Episode 7 - Homesteading and Off-Farm Work

CJ gives you a rundown of what her average day looks like and the honest truth that this lifestyle may not be for everyone. Walking up around 4 am most mornings, feeding chickens and in summer milking goats are the first chores of the day. Then other animals and dogs need managing.

Finally, it's time for a coffee, and shower and then human kids need prepping to get them off to school and I head to my full-time off-farm job for the day.

Arriving home in the afternoons is all the normal household chores before heading out to manage all the farm chores with chickens, goats, poddy calves and dogs. Luckily the bees are the lowest maintenance of all the animals. 

Many people will say this is a lifestyle they would love to leave but I really think its important that everyone understands what is involved before they make the leap of faith into homesteading/farming.

Sorry, but there's a language warning on this one because sometimes it's needed.