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Episode-827- Dave Whitinger of AllThingsPlants.com

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Modern Survival| 18 Comments
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Dave Whitinger of AllThingsPlants.com

Dave Whitinger of AllThingsPlants.com

Dave Whitinger is the founder of many websites, most notably DavesGarden.com and AllThingsPlants.com.  Thousands of gardeners around the world use his websites for researching gardening information.

Dave is widely recognized as a leading figure in the online world of gardening. He’s the current president of his local master gardener association and lives a mostly self-reliant existence with his family on 90 acres in East Texas.

He joins us today to discuss the history of Dave’s Garden and his new and dramatically improved website, All Things Plants. We will also be discussing gardening, farming, self sufficiency, sources of online gardening information, advanced gardening topics, permaculture, hugelkultur, raising livestock, gardening in Texas along with the drought of 2011.

Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-824- Dan Vamos from Homestead Dividends

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Modern Survival| 26 Comments
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Dan Vamos is many things.  A father, an English teacher, a homesteader, a DIY enthusiast, a prepper and a patriotic American.  He has also been listening to The Survival Podcast for a very long time, all the way back to the podcasting from the car days.

Along the way he founded a website called, “Homestead Dividends”, designed to help the average person transform their home into a true homestead and get more out of their homes both while living in them and when it comes time to sell them.

Join Dan and I Today as we Discuss…

  • What are some ways to get the most out your house or residence
  • What should you do to make your house start working for you
  • What are some ways to waterproof a basement
  • What are some common mistakes people make when working on their house
  • Why should I start planting permafood right away
  • Why start with small trees and plants
  • How a three-ring binder can help in selling your house
  • How you can have a “pick-up truck? without owning one
  • Why Dan cashed in a retirement accounts to buy a home

Resources for Today’s Show…

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Episode-822- Mike Gasior on The Current Economic Reality for Jan. 2012

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Modern Survival| 25 Comments
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Mike  Gasior has held a host of securities licenses and industry designations. He has authored ten textbooks on investments and the investment markets, and over 700,000 people worldwide read his monthly newsletter.

His breakthrough radio program “Big Money with Mike Gasior”, which aired worldwide on the VoiceAmerica Radio Network, was one the first shows ever to focus on the needs, concerns and issues faced by the world’s largest investors and Mike is a regular guest on the “Naked Short Club” show in London.

Mike is also a prepper and a good friend of the TSP Community.  Today he joins us to discuss…

  • What MF Global was really all about and how it might matter to you
  • Why people should really be mad at Wall Street other then simple “corporate greed”
  • What is high velocity trading and why should you care
  • Why people are now paying a premium for a “shorter cable” LITERALLY
  • Three movies you should see to better understand the current situation
  • Mike’s view on municipal defaults and where we disagree
  • The real danger we have right no is that we don’t know what’s next
  • Why prepping is the best solution in Mikes view right now

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-814- Ted Lacksonen Author of “The Eagle Has Crashed”

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Modern Survival| 21 Comments
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Get the Book The Eagle Has Crashed

Get the Book The Eagle Has Crashed

Ted Lacksonen is a writer and commentator known in the blogosphere as The Country Thinker. He has previously practiced as an attorney for a major international law firm, and worked as a structural designer in the shipbuilding industry. Ted lives in the rolling hills of his home state of Ohio with his wife and son.

Ted joins us today to discuss his recently released novel The Eagle Has Crashed, which is a near-future novel that is set in 2029-30. It is the story of the day that America’s national debt leads to an economic meltdown.

The Eagle has Crashed documents the lives of several ordinary Ohioans as the nation falls apart around them. As the situation worsens it brings out the best – and worst – in Ohioans and Americans across the land.

 

Resources for Today’s Show…

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Episode-813- Growing for Market with Steve “The Greenhouse Guy”

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Modern Survival| 20 Comments
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Steve Kasarda, started, built, owned and sold 3 nurseries. Now he grows for market (show theme) and manufactures greenhouses. He is here today to discuss “growing for market” without spending thousands or perhaps even hundreds of dollars.

Steve's Green Houses Growing in The North West Winter

Join Us Today As We Discuss…

  • General green house growing
  • Soils ,plant starts, grow temps, supplemental heat
  • Getting started at the market with selling, display and pricing mix of product
  • How to treat a customer and keep them as a customer
  • The role a greenhouse or poly tunnel can play in making you money
  • How long it takes to become an established market grower
  • Getting plant starts on the cheap or free
  • Creating unique niches and selling the average stuff as wel
  • How to organize your displays for transport and protect your merchandise
  • Making gardening into a profit center

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

 

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Episode-808- Jeff Wheatley on Wood Stoves and Inserts

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Modern Survival| 40 Comments
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Jeff Wheatley has over 15 years experience selling, installing, and servicing Hearth appliances (Stoves, Inserts, & Fireplaces) in 3 major fuel types: Woodburning, LP & NG Burning, and Pellet Burning. Today he joins us to discuss the safe install & use of wood stoves.  He also provides us with tips on how to get the best efficiency, the most heat, the least creosote, the easiest maintenance, and the safest operation from your wood stove.

Join Us Today as we Discuss…

  • Why a stove chimney is a major expense
  • What is the biggest difference in modern vs. older stoves
  • Thoughts on single wall pipe penetrations
  • Which end of the pipe is up
  • Best practices for woodstove inserts
  • Why is it so important to fully season fuel wood

Resources for Today’s Show…

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-805- Joel Salatin from Polyface Farms

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Modern Survival| 27 Comments
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Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms

Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms

Joel Salatin, 54, is a full-time farmer in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. A third generation alternative farmer, he returned to the farm full-time in 1982 and continued refining and adding to his parents’ ideas.

The farm services more than 3,000 families, 10 retail outlets, and 50 restaurants through on-farm sales and metropolitan buying clubs with salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured turkey and forestry products using relationship marketing.

He holds a BA degree in English and writes extensively in magazines such as STOCKMAN GRASS FARMER, ACRES USA, and AMERICAN AGRICULTURALIST.

Joel is a hightly sought-after conference speaker, he addresses a wide range of issues, from “creating the farm your children will want” to “making a white collar salary from a pleasant life in the country.”  We are very fortunate to have him with us today on The Survival Podcast.

Join Joel and I Today as we Discuss…

  • What are some of the biggest challenges to small producers today
  • How can farmers transition from traditional agriculture to more natural production
  • Thoughts on how homesteaders can adapt some of Joel’s techniques
  • The value of sprouting – Ferris Wheel sprouter idea
  • Thoughts on small livestock like poultry and rabbits
  • Thoughts on ethical slaughter
  • Grazing pork and poultry one behind the other
  • How can homesteaders work to achieve greater self sufficiency
  • What can we do to help small producers have more commercial success

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Joel’s Links

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Episode-804- Steve Aukstakalnis from Alerts USA and Threat Journal

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Modern Survival| 49 Comments
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AlertsUSA.com Keeps You Informed About Threats via Your Mobile Device

AlertsUSA.com Keeps You Informed About Threats via Your Mobile Device

Today I am joined on The Survival Podcast by Steve Aukstakalnis.   Steve is the founder of AlertsUSA, a Miami based risk management firm providing one of the nation’s most widely used terrorism and national security threat alert services for mobile devices. He started the firm in late 2001 out of a two bedroom apartment following the attacks of 9/11.

The company now serves a client base that extends to more than 20 countries, from government agencies all the way down to business travelers and the average guy or gal on the street that wants to keep up on breaking events.

His information sources and contacts provide a unique perspective on national and international events and the potential impact here at home. He is with us today to talk about storm clouds building on a number of fronts.

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Steven’s Links

  • Alerts USA – Special Link to Get the Special Price MSB Members check your private member’s area for an even better deal.
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    • (1) NukAlert Personal Radiation Monitor and Alarm
    • (5) Radsticker Peel and Stick Dosimeters
      (1) Box ThyroSafe Potassium Iodide Tablets (65 mg)
    • These packages are valued around $200 each.

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Episode-803- An Interview with The Berkey Guy

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Modern Survival| 8 Comments
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Jeff Gleason has been a stead fast supporter of the show for more than two years (will be three this March).  He is of course the famous “Berkey Guy” and he joins us today to discuss the role water should play in our prep planning and our daily lives.

Join Us Today to Hear…

  • How water and its availability is often over looked in prepping
  • The value of a well
  • Why better tasting water is good for your health
  • Our thoughts on chlorine, arsenic and fluoride
  • Where the fluoride in your water actually comes from
  • Thoughts on removing at least chlorine from your bathing water
  • Several instances where systems failed to catch contaminated water
  • Biological contaminants like cryptosporidium and giardia

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-800- Robb Wolf on Paleo Nutrition and Permaculture

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Modern Survival| 48 Comments
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Robb Wolf Collaborating on Another Best Seller!

Robb Wolf, a former research biochemist is the New York Times Best Selling author of  The Paleo Solution – The Original Human Diet.  A student of Prof. Loren Cordain, author of The Paleo Diet, Robb has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world via his top ranked iTunes podcast, book and seminars.

Robb has functioned as a review editor for the Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, is co-founder of the nutrition and athletic training journal, The Performance Menu, co-owner of NorCal Strength & Conditioning, one of the Men’s Health “top 30 gyms in America” and co-owner of Paleo Brands Inc. a paleo food company selling meals and snacks featuring grass fed meat, wild caught fish and all organic ingredients.

Today he joins us to discuss paleo nutrition and the misconceptions in modern nutritional science.  We also discuss his new entry into the world of Permaculture.  Interviewing Robb was like talking to an old friend and more like having a bad ass co-host then a typical guest interview.  I loved learning from him and I loved his openness to learn more about modern agricultural problems as well.

Some of you guys have questioned if this is a real “survival topic”, well friends I have given you 800 episodes now, do me a favor and give this an open minded listen and please listen to my explanation of why this is indeed a survival topic in today’s intro/housekeeping segment.

Resources for Today’s Show…

Robb Wolf’s Links…

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air

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