The Radical Roost Homestead

02/17/2026

Greenhouse is set up, Seeds are on their way, and my soil mix has been obtained and is ready to go!

02/11/2026

I've been waiting OVER A YEAR to say this to Heather....and she didn't get the reference 😒 🤣

02/10/2026

...and so it begins

02/10/2026

WEBSITE IS LIVE!

A ferally tended patch of Appalachia grounded in mutual care, skill and resource sharing, and bartering. We are building a statewide network of anti-MAGA Mountaineers willing to ensure no one struggles alone.

02/10/2026

Heather and I want to explain why we’re building The Radical Roost Homestead, and what we hope it can become. We’re not trying to create a “compound.” Not only do we not have land for that, we certainly don’t have the money to do it.

So we’re trying to build something different: “a compound without a compound.” A network of everyday people who decide that instead of facing hard times alone, we’ll face them together. Right now, we’re all watching the same thing happen: Politicians slashing our safety nets and gutting our healthcare system all to serve the same millionaires and billionaires that exploit our people, devastate our land, and leave us begging for crumbs with no clean water to even wash ‘em down with.

We can’t fix all of that from our little corner of West Virginia, but we can do something. We can grow food and share it. We can raise chickens and ducks to trade eggs. We can teach each other how to garden, can, mend, fix, build, and care for things. We can swap tools instead of buying new ones. We can look after one another when the systems around us don’t.

Imagine this: A network of households that all work together by sharing food, care, and skills to ensure no one struggles alone. One household knows how to grow food or make medicine and they trade with another household for help mending a fence or sitting with a sick relative. None of us have to be self-sufficient if we’re community-sufficient.

We’d love to see a statewide network of homesteads and backyards and front porches doing this same thing — folks connected by skills and trust instead of property lines. But we’re starting small. We’re starting here. At The Radical Roost, we’re going to: share what we’re learning, barter instead of always buying, practice mutual aid, show that you don’t need money or perfection to begin, and prove that ordinary people can take care of each other.

This isn’t about pretty pictures or the perfect aesthetic. It’s about practical survival with a little joy, a pinch of silly, and a whole lot of hell raisin’ mixed in. With times getting harder, the answer isn’t to pull away from each other — it’s to pull closer. So if you’ve been feeling like you need to learn something new, grow something real, or just find a few good people to weather the storm with…Pull up a chair. You’re welcome here. Let’s agitate, educate, and ferally cultivate our own futures.

02/10/2026

Welcome to The Radical Roost Homestead, a small homestead in Kanawha County, West Virginia where we believe the most powerful revolutions happen close to home.

Here, politics look like gardens and egg baskets. They sound like extras being passed hand to hand. They feel like neighbors who show up when things get hard.

We don’t farm to escape the world—we farm to change it. Every seed saved, meal shared, fence mended, and skill taught is a quiet refusal to live small, isolated lives. Our work is simple and stubborn: grow what we can, share what we know, and build something worth protecting together.

Mostly, we’re just out here raisin’ a little kale and a little hell. The flock is a little unruly. The gardens are a little wild. The vision is ferociously hopeful.

- Kaylen & Heather