I left Charlottetown for a rural homestead and it changed my idea of work-life balance and food

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This First Person column is the experience of Erin Gillespie, who is a master hairstylist, homesteader and podcaster in Sea View, P.E.I. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

Hobbling downstairs at breakfast time, every muscle from my hips to my toes was aching. It felt like I had done 900 squats. But I wasn’t at the gym. I had been planting 900 onions by hand to last my family through the winter.

Homesteading was something I dreamed of doing someday but leaving Charlottetown and moving out to the country didn’t seem feasible. I’m a master hairstylist and

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