Old Ways New Days
Homesteading with a focus on urban and suburban sustainable living with a pagan and spiritual twist.
Episodes
40 episodes
Resilience in Uncertain Times: Food, Fear, and the Power of Local Roots
The world feels uncertain… but that doesn’t mean you have to feel unprepared.In this episode, we explore:🌱 Modern food systems 🖤 Climate anxiety & how to move through it 🌾 Building resilience in everyday life
The Hands That Fed the World: Women’s Hidden Agricultural Labor
The hands that fed the world… were often never named.In this episode, we explore the hidden agricultural labor of women:🌱 Seed keepers 🖤 Midwives 🥛 Dairy workers 🧵 Textile makersWork that sustained e...
Full Moon Season: The Mother, Beltane Fire, and the Season of Becoming
The Full Moon season begins with Beltane 🔥🌕 And Beltane is ancient. It's the "bright fire" — the sacred threshold our Celtic ancestors crossed between worlds, leaping flames, blessing cattle, and weaving ribbons around the Ma...
Sacred Weeds: Reclaiming the Plants We Were Taught to Pull
What if weeds aren't weeds at all? What if they're the land's own diagnostic report — telling you exactly what your soil needs and how to heal it? In this episode of Old Ways, New Days, we go deep:&n...
The Ethics of Foraging: Sacred Harvest, Reciprocity, and Remembering Our Place
When was the last time you asked the land permission? This week on Old Ways, New Days, we step into one of the most important — and most overlooked — conversations in the foraging world: The Ethic...
Earth Day: From Protest to Practice — Sacred Activism & the Call to Care
Earth Day didn’t start as a hashtag.It started as a protest.In this episode, we explore:🌍 The true history of Earth Day 🌱 Sacred activism & earth care as spiritual practice 🌾 Permaculture ethics ...
Roots Without Land: Urban Homesteading Beyond Ownership
Think you need land to homestead?Think again.In this episode, we explore urban homesteading without land ownership — from container gardening and balcony permaculture to community gardens and guerrilla growing.Becaus...
The Pink Moon Rising: Fertility Magic & Flowering Intentions
The Pink Moon is rising 🌕A moon of fertility, growth, and quiet becoming.In this episode, we explore:🌱 Flowering intentions 🌕 Moon water & seed blessings 🕯️ A simple early spring fertility ritual ...
The Spiritual Practice of Soil Building: Compost, Grief, and the Slow Magic of Renewal
What if nothing in your life was truly wasted? Not your grief.Not your past.Not even the parts you wish you could throw away.In this episode, we explore the spiritual practice o...
Ostara & the Painted Egg: Balance, Resurrection, and the Art of Becoming
When day and night stand in perfect balance… What within you is ready to awaken?In this week’s episode, we step into the Vernal Equinox — the sacred hinge between dark and light. We explore:✨ The ancient roots of s...
Planning the Garden Like Our Ancestors: Seed Mapping, Companions & Sacred Design
Before we plant… we plan.In this week’s episode of Old Ways New Days, we’re mapping the garden like our ancestors:🌱 Seed placement with intention 🌿 Companion planting wisdom 🌎 Spiritual land design&n...
Snakes, Saints, and Shadows: The Untold Story of St. Patrick’s Day
Everyone wears green on March 17th… but do you know what the “snakes” really represented?This episode dives into the true history of St. Patrick’s Day — from Christian conversion to cultural erasure — and how modern witches can reclaim t...
Backyard Homestead Basics: Simple Structures That Last
What if your garden didn’t just grow food…What if it grew fences that live, beds that feed themselves, and soil built from yesterday’s scraps? In this week’s episode of Old Ways New Days, we’re breaking down easy at-ho...
The Land Remembers
The chemicals used to fertilize modern fields were once used to make bombs.After WWII, excess war factories turned their production toward agriculture — and the soil has been paying the price ever since.What does that mean for our...
When the Sky Remembers: Eclipses, Blood Moons & the Old Magic Written in Shadow
The Moon turns red. The Sun goes dark. And something ancient wakes up.In this episode of Old Ways New Days, we explore:🌕 Solar & Lunar eclipse magic 🩸 Blood Moon rituals 💧 How to ma...
Part 2: Black Herbalists & Plant Medicine
This Black History Month, we honor the Black herbalists who healed under enslavement, carried medicine in memory, and kept communities alive when care was denied.Part Two of Old Ways New Days is a reverent reflection on plant medicine, l...
Part 1: Rooted Resistance: Black Innovators, Ancestral Wisdom & the Foundations of Sustainable Living
“Before sustainable living had a name, it had roots. 🌱 This Black History Month, Old Ways New Days honors the Black innovators, ancestral farmers, and land stewards who shaped homesteading, regenerative agriculture, and food sovereignt...
From Soil to Shaker: Stocking Your Herb & Spice Cabinet from the Garden
Before spices were trendy, they were powerful. 🌿 From garden herbs to world-changing seeds, this episode of Old Ways New Days explores how to grow, dry, store, and honor the seasonings that once shaped empires—and can still sh...
From Harvest to Cellar: The Real Work of Food Preservation
Food preservation isn’t pretty — it’s powerful.This episode of Old Ways New Days dives deep into real‑world food preservation: pressure canning, water bath canning, drying, salt preservation, and the mistakes that teach us how t...
February Fires & First Fruits From Imbolc to Lunar New Year and the Living Traditions In Between
February is not an empty month.It’s a time of milk returning to the pail, candles lit against the cold, homes cleansed for what comes next, and new years beginning under a different moon.In this e...
The New Moon: The Rebirth of the Year; From Imbolc’s First Spark to Beltane’s Living Fire
The year doesn’t begin in January. It begins when the light dares to return.From Imbolc’s first spark, through the balance of the Spring Equinox, to the living fire of Beltane, this episode explores the New Moon season as a time...
Pilgrim's Wilderness: A Story of Faith, Deception, and Survival
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From Prairie Dreams to Urban Gardens: The Evolution of American Homesteading
The Homestead Act of 1862 promised land, opportunity, and independence — but its story didn’t end in the 1800s.In this episode of Old Ways New Days, we explore where the Homestead Act began, how it shaped American land ownership, ...
Beat the Winter Blues: Start Your Garden Indoors in January
January isn’t too early — it’s intentional.While the land rests under frost, this is when the real work begins: choosing seeds, reading light, warming soil, and planning growth before spring ever arrives. In this episode of Old Ways N...
Backwoods Home Magazine: A Comprehensive Review for Modern Homesteaders
What does self-reliance really look like when the internet goes quiet and the grid feels fragile?In this episode of Old Ways New Days, we take a thoughtful look at Backwoods Home Magazine — its roots, its philoso...
