Feature The New Growers
position, including myself.
The women were normally delegated to the supporting roles, and now we’ re coming to the forefront of the industry in many ways. Not only are we raising families, but now we’ re raising awareness about the broken food systems in this country, we’ re teaching self-sufficiency skills and we’ re running farms and businesses. We’ re breaking the“ traditional” agricultural norms.
I truly admire the women I consider friends. It would be impossible to list them all, but I know of those who have done amazing things just by teaching others what they know through social media.
I’ m friends with a fabulous market gardener who’ s raising small children and running a successful business, all while involving her babies. I adore a fellow quail farmer who’ s in the trenches of motherhood and building her own successful business. I appreciate my friends who are just there to learn new skills and quietly cheer from the background. What I truly admire are the women in my circle who are supporting other women in both their successes and failures.
New Homesteaders
We were all motivated by“ something” to start down the homesteading path. For myself, it was a long-ingrained idea. For others, it may have been the pandemic that tossed them so harshly into this lifestyle. For some, it was the research they did into our food systems, ingredients and how they affected our families ' bodies.
No matter the reason, the trend towards growing and preserving our own food has been on the upswing for several years now. The urge to be able to provide for the people closest to us has given rise to a whole new generation of women going back to traditional gardening, homesteading and farming.
I want to encourage whoever is reading this article, be it woman or man, single, married, raising a gaggle of children or maybe childless by choice, to follow your passion and your dream. If my introverted self can go out into the world and teach others how to fulfill their self-sufficiency dreams, I do not doubt that you, too, can accomplish whatever goals you ' ve set for yourself.
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