Episode-789- A Progress Report from the Spirko Homestead [ 1:00:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIt’s Thanksgiving Week! Woot! Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday. Hang with my son, eat myself into a turkey coma with zero guilt, watch football, enjoy some scotch, watch football and snooze in front of a fire. Thanksgiving is a “man holiday”, if such a thing exists at all.
Since this is such a great week, I wanted to keep things light and exciting so I figured it was a great time for a progress report on the Spirko Homestead instead of something heavy like a feedback show which always seems to have a lot of the economic mess in it. So tune in today and I am just going to shoot from the hip and tell you whats going on and where we are going next.
Join me today as I discuss…
- How one 25′ swale ditch changed how I see my property
- How to build and use an A-Frame level
- What is going on with Hugelkultur Project #2
- Digging a ditch near trees, a sawzall is your friend
- How to get your wife on board with major landscape changes
- Keeping still ponds clean with reed beds and cattails
- How a pond that doesn’t hold water can still fill up
- Thoughts on Aquaponics, yea I think I am gonna do it
- Frogs, pigeons, ducks and squirrel it is whats for dinner
- Plans for the next Spirko dog, hoping it is a long time in our future
- How Permaculture and survivalism are really the same
- An awesome new DVD from Geoff Lawton
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
- Members Support Brigade
- TSP Gear Shop
- Join Our Forum
- Emergency Essentials – (sponsor of the day)
- Western Botanicals – (sponsor of the day)
- Urban Permaculture DVD – (Geoff Lawton DVD I mentioned)
- Geoff Lawton on Paul Wheatons Podcast (Part 1 and Part 2)
- Awesome Pruning Sawzall Blade from Porter Cable
- Larry Halls Self Watering Gardens
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