323: Homestead excess isn’t success

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Know what I’ve been thinking about? I’m starting to wonder if I’ve got too many chickens.

See, we say we want the “simple life,” but then we load ourselves up with too many animals, too many projects, and too much everything. We decide we have to have an extra extra large garden, make as much as possible from scratch, and even mill our own flour (because honestly, Brenda, who doesn’t do that?)

But I’m starting to think about the fact that our great-great-grandparents worked hard and possibly dreamt of a day they wouldn’t have to do all the things… and yet here we are, trying to take on what they were trying to get away from?

Let’s talk about rethinking our why and what makes sense, instead of chasing what some could actually say is excess. And how weird is it to wrap our head around that? The idea that the simple life could be… excessive?

There are some honest questions in here, friends. Pull up a chair and have a listen!

Today’s episode is also my first episode after my two month break where I spent time figuring out where exactly this podcast is headed at almost 8 years old. So welcome back to what I foresee as a lot of casual “Farmish Front Porch Conversations!”

— Amy Dingmann, 9-30-25

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