Anybody here interested in homesteading?

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ManOnFire said:
It’s quite funny to see the difference between the people who are actively resisting the secular media culture’s attempts to slowly drag us into atheism and dependency versus the people who have been converted into soldiers to support the secular media movement, and some of them are actually Catholic. It’s almost as if God isn’t really God anymore. The entertainment offered by the unelected media has become many people’s god, and they believe the church should bend to allow it, because, after all, it’s vey entertaining and makes people feel good. I guess many people refuse to see the cause of the increasing love of Self and rising dependency. If they don’t want to homestead, the least they can do is not actively contribute to our downfall by fighting for the secular media’s army. Sheesh.
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you get all that because I don’t want to be woken up by a rooster at 4.00am?
 
Fairwinds said:
you get all that because I don’t want to be woken up by a rooster at 4.00am?
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If you live in a neighborhood, you are sure to to be disturbed by noise.

I believe the OP’s point is for people to think about where we are headed. The increased dependency is a deliberate part of the plan. Participate as little as possible.
 
The original question was “Anybody here interested in homesteading”?
So in answer to that question I for one say YES!
We homestead now and we live Amish country. But we are looking to move very soon. We are looking for a more off the grid place.
And it will be necessary for our children’s survival to homestead and to belong to such Catholic community.
Looking at history when societies collapse, such as ours which is beginning to, they where rebuilt by such ‘communities’. Also I might add to belong to such homesteading community doesn’t prevent evangelizing quite the contrary it would be a form of evangelizing. And yes it is and would be hard work but what is wrong with that? Most Americans are to fat and lazy to consider such an option so obviously the answer for them would be NO…not interested in homesteading. But for those who see the writing on the wall it is the only option for our future and for our childrens sake should be started as soon as possible.
 
ManOnFire said:
It’s quite funny to see the difference between the people who are actively resisting the secular media culture’s attempts to slowly drag us into atheism and dependency versus the people who have been converted into soldiers to support the secular media movement, and some of them are actually Catholic. It’s almost as if God isn’t really God anymore. The entertainment offered by the unelected media has become many people’s god, and they believe the church should bend to allow it, because, after all, it’s vey entertaining and makes people feel good. I guess many people refuse to see the cause of the increasing love of Self and rising dependency. If they don’t want to homestead, the least they can do is not actively contribute to our downfall by fighting for the secular media’s army. Sheesh.
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God doesn’t ask you to be hermits either.

If you don’t like the way the world is change it. Hiding in some compound while smack talking the people who ‘let the happen’ is hypocritical. Your ultimately the ones letting it continue.
1998Carmel said:
The original question was “Anybody here interested in homesteading”?
So in answer to that question I for one say YES!
We homestead now and we live Amish country. But we are looking to move very soon. We are looking for a more off the grid place.
And it will be necessary for our children’s survival to homestead and to belong to such Catholic community.
Looking at history when societies collapse, such as ours which is beginning to, they where rebuilt by such ‘communities’. Also I might add to belong to such homesteading community doesn’t prevent evangelizing quite the contrary it would be a form of evangelizing. And yes it is and would be hard work but what is wrong with that? Most Americans are to fat and lazy to consider such an option so obviously the answer for them would be NO…not interested in homesteading. But for those who see the writing on the wall it is the only option for our future and for our childrens sake should be started as soon as possible.
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There is no president for when a civilization this advanced collapse so I high doubt it will lest baring nuclear war or some such. In which case your homestead is just as flammable as the ‘heathen’ town down the road.

Don’t be so quick to flee.

Mother Angelica flat out said the only reason evil is getting ahead is the inaction of good men.

Hide and you leave no one behind to fight back or worse leaving us behind as you tuck tail.

Don’t give up!
 
Wow. Just wow. Who knew that people growing their own food and raising hens would be so offensive?

So I suppose that I should no longer tolerate my neighbor waking me up at 5am with her deaf daughter screaming in the backyard and her dog howling in accompaniment? Since some people think they shouldn’t have to tolerate a person’s chickens…and of course in America we all have the right to be free from offense or inconvenience. 🤷

FYI, many many neighborhoods are zoned to allow hens, but not roosters, anyway. And chicks are cheap (pun intended). Not many are zoned for milk cows or goats, though. For the majority of you who are opposed to urban homesteading, it will not affect you greatly, except you will have to turn a blind eye to the vegetable gardens in your backyard homesteading neighbor’s yard, or hear an occasional cluck or squawk.

For everyone who is further along on their homesteading journey, thank you for sharing your stories! I have loved reading about your journeys toward more self-sufficiency.
 
Kithrus said:
God doesn’t ask you to be hermits either.

If you don’t like the way the world is change it. Hiding in some compound while smack talking the people who ‘let the happen’ is hypocritical. Your ultimately the ones letting it continue.
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The media is more powerful than you and me. The media has control over the mindless masses who just accept what they are being fed without questioning it. I’ve accepted this reality, while others refuse to believe it.

Just look at the words to Obama’s published poem “Pop” if you want proof. “Fail to pass.” Yikes. The poor guy was molested, and by a black man, based on the allusions to color. “His seat is broad and broken in.” It was brilliant to place the word “in” on the next line. It hides the meaning in the closet. Pop is a reference to race, not family. Imagine being half black, born to a white mother, abandoned by your black father who wanted your mother to have an abortion, adopted by another father who moves you to a country where you don’t look like anyone else, then move back to Hawaii, where you are molested by your first black male mentor, who happens to be a bisexual communist. After all that, what are your odds that you still believe in God? Seriously. The atheist progressives are taking us into the radical change that was promised. With the pain that people have experienced, it makes one wonder.

If all of this is new news, then maybe you can understand the desire for homesteading. Trusting the mainstream media is “letting it continue.”
 
mommamaree said:
Wow. Just wow. Who knew that people growing their own food and raising hens would be so offensive? …

FYI, many many neighborhoods are zoned to allow hens, but not roosters, anyway. And chicks are cheap (pun intended). Not many are zoned for milk cows or goats, though. For the majority of you who are opposed to urban homesteading, it will not affect you greatly, except you will have to turn a blind eye to the vegetable gardens in your backyard homesteading neighbor’s yard, or hear an occasional cluck or squawk…
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yeah. if I wanted old macdonald as a neighbor, I wouldn’t be living in this neighborhood.
 
Fairwinds said:
yeah. if I wanted old macdonald as a neighbor, I wouldn’t be living in this neighborhood.
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I have nothing against chickens in general, but if people want to raise livestock, they should live in the country, not the city. You can’t have it all - and people that think they can benefit from rules everyone ELSE has to follow, but they don’t, need to think again.
 
TheRealJuliane said:
I have nothing against chickens in general, but if people want to raise livestock, they should live in the country, not the city. You can’t have it all - and people that think they can benefit from rules everyone ELSE has to follow, but they don’t, need to think again.
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I do not disagree with you. However, suburbs are neither city nor rural. Suburban neighborhoods have their own charm and character, that oftentimes includes the rights of its occupants to own a certain number of chickens. Not running poultry operations, but just having enough chickens that it imposes upon their neighbors no more than having a few pets would.
 
Fairwinds said:
yeah. if I wanted old macdonald as a neighbor, I wouldn’t be living in this neighborhood.
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Why are you referencing a nursery song? Let us discuss this matter intelligently.

No one is talking about backyard barn-raising, or mowing their suburban lawn by billy goat.
 
KellyPalmer said:
This after noticing that the forest was not destroyed by the drought that his own farm was plagued with. While the trees in his orchard where dying from lack of water, he took a few steps into the woods and dug under the layers of leaves to find wet soil!
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Let me quibble with you just a bit. Forests can, indeed, be very seriously affected by drought. I have seen it many times. In just about any midsummer around here at least, you can dig under the leaves and find leaf mold and soil that is absolutely powder-dry.

Trees store water, and some of them can store a lot of it. But even so, even some of the toughtest trees can die in a drought.

Let me add that I have no problem with people homesteading if they want to do that. I am concerned at times that people who want to do it are so undercapitalized for the venture that their failure is guaranteed. But that’s not true of all.
 
I think it is a great idea for those who live on their own land. Suburbs might not be the place to raise livestock. Chickens might be doable, but other than that I don’t see how in suburbia with all of it’s rules and regulations. We live in Tennessee and it is very common to see horses in people’s front yards! They don’t own much land, but they also aren’t in an “official” neighborhood either, just on the regular roads.

Not to be cliche here but you all are just henpecking each other. 😉 Let it rest. As long as it’s not hurting anyone, then it is their right in America to do as they please. Again, many more restrictions for livestock and crop raising in suburbia, but many other things such as gardening, canning, etc can still be done.
 
mommamaree said:
Why are you referencing a nursery song? Let us discuss this matter intelligently.

No one is talking about backyard barn-raising, or mowing their suburban lawn by billy goat.
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cool. everyone needs a hobby.
 
I wish I had a pet goat. They seem so interactive! Kind of like a dog. They like it when you pull on their horns too.

And the baby ones. Those little guys are crazy cute!!!

I like goat curry too. 😊
 
Fairwinds said:
cool. everyone needs a hobby.
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Actually, that is a good way for anyone to view it. Hobby gardening or running a hobby farm is essentially what a neighborhood dweller is doing when transforming a lawn into vegetable patches or chicken runs. 👍
 
mommamaree said:
Actually, that is a good way for anyone to view it. Hobby gardening or running a hobby farm is essentially what a neighborhood dweller is doing when transforming a lawn into vegetable patches or chicken runs. 👍
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I actually got the picture of what you guys want to do, it makes sense.

the chicken comment was a from one of a dozen or a hundred mornings when I was living in LA’s Wilshire district – as urban as it gets – and being woken up at 4.00am by roosters. my initial thoughts were not Oh what a beautiful morning …
 
mommamaree said:
I do not disagree with you. However, suburbs are neither city nor rural. Suburban neighborhoods have their own charm and character, that oftentimes includes the rights of its occupants to own a certain number of chickens. Not running poultry operations, but just having enough chickens that it imposes upon their neighbors no more than having a few pets would.
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If there aren’t specific rules against it, then there’s nothing to argue about. It’s the people who sign a homeowner’s agreement when they buy their house, that includes a list of rules, and THEN decide that they are going to ignore those rules because they WANT TO, that I have a problem with. One can argue that HOAs are un-American, but you can’t sign onto it and then decide to just do your own thing. Otherwise, what’s to stop the next neighbor from running a puppy mill in his backyard, or renting his house out to 6 families, or whatever?

And for the record, chickens are not pets. You can’t have it both ways there either. Either they are kept for food, in which cause once they stop laying, you eat them - or you keep them as pets. Farm animals are not meant to be pets.
 
ringil said:
I wish I had a pet goat. They seem so interactive! Kind of like a dog. They like it when you pull on their horns too.

And the baby ones. Those little guys are crazy cute!!!

I like goat curry too. 😊
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Goats can sometimes be a pain in the backside. They like to climb up on things, like low-hanging roofs and cars. They’re remarkably good at it.
 
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