Hi everyone, I’m from North Carolina and I started perma-resilience a few years ago, during the chaos of the 2020 (not sure of the exact date) but I was signing up for every permaculture, zero waste and natural living program I could. I’m so excited to be in a place to start again and finally have access to everything we’ll need without worry. My biggest goal is to help guide my parents and growing family to becoming more in touch with nature and the outdoors but also to have an appreciation for the land and growing our own food. I’m currently at a townhouse so we’ll see how much work we can put it’s. So excited to be here again!

Ever wonder why more people don’t choose this path? Homesteading offers deep rewards—connection to land, food, meaning, resilience. And yet... most people run the other way. Why? Because modern culture doesn’t prioritize resilience. It prioritizes comfort, convenience, and efficiency—at all costs. It’s easier to tap a screen and get groceries in 20 minutes than to grow a tomato. Easier to blast the A/C than to insulate with intention. Easier to numb out than to dig in—literally and figuratively. But here’s the thing no one talks about: Comfort is fragile. Efficiency without soul is empty. Homesteading isn’t easy. It asks a lot of you. But it gives you something that modern life rarely does: meaning. Not abstract meaning. Real, gritty, hands-in-the-soil, feeding-your-family, earning-your-heat kind of meaning. The kind that can't be bought on Amazon. Most people avoid homesteading because they’ve been trained to outsource their needs—food, energy, even their sense of purpose. But those of us walking this path… we know. There’s freedom in the work. There’s joy in the slowness. And there’s strength in choosing resilience over convenience. Let’s talk: What was the biggest mindset shift for you when stepping into this life? What keeps you going when the path gets hard? 👇 Share your story. Let’s inspire the next wave.