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I love your heart behind this video and I couldn’t agree more! We lived in our RV as a family of 6 for an entire year. We traveled all over the United States and I continued to make sourdough bread, milk and water kefir, had a “micro” herb garden and I bought raw milk and chicken liver. I made sour kraut and went to many farmers markets. It’s really about having the right mindset and not the right circumstances!

In this world of insanity, your videos GROUND me. Thank you for your testimony of love of home, family and all things worthy of praise.

This was the pick-me-up I needed today

You are so inspiring to me Lisa. I grew up like this but as an adult was pulled away from this kind of lifestyle and found myself working a 9-5 full time career and feeling so much guilt for having someone else essentially raising my two children. We our finally almost done building on our 68 acres and just sold our suburban home. I can’t wait to get back to goats and chickens and to finally be able to be home with our growing family. To me there is no other way to really enjoy life. Thank you for the inspiration you give us all💕

Lisa!!! Please make videos about this pregnancy! I know you buy a little haul for each new baby! I want to know all your current routines! I know you have older videos but I want an updated one!! Please!! Let us in on baby number 8 😍

I love how you romanticize hard work. It makes everything look enjoyable. Another beautiful video.

Thank you so much for the encouragement. I grew up on 10 acres and now I live in town with my family. I have always hated living in town but my husband grew up here and we are not at a point where we can live my dream in the country. I love your idea of living your dream now and practicing those skills now. I have always lived in a dream land and often procrastinated life because in my mind I didn't want to waste my time on something now when I need that for my dream land and home. I can finally stay home with my 4 babies but that came with the cost of our dream country living. This year iam finally learning to live now. Thanks to you I have a successful sourdough starter, iam starting a small garden and getting my children involved. Iam learning to live within my means. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us.

Watching this while I look at what I have accomplished today- muffins made with fresh milled flour from wheat that I grew), eggs collected from a neighbours farm, laundry fresh from the line. Love my rural life!!

I too live in an 1800’s Farmhouse upstate NY. It was once a prized Dairy farm. My husband and I bought it over 20 yrs ago and we love the simple country lifestyle. I love your channel because your taste is very much like mine. I live the old authentic style verses the new modern Farmhouse style.

I love your videos. I didn’t realize that your sister was This Oily House until the other day!! I have been watching you both for a while. Lol. Y’all are awesome and so helpful!

you have inspired my sourdough adventures and modest garden! two and a half years into my marriage with two kiddos and 5500sqft of yard- i’m aiming simply to glorify God and nourish my family with what He’s given.

Great video Lisa! I recently moved to Missouri from Northern California and I was a little concerned about hanging clothes on the line due to the humidity out here (and bugs), but I'm glad to see that it can be done, and the clothes will eventually dry... lol. Happy Homemaking.

You're my go-to when I want to remember why I enjoy homemaking. Lisa, you are a star. Thank you for sharing all that you do.

You took the risk and it paid off ❤

You truly are a hero. There are many videos of people living homesteader lives. I'm not knocking any of them, but you are miles ahead of them in that you cook, sew, create, milk cows, collect eggs, make everything from scratch, are always learning new skills, and that's just to name a few. But on top of all that, you're doing with a brood of amazing children. That you home school no less. I admire you so much. I'm old now, but if I could go go back and do my life over, I'd want to grow up to be just like you. My biggest challenge though would be the cooking part. I hate to cook. I love to bake though. Thank you for being so humble. And for sharing your love and skills with us. If there was a contest for the most amazing homesteader, I'd vote for you hands down. 🤗

We don’t have a farm but I hope to one day if it is God’s plan for us. Thank you for the encouragement to grow in these skills where you currently live.

I grew up in a family where we ate a lot of heavily processed foods, and we almost always sat down in front of the television to eat. As an adult I did a year of service in a rural community, and I spent a lot of time with a family that had a small farm with chickens, goats, sheep, cows, fruit trees and a garden. They lived across the way from extended family, and they'd make scratch foods, eat together around the dinner table, recreate outdoors, go to Mass and pray together. They had a small income and could be considered "impoverished" by some metrics, but they were so happy and nourished! They seemed to have so much abundance, whereas my family growing up lived paycheck to paycheck and were constantly busy and stressed even though we were a middle class dual-income family living in a desirable neighborhood. I am so grateful for the experience I had spending time with this rural family, and as an adult I've tried to cultivate a slower pace of life with whole foods and quality time. There's a little bit of a learning curve that comes with this lifestyle shift, and sometimes I just want to eat Taco Bell and watch the X-Files (which is fine occasionally), but I never regret evenings where I make a home-cooked meal, go on a walk, play a game of chess or work in the garden.

You are such an inspiration for the kind of wife and mom I strive to be! I love learning new things through your videos! You are amazing

I'm glad Johanna is enjoying her Christmas dress, it looks so nice and how lucky to have a extra pie baker in the family! So much good information and encouragement in the video. Have a blessed Easter!

Dear Lisa. You never stop surprising me. Because you'r such an amazing young lady: resourceful, persistent, focused, engaged in your chores and dreams... Thank you for being there. And, please, take care of yourself. PS: In summer you coud try cold soups, like vichyssoise or gazpacho.

This video ministered to me deeply. We, too, have a dream to be out on land. Currently we are in the city...but I "homestead" how I can with the space we have. We will keep dreaming though! Thank you Lisa!

Thank you so much for this beautiful video. I live in an apartment, but it's always been my dream to have a farm where I grow my own food, make everything from scratch and live a simple life. I naturally tend to wait until the circumstances are "perfect" to live out my dreams. But more and more lately I've been searching for ways to live out my dreams now in my little apartment "homestead" 😊 Your video was encouraging and inspiring. Thank you again!

Just found you, much older but can only imagine how much happier we would be to live for our families. Bless you!!

Loved this!! I truly believe homesteading is how you live, not where you live! 🏡

Nothing more beautiful than seeing a baby in progress. Congratulations!

This is one of my favorite videos of yours! You inspire so many, thank you for all that you do!

I’ve always grown up in the city, I’m familiar with country lifestyle because of family and I live in a state that’s mainly country. These past couple of years I’ve wanted to have a country life when I’m older. This is motivating me to plan and learn before I get to live that world myself with my family

Love your videos. One way to keep your cutting board from slipping while you cut is to lay a dampened kitchen towel underneath. It’s saved my fingers on many occasions. Blessings!

Really REALLY enjoyed this one! So motivating for me. I do not put enough effort into honing new skills. If something doesn't come easy for me I have a very hard time finding the drive to keep trying. I needed this today.

You inspire me and help to put me in a peaceful mood in the morning, thank you. Also, my 4 year old and 5 year old love watching you cook.

Trying my best on a .25 acre lot!👍🏽 I bake sourdough, I grow as many veggies as I can on my lot, and chickens for eggs.

How true. We have 12 kids in just around 2000 square foot home with a acre of land. We are raising rabbits, chickens, and will be getting a milk cow soon. It's about working with what you have, and starting somewhere. You were featured on the school of Traditional Skills, which is how I learned of it (from you), and it has been a valuable resource, as has your channel over the years. Thanks for sharing with us.

Love the outside airing of the quilts. However, I always hang them with the color not showing, especially IF the sun shines directly on the quilts. I don't want them to fade. :)

I love seeing pictures of the kids working with you in the kitchen. I know its harder when they are little and so much more helpful as they get oldrr

This is such a beautiful video. Thank you. I want to send this to all the young wives I know who are just starting out.

Thank you Lisa, I’m always chilled out watching you drift around your kitchen, making it look so easy, yet you never stop working! I don’t know how that works at all, but I love it!

This was SO encouraging. I was just beating myself up last night for still having to follow recipes step by step. I have been doing mostly from scratch for the last year or so. You are the first person I've heard say that yes, it will come later. You won't always be staring at a recipe. Thank you so much for keeping it real!!

What a beautiful video about living the country life, wherever you are.

Thank you so much for being so encouraging! I live in the city and always have but recently I've felt drawn to the slow living and country lifestyle. I'll do as you said and start by learning how to make bread.

We homestead on just one acre. We raise muscovy ducks, chickens (new chicks tomorrow), goats, and rabbits. The way this property laid out we still have room for a good size garden and an above ground pool with play areas for our grandsons. We love it!

I definitely needed this encouragement. We’re in that pay off debt waiting game and it’s so hard some days. But you’re so right there are things we can do differently

Wonderful video! It’s wonderful that you started where you were and did something about your passion. Oftentimes people are stymied by thinking they can’t, when they actually can, by being more creative.

Such a great video! It's like the adult version of teaching babies and children to keep at it. We don't get annoyed at babies who are learning to walk; we need to give ourselves, as adults, the same type of encouragement and celebration. This video was so well done and has encouraged me to learn even more - new and enhancing skill sets I already have.

This is an amazing video. Your life on the farm, with your family is admirable. Thank you for sharing.

I've lived in the countryside (Europe) most of my 60 years. In my adult life I've always aspired to live on a smallholding/farm, but never made it that far. That's not to say I didn't have hens for eggs or meat or vegetables growing. At one time we even used to have a few pigs for meat. I always cook from scratch and it is only for my husband and myself (we don't have kids). There are off days when I don't want to cook, but there is always something good around the house to munch. I love cooking, making house, sewing and doing anything that is creative and at the same time giving us comfort. My mother and grandmother where both good cooks, but I was only allowed in the kitchen for helping with the washing-up.😆 I learned to cook because I wanted to and probably had inherited the talent from mother and her mother before her.. I now run a small scale campsite with two holiday rentals and in the summer months I am cooking trice a week for more than 30 people at a time. I prefer if someone else does the dishes, mind you. In my opinion, learning to cook is a basic skill that everyone should be having, like learning to walk, talk, etc.. You need to be able to feed yourself when push comes to shove. Anyway, I still live vicariously through you Lisa. I am in awe with all the young women I see on youtube living a life I have always wanted.

Im happy that Cooking from scratch is one the skills i was thought since i was a 10 year old little girl. We didn't have gas stoves back then so i had to learn to turn my own fire too. That was just sort of the norm were i come from (Central América). I was i little surprising to me when i saw that people needed a book to follow i recipe. I thought everybody new how to cook. 😂. Of course that was when i was still very young and didn't know much about the American culture. I really treasure those days.

I love this video so much! It’s so true that you can have the country lifestyle to some degree or another wherever you are. We have had our 10 acre property for almost a year now, but I started learning in a neighborhood. We even had “secret” backyard chickens in a neighborhood. I learned how to cook from scratch & I grew whatever I could in our tiny backyard. I’m thankful for the time that I had in a smaller place to learn basic skills. Now that we have a bigger property and are trying to start much bigger homestead, I wouldn’t have time to learn the basics. Well... I think we should have been taught the basics & had real homemaker training as children-teens in school & home, but that’s a whole other rant right there. I was taught the opposite of everything I’m doing now. You just have to be grateful & make use of the time & season that you’re in. God knows your desires & He will lead you to where you’re supposed to be.

I always love watching your videos. You are a wonderful homemaker, mama, and wife. 😃

Went through all the comments baby number 8 is a boy due in July

Hi Lisa, I saw you and Laura yesterday in the Target parking lot. I was so surprised I didn’t quite know what to say but thanks again for your content and for helping me find the joy in homemaking!

I guess I’m asking- could you please tell us what facets of homesteading do you *not* do? I guess your sister raises your chicken? Do you raise hogs or beefs? Who manages your weeding, irrigation? When do you have time for seeing? Who’s homeschooling the kids? Do they obey you the first time most of the time or do they usually argue with you when you tell the kids to do something? Do they just do their chores automatically? I feel like I would have this relaxing lifestyle If I did zero food raising. I currently have 25lbs of chicken to can up, livers & gizzards to process, mushrooms dehydrating, tomato plants that are 30 days behind in getting in, garden compost to order (we are behind on that), a canning pantry to organize, new layers to band, another chicken tractor to build… does your husband do all the outdoor farm stuff so that you’re doing only indoor stuff? How does your kitchen stay clean? Mine is always full of projects. I’m only sleeping from 1am-7am.

I really like the message behind this video....I have moved so many times, had a farm that I loved but had to give it up, but have always treated my home as my "homestead". About to move back to the country again to live my last year's in my favorite setting

Beautiful! Thnk u for sharing!!❤❤❤

It’s been a minute since watching your videos. They are still so inspiring!! If you have trouble getting those seeds started try using heat pads. I remember my old basement always being a bit on the chilly side 😉. Thank you for sharing.

Your videos are so relaxing and beautifully done. I just always want bread after I watch them!! Have a blessed Easter! He is Risen!

That's how I found out about you, in one of those magazines, called Do It Yourself (by Home and Gardens). I still have it!

I’d love to hear more about your compost and gardening. I live in a suburban neighborhood but I’m gardening and working hard to compost more for supplementing my soil.

Lisa a be sure to get the lights down really low to the seed,I got starts. They need to be almost on top of the plants. Maybe an inch or two from the plants. If you leave far up they will cause your plants to get leggy

Content…such an important word❤

I get the feeling you're getting your house ready to go on the market, but just a feeling...

Beautiful life and story😊

Spread a damp hand towel under your cutting board and it will not move at all while you are cutting.

Though my father grew up on a small farm, he moved to a townshouse, with a small garden, but growing up there I remember most of this garden the fruit trees and herbs. And always tomtoes and such. So indeed it does not matter in what house you live in it's how you live in it. My mom always cooked from scratch and I have been doing it since moving out at 21 years old. So my husband and my daughter doesn't know better. Not to say we never eat something from a jar but most I make my own. It was fun to see that my daughter enthousiatically telling a schoolfriend that I had made sauerkraut. I wonder what my daughter will take with her from growing up like this when she eventually moves out years from now. Bread is something I recently started making. Previously I never had any succes with it, so I gave up for years, but I'm trying again. My family especially liked the english muffin loafs I made. hope your garden does well this year, and not much weeding, with the baby on the way an easy garden you can enjoy would be great!

Happy Easter to you and your family, God bless you all!

What you said about never tiring of exploring, that is so true. You don't ever have to be bored if you don't want to. i love being at home so much. I made Italian sweet bread for Easter, it turned out beautiful! Your girls would probably love making it. It has a dyed egg in the middle! Love this video.

Currently live on a military base with my wife and kids. I'm hoping to move to my parents farm after I get out of the military.

This is something I’ve noticed over the years, the most seasoned cook, seamstresses, baker, will still make mistakes and something that you have made perfectly for years fail. It makes you look at what you did wrong. Sometimes it’s simple as a child needs mommy and I’ve over cooked chicken dish, or bread. My favorite is not getting a crop in when I should. I love how you make me want to cook, bake, sew or just craft.

There are plenty of yummy cold soups, almost all creamy soups can well be eaten cold. And you can also try the Spanish "gazpacho" or "salmorejo", which are prepared without cooking.

Thank you Lisa for this video. I have been watching you for years and I loved this one video the most out of every one you have made. Your openness and household wisdom was just amazing. I love how calm you are. It really makes me feel I can incorporate some of your life's daily process into mine. I totally failed at my first and second attempt to make your sour dough starter. I threw in the towel, but after watching this wonderful video, I will try, try again! Thank you for the needed inspiration and Happy Easter to you and your family

Wonderful video showing all the learned wonderful things living on a homestead. Can’t wait to see spring really popping on your place!! Have a beautiful blessed Easter.

So glad you got through the drapery challenge! Can’t wait to see the finished drapes! What you said about things being a little scary when you start…so true. It’s like riding a bike…we just need to practice and practice and we get better over time, no matter what the skill! 😊

❤love this video. It is definitely inspiring.

Loved today’s video , so encouraging, I love cooking from scratch & laughed when I saw you making meatloaf, I made 2 today! Like you Im starting my vegetable plants indoors & tomorrow I plan on having my grandkids plant the seeds! Will be fun for them watching everything grow.

your videos are always so encouraging ❤ i have been living in the country for 15 years now and i was once a city girl 😄

love your way of life homemade food best gardening great love those hen’s am a farm wife thank you for sharing your life great life for children Theola

I've lived on thousands of acres and I've lived in town. Turn your yard into a garden, get some hens and rabbits, you'll be farming. It's so much easier and more manageable to just farm your yard.

I am so proud of you for starting those lined drapes!!!🙌🏻 I could hear the anxiety in your voice on your podcast when talking to your special guest. But you are so right! When I started cooking over forty-three years ago, I knew so little. I would call Mama and ask her how to make her meatloaf. It’s hard to write down a pinch of this, a handful of that and bake until it smells done…what??? Now, I can throw one together lickety-split. I also have old metal pole clothesline posts given to me! You bet I’m going back to sheets and towels drying in that wonderful sunshine! So happy reading the comments. You are such a blessing and encouragement to many! Start little and grow with time and practice! Thank you always for sharing your life and many talents with us all!

So encouraging and such timely wisdom for anyone beginning a new endeavor! Thank you!

I love to cook from scratch! I’m trying to make bread 🍞 didn’t turn out good lol but I’m going to try again, I also have been sewing all kinds of things I’ve been sewing 15 years and still learning

I love this video! Love that you're talking about your real, and long experience with this lifestyle. And also about making cooking easy and second nature and intuitive. I dont like how disconnected we are with food now, and how everything has to be SO precise with the recipes. What about being connected with your food, knowing what goes into soups, living your life WHILE cooking well (as opposed to shutting kids down when they talk to you while youre trying to follow a recipe). So. love the work you're doing! Also, great visuals. So comforting and soothing to watch. And inspires me to do more work in the kitchen and home. It recharges me too.

Another relaxing video I enjoyed. This morning I made sour dough doughnuts and I said to my husband “ I wouldn’t serve these to just anyone, because they have that sour dough taste.” He said “ I don’t even think about it.” Made my day. I had them in the fridge for a day and pulled them out last night and fried them this morning. I put some in the freezer for us to pull one out with our coffee in the morning. Next is sour dough rhubarb muffins. Home making is so fun. I like your thoughts on contentment too,so true. If we start out in a lowly place and make the best of it we will be so much more appreciative when things get better.

I very much wanted to upgrade to birch this move but it's just not an option but I am hoping it will be in a few years so I went with a simpler inexpensive futon mattress $140 rather than spending a few hundred to nearly a thousand since I can't afford birch yet.

It's a beautiful life that you share with your viewers. Thank you......

Getting there can be just as beautiful as being there

Fabulous video!! Loved every single frame. You never fail to make me think how much I respect your hard work and dedication to your family.

It’s such a delightful channel. I thoroughly enjoy it. Thank you

So jealous of your beautiful fresh eggs.

Practicing the country lifestyle in my suburb home in Australia and it's so therapeutic Lisa, I loved this video and you've inspired so many of my changes in my home.. you are amazing.. more videos like this please 🙏🙏

I love your videos, and I have learned so much from you! Thank you!!

Love this video so much, Lisa! Just so beautiful and encouraging!

❤❤❤ you Chanel!

I have that article that "better homes and gardens" printed out......love looking through it every now and again......

Wondering if you can do a video about your top book recommendations. Really enjoy your channel. I wish I could go back in time and raise my family more simply

It's great to see the kids in the kitchen.

Wonderful thoughts and insights! You have so much to offer. 🙏🏼

This video brings me so much peace

I love hearing you talk about your country living lifestyle. You are basically living the lifestyle I’ve always wanted to live. Thanks for this video . Happy Easter to you and your family. ✝️

I love cooking soups. Chicken-kale is one of my favorites, next to lentil soup. Although you include the same ingredients, we cook so differently. I like the way yours look. Those breadsticks look really nice.

What a lovely and encouraging video. Thank you