We're joined in this episode by the lovely Bailey Van Tassel who shares about her journey starting a business all around living a garden-inspired life. This conversation is full of motivation, inspiration, and real ideas for turning passions and dreams into reality. You can find Bailey here:https://www.instagram.com/baileyvantassel/Listen to her new podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-garden-culture-podcast-with-bailey-van-tassel/id1643017748?i=1000578082770

Victoria Meade of Waterloo Woods Farm joins us this week to talk about hops! Waterloo Woods Farm is celebrating its first year this month. We talk about the challenges of growing and marketing a farm, transitioning to farming full time, and a lot about hops!To connect with Victoria: InstagramYoutubeVisit the Plantsteading Instagram to leave feedback on episodes, ideas for future topics & guests, and to join the community! 

Today, we're bringing on a special guest, Annette from Azure Farm. Azure Farm is a plant based homestead in Georgia, where Annette lives with her husband and daughter, Ava, and their big family of companion farm animals. Annette shares their life as well as tons of resources, and even co-authored a cookbook with our recent guest, Angela, from Axe & Root Homestead. You can find Annette on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/azurefarm/Check out The Harvest Table (plant based garden to table cookbook): https://amzn.to/3PECjduVisit Azure Farm's website: https://www.azurefarmlife.com/

Jenn and Laura are mothers to young toddlers. Homesteading with toddlers can be challenging! In this episode we break down the challenges and strategies we employ to get things done on our homesteads with toddlers in tow!We'd love to hear your strategies - how do you get things done as a parent?Find us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plantsteading/ 

Today we're talking with Grace Jones of The Goodones Homestead about how she weaves art, nature, community and garden. We talk about her process of turning a creative idea into a tangible product or event. We talk about how a health crisis inspired Grace to learn herbalism and repair her relationship with nature and plants. Find Grace on instagram at: homestead & art: https://www.instagram.com/thegoodoneshomestead/photography: https://www.instagram.com/graceejones/

Today we talk about the difference between sustainability and self-sufficiency. We dive into our strategies for cooking from scratch and eating seasonally inspired meals. And as always, we talk about giving ourselves grace along the way. 

In this episode we bring on Angela from Axe and Root Homestead and talk about her journey to permaculture, plant based homesteading, and the process of writing a book! We also dive into building community on social media, navigating social media toxicity, and more. Have thoughts about the conversation? Head on over to our Instagram (Plantsteading) and share your thoughts about the episode!Find Angela on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/axeandroothomestead/Her website: https://www.axeandroothomestead.com/Go give the Homesteaducation Podcast a listen!

Welcome to season 2! Thanks for being here! Today Laura & Jenn are discussing social media. We get into some posts that have upset us and some frustrating behaviors we have experienced on social media. How does our behavior on social media carry over into our physical worlds? Why do we think some of these behaviors take place? How do we break the cycle of inflammation on social media and keep our social circles a positive place to be? All this & more discussed on today's episode. Join the conversation @plantsteading on Instagram. 

Laura’s longtime friend and farm animal sanctuary co-founder Peter Nussbaum joins us for this episode to chat about his concerns with rescue animals, the growth of their farm animal sanctuary and preserve - Tamerlaine Farm, educating the public about farm animals and more!https://tamerlaine.org/make a donation: https://impact.tamerlaine.org/give/222233/#!/donation/checkout

We find common ground in chatting with Hannah of The Whitney Homestead as she discusses why they homestead, how they got started, and their decisions to do things a little differently than we do on plant-based homesteads. TW: While we don’t go into details of animal butchering or processing, we do briefly discuss Hannah’s decision to raise animals for meat on her homestead. Connect with Hannah; Instagram.com/TheWhitneyHomsteadJoin the Plantsteading page: Instagram.com/Plantsteading