traditional Pathways I'll leave it at that you know for investment which is another important thing for us is we're living the life we're living for the reasons that we're doing it and creating resiliency and security against you know government socioeconomic whatever um so super super cool stuff this is really packed full and I'm gonna go off on a trail because I just like to tell you everything about it but you want to make sure that you get signed up for this get on the list and here's another really really cool one oh Harvest Right is giving away a freeze dryer an entire nearly four thousand dollars worth of value oh wow yeah giving it away to somebody that's registered for the summit so another great reason right there to sign up and make sure you catch a few of those sessions and and there's going to be some other cool stuff too that I don't have all the details to yet but a lot of neat things all wrapped around mindset and you know like Carolyn was saying this life we got to learn the skills but it's really the mindset that helps us integrate these different skills into our life in the way that we're living that makes all of this work and so we're going to be exploring that for a whole week that's really neat because I feel like there's a there is a shift happening in the conversation around homesteading right now where it is going from this this very like everybody's trying to figure out the skills everybody's trying to figure out how to ferment everybody's trying to figure out how to keep animals and how to rotate now the question that I'm hearing a lot is how do we make this all work like how do we actually make your life happen with all these skills and so this is really exciting because this is what this is what we're all thinking about collectively and homesteading right now it's like okay this is great but what does life look like on the other side and that's where the mindset is so and that's what keeps you going for the Long Haul and prevents burnout yeah and exhaustion is working through these things discovering these mindsets and putting them to work just like a skill so if you have another mindset struggle that you are dealing with that you realize you're dealing with put it in the comments below we'd love to hear about that and then we will make sure to get you a link to be able to sign up for the school of traditional skills Summit the traditional skills Summit 23 is that what it is officially the traditional skills Summit 23 sure that works okay that works um we'll make sure to get you a link there so you can sign up for that and we're really excited to get to see over there make sure you come over and say hi to my presentation that'll be fine I'm always scared nobody's gonna show up foreign [Music] [Music] great hanging with you guys and look forward to seeing you at the summit and look forward to seeing you here next time for the next Pantry chat we'll see you soon goodbye [Music]

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Published: Sat Sep 02 2023