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Amy K Fewell | Homesteading for the Kingdom

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The Homesteading for the Kingdom Podcast

About the Podcast

In 2024 the “Choosing Simple” podcast has been renamed to the Homesteading for the Kingdom podcast! Homesteading isn’t just a trend or a way of living, it is a calling. Listen to more on the HFTK podcast, where we talk about homesteading, herbalism, theology, current events, and more, and how they pertain to the Bible and this beautiful way of living.

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Featured Episodes

S3 E1

God Still Speaks to Us | The Story of Our New Home

S2 E3

How America Get’s the Proverbs Woman Wrong

S1 E9

What I Do When I Feel Overwhelmed

Episode 23

Redeeming Your Home for the Holidays (Series Intro)

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🌿 NEW ARTICLE in your Homestead Herbalist Membersh 🌿 NEW ARTICLE in your Homestead Herbalist Membership! 

Meet burdock (Arctium lappa). For 3,000 years it has been one of the most respected roots in the field.

Its actions read like a quiet inventory of God’s design:
• Alterative, the old “blood purifier”
• Lymphatic, to move a sluggish system
• Bitter, to wake up digestion and the liver
• Diuretic and diaphoretic, for gentle elimination
• Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant

And the uses herbalists reach for most:
• Stubborn skin conditions like eczema, psoriasis, acne, and boils
• Lymphatic congestion and swollen glands
• Liver and digestive support
• Achy, rheumatic joints

But you know I won’t hand you more than the science can carry. The strongest human study showed burdock tea lowering inflammatory markers in people with knee arthritis. Most of the bigger claims still live in animal and cell research. Promising, not proven. But sometimes, traditional testimonies outweigh science. That is always the case with burdock.

Read this entire in-depth dive with a HOMESTEAD HERBALIST membership. 

🌿 Comment BURDOCK and I’ll send the article straight to your inbox
I did my continuing education assignments for natu I did my continuing education assignments for natural healthcare today while alone at home with my kids while they acted like bouncing squirrels. I stayed up until almost midnight last night putting the final edits on a @homesteadersofamerica podcast episode (coming out tonight or tomorrow!) I responded to emails and texts, paid bills and prayed while I was nursing the baby to sleep. I checked the garden for bugs and produce while getting ready for a milk delivery. And in a few weeks I’ll throw back in homeschooling a 7 and 4 year old (the almost 17 year old is well on his way to being done) on top of other things—housework, fellowship dinners, and all the things not listed.

So when you tell me that you’re busy. That you don’t have time to accomplish anything in your life. That you don’t have time to build relationships and community. Or that you’re stressed and exhausted and always tired. Please tell me that you have utilized your time to its fullest, too. Because as a no-nonsense kind of person with a high capacity, you’re not fooling me if you just have a low capacity to deal with life. 

Your dreams are on the other side of exhaustion. 
Your pay raise or extra income is on the other side of sleepless nights and long hours.
Your better parenting is on the other side of inconvenience.
Your deeper marriage is on the other side of yielding your time and will.
Your refined skills are on the other side of prioritizing your time better. 
Your deeper relationship with Yahweh is on the other side of laying everything else down and making Him first in the day.

The list could go on forever. But at the end of it you’ll come to the realization that every person in the world has the same 24 hours in the day. The difference? Some use those hours more wisely than others, understanding that some seasons require less, and some seasons require more. 

Others want to do the bare minimum, call it a day, and then complain about how mediocre or exhausting their life is.

Pick which one you want to be—and whichever you choose, you’ll be the steward of. It’s a pet peeve of mine—I hope you choose to go higher. I’m cheering for you.
Since 2023, I have not been able to shake it. Aft Since 2023, I have not been able to shake it.

After dreams, after long conversations with the Lord, I keep coming back to the same word: something is coming, and God is calling His people to a modern-day Goshen.

Here is what stops me every time. When the plagues fell on Egypt—the hail, the darkness so thick you couldn’t see your own hand—there was one region that still had sunlight and bread on the table. Goshen. 

When God showed Pharaoh a famine was coming, He used Joseph to govern a nation and provide. Goshen was a place of refuge for his family.
 
Same nation, famine, plagues. Two completely different outcomes. The difference was simply that Goshen was where God’s people dwelt. Refuge is the whole point.

During the Exodus plagues, because they happened so suddenly, God providentially sheltered Goshen—the land where His people dwelt. 

But Goshen didn’t happen the same way during Joseph’s time. Years before the famine ever came, God warned Joseph, and Joseph stored up grain through seven years of plenty so his people would eat when the whole land went hungry. 

That is the pattern: provision prepared before the crisis, a people set apart, a storehouse standing ready when the world runs empty—spiritually and physically.

I believe God will once again build both times of Goshen.

So the question isn’t “will this happen again?” The question is, will you be ready? Why is the church not already prepared?

We have built beautiful buildings and polished productions. But when the shelves go bare, what is in the storehouse? 

Will we stand in the same line as everyone else? 

Not me. Not my family. Not the people who sit at my table.

This is Acts 4—land laid down, abundance shared, not one needy person among them. That church had become Goshen, and we can be that again. This isn’t archaic. It’s a blueprint for survival and provision.

The time to build is now. Not out of fear, but out of grace, mercy, and obedience.

Comment GOSHEN to read the entire new Substack…
I walked out one morning, years ago, and found my I walked out one morning, years ago, and found my flock had become mite magnets. Northern Fowl Mites, to be exact.

If you've never dealt with them, I’m so sorry. They feed on your birds' blood, dead skin, and feathers—most often carried in by wild birds passing overhead. And once they've moved in, the feed-store chemicals will burn your chickens' skin before they ever solve the problem.

So I did what our grandmothers would've done. I reached for what the Lord already set growing right on our own homestead.

Here's what actually cleared my flock—no chemicals:

🐓 Strip the coop bare. Pull ALL the bedding, burn it, don't compost it. Leave that floor bare for 2–3 weeks so the mites have nowhere left to hide.

🐓 Treat the coop. Eucalyptus, tea tree, lavender, peppermint, basil + cinnamon bark oils, sprayed top to bottom into every crack and crevice. Dust the roosts with wood ash or DE.

🐓 Dust your birds. Wood ash worked into the skin at the neck, vent, tail gland, and under the wings. I'll take wood ash over DE any day.

🐓 The garlic spray. A Clemson University study found topical garlic wiped out mite infestations in laying hens. My spray pairs it with those same oils and gets applied at night, after they've roosted—when the mites come out to feed.

And yes, your eggs are perfectly safe to eat the whole time. It's applied to skin and feathers, never fed.

God didn't hide your flock's healing behind a chemical label. He set it growing free—in the fields, in the ash of your wood stove, in a bulb of garlic on your counter. That's what stewardship looks like.

📖 The full step-by-step—recipe, treatment schedule, and timing—is on the blog. Comment MITES and I'll send it straight to your inbox.

I'm a homesteader and family herbalist, not your vet—always tend your flock at your own discretion.
🌾 THE MORNING AG BRIEF: What D.C. Did to Your Food 🌾 THE MORNING AG BRIEF: What D.C. Did to Your Food System This Week

Coming out of July 4th, USDA and Congress moved on beef processing, fertilizer, farm labor, and how the federal government defines "regenerative." Some of it matters. Some of it's being oversold.

This week's brief breaks down:

🥩 A new $500M fund for small/mid-size beef processors — packers excluded
🧪 A $500M fertilizer program that won't lower your feed store prices anytime soon
📋 A new USDA complaint portal for producers facing federal overreach
👷 The biggest farm-labor bill in 40 years (not law yet — but watch it)
🌱 The "regenerative ag" executive order everyone's celebrating — and why the word itself is the real story

Plain-language, honestly sourced, no hype either direction. Because staying informed is its own kind of self-reliance.

📖 Full brief on the substack—comment JULY and I’ll send it straight to you.

👇 What stood out to you this week?

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