A Homestead Built on Faith - Kip Smyth

Happy New Year! I’m coming back to you from winter hiatus later than anticipated, due to an extended illness and the now-historic teacher’s strike here in Los Angeles . During that time (which also saw LA pounded by torrential rains and floods), my daughters and I holed up at home and often lived vicariously through the videos of my guest today: homesteader Kip Smyth of the 1000’s of Roots YouTube channel . Via twice-weekly vlogs, Kip, his wife Carrie and their six children—ages 15 years to 19 months—document their permaculture-homesteading and homeschooling adventures living on a 500-square-foot off-grid home set on 20 acres in the Missouri Ozarks. The Smyth family’s stripped-down way of life is deeply rooted in their Christian faith; and yet, as Kip reveals in this interview, this was an existence he never could have imagined growing up as a self-described “jock” in a secular family in suburban Los Angeles. Here, we talk about consumerism overload, his calling to Christianity, homesteading from scratch, and so much more. Show notes: -Kip’s troublemaker childhood in Thousand Oaks, CA -From the party scene to finding himself on his family’s land in Alaska: “That’s when crazy stuff started happening to me” -Becoming a Christian, Simpson University as a 25-year-old freshman, and meeting Carrie -Arizona, the housing bubble and discovering Joel Salatin -Working at Home Depot: “If consumerism is the problem, then I need to become a producer” -Back to Alaska, and a brief foray into hunting and fishing - Strategic Relocation and why the Smyths chose Missouri -Primitive skills and the problem with the prepper mindset -Learning to homestead from scratch, building debt-free, and the long-term vision for 1000’s of Roots -Faith, their lifestyle as a calling, and Kip’s advice for other wannabe homesteading families

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A Homestead Built on Faith - Kip Smyth is an episode from Uncivilize by Jennifer Grayson.

This episode is 49:18 long.

This episode was published on Feb 7, 2019.

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