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Purposeful Journey Path of Action Resource Library
A collection of free, time-saving resources that so you can take action in each stage of the Purposeful Journey Path.
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You will have a unique path to purpose. But let me ask you a question.
Do you even know what your Ideal Homestead or Journey will look like?
How do you and your family see your purposeful life going? What dreams or goals do you have or better yet what your family’s growing vision is?
It is time to get all of your thoughts, plans, and even concerns out on paper.
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Step 1: Define you Purposeful Journey by asking yourself a few important questions everyone should ask before they start homesteading. Listen to Top Questions to Ask Before You Start Your Homestead podcast episode.
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Step 2: Make your first three goals. Listen to Dreaming Big On the Homestead podcast episode.
Step 3: Find Your Path to Purpose by going through the below guides. Each are Free, just click the download button below and take action!
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Purposeful Kitchen
The Purposeful Kitchen stage is the next circle out from you and that is the very heart of your home, the Kitchen.
What is so amazing about this stage is that you can start growing any time because you already have a kitchen and the skill you develop here will help you provide your family with the very essentials of life, food. You don’t need a garden or a homestead to start growing here because this stage is all about learning the skills you will need so that when you do have a garden or homestead, you are ready. The skills in our kitchen are the foundation that the whole purposeful life is built on and caring for our family’s needs should always come first.
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Step 1: Learn about what a homestead kitchen needs and cooking from scratch. Listen to the What makes a Kitchen a Homestead Kitchen? podcast episode
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Step 2: Learn more about homesteading without a homestead and how to purchase and eat with the seasons. Read the Can You Homestead Without A Homestead? Blog Series
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Step 3: Learn to make a Meal Plan for your Family. Listen to the The Benefits of a Simple Meal Plan podcast episode.
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Step 4: Start learning your first food preserving method like water bath canning or freezing vegetables. To learn about all the ways that you can learn listen to Is Canning the Only Way to Preserve Your Harvest? podcast episode.
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Step 5: You are starting to create a purposeful pantry in your home. Listen to Time to Stock Up your Winter Pantry podcast episode.
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Below are a few Guides, Recipe Cards, and a Training that are all free for you to dive even deeper into this stage.
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Purposeful Home
As growers, it is easy to jump over this stage because we just want to start growing our food and get outdoors. But you have to remember the home is where you create an environment of purpose.
A question I get asked a lot, is “How do you get it all done? How do you grow your own food and still have time for worship? Or How do you work all day in the garden and still have joy when you are cooking dinner?
Well, the answer is that I work hard to be a homemaker first. Many times society looks at this role as a waste of time, but caring for our family doesn’t just stop at the dinner table. It continues into the whole home, from making sure everyone has clean clothes to having clean dishes to serve our delicious homegrown food on. Homemaking is where you as a mother and leader in your home create an environment of safety for your family and yourself.
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Step 1: Define and shape your homemaker attitude
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Step 2: Define your purposeful homemaking habits.
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Step 3: Focus on Progress over Perfection. Listen to Why You Need Progress Over Perfection podcast episode.
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Step 4: Increase your productivity through organization. Read Get Things Done by David Allen
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More Resources are coming soon!
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Purposeful Garden
Growing a garden is all about taking care of your soil. Your soil is a living and full of microorganisms that break down nutrients for your plants. You may call yourself a gardener but what you truly are is a steward of the soil.
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You also need to develop a garden plan that goes beyond planting the seed to one that includes everything that needs done. A simple drawing is not going to remind you to fertilize, harvest, weed, water, transplant, and so on. You are going to need something more. I personally make a plan modeled after a market gardener.
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Step 1: Become the expert of your soil needs. Read Dirt: Finding the Solution to Building Soil Health by Crystal Mediate
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Step 2: Create a garden plan that will bring peace of mind and abundance
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Step 3: Learn to make a Plan for Beyond the Harvest. Listen to What is Beyond the Harvest Planning? podcast episode.
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Step 4: Build or rebuild your garden to No-Till Garden for abundance and soil fertility
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Below are a few resources, guides, and trainings to help you dive deeper into this stage.
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Purposeful Homestead
Having a homestead is one thing but your true goal should be to create a homestead that is sustainable, full circle, and essentially feeds itself. Permaculture has about 15 principles that help you use God’s connections in nature to create abundance. One example is that when you add animals you will have two unique byproducts, protein or product the animals produce and it poop! You will probably be consuming the product but the poop and litter can be developed into compost to feed your garden.
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Step 1: Decide what your first animal is going to be for your homestead. Read Polyface Micro by Joel Salatin
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Step 2: Learn more about permaculture. Listen to the What Is Permaculture When It Comes to Designing Your Dream Homestead podcast episode.
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Step 3: Start to build and design a homestead based on the 15 permaculture principles. Listen to the How to Use Permaculture Principle 1-4 in Your Homestead Design podcast episode.
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More Resources for this stage are coming soon!
Planning Beyond the Harvest Handbook
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Planning Beyond the Harvest with a Whole Chicken Guide
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Purposeful Life
This could be looked at as the final stage but I don’t think it is because it is more of combining all of the other stages and creating more. So like in your garden you will start adding perennials, like strawberries and blueberries or you want to start an orchard. With the homestead instead of just growing purchased animals for meat you decide to grow your own or start a mini dairy.
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Step 1: Create a business plan
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Step 2: Find a mentor in the industry you would like to explore
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Step 3: Just keep growing and fill your everyday with you purposeful growing journey!
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Planning Beyond the Harvest Handbook
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Planning Beyond the Harvest with a Whole Chicken Guide
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Finally a place on the web where you can find a laid out path to homegrown food, creating purpose, and building the life you crave…
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So whether you are just starting or a season grower looking to bring more abundance, you will access multiple courses, systems, and resources designed for you.
The Purposeful Growing member area is designed to meet you where you are at and push you toward the success on your path to homegrown and homemade.
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I want to teach you to build a purposeful, family centered life that brings you health, wealth of the soul, and leaves you time to spend those important moments with your family.
