Faith, food, family, and slower home rhythms.
Simple Farmhouse Life is a warm interview show rooted in home, farm, faith, and practical family life. Episodes move from sourdough and hospitality to smartphones, boyhood, house building, rest, and the daily work of raising children.
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Simple Farmhouse Life is a family-and-homemaking interview show with its feet in the kitchen, the garden, the schoolroom, and the farmyard. It has a calm pace. The show’s center is the practical question: what helps a household live out its priorities when children, work, meals, mess, faith, and projects all compete for attention? Recent conversations answer that question from many angles. One episode looks at nature as a place where children can build, get bored, notice creation, and learn about God without turning nature study into a grand production. Another considers boys, strength, sensitivity, courage, and the desire to raise sons whose hearts stay alive as they mature. A conversation with Clare Morell focuses on smartphones, social media, dopamine, and the possibility of recovering real-world curiosity after screen-heavy habits. Other episodes move into homeschooling across ages, special needs, older-mom perspective, and the hard-earned ability to see beauty through the toys instead of only seeing the mess. Rest gets treated as something deeper than an empty calendar. House building becomes a discussion of tradeoffs, budgets, insulation, salvaged materials, and the stubborn realities of codes and inspections. Hospitality is made smaller and more reachable: a hayride, borrowed ice cream equipment, bread bowls, a simpler house system, fewer things on the counter. Business appears too, but as something to hold open-handedly rather than serve at the cost of family life. The show is openly shaped by Christian language and assumptions. It does not try to sound detached. Its appeal is in the patient back-and-forth, where advice is tested against laundry, children, meals, farms, blogs, old houses, and seasons of overwhelm. For listeners drawn to from-scratch food, faith-rooted parenting, homeschooling, and a slower home life, it offers steady company and lived-in counsel.
Made for: For homemakers, parents, homeschool families, home cooks, and homesteaders who want practical encouragement rooted in faith and ordinary domestic life.
What sets it apart: It blends from-scratch cooking and farmhouse routines with candid guest conversations about parenting, technology, rest, hospitality, business, and building a home life that can actually be lived.
With over ten years experience making a home, author and mom of eight, Lisa Bass, shares her love for from scratch cooking, natural living and all things handmade. As a full-time blogger and homeschooler, Lisa also mixes in a little mom life and business tips.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Lisa makes homemaking advice useful by tracing how convictions about family, faith, food, and hospitality hold up in daily routines.
Simple Farmhouse Life turns domestic ideals into decisions a family can actually make. Lisa moves between guest conversations and solo Q&As, asking how hospitality, home building, outdoor time, work, and sourdough function amid ordinary household demands.
Antique light fixtures meet electrical inspection, and your farmhouse daydream gets a practical reality check.
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A practical case for letting the backyard do some of the teaching.
The episode frames nature as a place where children can notice their Creator, and it keeps that idea grounded in ordinary family life instead of turning it into a bigger project than it needs to be.
A steady defense of boys' strength and tenderness, with a thoughtful case for helping both grow together.
The episode takes a clear stand on boys being seen and honored for how God wired them, rather than flattened by language like toxic masculinity. It frames traits such as strength, leadership, and protection as goods to be nurtured, not faults to be corrected away.
A grounded look at the tradeoffs behind a farmhouse build.
Ashley Turner talks through what changes when a house build stops being an idea and becomes everyday life. The episode stays close to the real tradeoffs: comfort, insulation, budget, code requirements, and the pull to make a place feel old and settled rather than newly built.
Hospitality gets easier when a home can offer borrowed tools, simple skills, and less clutter.
Lisa presents hospitality as something built from ordinary assets, not a polished performance. A tractor and wagon can carry a yearly hayride, an ice cream machine can turn a social into an easy gathering, and bread bowls can make a simple skill feel generous to other people.
A lived-in sourdough Q&A for families who want bread to fit the week, not run it.
Sourdough gets a useful reality check as Lisa, after 13 years of baking, still avoids claiming expert status. That humility gives the episode its shape: a practical Q&A built around listener questions, with guidance on nudging flavor more or less sour and making bread fit family…
A practical look at building work around nap time, schedules, and family life.
The episode keeps its focus on a practical challenge: making designated work time actually work when family life and an online business are pulling in different directions.
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Pop culture, personal stakes, and room for a tangent.
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Simple Farmhouse Life episode 235 has Lisa answering listener questions about church babies, daily work blocks, sleep training, bread machine sourdough, and dairy cows.
Lisa and RuthAnn discuss how screen time kills creativity and dopamine satisfaction, arguing that moms don't lack time but are distracted by screens.
Lisa, mother of eight, answers listener questions about large family bedtime routines, no-fuss laundry, kids using screens, and freshly-milled sourdough tips.
Lisa interviews Sarah Stutzman about the importance of family dinner and practical tips for maintaining it during busy times.
Lisa Bass, a mother of eight and sourdough baker for 13 years, answers listener questions about sourdough in a Q&A format.
Lisa, a mother of nine, uses this solo Q&A to answer the listener question "you can only have two" of homeschooling, a clean house, and cooking from scratch.
Sarah of Our Tribe of Many says raising 11 children has shown her how quickly family life changes as children grow up.
Sarah Therese traces her approach to minimalism to a 700-square-foot, one-bedroom mobile home where she lived with her husband and children.
Lisa, creator of Farmhouse on Boone and host of Simple Farmhouse Life, interviews Eryn Lynum of Nat Theo about teaching kids biblical truth through nature and building family rhythms around rest.
Lisa, mother of nine and creator of Farmhouse on Boom, interviews Rebekah Lovell, author of Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys, about raising sons in a culture that talks about “toxic masculinity.” Lovell says she saw boys treated as “second class citizens” in childcare, preschool, and classrooms, and she argues their “masculine heart is a good thing” when it is guided by discipline and boundaries.
Clare Morell discusses the impact of smartphones and social media on children and offers practical steps for families to reduce screen time.
Jennifer Brockman shares wisdom for young moms on homeschooling, large family life, and letting go of pressure to find beauty in ordinary days.
Carolyn from Homesteading Family discusses how to find rest and peace amidst a busy life as a mom and homesteader.
Ashley Turner warns that antique-looking plumbing fixtures can cause wall leaks and mold issues.
Lisa explains why she plans Friday grocery trips around “enough for two meals” so weekend hosting is already covered.
Lisa interviews Laura about building a business without sacrificing family life, emphasizing intentionality and keeping the business serving the family.
Meg of Hollar Homestead discusses practical from-scratch cooking and homesteading tips for busy mothers.