May 5, 2024
In the heart of Texas, 1200 members of the Homestead
Heritage community have spent the past 5 decades working
the land for their food, energy, water and livelihoods,
both for their own health as well as that of the land.
On about 500 acres of community-owned land, about 350
families are planting crops like wheat that they then
grind for flour in their water-powered grist mill and
then bake into bread that they sell at their restaurant.
They grow the basics, but also crops like sorghum ("a
sweetener of the south that was locally available before
the sugar trade") that they turn into syrup with their
horse-powered press and sell as sorghum pecan ice cream
at their cafe.
The members of this agrarian- and craft-based
intentional Christian community aim to be as self-
sufficient as possible in as many ways as possible. They
have dozens of hand looms for weaving their own clothing
(jackets included). There's a blacksmith, leather
workers, basket weavers, and furniture makers.
There are a lot of people that feel the shaking, there
are a lot of people that recognize that things aren't
going to be able to go the way that they have and that
changes are coming, explains Greg Godsey who co-owns the
Heritage Coffee Shop and Heritage Architecture:
"You might hear the term prepper, and a lot of times
that is stockpiling lots of things, stockpiling food or
ammo. That's not really our approach. The idea of
stockpiling and the nature of it is not sustainable.
That's what the stockpile is that it's going to have an
end and we're trying to think about it from an approach
of, how can we recognize that their are changes coming,
things are failing, things are not going to always go
as they have and can we be doing something to prepare
for that that has a look ahead in a positive way that
can maybe teach people to sustain themselves or bring
people together."
— Homestead Heritage: https://www.homesteadheritage.com/
— Heritage Architecture:
https://www.houzz.com/professionals/a...
* Farm footage and community life footage courtesy of
Ben Owen: circlebphoto.com
On *faircompanies:
https://faircompanies.com/videos/ecov...
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