Today, I share additional thoughts on the Victor/Victim topic as well as dive deeper into the homestead buying club concept. Heads up! Self-Reliance Festival ticket prices go up tomorrow at midnight — if you've been on the fence, now's the time: https://selfreliancefestival.com Featured Event Paul Wheaton has a pretty cool Kickstarter that's in early bird mode through today. The project? A movie about how they developed the "Willow Feeder," their hands-off human waste composting system at Wheaton Labs. They've spent years refining this setup, and now they're ready to share it with the world. If you toss in just $1 today, you get early supporter perks — including extra stuff they won't offer later. 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Main Topic of the Day: Homestead Buying Club and Victorhood Homestead Buying Club and Empowering Homesteaders First off, I listened to the interview with Tactical and so very much appreciated him sharing his story and I found it really impactful and also inspiring in continuing on my own healing journey and personal growth, hopefully with some new ideas. Second, last week's podcast about being a victor or victim was also helpful. It's the midst of burnout season for a lot of farmers (especially production based). It's all got my wheels turning again about an idea I had exactly a year ago after talking with another market vendor friend and being sick of all the sundresses and floppy hats and picturesque unrealistic homestead Instagram crap. I don't really know the exact vision but just craving a support group of people in similar situations. See the image I made below: But at the same time, the stress of farming for men is insane too. I know because I see it in Adam. He needs a community of like minded people. He's more isolated these days because he always feels behind on the farm. We are in a crucial make or break time with our expansion so it's been particularly stressful especially with cash flow management. I know it'll all work out but it can be tough. Adam left his full time job. I love the idea you had of a farm to table meal. Also, I've had ideas before of a "homestead Home Depot" salvage (like super cheap consignment or free scraps) where people can look to get spare items others don't need anymore to build things on their homestead. The bad thing is I know everybody likes to keep their own personal junk piles cause "they might need it" but used lumber and scrap metal, animal feeders, heat lamps, waterers, fencing etc can all help people get started or attain something on a budget. A network of people in the community willing to help people farm sit so that if ever there was a chance to travel you could pay someone familiar with handling livestock etc. Also, on a personal level for our business, if you get a pma in place, I'm *guessing* you could custom butcher a hog and still sell the individual cuts to holler hub members. There's some gray area there that I don't know about. If it was legal that way that would save people a good bit of money for super high quality pork. In any case, I've got 23 pigs ready in another month or two that I need to displace. We don't have freezer space for all 23 so I'm hoping to get some customs sold too These are all things that go on inside my brain and since you'd been discussing the holler hub, I thought I'd spill my ideas because I'm honestly overwhelmed with incubating and improving our current business model and not trying to start new ones at this time! I would still like for us to get out and about and adventure to your place for the next gathering so we'll bring your requested meats then unless you need otherwise. VICTORHOOD After listening to Episode 1060, I had some thoughts on the content. I'll try not to be too long winded but having lived a life full of adversity and still navigating the fall out from some things, I have quite a bit of thoughts. While I don't hope to magically cure anyone, I do hope to plant some seeds for thought. Towards the end of the episode there was a hypothetical posed. I just want to say, as someone who has personally experienced abuse, I wanted to reiterate that any victim of a crime is never responsible for what their abuser does. They are ONLY responsible for their own healing. It's not fair, but it is our responsibility in how we move forward. As li
