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Amy K Fewell | Homesteading for the Kingdom

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I have found myself increasingly unfollowing so ma I have found myself increasingly unfollowing so many voices and ministries online recently. Not because I disagree with them. Not because I think they are false. Although there has been some of that, too. 

No, I’ve not been unfollowing because of any of that. I’ve been unfollowing because when I see the post, it influences my thoughts. It could be a true post, or it could be partial truth, but here’s the thing…

1. I don’t need to constantly have a “yes-man” influencing what I’m thinking or saying. We all know this is how the algorithm works, even in ministry. 

2. I don’t constantly need a super generic “prophetic word” that I can apply to my life and be side tracked by said “prophetic word”. Totally over those, and the lack of accountability in that, by the way. 

3. I don’t need to constantly see the same false or over exaggerated reports that are created to incite emotion or action without intimately knowing the situation.

4. I don’t need to see people who have an opinion on everything yet they rarely lift a finger to actually do what they believe in the advancement of the church. It just makes me angry. 

5. I don’t need to know the next big thing in life, the major trends, the territory wars, or the divisiveness. 

One of the greatest quotes someone said to me in my teen years was this—be informed but not consumed. 

It’s ok to know. But when it becomes influential, it’s time to reevaluate. 

I want to hear what God is saying to ME—not the popular people that sit in an echo chamber with each other and fuel off one other online. 

I want to read trusted voices, not just people I followed because they said one good thing that I agreed with. 

I want my feed to be full of people that know how to do confrontation, exhortation, prophecy, and theology well. 

I want to follow accounts that aren’t full of fake homes, fake families, and fake kindness. 

I want the imperfect people who know they didn’t deserve mercy, but received it, and that breaks and restores them daily.

And you know what I’ve noticed? 
I hear God better.
I read the word more.
I cry almost every time I read scripture.
And I see myself more clearly, because I see Him more clearly.
We harvested elderberries this week, and there’s m We harvested elderberries this week, and there’s more where these came from!

Everyone makes the syrup. Almost nobody knows what’s actually in the jar.

Elder (Sambucus nigra, and our native S. canadensis) earns its reputation on chemistry, not just folk medicine. The dark pigment in those berries is anthocyanin—mostly cyanidin-3-glucoside and cyanidin-3-sambubioside—alongside quercetin, rutin, chlorogenic acid, and vitamin C. That color IS the medicine. Pale syrup means weak syrup.

Fun note: the branches of elder fans out like bronchial passages of the lungs. This “signature of doctrine” often points to elderberry and flower having an affinity for the lungs and respiratory tract. We know now that elderberry is a cytokine modulator, and we saw it help throughout the 2020 pandemic for this reason. 

📖 Human trials: A small 2004 influenza study found symptom relief roughly four days sooner. A 2016 trial of 312 air travelers found shorter, milder colds. There was also a trial during the H1N1 outbreak that showed significant help!

🦠 Lab work: Elder’s flavonoids appear to bind viral surface proteins and interfere with entry and replication.

🌼 Traditional use: Centuries of European household medicine, where the flowers were the fever remedy—a relaxing diaphoretic that helps the body sweat through a fever rather than suppress it. The berries were food and winter tonic.

Important to note…

• Berries should be in a decoction, not an infusion. Simmer covered, low, 20–30 minutes. Boiling hard destroys the anthocyanins.

• Plant two cultivars. Elder is poorly self-fertile and yields are dismal without a partner.

Your hands will stain when you harvest them. But it’ll be worth it.
Every year I wish more and more that I could open Every year I wish more and more that I could open my own brick and mortar wellness center. The amount of people that ask for my assistance is insane. And while I do see clients in my home and through tele-health sessions, this season with young children needs my attention more than a business. 

So what will I do? I’ll teach YOU all the things. The mama who has her own littles. The practitioner wanting to learn more about natural wellness. All of this is through my Homestead Herbalist membership. 

This most recent lesson is about something so many new herbalists and practitioners aren’t taught. Herbalism becomes much more useful when we stop asking only, “What herb is good for this?” We have to stop throwing supplements at people based on “what it does”—this isn’t holistic healthcare. This is allopathic medicine masked as holistic healthcare. 

Two people can have the same complaint and need very different herbal support. Let’s consider the common cough.

A cough might be hot and dry, cold and damp, congested and stagnant, or tight and spasmodic. The symptom may be the same, but the tissue state underneath it changes the herbs we choose.

That’s where herbal energetics come in.

Instead of memorizing endless “herb for ailment” lists, we learn to ask:

Is it hot or cold?
Damp or dry?
Tense or lax?
Moving or stagnant?

Herbal actions tell us what an herb does. Energetics help us understand how it acts and what kind of tissue pattern it may best support.

The more you understand energetics, the more you begin to understand not only why an herb may work—but why it may not be the right herb for this particular person.

That is where herbalism becomes more than memorization.

It becomes observation, discernment, and careful stewardship.

🌿 Comment ENERGETICS and I’ll send the lesson straight to your inbox.
This is your reminder to become a student of the w This is your reminder to become a student of the word, not just a hearer. You can sit in church your entire life and hear someone preach, but that is not the same as doing deep dives into the word yourself. That feeling when you read and a thought pops into your head “what does that mean?” Priceless. The thread begins to unravel as you research and try to understand more. 

One of those things for me this week has been studying Melchizedek. If you were to only read the Old Testament account of Melchizedek, there wouldn’t be much to know. But combined with the New Testament, and the ancient writings and documentation of this incredible “king”, the picture becomes more clear. 

It becomes most clear in Hebrews, as the writer begins to unpackage the parallel of Melchizedek and Jesus—both high priests appointed by God. But interestingly, Melchizedek was a high priest centuries before the levitical priesthood was ever established. This is why scripture says that “Levi was still in the loins of Abraham”, and Melchizedek existed long before Levi was even born or established as priestly.

God has had me sitting in Genesis for a few weeks. It’s a book we feel like we know well, but until we dive deeply into it, do we know it well, or do we know it how someone else taught it in that one hour Sunday sermon 10 years ago? I’ve sat in Genesis for 2 weeks now and I’m barely halfway through. 

It may seem unimportant—what does Melchizedek matter to Christian’s now? Why do Adam, Noah, and Abraham’s covenant matter now? But they matter greatly. Because they are mirrored in the New Testament church—the priestly kingdom that God established. If you don’t understand Melchizedek, and the fact that he was before and outside of the established tribes of Israel, and appointed long before that, then you won’t understand the correlation between a religion of tradition versus a relationship and worship in freedom. 

It is not the levitical priest that Jesus is compared to—it is the priest of the order of Melchizedek. And that’s important. It’s important in how we believe, how we perceive, and how we advance and take dominion. 

I hope to write deeply about this soon.
There are a lot of new faces here over the last we There are a lot of new faces here over the last week due to a post that went semi-viral (about Yahweh calling back the shepherds). So I thought I’d take a minute to introduce myself, since so many of you followed me from content that is only a part of what myself and this page is about. 

My name is Amy. I am first and foremost, unapologetically, a follower and disciple of Jesus Christ. That fact motivates and touches every single other aspect of who I am and what I do. 

I am secondly a wife and mother (of 4). I’ve been married to my best friend for almost 21 years. We have seen just about every high and low, and came out stronger on the other side every single time. We walked through 9 years of secondary infertility, and suddenly God healed me and we welcomed 3 more littles to the crew in less than 7 years. Naturally. 

I grew up Baptist in the early years, then Pentecostal/charismatic. Now—I just follow Jesus. I’ve seen it all—the religion/tradition (on both sides), the good/bad/ugly, the miraculous.

My career was in media/newspapers/marketing before 2016. Then in 2016 I founded an organization called @homesteadersofamerica — where we teach people (and the kingdom) to take back the land, food and health system, the home, government and more. We are building the parallel system to the broken one. We’ve maxed out our annual October event at the current venue—6,000+ people each day.

We host the @homesteadrevivalnow events at our October event, where people encounter the Spirit of God, receive baptism and salvation, are encouraged by the word, and equipped to keep going. 

And most recently we started @thechurchstorehouse , where we are equipping the body of Christ and helping others start gatherings, church plants, refine their current church set up, and build places of refuge for times ahead. 

I’m a worshipper, entrepreneur, have lead in the church and churches, master herbalist, milk maid, author, coffee lover.

Those are just the cliff notes. 

Welcome to my corner of the internet. I pray it encourages, motivates, and spurs you on towards the everlasting goal of the kingdom. ❤️‍🔥

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