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Homesteading is the New Counter Culture – 3187

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Yesterday chatting with Mark Baker about Homesteading I was reminded of an episode I did back originally in July of 2013 called, The Bright Future of Homesteading in America which is now a bit over 9 years old.  It was interesting to listen to what Mark had to say about homesteading and contrast that with some of the bullet points in the old show notes.

Today I decided to simply take those bullets and present them in the context of 2022 and all that has happened in the past 9 years and especially the past 3.  The world has changed in amazing and bizarre ways.  Honestly I keep expecting to see Superman with a backwards S show up any time soon.

Still homesteading is honestly the new counter culture!  So today let’s dive into that.

Join Me Today As We Discuss…

  • The 70’s movement was yet another cycle of things that occurred in the 60’s and the 30’s
  • The 30’s were driven by survival and the 70’s by an escape mentality
  • Both movements had some urban components but were mostly rural
  • Today’s homesteaders are working land from 1/10th to 100 acres and more
  • Today’s movement is driven by multiple factors
    • Concern about the future
    • The quality of our food
    • The environmental damage of big agriculture
    • The concerns about GMOs
    • Regaining what was lost in Generations X and Y for everyone
    • A change in the fundamental understanding of wealth
    • An understanding of what is actually “beautiful”
    • A desire to regain control in our lives
  • What will sustain the modern homesteading movement
    • The I can do this almost anywhere mentality
    • The internet and info sharing
    • Opposition will strengthen the movement
    • It is being done BEFORE an economic crisis
    • The problems of modern society are more evident then ever
    • Automation and technology will make doing it easier
    • The biggest reason, it is simply becoming accepted by most people
  • Why I believe almost everyone will do at least a bit of homesteading in coming years
  • What decentralizing even 25% of the food system would mean for society

 

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Richard
Richard
2 years ago

I know you put a lot of research and thought into your observations, which I admire, and in this case having lived through the 70’s back-to-the land movement I have some additional viewpoints to add to this topic. I was very close to this movement in urban and rural settings as well as gobbling up underground news of the time. I am not aware of any escapist motivation for this movement, it was highly motivated by an idealistic dream of what could be. This involved living in community farms very intertwined with a vision of some sort of spiritual oneness with like-minded souls, nature, and life force. This was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and it had committed believers. In some of the most extreme corners of this movement, there was the belief that everyone was each other’s sister or brother which included possessions and sexual relations. There are two documents essential to understanding those times; The Mother Earth News and The Whole Earth Catalog. These were the bibles of that time. The Rolling Stone newspaper called the shots for mostly the urban “heads” and the city culture. The “Plowboy” interview in the Mother Earth News was the sermon and although very intellectual, and mostly incomprehensible, set the stage for where the movement should be; mostly unattainable, futuristic, surreal. But some highly regimented communal living experiments did work, one of which is still around today in a very evolved form: Stephen Gaskin’s “The Farm” in Tennessee. I do think it is very valuable to take a realistic objective view of this widespread cultural phenomena of that time to learn from it’s cause and collapse.

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