Kitchen-table self-reliance, schooling, and homestead skills.
Homesteads and Homeschools pairs home-centered living with a stubborn interest in independence. The Liberty Hippie moves between homeschool decisions, goats, gardens, mead, lockpicking, chickens, and the harder work of building trustworthy local community.
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Homesteads and Homeschools is a home-centered conversation about the work of becoming more capable. The Liberty Hippie uses homesteading and homeschooling as the main frame, but the show does not stay inside tidy category lines for long. It follows the practical edges of a household: food, animals, land, children, tools, security, money, and neighbors. That range is the point. A discussion about chilly trees in pots can become a conversation about concrete yards, roots, dogs, gardens, and how much patience it takes to make a place productive. A farm update can move from public school status to vegetables, dairy goats, meat goats, milk, soap, cheese, and the reality of breeding animals without pretending it is all picturesque. The homeschool episodes are similarly grounded. They treat schooling as a choice among tools, not as a slogan, and they leave room for parents who are still using public school while thinking through alternatives. Guests broaden the skill set. Mr. A.B. from Agora Brewing brings mead into the homestead orbit, with jalapeno, hops, chilies, cardamom, cinnamon, and other experiments making the episode feel like a workshop bench. Mr. Pat Watson brings lockpicking and property security into the same practical world, where a front door, a glass panel, and a publicly reachable lock all deserve attention. Mr. Texas Joe talks through homeschooling from a dad's angle, including the frustrations that pushed some families to look beyond remote classes and institutional routines. Jacob Lindsay's appearances stretch toward community design, trust, buyouts, shared improvements, and the low-trust mood that made many people think harder about who lived around them. The show can be rambling. It can also be unusually concrete. Its personality comes from that mix of chores, jokes, unfinished plans, strong preferences, and repeated returns to local resilience. It suits listeners who want the kitchen-table version of self-reliance, where liberty is discussed through seeds, goats, locks, children, and the people next door.
Made for: For parents, homesteaders, small-acreage experimenters, and liberty-minded listeners who like practical talk more than polished lifestyle branding. It also suits people exploring homeschooling, food production, property security, and local community from the messy middle of real family life.
What sets it apart: The show connects everyday homestead chores to bigger questions about trust, education, security, and freedom without sanding off the unfinished parts. Its appeal is the working-through-it quality: goats, gardens, locks, mead, school choices, and neighborhood design all belong to the same conversation.
At Homesteads and Homeschools we talk to all varieties of homesteaders and homeschoolers as we examine self-reliance and the interconnectedness of home-centric lifestyles.
A lockpicker might make you reconsider that pretty glass front door.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose but grounded conversation about trust, buyouts, property improvements, and building community from the ground up.
Community building is framed as both a social challenge and a question of what people agree to value. Jacob returns to keep working through how people might develop, grow, and make community together, with the clearest section coming through the home-improvement example: solar…
A candid gardening episode about potted trees, concrete yards, and adapting homestead plans to real life.
A potted tree opens into a grounded conversation about what gardening looks like on a property that does not give much back easily. Jacob Lindsay talks through keeping a roughly three-foot tree in a temporary pot, checking the roots, and setting things right after a dog dug into…
A loose homestead check-in where school plans, garden hopes, and goat questions unfold in the same practical rhythm.
This no-guest recap stays close to the host's day-to-day life, moving from family schooling updates into the small, practical hopes attached to a garden.
A patient mead-making chat where bold flavor ideas run up against the long wait of fermentation and ageing.
Mead is treated here as patient, improvisational craft, with the host and Mr. A.B. of Agora Brewing talking through honey-based brewing, hops, jalapenos, chilies, and spices.
A grounded look at how lockpicking can expose weak points in homestead security.
Lockpicking lands here as a hands-on homesteading concern rather than a novelty. Pat Watson of Uncensored Tactical explains why the skill can matter for people managing their own place, especially when it comes to understanding security instead of simply trusting a lock.
Deschooling as family liberation work.
Food, flops and friendship, from the car to the patio.
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Small habit changes meet hands-on AI experiments.
Homesteads and Homeschools episode 111 brings back Jacob Lindsay from Tasting Anarchy and California in Exile to talk about Childerburg at Mule Shoe Bend recreational area outside Austin, Texas.
Homesteads and Homeschools episode 110 follows Jacob Lindsay's backyard orchard work in Texas, where he is testing a mission olive, pomegranates, apricots, a banana tree, a loquat, a cherry, a fig, a persimmon, and mature plum trees.
Liberty Hippie uses Homesteads and Homeschools episode 109, "A Goat Riddled Update," as a solo status report with no guest and show notes at homesteadsandhomeschools.com/109.
Homesteads and Homeschools episode 108 brings Mr.
Pat Watson of Uncensored Tactical and the August book Tactical Lockpicking leads a conversation about why homesteaders should understand lockpicking.
Homesteads and Homeschools episode 106 follows Texas Joe's move from public school to homeschooling after a dispute with school administration.
Hog farmer Kurt says he received $70,000 in subsidies while arguing that those payments protect inefficient farms and disadvantage potential entrants.
Pam Laricchia says her daughter, interested in photography, went from rural Ontario to New York City at 18 to find a community of photographers.
Homesteads and Homeschools host The Liberty Hippie interviews Papa Pepper, a YouTube creator he first met on Steemit, about moving from Wisconsin to the Ozarks and raising seven children, all ten and under, on just under eight acres.
Geoff Wacker describes raising 400 meat chickens and two Idaho pasture pigs (340 pounds of pork) to feed 18 families through his nonprofit homestead.
The host introduces the 100th episode of a podcast about homesteading and homeschooling, promoting network shows and asking for reviews.
The host introduces the podcast and previews an interview with a first-time gardener, encouraging listeners to try gardening.
The host interviews a guest about homeschooling and homesteading, promoting self-reliance and liberty.
The host discusses homesteading and homeschooling topics, including gardening and soil preparation, with a guest.
Host Liberty Hippie interviews a guest about her diverse homeschooling experiences with her children.