Hey Friend!
Never grew up homesteading, but you want to start?  I grew up on a dairy farm, so that is where I get my work ethic, but I didn’t grow up with a garden, canning or making too many things from scratch!  It wasn’t until after I was married and had a few young kids in my early 20’s when I even had any interest! Much of it came out of necessity at that time.  I wanted to raise my own kids, so I had to find creative ways to save money and that is just what I did!  
 
When my 3 oldest kids were young, I started working for a company doing food taste testing parties and it grew into a full time income in just a few parties a week, so I that was my first experience with growing a business with less hours and it was perfect for me at the time because I was with the kids all day and then I would get my adult time in the evening with a bunch of women!  It was perfect!  Once they got a little older and got into sports, it was alot harder to do parties in the evenings, so I had to go a different route.  
 
Working from home became a passion of mine and I started making things to sell and they just sold word of mouth.  At that time, I didn’t have alot of technical ability……that was over 20 years ago….well, tech is still a struggle for me, but at least now there are so many more resources available online to figure things out, so that has been helpful.  Now you can reach so many more people online that are in your niche which is fantastic!
 
I started in my early 20’s making spaghetti sauce with the help of a neighbor I used to babysit for and I was hooked on canning!  My first few things I canned were green beans and spaghetti sauce and I didn’t grow the vegetables at first.  I would just try new recipes over the years to add to my knowledge.  There were a few years that I didn’t have a garden and I didn’t can and then my father in law borrowed my canner and lost the knob for the top, so I was just water bath canning and didn’t do any pressure cooked items for a while.  At that time, I didn’t consider myself a homesteader, but I was really really good at saving money!  I honestly hadn’t heard the homesteading word even used up until the last few years.  
 
For me, living this lifestyle was about the enjoyment of preserving food, but mostly it was about saving money and having less expenses so I could stay at home with my kids.  If I could stretch my dollar as far as I could, that would feel like success to me.  Not to mention how much better everything tasted when you cook from scratch and make simple homemade meals.  Even if you don’t consider yourself a homesteader you can still learn how to preserve food, grow a garden, and raise animals. (and if you want more info on what homesteading means, you can listen to podcast episode #70)
 
It wasn’t until 2020 that I decided that I wanted to live more self-sufficient and produce as much food as I could on our own so that I wouldn’t have to worry about not finding grocery items at the store and then I realized that so many people have no idea even where to start, so that is why I have been working on creating a course to teach you some very simple skills.
Remember that I keep everything very very simple.  Slow living is the best living.  It has been good for my body and my adrenal glands that get depleted very easy and it has been good for my family to not live the super fast paced life where they don’t even have time to enjoy the simple things in life.  We make time for so many more things now and homesteading has been really fun to teach friends and family so that they can live this lifestyle for years to come.  The bonus is that when the grocery prices started rising so fast, we needed very few items from the store since we had prepared and preserved whatever we could. 
 
I know that you may be thinking that learning to grow and preserve your own food and homesteading is complicated, but let me tell you friend, I don’t have time or patience for anything complicated, so if I can do