Ex-Mennonite Mom 'Born Again' Joins Modern World, Goes Viral With Unreal Homesteading Skills on InstagramRuthAnn Zimmerman didn’t realize her sequestered way of life was trending online until after searching the hashtag "homesteading" on Instagram. Soon afterward, hashtag homesteading found her.
Born a Mennonite Pennsylvanian—riding horse and buggies, the whole deal—she and her husband, Elvin, inherited a formidable survivalist skillset atypical of most Americans today, worthy of any apocalypse-bound, patriot prepper.
In 2000, six months after getting married, they bought their 20 acres in northeast Iowa, as an upstanding couple were expected to do. "It was just a cultural thing to do after you get married, to buy your property and start raising a family,” she told The Epoch Times. “At that time, we were just doing what was culturally expected from us."...
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