Why I love Homestead Rescue. Marty Rainy and his family have a show on TV that is called Homestead Rescue. Without judgement, (mostly, it is rare, and very mild when it does happen) he and his sone and daughter travel to failed homesteads across the U.S.A and pull homesteader's head out of their fourth point of contact. That's not what I really love about it though. It's just an important part of the equation.

These people, without practical knowledge in some cases, move to the middle of nowhere and buy a plot of land, and just get after it. They think determination and necessity will be enough. For every one of these people who make it happen, there are those who fail, and send out a flare for rescue. Marty selects families every season, and they show up, say I'm gonna teach you while we work, and changes their life. They put the homesteaders to work, giving them often a crash course or trial by combat, and in 5 days they completely change everything for them. From building better gardening options, chicken coops, and building with logs to learning to shoot and hunt or slaughter their own raised meat, they get it all. This enables liberty at a practical scale no politician ever has. This shows others what they can do with some determination, and some help.

Just by watching the show you can learn things that maybe you didn't know. You can see that practical doesn't have to be pretty. You can see that ordinary hippies from Oregon can do it, and so can you. You see, it's a hard life, but it's the freest you can be in this clown world we live in. I'm not immune. I'm rural but I'm on the grid. I get my water from a privately owned rural water well. I do raise my own meat, and I grow and can food every growing season. See my Garden blog 2025 #1 here. It's not enough, and I'm getting there, but here in rural Oklahoma, I have a better shot than some Portlander, who has realized that the urban hell hole they voted for was hopeless, so they moved out into the middle of nowhere with no skills. Marty Rainy doesn't ask who they voted for. He gives them skills and self-reliance. He gives them hope. He gives them masculinity and they thank him for it. His kids are awesome too. You can tell how growing up in Alaska with their father has shaped them into good people.

So in the end, a man and his son and daughter do more for hope and liberty than your favorite politician, and that's not nothing.

Why I Love Homestead Rescue