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During the pandemic, millions started home gardens out of fear, then quit when the work got hard. The speaker calls this pattern a lesson: fear burns out fast. Real change needs hope and a purpose bigger than yourself.
During the pandemic, millions started home gardens out of fear, then quit when the work got hard. The speaker calls this pattern a lesson: fear burns out fast. Real change needs hope and a purpose bigger than yourself.
I call them COVID gardens. Next time you're driving around, look for any semi-recent abandoned gardens. Folks went crazy starting homesteads, planting gardens in 2020, but then the fear subsided, the difficulty set in, and they burnt out and quit. You can't do this and last out of a reasoning for fear, because with fear the adrenaline eventually wears off and you collapse. And you're done. So you have to dig deeper and find a bigger why. One full of hope. Then you have a clear vision. It's bigger than you are, and you can go at it no matter what, and no matter how you feel, no matter how hard it is, you can do it.
If I had to start my Homestead all over again, it could only pick one animal… 
