{"id":30527,"date":"2020-11-17T13:08:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T02:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30527"},"modified":"2020-11-17T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T02:08:03","slug":"are-you-feeling-the-urge-to-homestead-heres-some-honest-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30527","title":{"rendered":"Are you feeling the urge to homestead? Here\u2019s some honest advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Homestead-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"Homestead\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Homestead-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Homestead.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the surface, \u201chomesteading\u201d looks like frolicking outside in the dirt all day and then sitting down to a delicious scratch-cooked, home-raised meal in the evening. Sure, that is part of it. But, having a functional homestead involves a lot of different skills. <\/p>\n<p>I remember telling my dad once that it felt like farming was more about construction and small engine repair than anything else. My dad laughed and told me my brother (who works in a large agricultural facility) had just told my dad that \u201c\u2026farming was mostly figuring out how to keep old diesel equipment up and running.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/self-sufficiency\/are-you-feeling-the-urge-to-homestead-here-s-some-honest-advice\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, \u201chomesteading\u201d looks like frolicking outside in the dirt all day and then sitting down to a delicious scratch-cooked, home-raised meal in the evening. Sure, that is part of it. But, having a functional homestead involves a lot of different skills. I remember telling my dad once that it felt like farming was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are you feeling the urge to homestead? Here\u2019s some honest advice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30529,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30527\/revisions\/30529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}