Ep. 61 - Homesteading and Lessons Learned from the Watkins Mill Tour

You Ain't Mr. Watkins.

This is a previously unpublished episode from May.

For our May workshop we toured Watkins Mill in Bethany, MO.

Watkins Mill is a 1880's textile mill and farm. Mr. Watkins employed 50 people at the mill and about 50 on the farm during planting and harvest.

In this episode Perpend and Scott discuss the lessons learned from the mill tour, and how those lessons can be applied to homesteading, prepping, and community. Some of Perpend's conclusions are hard hitting.

In the lessons learned we share that "everyone wants to be Mr. Watkins, the Lord of the manor. No one wants to be Bessie Mae, doing the Kiss of Death on the third floor of the mill."

"What we really want is friends, family, material needs met, productive fulfilling work, and risk without guaranteed reward. That is what will them a life well lived, a life fulfilled, an engagement in appreciation, and seeing abundance instead of scarcity."

Check out our pictures from the Watkins Mill Tour in our show notes at: https://thrivingthefuture.com/watkins

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