Arrows and Acres

Arrows and Acres
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Arrows & Acres Podcast Hosted by Daniel & Allison Hartman A podcast for Christian parents who are done raising children who can't function, and ready to raise adults who fear God, carry their own weight, and change the world. Most families are just surviving. Arrows & Acres is for the ones who want something more. Daniel and Allison Hartman are a husband and wife raising a large family on Florida's Gulf Coast — homeschooling, homesteading, running a family business, and doing all of it on purpose. This podcast is the conversation they're having at the kitchen table, in the truck, and at the end of a long day — and now they're pulling up a chair for you. They're not here to motivate you. They're here to challenge you. Every episode cuts into the real stuff: what it actually takes to raise children who become capable, godly adults. How to protect your family's attention in a world designed to steal it. What biblical manhood and womanhood look like when you strip away the cultural noise. How to build something together as a family — a business, a homestead, a legacy — without handing your life over to debt or a schedule someone else controls. What it means to disciple your children not just in faith, but in work, in character, and in calling. How to find — and be — the kind of community that actually sharpens you. What courtship, marriage, and family culture look like when you refuse to let the world define them for you. Screens and devices. College alternatives. Vocational discipleship. Fatherhood and motherhood. Homeschooling. Farmers markets and family enterprises. Homesteading. Hard conversations about culture, faith, and what we're actually building. Arrows & Acres goes wherever intentional family life takes it — because that territory is vast, and most of it hasn't been mapped. Daniel and Allison don't have it all figured out. But they've made a decision: they will not drift. They will not outsource the most important work they'll ever do. And they believe you've made the same decision — or you're close to making it. This is Arrows & Acres. We are not building an audience. We are building a movement. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

  1. 5d ago

    The Chore for Life: Ditch the Chart, Raise an Adult (Ep 16)

    Only about 1 in 4 children today have regular chores. Prior generations would not recognize that number, and neither does the research. One of the longest running studies on adult success ever conducted found two predictors that outrank GPA, income, and talent: loving relationships and doing chores as a child. In this episode, Daniel and Allison open up how their home of 13 actually runs. No sticker charts, no rotating lists. Every child owns a chore for life, from the three-year-old gathering eggs to the fourteen-year-old planning groceries and managing the family schedule. Inside this episode: - The chore for life system, and why every chart they tried failed - Age-by-age ownership: what a three-year-old, a nine-year-old, and a fourteen-year-old should be running - Why "it's not my chore" is a heart problem, not a scheduling problem - How older children train younger ones to take over, and why that's how their daughters could get married without the house missing a step - The buy-in principle: children who are part of the work don't walk away from the family at 18 "Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6 NKJV Chores are not a punishment. They are a training ground for stewardship, diligence, and adulthood. This is how you raise adults, not children. Subscribe on your favorite podcast channel, and join the newsletter at ArrowsAndAcres.com to be alerted when the next episode drops.

  2. Jul 15

    The No Contact Movement: Why a Generation Is Cutting Off Their Parents (Ep 15)

    Somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of American adults are estranged from a family member right now. That is not a fringe statistic. That may be someone at your table. In this episode, Daniel and Allison Hartman sit down with Randy Schrum to name the no contact movement for what it is: an ideology moving through therapy offices, social media, and college campuses that teaches a generation that cutting off your family is self-care. They separate the rare cases where distance is truly warranted from the millions of estrangements built on nothing more than differing values, and they follow the money to an industry that profits every time a family stays broken. You will hear Daniel's story of cousins in the same town who did not speak for 20 years over an offense no one could remember, why online groups now celebrate how long someone has stayed no contact, and what scripture actually commands when there is conflict in a family: go to the person, make it right, and do not let the sun go down on your wrath. Obedience is for a season. Honor is for life. And if you are a parent with an estranged child, stay to the end. The last two minutes are for you. Scripture in this episode: Ephesians 4:26, Ephesians 6:1-3, Proverbs 13:20 (NKJV)

  3. Jul 8

    Parenting for Decades, Not Days (Ep 14)

    Most families are running the same playbook: over-busied parents putting out temporary fires all day, children who reach adulthood unable to do laundry, cook a meal, or manage a budget. The question nobody is asking is simple. What is that playbook producing? In this episode, Daniel and Allison Hartman pull the lens back from days to decades. A University of Minnesota study tracked young adults over 20 years and found the best predictor of success in a person's mid twenties was participating in household tasks starting at age three or four. Not grades. Not programs. Responsibility. Daniel and Allison share how working alongside their children in the family businesses builds far more than skills. It builds relationship, work ethic, and the kind of adults who invite their parents to dinner, pick up the check, and read to the grandchildren on the couch. You will hear: Why "putting out fires" parenting produces unprepared adultsThe paradigm shift from running a hotel to raising a generationHow family work becomes the classroom for morality, skill, and callingWhy this is the most exciting news a worn-out mom will hear all year You are not setting your children up for success by doing everything for them. Start with one thing today. Learn more and join us at Gulf Coast Family Camp: ArrowsAndAcres.com

  4. Jul 1

    The Marriage the Bible Actually Describes (Ep 13)

    Everyone wants a good marriage. Few people are building one. In this episode, Daniel and Allison Hartman open up the scriptures and open up their own 28 years together to answer the question most couples are afraid to ask plainly: what does a good marriage actually look like? They walk through Ephesians 5 the way it was written, starting at verse 21, not 22. They talk about the covenant that obliterates the contract mindset, the couple that prays together daily and has a divorce rate of less than one percent, and why the most dangerous season for a marriage is not the early years but the day the last child leaves home. Daniel and Allison also take on the lies couples quietly believe: that passion fades, that separate interests are healthy, that the 50 percent divorce rate in the church is just a statistic and not a warning. And they tell the truth about where they came from, because neither of them had a model to follow. This episode is conviction, not coaching. Scripture, not sentiment. And a picture of marriage so far above what culture is selling that it will either challenge you deeply or confirm what you have been quietly building all along. Proverbs 5. Ephesians 5. 1 Corinthians 7. All NKJV. Referenced in this episode: Gulf Coast Family Camp at GulfCoastFamilyCamp.com

  5. Jun 24

    Courtship, Character, and Covenant (Ep 12)

    The culture hands your children a boyfriend at 13 and calls it normal. Scripture calls it something else. In this episode, Daniel and Allison Hartman take on one of the most avoided conversations in the Christian home: how you actually lead your children toward marriage with intention, integrity, and a covenant framework, not just hope and good intentions. This is not a method. It is a posture. And it starts with a question most parents never ask: is this relationship aimed at marriage, or are we just training them for divorce? Daniel and Allison speak from first-generation experience. They did not grow up in homes where this was modeled. They figured it out, sought wise counsel, and built a framework worth passing down. In this episode: - Why every relationship without the intention of marriage is just practice for heartbreak - The good, better, and best framework for navigating courtship - What betrothal, friendship-dating, and intentional-relationship models actually mean and when each applies - Why community accountability is not optional when covenant is the goal - The two traits Daniel and Allison train their children to look for in a future spouse: unoffendable and teachable - How the marriage covenant pictures Christ and the church, and why that picture is worth protecting "He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed." Proverbs 13:20 (NKJV) If your children are old enough to notice the opposite sex, they are old enough for this conversation. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and visit ArrowsAndAcres.com for camps and resources. Want to go deeper? The Forge is the private community where Daniel and Allison go live every month with families who refuse to raise drifters. Courtship and dating is one of the first five workshops on the calendar. Learn more at arrowsandacres.com/the-forge

  6. Jun 17

    Raising Contributors, Not Consumers (Ep 11)

    Daniel and Allison Hartman are in roughly 70 schools a year through their photography business. That means they get a snapshot of about 40,000 young people. What they see is sobering, and it does not change between public, private, and homeschool. We have raised a generation of consumers who cannot do the normal things. This episode is the antidote. Daniel and Allison walk through how they build producers instead of takers, starting younger than most parents think is possible. A four-year-old who scrambles eggs for the family. A twelve-year-old who runs her own kefir business and cooks dinner for forty. Sons who frame houses, put on roofs, and build tiny homes debt free. None of it is bragging. All of it is the fruit of one decision: raise the bar and refuse to do for your children what your children can learn to do themselves. You will hear the family economy model, why "solve your problem" is the most important sentence in their home, and how letting a child be told no at a farmers market booth builds the competence that survives the real world. "The borrower is servant to the lender." (Proverbs 22:7, NKJV) They are raising children who will never live there. Subscribe and listen, then come sharpen alongside other convicted parents inside The Forge. Iron sharpens iron (Proverbs 27:17). ArrowsAndAcres.com.

  7. Jun 10

    No Phones, No Tablets, No Problem (Ep 10)

    Ninety-five percent of teenagers carry a smartphone. Many are online almost every waking hour, and children eight to eighteen now average more than seven hours a day on a screen. In that same window, teen depression and anxiety doubled. That is not a coincidence. It is a correlation no honest parent can ignore. In Episode 10, Daniel and Allison Hartman make the case that handing a child a phone is not a neutral act. It is opening the lid on the septic tank and inviting your children to climb in. Pornography, predators, dopamine loops engineered by the people who keep their own children off these devices, and the attention span of a goldfish are not rare accidents. They are the default setting. This is not a guilt trip. It is a battle plan. Daniel and Allison walk through how they guard the eye gate in their own home, why boredom is the birthplace of creativity, why full access and accountability protect a marriage and a household, and why raising children who can change a tire, run equipment, and build a house matters more than raising children who can scroll. Every generation gets a test. Screens are the test of this one. Decide today what you will do with it. "I will set nothing wicked before my eyes." Psalm 101:3, NKJV Subscribe to Arrows & Acres on your favorite platform and find us at ArrowsAndAcres.com.

  8. Jun 3

    The Enemies of a Strong Family (Ep 9)

    Less than ten percent of Americans hold a biblical worldview. Among Gen Z, it is one percent. And the mental health numbers are climbing right alongside that collapse. This is not a coincidence. It is a warning. In this episode, Daniel and Allison Hartman sit down with Randy Schrum to name the forces actively working against your family, the enemies most parents never see coming until the damage is done. This is the survey. Each enemy gets its own deep-dive episode, but here is the full battlefield laid out in one place. Inside this episode: The collapse of the biblical worldview across four generations, and why anxiety and depression rose right behind it. The entertainment economy. Children ages eight to eighteen averaging seven and a half hours of screen time a day, and the eighty-one percent of children under thirteen who already own their own device. Financial bondage. Over eighteen trillion dollars in household debt, and how the borrower becomes slave to the lender. The spiritual passivity of men. Why most fathers are not destroyed by scandal but by slow surrender. Age segregation. How church and school pull families apart, the real history of the Sunday school movement, and the eighty-five percent of youth group students who fall away within three years. The purity crisis. Premarital sex normalized inside the walls of the church, and the explicit content epidemic in the home. The failure to build family buy-in, and the family mission statement that turns a household into a team. The trauma culture and the no contact movement, and the multigenerational blessing it is quietly destroying. The closing conviction is simple. If something fragments your family, stop doing it. If it draws your family closer, keep going. "Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth." Psalm 127:3-4 Chapters: 00:00 Welcome and why this episode matters 01:00 Enemy 1: The collapse of the biblical worldview 07:43 Enemy 2: The entertainment economy and the screen-time crisis 12:12 Enemy 3: Financial bondage and the debt trap 16:00 Enemy 4: The spiritual passivity of men 23:19 Enemy 5: Age segregation in church and school 32:01 Enemy 6: The purity crisis 38:30 Enemy 7: Building family buy-in and a family mission 45:49 The trauma culture and the no contact movement New episodes every Wednesday at 5 AM EST. Listen, subscribe, and share with a family that needs it. Gulf Coast Family Camp is free and meets three times a year in Panama City Beach, Florida. Learn more at GulfCoastFamilyCamp.com More at ArrowsAndAcres.com

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Arrows & Acres Podcast Hosted by Daniel & Allison Hartman A podcast for Christian parents who are done raising children who can't function, and ready to raise adults who fear God, carry their own weight, and change the world. Most families are just surviving. Arrows & Acres is for the ones who want something more. Daniel and Allison Hartman are a husband and wife raising a large family on Florida's Gulf Coast — homeschooling, homesteading, running a family business, and doing all of it on purpose. This podcast is the conversation they're having at the kitchen table, in the truck, and at the end of a long day — and now they're pulling up a chair for you. They're not here to motivate you. They're here to challenge you. Every episode cuts into the real stuff: what it actually takes to raise children who become capable, godly adults. How to protect your family's attention in a world designed to steal it. What biblical manhood and womanhood look like when you strip away the cultural noise. How to build something together as a family — a business, a homestead, a legacy — without handing your life over to debt or a schedule someone else controls. What it means to disciple your children not just in faith, but in work, in character, and in calling. How to find — and be — the kind of community that actually sharpens you. What courtship, marriage, and family culture look like when you refuse to let the world define them for you. Screens and devices. College alternatives. Vocational discipleship. Fatherhood and motherhood. Homeschooling. Farmers markets and family enterprises. Homesteading. Hard conversations about culture, faith, and what we're actually building. Arrows & Acres goes wherever intentional family life takes it — because that territory is vast, and most of it hasn't been mapped. Daniel and Allison don't have it all figured out. But they've made a decision: they will not drift. They will not outsource the most important work they'll ever do. And they believe you've made the same decision — or you're close to making it. This is Arrows & Acres. We are not building an audience. We are building a movement. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

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  • Creator
    Arrows and Acres
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Arrows and Acres
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