True Story of Homestead Narcissism

True story. Username has been changed to protect the ignorant.

Comment section under homesteader account showing a glamour video of her pulling carrots in a flowy white dress in her massive garden while the caption reads, “Cue the trolls who will tell me I’m privileged.” 

@ImSoPerfect
Can you imagine people saying those with Victory Gardens during WWII were privileged? Sheesh! And anyone can afford their dream homestead if they would just make the sacrifices necessary! I know of people who lived in their car for a few years to do it. If they can do it, anyone can!

(Side note: Notice they said “know of” and “they.” So this person did not make this level of sacrifice, probably nowhere near it, nor do they personally know anyone who has.)

Response from @GrowingGoodies 

And I personally know someone who had his family living in a car and had his children taken away permanently. So that plan should never be recommended. Back to the topic at hand, I’m obviously all for people making the most of what they have access to and growing as much food as they can. But unlike during WWII, there are more people without access to gardening space (or horrible HOA laws). I want that to change, hence why I’m very involved in my local community garden and helping others have access to growing their own food. But yes, those people during WWII were privileged to own land to grow food on plus no one telling them they legally can’t. I very much think the people of WWII would be telling us we’re very privileged to abundant grocery store access but they’d be appalled by the lack of land access to legally grow food. The Victory Garden movement was aimed at the suburbs and it was normal to own larger yards back then and have no HOA. But I’m sure they would be proud of anyone making the most of what they have. They would understand that not everyone will have access to a homestead, even if they make huge sacrifices. Life is unfair and things don’t work out for everyone and that stinks. You can do everything “right” and still not obtain the reward. The people of WWII would understand “unfair” far more than we would. But I do think they’d find a lot of the hindrances to growing food nowadays unfair and would be encouraging everyone to make the most of what they have. I hope that is the message in the community here – you don’t need to argue privilege, we need to celebrate together every victory. The microgreens in the apartment window are just as important as the acres in the country, but let’s all get growing! Don’t let your current circumstances stop you from growing some food to eat!