Can you Homestead as a Vegetarian or Vegan? | Our Plant Based Lifestyle
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- Опубліковано 19 гру 2018
- Can You Homestead as a Vegetarian or Vegan? Absolutely! We have a plant-based lifestyle and have also fully embraced the homesteading movement. In this video, we share about our decision to adopt a plant-based diet and because of that, a vegetarian homestead. We talk about some reasons why a vegetarian homestead may be right for you, as well as an example of a really delicious recipe that is 100% plant-based. This a judgement free page, and by no means do we want to push any of our views on you. We do; however, want to be honest about our life, and this is a big part of it!
Are you looking to become more sustainable, grow you own food, and live this homesteading lifestyle as a vegetarian? Comment below so we can connect!
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Finally! My people!! I am a plant based homesteader and was beginning to think I was alone. I do love the homesteading community, it's great for the most part, but have found some animosity about being plant based. I've been told I wasnt a real homesteader because I dont have meat/dairy animals. I also believe that if you are going to eat meat then you should be the one raising it and processing it. I come from a ranching family, and am a 4h and FFA alumni, however I love animals and could never harm them. It's not in me💛
You are not alone!! & that is SO frustrating to me that someone has said you’re not a real homesteader. That is so far from the truth, homesteading can mean so many things. I am so glad you found our channel!! 💛
“Animosity about being plant-based”. Sounds quite fitting, when you think about it.😊
I am thinking about buying a property but, no, I am DEFINITELY not interested in raising meat animals.
Finding this and listening g to her...I thought the EXACT same thing, ‘these are my people!’ It would be so cool to have a community of vegetarian or at least mostly plant-based homesteaders. And have community gardens, farming. 💁🏻♀️🙌🙏🌿🌻🌞🌍
Big respect to you lady, no=one has to buy into the turgid perceptions of someone who has slaughter symbols in their eyes, luv n light x
I grew up similar to you and my family is a big hunting family and I was also in 4H. I believe the same if people want to eat animals they need to raise or hunt it and process it themselves. I can't bring myself to do this so I wont. I am excited to start a plant based homestead
You're the FUTURE! Leading the way....healthy and compassionate. The world needs more Sunshine Farm!
Well it is very kind of you to say that! Health and compassion are definitely important things for us to focus on, and I think it's amazing that they pair together so, so, well! -Jenn
so excited to find your channel! I'm vegan and really want to have a homestead, my boyfriend and I are looking to buy our first place. glad to know there is a community of people with similar values and ideas and that vegan homesteading is possible!
Michelle! I'm so happy to have you here!! I have loved connecting with other plant based, vegan, vegetarian homesteading dreamers, and just sharing a message that homesteading is SO possible for all different walks of life. I look forward to continuing to connect with you.
Great video! Very inspiring. I also plan on becoming vegetarian homesteader in upstate NY.
I turned vegetarian the day I left my farm in Brazil not knowing when I’ll return and a bull that I raised from calf came up to where I was sitting and laid down next to me and put his ginormous head on my lap. We have a lot to learn from these magnificent beings. God bless you guys
What a beautiful story! Are you currently settling in Upstate NY? We definitely love this plant based homesteading lifestyle! -Jenn
Sunshine Farm thank you! Not yet, I work in Montauk. Complete opposite from upstate
But still visiting and getting to know some of the regions in upstate. loved the Adirondacks, saratoga springs and the catskills. Open to any suggestions
There are so many lovely regions in Upstate! We’re actually on the western side of Upstate, near Rochester NY, in the finger lakes region, and we are really happy here.
Sunshine Farm nice! Still have to visit finger lakes and 1000 island region
👍🏾 looking to start a vegan homestead
That's awesome!! It's an amazing way to live and has such a positive impact on the land (& animals!!)
We agree with a lot of what you're saying. We're going to end up as a vegetarian homestead as well. Like you, I don't think anyone here has it in them to process an animal. Good video.👍
Green Dream Project I’m so glad you’re on a similar journey! It can be hard to find people to relate to, and it’s often a subject people don’t like to talk about out of fear of judgment. I’m all about being open and being accepting regardless of whether we agree. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!!
A part of me deep down really wants to live this way, but I didn't think it could be done without meat. I'm a vegetarian so I felt defeated. I'm glad I found this video.
I would love to start a vegan homestead. I'm trying to do research, make the plan and create the vision. Thank you for helping me and showing the world how its done.
I am so glad I stumbled across this video. I have always wanted a farm, have always wanted to raise farm animals and grow my own food. I love gardening, animals, and the environment in general. Having a homestead is a complete connection to our amazing planet and it is such a beautiful thing. Only thing is, I am 100% plant based. Whenever I mention wanting a farm to anyone, they think I’m crazy when I tell them I wouldn’t raise animals for meat. So seeing your lifestyle is very encouraging. I am only 17, but I am preparing for college and my future, and this lifestyle is definitely the dream I wanna chase. Again, thank you for sharing :)
So glad to be able to connect with you!! It’s awesome that you already have that dream firmly in mind so early 😊
I am interested in homesteading but don't like eating meat so this makes me so happy!
Sometimes, it's better to eat food that is native to your homestead.
@@sephangelo4603 You mean plants that naturally grow around me?
Yes! I'm in my second year of my Full Circle Homestead in SC. I have raised veggies for almost 50 years and have recently added quail, chickens and rabbits. Mostly for the manure which has made my garden explode! I am mostly vegan. No one I know of around here is even plant based, much less having a homestead. I live on a quarter acre suburban lot.
Go YOU!! That’s amazing.
I’m so happy to have found this video. My husband and I are starting our plant based homestead in a little over a month. I am feeling all the emotions.
I really enjoyed this video. I had a moment finally to myself to check it out. We have chickens but don't eat their eggs. My daughter will have them once in a while. I started out eating them in the beginning. My husband went 100% plants for health reasons several years back and we started transitioning. I plan to keep chickens though. They've cut our tick population, eaten the snakes, mice, etc. And we get free tilling of our garden soil! Plus, I really love their personalities. We're learning more and more about growing our own food and our daughter sells the eggs to learn to save, spend and give. Thanks for sharing your video.
I'm so glad you watched it! I just love keeping chickens, they have so many benefits to a farm with their ability to keep away pests, and produce amazing fertilizer, lol. The eggs are kind of just an added bonus for us. If we didn't have chickens, I doubt we would eat eggs, it's mostly due to the fact that we know exactly how the chickens are cared for and they lay them without us doing any work.
@@SunshineFarm The goats give you good fertilizer too. And the chickens and goats eat the plant waste.
Norma Hogarth I like this system.
Exactly why I became a vegetarian over 30 years ago. Well, actually, I’m pescatarian & I plan to stock my dam with fish & harvest what I need. People from either side of the plant/meat argument might see that as a “gotcha”, but I don’t think the soul always follows logic. I won’t eat what I’m not prepared to kill, which I think is more than can be said for the majority of meat eaters.
Best of luck to you, from Australia ❤
I've been vegan for 10 years and craving this thing called 'homesteading' as a life style for my entire life but I didn't even know it was a word or a term until today lol! I just found and subbed your channel and I'm so excited. I literally live in a city and apartment but someday my partner and I are moving into a house in the country nearby and I know we'll live more like this and I'm already dream of it :)
That’s amazing!! Thanks so much for your comment, it made my day!! I’m so glad this video got you excited and dreaming. ✨
Very cool! My partner and I are vegetarians and recently bought my grandfathers horse farm. We have pet pigs (compost machines) and chickens (breakfast makers), and look forward to our veg homestead journey! Love the call for community.
That’s awesome!! What kind of pigs do you guys have. We loveeee our companion farm animals!
I'm so glad I found you! I sold all my birds and became a vegetarian 7 years ago after my 2nd or 3rd time processing roosters. 😭 It wasn't getting easier to kill them and cut them up like people said it would, and I was bawling by the end of it. I will probably raise chickens again, because I did really enjoy them...but not for meat. My focus will be on creating an abundant permaculture food forest instead. :)
Beautiful souls lovely to see a plant based run homestead, without the eating of violence big respect to you luv n light x
Thank you for your voice, this is really important and needs to be spoken about and I’m sure many many more people feel this way. Just need to keep sharing this message it’s very good, non violence. Peaceful life and farming great ideas. How do you feel about Aquaponics? Raising fish and plants together?
Super happy to have found you! Our family farm/ ranch is in Texas. We my husband and I are almost 70yrs old and just starting to establish some gardening practices/vegan homesteading in our retirement! Looking to learn a whole lot!
This is our goal! Probably about 3 years away but we are in prep stage! We are vegan but are open to having chickens for eggs. So glad I found your channel
I'm very grateful for all the vegetarians and vegans in the world. Thank you! Vegan (since 2007) greetings. PS: whoever thinks veg homesteading isn't homesteading is being silly, especially if you want to be as self-reliant as possible, most people don't grow grains and animals that are raised to be killed for their meat are usually fed grains. You can grow amaranth, lupines in most places and get all the essential amino acids from each of those plants. The space can be used for those plants instead of for animals and you're a lot more self-reliant and cost-effective than if you have to feed animals (with your grains or grains that you buy) on top of it all.
Yessss!!! I want to do this, my partner and I are currently in the process of coming up with our plans.
I could never raise an animal for consumption either. I love them so much.
I joined the Facebook group , hoping to learn more ❤️🌸
Yea!! I love finding homesteads like this. I’m mostly plant based and when I get my farm in a few years, this is the goal! I will definitely have lots of animals, but just for entertainment purposes mostly :). My question is what percentage of your food comes from your farm?
Brittany Lewkowicz I love that!! So this year was the first year we grew our own food, and we mostly produced our own pasta sauce, potatoes, salsa, hot sauce, pickled veggies, and stuff like that. Our goal is to produce 80% by 2020, but I’m going to keep track of what we do this year to see if we’re on target to meet that goal. 😊
You are the real deal. I have endless respect for you guys. I can't even explain what a high esteem i have for you.
You are the future of mankind and the most righteous type of people on the planet.
I am of course vegan or (vegetarian because i eat eggs from rescued hens we raise freely) and have been since birth because my family on my mother's side has been vegetarian for countless generations for religious reasons. I am a veterinarian married to another vet so it is of course out of question to eat anything of animal origin beside unfertilized eggs. The proceeds of our job go to animal rescue which is why we have opened three rescue shelters, (pets, farm and exotic animals , all rescued from slaughterhouses, dairy farms, fur, feather and skin factories, circuses, breeders, movie sets, and labs) . The only hard part is to get the meat to feed those animals, but we actually work with the least cruel slaughterhouse we could find (don't get me wrong they are all cruel) and i go pick up the left over every day (not the funniest trip) to feed our animals.
If you guys ever need any financial support, feel free to contact us, we will gladly help however we can.
Greetings from Europe.
Check out a channel named Vegan Athlete. They don't live in the US anymore so you'll need to go back a year or maybe more. He lived in Arizona in town and he had a food forest in his yard. He had so much food you won't believe it. I think he had food growing everywhere except the paths.
Love that channel!! Just found them recently and am really enjoying the videos. Thank you for the suggestion!
Excited to see more videos from you! We are a vegan family from PA. We had a small garden last year, and it was amazing. We're going wild this year and hope to grow a large portion of our diet right on our own land :)
How cool! You guys aren’t too far away from us either. That’s amazing that you are hoping to grow most of your own food. We are excited to do the same. Thank you for following along our journey! -Jenn
I am super excited to find your channel! We are working on finding our homestead with the plan to be a vegetarian homestead!
Have been looking for vegetarian homesteading to follow! Glad I found your channel :)
Great video!! I love your thoughts on vegetarian vs non-vegetarian homesteading. I love that you are striving to do what you can! :)
I'm glad you liked it! It seems like there are a lot of people out there looking for more information on this, so I'm glad we can be a resource on this topic!
I love this video.
Youre my kind of people. Thank you for being part of the Plant Based family.
Love your channel
My husband and I bought a 2000 square metre property against a mountain in Sub-tropical area in Pretoria, South Africa and our desire is also to plant our own produce and live off the land - even if we can reach a 50% self-sustainability we will be quite happy. We love to learn from others.
Although we are Plantbased-VEGANS we are interested to know that if we DO rescue chickens (and dont want them to re-produce --- what can one do with their eggs, without giving it away or selling it.) As we do not want someone else to start an inhumane chicken farm from the eggs we sell or give away.
We would like your advice. We heard from farm sanctuary in Watkins Glen (Gene Bauer's) farms, that they feed the eggs back to the chickens so they get calcium in their diet (I hope I am relaying the message correctly)
Anyway, thanks for your channel.
yes, so many of us are doing and thriving , thankyou
Yay!
I love this. Thank you for doing what you do.
So glad you liked it! 🌱😊 thank YOU for watching! -Jenn
I love this video. My family is also plant based and looking for our future homestead. You guys are a great inspiration to me with succeeding in our future homestead. Thank you
I just came across your channel and love everything you stand for! I am also a dairy-free vegetarian (eating eggs on occasion) and love gardening! Unfortunately I can't do the full-fledged homestead lifestyle yet, but watching you is so inspiring! Please keep it up 👍❤️
That’s awesome Brittany!! I’m really glad you found us and I’m really, really happy we can inspire you, even if you can’t do the whole homesteading thing yet. 😊
I’m a vegan newbie homesteader. We just bought our house, and I’m focusing on getting things up and running. I’m happy I found your channel.
This is exactly what I’m looking to do!!
YAY! Well I'm so glad you found us!
So glad I found your channel, and just joined the FB group! I am on the search for a little cottage and land in Western North Carolina, I've been trying to find more examples of plant-based homesteads. I am mostly plant-based but will eat eggs once in awhile, and I also want to have some rescue animals :) so very similar to your homestead :D looking forward to learning more and meeting people with these same values!
Awesome! I’m so happy I found you guys :) trying to do the same in Florida.
Love this. I am a vegan. Definitely am looking to get into homesteading. I now have two chickens, looking how I will integrate them into the garden cycle. Also interested in permaculture principles. Living in harmony. 💕
👋🏽 This is exactly the kind of channel I’ve been looking for ♥️
Very interesting video! There aren’t that many people doing a plant based homestead, I feel very inspired to also start one in the future!
So glad I found you! We are also a plant based homestead!
Nice to see people doing this. I am part of a vegan fruit focused community.
So cool! I'm glad you liked the video :)
Bravo for the wisdom and courage to be plant based. You do not need eggs for protein as plant based diet provides more than enough protein intake for healthy diet. Eggs are high in saturated fat and cholesterol which are linked to chronic disease. Understand the protein myth and enjoy diet free of animal products!
Thanks for the comment! I agree, there is a major protein myth that is important to address.
humans require 0.8 gm/kg protein per day. most people eat multiples of that. research shows plant protein much healthier than animal protein which is linked to increased cancer risk, chronic kidney disease, etc@@SunshineFarm
This is amazing, I love you 🥰
I LOVE your post! I'm vegan and this was SO encouraging.
Thank you Yvonne! That makes me so happy to hear that. -Jenn
Well said friend!
Aww thank you! I really wanted it to come off as authentic but not at all preachy. That was our primary goal with this.
Great info! I'm looking into a vegan homestead in the future (in Canada). I'm so happy to see that others can accomplish this type of homesteading. Do you use your homestead to bring in an income?
That's awesome! We are not too far from Toronto in Upstate NY, only a couple of hours. At the moment we are not bringing in any income through our homestead. We have some big ideas and goals for the future, and will absolutely be sharing them on this channel as we embark on them!
@@SunshineFarm awesome! I Can't wait to see what you come up with for homesteading income! ^_^ It's always a treasure to see the creativity people put into figuring such things out.
Me too Sarah! I'm located in Niagara on the lake and I'm vegan homesteading.
SarahMarie fellow Canuck from Quebec 😁
I'm totally down with this. I don't have my own territory (yet) but I'm going to prototype this idea at my boring suburban family house.
Excelente idea genial
Thanks!
I am sooooo glad I found your channel! This is how I am too!!!!
That is so sweet!! I’m so glad you found us! And I’m happy to hear there are others who share our lifestyle. 😊-Jenn
Love this I want to be vegan and get enough of everything that I need cause it's very hard to live offf the land as a vegan with no money in the appalachians I was vegan but then was starving with no food money or gas. I want to be fully vegan and get enough fats and calories from my land.
I am lucky to find your channel and delighted to see this video and I fully agree with your views. Thanks for sharing a video and your talk from the heart. Stay Blessed.
Thank you very much 😊
So thankful to find your channel. I didn’t think anyone was trying vegetarian homesteading. I had the same thoughts about animal farmsteads. I think it would be so much cheaper and easier not to raise animals. Have you ever heard of Scot and Helen Nearing. They had a vegetarian homestead that started back in the 30s into the 80s. I heard about them in Mother Earth News in the 80s. Since then I haven’t heard much about vegetarian homesteading. Looking forward to hearing more from you.
I haven't heard about them! Sounds like I need to do some more research. Thank you for your encouraging words, it means so much!
So glad dot find this. Being plant based. I thought I had to give up my dream of a farm. But I don’t.
Ive been thinking about having a vegetarian/vegan homestead when I'm older, and I'm glad I stumbled on your videos! I probably won't eat eggs since I don't really like them anyways, but to each their own!
Thank you!!! Our family has land & I wasn't sure how to start or if there was even information like this. I can't wait to begin. Ill be joining to facebook group & following your channel. Many blessings to you & your loved ones.
Aww yay!! I look forward to getting to know you in the Facebook group!
What questions do you guys have for us about our plant based homestead? Comment below and let us know 🌱
Eating 1 egg per day is just as bad as smoking 5 cigarettes per day for life expectancy... Most ppl say vegans lack vitamin b12, but in actuality many meat eaters are also B12 deficient. All adults over the age of 50 should be taking B12 supplements, no matter their diet. Ty so much for choosing compassion.
This is so cool keep doing what you do.
Thank you for your encouragement and kindness!
Well said about why your a vegetarian homesteader!!
Thank you!! It's definitely our passion!
Oh so happy to find your channel! Very excited to follow more of your videos! I am mostly plant based and my family is slowly coming on board! (Yay!) But they do still eat a predominantly wfpb diet... we have long wanted to transition to a more sustainable homesteading way of life... and more and more I have wanted do so without having to raise animals... or at least very minimally raising animals... (ie maybe a few chickens..? We'll see how that all plays out!)
Anyway thank you for having this channel and offering alternative ideas to homesteading!
I should add, we do not currently have a homestead...yet! But we are in the process of making the first steps of that a reality!
Btw massaman curry is one of my family's favorite meals!! Its sooo yummy! Yours looks fantastic!!
Grow your own sweet potato slips! Nestle your sweet potato(es) half way in soil, longways, in your window or warm greenhouse, and keep moist. The slips will emerge after a week or so, depending on how warm you can get it and how much sunlight it receives. When the slips are about 6” tall, gently pull them off the sweet potato and stick in your soil. They will look droopy the first day or three, but if you water daily, they’ll perk up. Sweet potatoes need full sun and lots of summer heat.
Some people sink their sweet potatoes in water to grow the slips. I feel like plain water will create more mold/bacteria, but there is success doing it this way too.
Great idea!! We ordered them this year and plan to do slips once we have our own.
Sunshine Farm I actually have more success using organic store bought sweet potatoes. Give it a go along with your catalogue sweet potatoes 🍠
We are a plant based large family so I'm following to learn more ....I generally do 6 raised beds but I want to take it up a few notches!!
Oh that’s so awesome! I love connecting with other plant based families 😊
Would love to see some “what we eat in a day/week”!
I would love to have a vegetarian homestead. In fact, it's my dream now. Thanks for this video!
I'm afraid it would have to be a no-kill setup though. At least, no animals raised for their meat. In any case thank you. A Pittsburgh native watching your videos from rural Japan. :)
So glad to find your channel! I’ve been vegetarian for several years and now I'm going vegan.We just bought a 5.7 acre farm with a farmouse and a few buildings.We want to do this too,but I will NOT be eating our animals.Most videos are very helpful up to that point.New subbie! Cant wait to watch all of your videos!😊
Welcome!! So nice to “meet” you!!
Great video!
Thank you! We appreciate it!
Happy to have found your channel! We are vegan now, but plan to have chickens on our homestead for the eggs and the manure and tilling. I like watching homesteaders but the amount of animals people keep makes me really uncomfortable
I can relate to what you’re saying! The amount of animals and the amount of butchering on other homesteads is hard for me to see.
I can relate to what you’re saying! The amount of animals and the amount of butchering on other homesteads is hard for me to see.
This is exactly what I'm looking to do. My family is vegetarian and some of us can't drink milk. Thank you for showing us how you do things on your farm!
That's awesome! You can totally do it!
So excited I found your channel. My dream has been to move upstate (currently living in NYC as a vegan) to buy a house and start my own plant-based homestead. Looking forward to learning more from your videos :) - Kathryn
So glad you found us!! I’ll be excited to hear about your journey towards that dream 😊😊 -Jenn
I'm so happy I found your channel! My boyfriend and I are looking for a house with some acreage to homestead in CT, our homestate, or possibly another North East state! I am a vegetarian as well and we want to have chickens and bees as well as lush vegetable gardens and fruit trees. Excited to learn from you :-)
Hi Amanda!! I'm SO happy you found our channel! It's so fun to find others with similar views on homesteading and vegetarianism. I'm so excited for you guys as you pursue moving to your homestead. -Jenn
I’m so happy to see a vegetarian homestead because I’ve always wanted to homestead but I didn’t know other people were doing it without killing animals!! I’ve been a vegetarian since I was a little kid and I’m so excited to start something like this. I do want to have chickens and maybe a couple of pigs but the chickens will be just for eggs and the pigs just as friends.
Hi Ava!! Thanks so much for your comment. I think there are absolutely ways to homestead without killing animals. I would love to see more people doing it, because I honestly think there is such a focus on slaughter, and it's disappointing to someone like me, who is a vegetarian and huge animal lover
Interesting,I would fry the veg, and stir the paste in while it is cooking, adding the coconut later.
This would be something I would like to do. I don't want to have animals to eat. I couldn't process it so I wouldn't put that on anyone else to do it for me. I'm glad I found your channel. Thank you.
I’m so glad you found our channel too!! I think vegetarian/vegan homesteading is a really wonderful option for a lot of people. Especially for those who really just want to enjoy animals as companions and not on their plate.
I would build an insectarian homestead in a jungle. Eating mostly tropical fruits, tubers and grubs in place of red meat.
Not that I hate it, but I'm too lazy to raise cattles and too lazy to keep them quenched with heavy water.
Just wanted to share something-- not to be alarmist but I feel "knowledge is power". I am the seventh generation of a farming family and Im just beginning to realize that previous generations did not always realize what they were doing!! I just saw the movie "Dark Waters" (2019). Excellent movie, but heartbreaking. Its streamable on Amazon.
Was your property an old farm property? DDT, Lead, PFOAs, any traditional pesticides might be residual. I have learned that any property located near a landfill (or dump), chemical plant, airport or military base, furniture treatment factory (waterproofing)... any industry that is connected to Dupont or Chemours or the nuke industry must be tested and retested consistently. PFOAs and other forever chemicals have not been cleaned up yet!!! After seeing the movie Dark Waters, ....Well, I know now to NEVER use non stick or teflon cookware, or anything known to contain PFOAs. Dont eat from dirt that might have been where the old lead paint had chipped off from old buildings!!! All homesteaders must be wary of ANY industrial sludge and/or waste from previous generations on their land (Old lead in paint chips that have dissolved into soil that should never be gardened), ect. ect. ua-cam.com/video/RvAOuhyunhY/v-deo.html. ua-cam.com/video/-v4NvQqVrF0/v-deo.html
I’m very interested in this because I also can’t see myself killing animals for meat. But I want a homestead!
There a number of video on UA-cam on how to grow your own slips, just takes a seaming long time to geminate, I'll be trying that this year.
I want to do that in the future once we have grown our own sweet potatoes well, but this year I’m going to order slips from Johnnys!
I feel so torn between a vegan lifestyle and a traditional homesteading lifestyle. But watching this makes me see there is a way to combine the two. Thank you so much for doing a video about this! 🏠🌾
Your comment made my day! That is exactly what I'm hoping to do with this channel. I really wanted to share our perspective on having a plant based homestead and show others that it is both possible and really amazing! Thanks YOU for the encouragement. -Jenn
@@SunshineFarm Absolutely! I was just so excited to find this video and your channel. I can't wait for more videos! 🙌
I recently picked up 5 acres of 100% raw property in the high grasslands of Park County, CO. with zero neighbors. It is very, very remote. I love the idea of this lifestyle and I am absolutely unable to harvest an animal. I don't live on my property. But one hang-up I have is ... How do you keep your bellies full in the winter? I mean... are you able to store veggies or even harvest them some how when it's freezing outside for months?
Lots of preservation options! For example we had tofu orange “chicken” last night over rice with sautéed onions and peppers from last years garden and a side of garlic edamame also from last years garden. So the tofu and rice were store bought, but all organic, and the rest was from the garden
Lovely video; am enjoying most all of them. Keep them coming, I have a curry waiting for me, just haven't made. LOL This reminded me. Am vegan, too. Woohoo!
mmmm I love curry!!! YOU just reminded me that I should make it again! :)
LOL Well, that's a good thing! BTW, I love your tortoise shell kittie, Basil. My two kitties were torties and the eldest lived 20 years & the youngest 18. I miss them so much; the only kids I've had. @@SunshineFarm
Hi! I'm vegan and really want to get into homesteading. I don't have a significant other yet lol so im hoping I can find someone down for this with me...if not I'll do it myself ;) I just joined the FB group! I want to grow all my own food, raise kids and home school them, and rescue animals/raise siberian huskies. I'm working on getting to be debt free so I can live a stress free happy life homesteading and traveling. I live in West Michigan and land is kind of pricey here, so definitely thinking about where I can go.
Follow up questions with regards to keeping chickens for eggs: Do you hatch out your own chickens? I have wondered this for a while- I want to avoid buying chicks from a hatchery, since male chicks get the axe there and it feels like an unethical source. But If I want to hatch out 5 hens, I need to hatch 10 eggs because half could be male, give or take. And 5 ish roosters is way too many for a small homestead.
That’s the major dilemma! We have hatched out our own before, but in the future I want to predominantly rescue!
I am very interested in vegetarian homesteading! I am currently starting my 3rd growing year, so I am still a green horn.
Awesome! This is also our third year of substantial growing 😊
I've been vegan since 2014 but my base is frozen corn and green peas... do you know if it's possible for one garden to produce enough peas and corn to store at-least 4 to 5 times a week?
What would it take to completely live off your land as a vegan and make it through the winter? I notice you're not eating much calorically valuable from your land, not growing grains, beans or a substantial amount of starches to even make it through the summer. Is it possible to be a self-sustainable vegan without being forced to utilize industry?
I'm here from Zero to homestead. Looking forward to see your videos. There all types of homesteading and I think we can help each other. Have a good one!!
Getting Started On Homesteading so glad you found us! Totally agree! There is so much more in common than in what we differ in. I just love the focus on sustainability, connection, and self-sufficiency! I would say we all have those things in common. ☺️
When I have a homestead, it would be vegetarian as well. It is what I would feel most comfortable with. I wouldn't mind rescuing animals, having chickens, ducks, cows, pigs, goats, sheep etc to help manage the land and bring soil fertility.
Great Video new subs here From Ypsilanti Michigan
Welcome!! I'm so glad that you liked this video. Welcome to our channel, and I look forward to getting to know you better! -Jenn
Sunshine Farm thank you Jen💜
What do you do for winter food? Do you grow lots of potatoes, grains, beans, etc?
Yes to all of the above. We have potatoes and onions in storage to eat through winter and we freeze and preserve a lot of other produce!
Thank you for making this channel. I love watching the homesteaders, but it just breaks my heart when they show you these animals that are going to go off to slaughter. I respect people who raise their own animals and humanely dispatch them themselves but it’s not something for me. If I can live without taking the life of another creature I prefer to do that. I however love the natural life and I’m glad to be able to follow someone on their Homestead without the worry that I will see them gathering their creatures for the big yearly slaughter. I had a very small garden in a community patch that pretty much fed my family for like five years. My husband and son eat meat and I don’t and I did not need anything but what was in that garden to sustain me. So I’m quite sure you can have a homestead without raising meat.
Back to Reality is another plant-based homesteading youtubing couple. I wonder if you could ever do a colab with them to talk about your experiences. They are in Canada.
We love them!! & have communicated with them in the past. 😊
Suburban homestead vegan in Australia we will keep ducks but not for egg production. Finding your homestead was great as vegan family.
Wohoo! Nice to find some others. -Jenn
Homesteading is the process and habits of gaining/using skills and infrastructure to support your home with self reliance.
To do that:
If you eat meat you need to raise animals/hunt/fish. If you don't eat meat, you don't need either of those. (don't need fur, clothing can be made with plant based material)
For health, everyone needs plant food. So growing your own plant food is necessary for complete homesteading.
Herbs as well is necessary.
Beyond that, there is a large list of self reliant skills that could be considered part of homesteading.
Also, It is impossible to be 100% self reliant, so a homestead will always have external inputs.
I'm one who can't do the animal killing for empathy reasons, so I will never raise any meat animals.
I like hens and wanted them for eggs and compost byproduct. But having hens means sometimes you end up with extra roosters and hens get old, etc.
I have a "killing cone". With that and a long sharp knife I can manage the killing of those. (I hated when I had to do it with chopping block and axe)
I can do fishing, but there are so many much more productive ways to spend my time.
However, I don't agree that one should not eat meat because s/he is emotionally unable to do the butchering part. Nature has predators that kill other animals, so I don't judge those humans that can do it. I do think killing animals for sport (or enjoying the process) is inhumane. So if you can't do it yourself but still like eating meat, you have to get someone else to do it for you. But then you need to buy local so you know the animals were treated humanely.
I once saw a drone shot of a feed lot for beef cattle and said "I will never buy meat in the store again!" Since then I have bought the occasional box of wings when I was craving meat, but that's all.
I had a fisheries observer job for a couple years. That has to be one of the most environmentally destructive industries on the planet!!! We just don't see the destruction because it's covered in 100+ feet of water.
I think our emotions can sometimes guide us in our ethics. So, what I was saying in this video, is that if you're not emotionally capable of killing animals, that may be an indication that you should not be eating them. I think a lot of people eat meat under the belief that they don't have to think about the animal that died, and I just don't think that's okay at all, but I also acknowledge that this is my perspective.
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