The Homestead as Medicine — Health from the Ground Up
In last week’s reflection, we talked about the wisdom of simple living—how choosing enough over more brings peace even in uncertain times. This week, I want to explore another kind of abundance: the health that flows from living close to the land.
The longer I’ve lived this way, the clearer it’s become—our health isn’t something separate from the soil beneath our feet.
What we eat, how we move, even how we rest—all of it is written in the same design that God set into creation.
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;”
These simple verses have become a touchstone for me. Caring for the earth was humanity’s first calling, and through that stewardship, we ourselves are cared for.
When I’m out turning compost or walking the fence line, I realize that the best medicine doesn’t always come in a bottle.
It comes in the rhythm of honest work, the deep breaths of clean air, and the quiet gratitude that settles over you at dusk when the chores are done.
We invite everyone to come to our workshops for practical reasons—learning how to raise chickens, start an herb garden, or make natural remedies. But we hope you will find something even more important…a path to better health. We hope you will rediscover what your bodies and spirits have been missing—a pace of life that heals instead of hurries.
There’s something profoundly restorative about living in alignment with the seasons. Spring stirs energy. Summer strengthens. Autumn teaches gratitude. Winter brings reflection and rest. When we allow those natural rhythms to shape us, our health begins to feel more like harmony and less like struggle. The homestead is medicine not because it replaces doctors or hospitals, but because it reconnects us to the Divine design that makes health possible in the first place.
If you’ve been longing to reclaim your physical, mental and spiritual health from the noise of modern life, I invite you to join us at Vine and Fig Tree Workshops. All of our workshops, including our upcoming Herbal Remedies workshop, are designed to help you reconnect to the land and learn how the simplest acts—gardening, harvesting, creating—can restore your well-being from the ground up.