The Farmhouse Edit: Homemaking in Transition: Staying Grounded When Life Shifts | K of Homesteady

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Kendra (0:29)

But I had to go through that mental exercise. Okay, here we are. I hate this. This will never work. I cannot do this. And then walked outside for a little bit, got angry, got sad, came back inside and we just got to work the first night because we needed a place to put the baby down so she could crawl. We needed a place where we could sleep safely and cleanly. So we just got to work and did it.

Lisa Bass (0:52)

My name is Lisa, mother of nine and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. On this podcast, I like to talk about simplifying your life so you can live out your priorities. I help you learn how to cook from scratch and decorate on a budget through this podcast and my courses, Simple Sourdough and the Simple Sewing series. I also help people reach their goals from home through my business courses and YouTube Success Academy. I will leave links to these resources in the show notes and description box below. Now let's get into the show.

Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. If you're watching on YouTube, you see little Miriam. Now this episode's coming out about a month after we're filming it, because we're trying to get back into the swing after having the baby. Oh my goodness, we're gonna spit up. So she's a month bigger by the time you're seeing this, but this is my new little challenge of having a baby on my lap while doing a podcast. So I'm still getting used to all that. If you feel like you hear some grunts and different little noises or me fidgeting and adjusting, that's because I do have the baby here.

But today we're going to be chatting with Kendra from Homestead, which this is a vlog and a podcast. You probably have seen them over on YouTube. If you follow anything related to Homesteading, they've been around for a while, a decade, over a decade now, and they recently moved to an off-grid property in Alaska. They have seven children. And so of course, that inspires a lot of curiosity. How do you all do this? How do you cook and deal with going to the bathroom and laundry and all that good stuff? So we're gonna chat about that as well as a few other motherhood things. So I think you'll find this episode interesting. And hopefully you can then go over to YouTube and follow along with Homesteady and watch their journey all throughout the winter because this is their first winter in Alaska in their off-grid cabin Homestead. I think that that'll be super fun to follow along with. Kendra, welcome on the show. We've had a lot of interest in having you all on. Specifically, we're interested to hear about your off-grid adventure in Alaska. Let's start at the beginning. I know you all have been sharing on YouTube for nine years now. I think I followed you somewhere around the beginning. I started following your story. And then when did you announce you were moving to Alaska and that whole shift?

Kendra (3:20)

I think it's been, because we started when my third was a baby. So is it 11 years now on YouTube? We started with the podcast a little before that, and then 11 years on YouTube. So the Alaska thing kind of happened in 2023 We started looking for land in Alaska. We wanted to move and didn't work out.

It was so expensive and property was so much more than we ever expected it would be for Alaska. And so we decided we'll just go to Alaska. We'll just check it out for the summer. We'll make some connections and see where that takes us. So that was in 2023 We spent the whole summer here. That was kind of our off-grid challenge that we did initially to get a feel for off-grid, what it was like, what we would need as far as a house size for a family of our size.

And then we finally were able to make the move after we made some nice connections here in 2023 We just moved here June of this year. So we've been here all summer and going into our first winter here now.