Chapter 1: Get in the Game
“The true recipe for freedom requires you to roll up your sleeves, engage, and participate in life’s most basic and mundane tasks. Washing the dirty clothes. Cleaning the toilet. Butchering chickens. Churning butter. Cutting firewood. Picking apples. Canning applesauce. Yes, those homestead skills from my bygone era that created self-reliance and resiliency, that enabled people to live free from interference, that created liberty by embracing personal responsibility.”
Chapter 15: Pretty Panorama
"If one object defines a homestead versus just a home, it would have to be a compost pile. Building the compost pile is the ultimate monument, indicating that a person, understands ecology, cares about stewardship, and enjoys participating in caretaking responsibilities…But with a homestead compost pile, you can do good anytime, every day, without burning an ounce of gasoline, or using internet computing, energy. On homestead compost, is the backbone of the garden fertility program.”
Chapter 18: Finding Friends
“One of the biggest mistakes beginning homesteaders make is holding an unrealistic objective of self reliance.… If you’re in that frustration stage, or even at burn out, stop doing everything…. What you need to cultivate is mutual interdependence. As you turn self-reliance in the shared reliance, the burden of having to do it all yourself will ease off your back and you’ll feel a renewed energy to tackle a few things well.”
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