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part 1 of a 3 part podcast
Permaculture Smackdown 32: Homestead Gumption.
Andreas is in charge! He says that although homesteading can be fun in practice it can be repetitive, overwhelming at times, and costly. In various ways motivation (or gumption) fades and the homestead fails; he feels there needs to discussion about this.
Andreas says people ask if a permaculture homestead is actually possible. Paul says it definitely is but it's possible for the wrong choices to make it much more difficult and that can easily lead to lack of gumption.
Samantha joins in. Paul suggests that Samantha has a ton of gumption. She says that if you fail on something this year, you can always play again next year. It's not game over.
Andreas says city living people get discouraged even before starting to try to make a homestead. Maybe they need to experience a functional homestead first, such as boot camp. Paul says there's a lot of information out there but it's hard to know which advice to follow. Andreas says hands on experience shows people it's not as difficult as they think. Paul describes how it's much easier to get into homesteading as part of a group in a gardening gardeners program. Samantha says it's great to see people at boot camp starting from nothing and learning stuff. Andreas asks Paul how you get into boot camp. It costs $100 to join, you get a questionnaire, once that's done Paul will tell them when the next start dates are. Andreas asks if families are welcome. Paul says they can rent a cabin; 12 year olds or older can join in boot camp provided there's a parent with them. Younger kids can't join in and have to be supervised during boot time. There's other stuff they can do besides boot camp.
Andreas feels you need to become Gert. Paul agrees, Gert will have developed the skills to homestead efficiently. They agree it takes time and practice to achieve the competence to make homesteading easy.
Relevant Threads
Permaculture Bootcamp - gardening gardeners; grow the food you eat and build your own home
are there currently millions of permaculture millionaires? (the story of Gert)
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