Jill, this episode brought this 70 year old to tears. As a child, I had Around the World paper dolls. I yearned to know where my "people came from." And I spent most of my working years detached from the roots of old ways. The last 15 years or so I've gotten into the homemade, the handmade, and the made from scratch. My son has built a house for his family on part of our land. There are free range chickens in the yard and a grandson has a garden. My daughter lives close and we are slowly regarding that ultimate sense of relying on those closest to us for a sense of belonging. Thank you both for this podcast!

Jill, this is a good one. You two interact wonderfully. She’s Italian-American (southern Italy) like me, which speaks to my early closeness with relatives, now since past. She loves chickens, & cooking from scratch like me. She is considering leaving NY like me. Taxes/over regulation is too much. (I’m considering TN). You both spoke of forests/wilderness. I live in northern rural NY on TugHill Plateau (Redfield). I’m in a “cabin in the woods” on 9.5 acres. Just so many parallels. By the way, Jill, I met you at the Washington County Fairgrounds Homesteading Fest this past Saturday. You are just as wonderful in real life. May God Bless You for all you give back for people like me. I’ve learned so much from you. You always pose new questions in my mind. Your courses & books are on my shelves.

I loved this so much. I recently lost my Great Aunt and at her graveside service the program they handed out had a family tree in it. I saw names i had never heard before. This started me down a rabbit hole and now I'm finding things I didn't know before. My great grandmother that I knew and she used to babysit me her parents still spoke Dutch. When you were talking about food I remembered her chicken and dumplings. I have been thinking about trying to make this but I have celiac disease so I have to figure out how to make it gluten free. Thank you for this episode it had me thinking on all of the things I have learned about my family. The one branch I'm having a problem with is my dads father's. My dad lost his dad when he was 6 so I have noone to talk to other than my dad.

Thank you for this. My family has been here in the US since the 1600 and 1700's. I have a mixed European heritage with some Native American that doesn't show in DNA. My mother did not teach any heritage and she was always a city girl. On my Dad's side, I got a taste of country and loved it, but still no heritage. There were many stories of my great Grandmother and how she was a pioneer and grew up as a dirt poor farmer. She went against the grain for the time and broke horses. But the stories I hold on to is that when some one came to dinner, she would take them to the cellar and have them pick out what they wanted. I taught myself how to cook, can, garden, crochet, dehydrate and many more things to be self sufficient. I have always gained my strength from my GG-ma and the Lord, but she has been my inspiration. I will turn this 60 year and very soon I will be living my dream of actually having a homestead. I love this.

This podcast is spot on!! Heritage is vital and important for all the reasons Dolores talks about!! Write a book Dolores!! 🎉

I was born in a Nordic Country in Europe....my ancestors have guided me in the past ten years, to finally find my path towards independence

Two very thoughtful, articulate women. Loved it! Thank you.

🤗🥰🤗🙏Ah thank you Jill for the best Monday morning Podcasts!!! Coffee by the fireplace ( ugh still chilly here in MN 😁🤷🙏) This is delightful!

I loved this episode; thank you for doing it! (sorry, this comment is a bit long!) One thing that jumped out to me is when you asked about (paraphrasing) ‘what can people do if they’ve lost those connections to the old country’. On my mother’s side, they were predominantly German immigrants so I know a lot about them and a bit of the culture that got passed on. I still have a love of German food (half were from Bavaria, the other half from Hesse) and had some ‘passed down’ dishes at my wedding. A love of the language was also passed to me and I speak a bit of it myself. BUT…I didn’t know a lot about my dad’s side except that his mother was from South Carolina. Long story short they go WAY back to colonial days, all in the Carolinas, so I have a wonderful culture there to discover! I’ve been learning about southern foods, growing and cooking them. It was so sad to see death certificates of my ancestors dying from malnutrition or various diseases, but I felt like I learned a lot about where they came from and what shaped them. And I learned farming is in my blood on that side! So it’s worth not discounting our more recent American heritage and learning about foods typical to the area your ancestors came from. On another note; I married a Swedish man and we’re raising our children in a third country. I’ve learned to cook typically Swedish foods and learned the language, etc. Tomorrow I’ll be doing our own little Midsommar party and the kids are excited! We’ve talked about moving back to the ‘States and even having our farm “Swedish themed” as we love so many bits of the culture and food, but feel America would be a better fit for the homesteading lifestyle we want. And we’ll carry on teaching our kids about our combined heritage. ^_^

Quite enjoyed this podcast. So many good points - we are always told that our future is bright and wide open, but at same time we are told that the past is the past and to leave it there. And although that is true for so many things, somehow I don't think it is applicable to where we come from and the lessons of old and the ties we have to them. Anyway, good one! Thanks to you both....I have more potatoes to peel so you could have kept going....lol.

Back To Basics is a definite necessity.

Another interesting podcast.

What is the ReWilding book? Amazon has many but I want the one your guest mentioned. Thanks!

I was thinking about it the other day and my mom and dad were the first children in my family line (that I know of) that were raised in this modern lifestyle. Even that is not quite right because my grandparents raised their kids to grow gardens, can food, and raise or hunt animals. Just on a much smaller scale than they (my grandparents) were raised. But my grandparents grew up eating food that was grown, raised, or hunted by their family or someone nearby. I want to get back to that!

My dad’s family had a commercial chicken house when he was younger and my mom’s dad had a workhorse team that pulled logs out of the forest. Things you find out they did in their younger years. ❤

Thank you

I think some people struggle, because of intermarriage of different cultures. My family settled in Oregon doing the Oregon Trail thing, but the family farm was sold off piece by piece until my great grandfather died and the rest of the farm was sold. There was no way I could afford to buy it then, and surely no way I could afford to buy it now. Farming is in my blood, but I am the only one out of my family that wants to live that life. I feel very alone, and since I have lost everything after my husband died, add infinitum.

Typical American life is currently 100 percent synthetic! The better life is organic in nature with a better sense of calm. I currently live in the city and feel trapped.

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