Our Yurtiful Life Podcast

In today’s episode we will be discussing a Yurtiful Life update. Join us as we discuss an update of how this past Winter has been for us. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In today’s episode we will be discussing how we help our children navigate answers to tough questions. Join us as we discuss how brevity is sanity, we teach our children to be honest, the why and what we believe, to think for themselves, how we start training early, it is an ongoing process and we may be uncomfortable with questions but we try to model what we teach. Go out, dream BIG, and discove...

In today’s episode we will be discussing homeschooling. Join us as we discuss the why of homeschooling, the legality behind it, our own homeschooling journey, what age we start at, specific struggles and challenges we have had and resources for concerns you might have over homeschooling. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In today’s episode we will be discussing our first simple solar setup. Join us as we discuss how to determine your solar needs, basics of planning your system, our first solar setup, improving upon it, our current system in progress, and some pro tips along the way. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In today’s episode we will be discussing daily life routines. Join us as we discuss why routines matter, loose vs. rigid routines, a list of "must do's" and some mantras we go by. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

 In today’s episode we will be discussing meal planning for a large family. Join us as we discuss why we meal plan, how meal planning has helped us, some basic methods of meal planning, which ones we use and a note about neurodiversity in meal planning. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In today’s episode we will be discussing some common homesteading challenges we hear about. Join us as we discuss some common issues that we hear come up frequently regarding why someone cannot start homesteading and the answers we give to help one overcome these problems. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In today’s episode we will be discussing Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights and how our family celebrates! Join us as we discuss the history and traditions behind Hanukkah, why we celebrate it, whether Hanukkah is a Christmas replacement, the pagan roots of Christmas, how we celebrate Hanukkah and whether it is worth the family conflict or not. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In today’s episode we will be sharing more about restoring this old house. Join us as we discuss what drew us to our current house and property, what condition we got it in, what we have accomplished on it little by little, current major projects left on it and how we see our house and property play into Our Yurtiful Life. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In today’s episode we will be discussing the importance of taking time for fun as a family. Join us as we talk about how we learned the importance of taking time for fun as a family, Shabbat as a lifestyle, benefits of getting away, free/low cost ways for fun and taking extended trips. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

 In today’s episode we will be discussing animal shelters and a few DIY options. Join us as we discuss the importance of animal shelters, using what you have, the different styles of shelters and not comparing your shelters to others ;) Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In today’s episode we will be discussing fencing and the importance of doing it right. Join us as we discuss the main types of fencing, fence posts, tools for putting up fencing and the importance of doing it right. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In today’s episode we will be answering the question which animal is best for a beginner. Join us as we share about easier keepers, breed matters and more difficult keepers. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In this episode we answer some questions regarding our faith and faith journey. Join us as we share about our faith background, how we have overcome our life difficulties and struggles and why we chose a path away from our traditionally held beliefs (including the consequences and benefits of that choice). Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In this episode we share a life update. Join us as we share about how we, as a family of eight, split up tasks, what our children are up to these days, Homestead update, major projects going on, winter prep and how you can help! We pray it is encouraging and brings you hope on your OWN Yurtiful journey. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In this episode we share our journey with neurodiversity. Join us as we share about the why's and when's of diagnosis, importance of routines, minimalism and how it affects our children's lives. We pray it is encouraging and brings you hope on your OWN Yurtiful journey. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In this episode we share our mindset toward debt. Do we think debt is a normal part of life, a tool to be leveraged or just plain bad? Listen and find out! We pray it is encouraging and brings you hope on your OWN Yurtiful journey. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In this episode we share our thoughts on how to start a homestead. We dive into the why's, the planning, the learning and the doing. We pray it is encouraging and brings you hope on your OWN Yurtiful journey. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!

In this episode we share who we are, where we have been, and where we are going. Join us as we share about where the word Yurtiful originated, what it means and why we decided to share this podcast. We pray it is encouraging and brings you hope on your OWN Yurtiful journey. Go out, dream BIG, and discover your OWN Yurtiful Life!