Episode-2809- Jonathan and Ashley Longnecker from TinyShinyHouse.com

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Jonathan and Ashley and their 4 children traveled the country for 5 years, renovated a vintage Airstream to fit their needs for off-grid camping, and set off on an adventure that would forever change the course of their lives. To do this they sold their house and all their belongings in exchange for a life of adventure.

After 5 years on the road, they found an off grid property that they wanted to call home in Southeastern Arizona. This brought a host of new challenges that came with learning how to homestead, let alone homestead in the high desert. Completely different plants and animals than what they were used to in their hometown of Knoxville, TN. But they are up for the challenge. They are currently living full-time in their Airstream while they literally build their homestead from the ground up.

And I do mean…from the GROUND up! They are building their home and buildings from the earth on their property. Hyperadobe/earthbag construction. All this while tending to their new animals on the homestead which include chickens, rabbits, goats, pigs, cats and dogs. Their adventure is anything but normal, but they are a family of hard workers willing to put in the time it takes to make their off-grid homestead dream come true.

They join me today to discuss the challenges of moving to an area of the country that is unfamiliaure full, new animals to deal with like rattlesnakes, scorpions and tarantulas. Having homestead animals for the first time. Building their homestead from the earth on their property. Dealing with limited water resources. All while living in 200 sq ft vintage Airstream as they transition from full-time travel to homesteaders.

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Sacred 7 Mushroom Extract Powder – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is Sacred 7 Mushroom Extract Powder.  This one came to me as a recommendation by Nurse Amy as in Doc Bones and Nurse Amy of the expert council.  One thing I want to say about Amy is she is not RN or LVN, but rather an NP.  What is an NP? A nurse practitioner NP is an advanced practice registered nurse and a type of mid-level practitioner. NPs are trained to assess patient needs, order and interpret diagnostic and laboratory tests, diagnose disease, formulate and prescribe treatment plans.

In other words they are about half way between an RN and an MD.  They can prescribe medications, make diagnosis, etc.  I am pointing that out due to what I am about to say next.

As many of you know Joe (Doc Bones) jokes a lot about his age.  People don’t seem to realize he is really getting up there in years because honestly he looks 15 years younger than he is.  He also has some underlying health conditions which I will leave at that, as I don’t want to give away any personal information beyond what he has said publicly himself.

In any event this has all led Amy to look for anything that may be helpful to Joe in the middle of this Pandemic.  One big risk is called cytokine storm.  A cytokine storm is where far too many immune cells are caught in an endless loop of calling more and more immune cells to fight the infection.  This is one of the very bad things happening to some people with advanced CoVid-19.

Now I want to be clear neither Amy nor I are saying that this will do anything at all to prevent a cytokine storm in a CoVid patient and absolutely no research has been done about that in regard to any mushroom that either of us are aware of.  Amy though found this AMAZING study done on 5 mushrooms as to their ability to impair cytokine storm during cancer treatment.  Read it and draw your own conclusions.  Amy’s reasoning is it might, it is cheap and it won’t hurt you.  Additionally these mushrooms all are also proven to have anti cancer properties with a large amount of research supporting them.

Amy did a ton of research and found this product which contains all five of the mushrooms in the study which are; Agaricus, Reishi, Cordyceps, Turkey Tail and Maitake.  It also has two others that have been heavily researched and also determined in studies to have anti cancer properties, those two are; Lion’s Mane and Chaga.

I am now taking this and here is my reasoning.  If the odds that it will do the square root of anything to reduce cytokine storm in CoVid are 100-1 against it, the cost is low enough, the risk is zero and the other potential benefits make it a no brainer.

For me honestly I have been looking for a mushroom product to add to my regime for a long time. This all goes back to several talks I have listened to by Paul Stamets who has likely done more with research on mushrooms than any other person on the planet.  You can find his website here.  If you tune into today’s show during the TspAz.com segment I will tell you about one of his stories.

In the end I have wanted something filling this role and this product seems like a perfect fit with all the research done by a good friend, with great credentials whom I trust.  A serving is 1/4 Tsp and that is what I have been using in my morning coffee, and no you can’t taste it at all, at least I can’t.  It dissolves easily in any hot liquid.

It provides 100mg of each of the seven mushrooms which again are Agaricus, Reishi, Cordyceps, Turkey Tail, Maitake, Lion’s Mane and Chaga.  An 8oz bag has 322 servings and costs 44.99, that comes out to 14 cents a day.  28 cents a day for both Dorothy and I, and that one bag will last us 161 days or a bit over 5 months.

So to me given the mountains of research on all of these mushrooms, the fact that this product is nothing but powdered mushrooms with no fillers adding it to my daily regiment seems like a no brainer.  You can also get a smaller bag of 2 ounces for 24.99 but that will increase the price per serving to 28 cents but it may be a better choice if you just want to try it.

In the end you guys know I don’t make any health claims or claims anything treats or cures anything, so simply put do your own research and make your own decisions.  That said personally I have decided adding Sacred 7 Mushroom Extract Powder to my daily regiment is a no brainer due to the potential benefits and very lost cost and what seems like zero risk.

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Episode-2808- Understanding and Using Permaculture Principles

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The principles of Permaculture covered today are the 12 principles offered by Permaculture’s co-founder David Holmgren.  There are far more than these 12, we are just going to cover these today as a way to expose our audience to what Permaculture is really all about.

I feel the discipline is largely misunderstood, either as simply organic farming on steroids or some hippy dippy lefty mud rolling eco leftist ideology.  It is really neither, rather it is a design science used to create systems that work with nature to support all of humanities needs.

Join Us Today to Discuss…

  • Why permaculture really should not be described as permanent agriculture
  • Thinking about the difference between techniques and principles and why it is so important
  • David Holmgren’s 12 Permaculture Principles and my thoughts on Them
    1. Observe and interact – (before, during and after)
    2. Catch and store energy – (create batteries for more the electricity)
    3. Obtain a yield – (systems should be producers, vs. consumers)
    4. Apply self regulation and accept feedback – (give before you take)
    5. Use and value renewable resources – (think in lifetime cost, beyond money)
    6. Produce no waste – (pollution is a wasted resource)
    7. Design from pattern to details – (design with the end in mind)
    8. Integrate rather then segregate – (function stack and explore all connections)
    9. Use small and slow solutions – (obtain the greatest effect with the least effort)
    10. Use and value diversity – (nothing natural is a mono-culture)
    11. Use edges and value the marginal – (systems edges have the highest productivity)
    12. Use and respond to change – (the only thing constant is change, all change is opportunity)
  • Final Thoughts

 

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CZ Garden Net Pot Cups – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day are CZ Garden Net Pot Cups.  Let me come out of the gate with this fact, there are cheaper net cups, but none actually cost less.  How is this possible, we are back to always be frugal never be cheap.

CZ is well priced but top quality, the price to value ratio we always look for.  Most cheap net cups won’t last a season before becoming brittle, cracking and falling apart.  Conversely I have had some of my CZ cups in service for 2 seasons now and they are still like brand new.

They come in many sizes but my two favorites for general use are 2 inch and 4 inch.  When it comes to growing smaller greens and starting plants for transplanting to other systems (soil or hydro/aquaponics both) I go with 2 inch cups.  When it comes to larger long term planting in hydro/aqua systems with plants like tomatoes and cucumbers I go with 4 inch cups.

Additionally when I did my greenhouse based pipe system built on 4 inch pipes I used 4 inch cups.  That system was designed to grow strawberries which didn’t really do well in that location but it is bang on for growing lettuces and argula.  So how do I manage that?  I take my plants in their 2 inch cups and put them cup and all right into the 4 inch cups.  It works fantastically and eliminates the need for any leca or other media.

In the end use any size that is right for your needs but trust me go with CZ garden for this component of your systems.  Rather than the cost of an item when you buy it always calculate the lifetime cost and better yet, right now the 2 inch cups are on sale!  Last by not least, my favorite starting medium (rapid rooter plugs) fit in a 2 inch net cup like they were designed to, likely because they were.

Here are all the primary options for CZ Net Cups in the most common sizes growers use….

  • 2 Inch CZ Net Cups – 50 Ct – 100 Ct
  • 3 Inch CZ Net Cups – 25 Ct – 50 Ct
  • 4 Inch CZ Net Cups – 25 Ct (currently sold out)
  • 5 Inch CZ Net Cups – 24 Ct (currently sold out)
  • 6 Inch CZ Net Cups – 20 Ct

 

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P.S. – Note this 4 and 5 inch cups are sold out, if you need them this season keep an eye on them.  This is why you should stock up on long term items like this.  More people then ever are growing food at home and that will only increase this year.

What do you do if you need 4 inch cups right now and can’t wait for them to come back in stock?  I would get these 4 inch ones by Cool Runner.  They are almost as good and very durable.  If you don’t need them now you might want to monitor stock and get the CZ ones, I will be doing that as well and will run these again when they come back.

 

Episode-2807- Saving Seed and Developing Your Own Varieties

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Today I want to discuss a skill we have not dug into for quite a while.  That is seed saving and I also want to talk a bit about seed storage, trading seed and the value of regionally adapted seeds.

There is also a ton of confusion in the seed marketplace today about exactly what a GMO is, what a hybrid is and what an “heirloom” seed is. Without an understanding of this you are vulnerable to a lot of misinformation campaigns designed to sell you things you don’t need or keep you from using some seeds that may really be beneficial to you.

For instance some hybrids may be resistant to a disease that is rampant in your region or allow you to get an earlier start in a region with a short growing season. Additionally you do want to avoid GMOs and GMO containing foods whenever you can but the risk to seeds used by home gardeners at this time is greatly over exaggerated by those with something to sell you.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Understanding Seed Storage and Seed Types
    • What is a GMO vs. what is a hybrid
    • What is an heirloom vs. what is an open pollinated variety
    • How almost every heirloom or open pollinated seed started as a “hybrid”
    • Why we should be making our own hybrids and proving them out as well
    • What is the purpose of a seed bank, what are the positives and negatives
    • Do seeds ever “go bad” or is it not quite that simple
    • What are the enemies to a seeds vitality, what makes for good storage
    • What is a land race and why should you care
  • The story of how seeds propagate in the wild
    • They are exposed to the elements
    • They are not “planted”
    • They must compete with other plants
    • They often are “stored” in the soil for decades before they are triggered to germinate
  • Saving You Own Seeds
    • Selecting seeds for saving based characteristics
    • Selecting first for survival
    • Separation distances and cross pollination (how important is it, it depends)
    • Succession planting to avoid cross pollination/hybrid crossing
    • Manual pollination and isolation to ensure purity
    • Why no seed can ever be as good as “local seed” but any seed can become local
  • Building Personal Seed Vaults
    • Remember the enemies of seed storage (light, heat, moisture)
    • Oxygen free is NOT the way to be
    • Ziplock vs. mylar vs. containers vs. envelopes
    • Consider how long you really need to store seeds
    • Remember some seeds are food and some food is seed
    • Buying seeds is a good investment
    • Trading is another great way to add stock and diversity (local rocks)
  • Final Thoughts – What is the value of 10 seeds?

 

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Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the book Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier.  Eric is the author of other books such as Paradise Lot and Edible Forest Gardens (which he co wrote with Dave Jackie).  This book though is the most practical for the average homesteader that just wants to grow food without replanting every year.

In this book you will learn about over 100 perennial veggies and what it takes to grow them.  Eric covers more than just a list of plants.  He goes into some plants that are ideal for aquatic systems and others that you can grow in green houses along many that can be grown in most of the United States out doors.

I feel there is a great deal of work to be done with breeding and developing more perennial vegetables but Eric’s book is the most concise guide to where were are right now I know of, that is why I have it on my book shelf.

On that, on this book I highly recommend going for the hard copy over the kindle version.  There are a lot of photos, charts and other visual components that simply work better in hard copy.  Along with the fact that the kindle edition flatly has some editing and lay out problems.

So if you want to up your game with perennial veggies check out Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier today.

Remember you can always find the TSP Amazon Item of the day by just going to TspAz.com and by shopping at TspAz.com anytime you shop on Amazon you help support TSP and the work we do here no matter what you buy.

P.S. – I also want to toss in a pitch here for Eric’s other book, Paradise Lot.  It is really easy to read and I learned a ton reading it as well.  It is not like Perennial Vegetables, which is more like a text book sticking to facts.  It is more narrative and tells the story of Eric and his friend Jonathan transforming an urban backyard.  They did this by buying a duplex, each took a half and they opened the back yard as a common area.  So consider this a bonus recommendation for another great book.

 

Episode-007- Miyagi Mornings Weekly Recap

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Welcome to Miyagi mornings weekly recap, a podcast version of our daily video series Miyagi Mornings, links to the video version of each segment can be found in the show notes for this episode. These recap episodes are part of The Survival Podcast feed but are numbered independently as a special weekly edition of our show, in all podcast feeds.

This week the Miyagi Mornings weekly recap podcast covers lifestyle design, bitcoin, dealing with set backs, starting a business, accomplishing goals and more. A link to the videos for each segment is included below, any resources mentioned in any of the segments can be found in the video notes by following either the Odysee links below.

 

If you want to submit a question for Miyagi Mornings just email jack@thesurvivalpodcast.com with miyagi mornings in the subject line. All subjects other than politics are welcome for this special series.

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Episode-2806- Expert Council Q&A for 1-15-21

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Today on The Survival Podcast the expert panel answers your questions on work trucks, blood vessel health, solar power, covid-19 treatment, investing, tractors, the great reset and more.

Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process.

Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air.

I also do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so keep em coming.

Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…

  • Quote of the day – “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”.  ~ Voltaire
  • Shopping for a used work truck – Derek Bonpietro
  • How keto diets effect your blood vessel health and where genetics come in – Dr. Ken Berry
  • Self design of a grid tied solar system with battery back up – Shawn Mills
  • The skinny on ivermectin as a CoVid-19 treatment – Doc Bones
  • The literal “ins” and “outs” of retirement accounts – John Pugliano
  • Choosing the size of a tractor for farm or homestead use – Darby Simpson
  • Announcing our counter insurgency to The Great Reset, known as The Greater Reset – Jack

 

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Universal Cell Phone Tripod Mount – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Universal Cell Phone Tripod Mount by Ulanzi.  A few years back, we launched our instagram channel (ItsAJackLife) and Dorothy has been managing it for me.  We started to do some short videos there and decided being able to use our tripod would be a good idea.  Issue was my old adapter made by DaVoice didn’t work for vertical, only horizontal.

Up till now that was not a problem because I hate VVS (vertical video syndrome) on sites like YouTube but for Instagram and some other sites, you have to do vertical and I get why.  So I figured why not get a mount that does both.  I almost passed on the Universal Cell Phone Tripod Mount by Ulanzi simply because it was so cheap.  I mean how good could it be for under 9 bucks?

But it just looked like what I needed and with Amazon you can always return something if it is crap so I gave it a shot. 1620 reviews and 4.5 stars.  So with all that I gave it a shot.

When I got this thing I was impressed.  It is plastic but well built, thick plastic and that is the right material for this little product.  The thumbscrew holds firmly and has a rubber gasket to keep it clamped down.  It mounts to a standard tripod or monopod shoe and it like everything I recommend just works and always works.  I mean this is the kind of product that is plastic sure, but as soon as you pick it up you know that it is well made.

Some reviewers did note that on some larger phones the phone won’t fit with a case on it.  I measured the max spread of the clamp at 3.75 inches so measure any larger device you might want to use it for.

You can also get the mount along with a bluetooth remote for your camera/phone.  The bluetooth remote is the same one DaVoice uses and many other vendors do as well.  They work just fine, just if you use it make sure the phone is screen side to you so you can be sure it started when you pushed the button.  If not you could finish a 10 minute video but have never started the camera, ask me how I know.  Anyway for 1 extra dollar if you want a remote it is likely worth it.

In any event the Universal Cell Phone Tripod Mount by Ulanzi is a great little tool for the money. So if you need something like this for your phone give it a try, at less then 8 bucks it can’t be beat.  In fact I now recommend it over my prior recommendation from DaVoice.

Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com

P.S. – I just wanted to add this update, I have now been using this tool for over three years.  I still have it and it still works.  I did break one by knocking over a tripod on concrete it cracked the plastic.  I glued it back together with super glue and it still functions.  If you do video work with phones this thing is very hard to beat.  Oh fortunately the phone was not in it when I knocked over the dang tripod!

Episode-2805- Function Stacking and New Projects on Nine Mile Farm

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Today I am going to use a variety of projects I am currently planning and implementing here at Nine Mile Farm to teach you about function stacking.  Function stacking is a key principle in permaculture but it should really be a key principle in all design.

Geoff Lawton says “the more restrictions on a design, the more eloquent the design” and it is always how you see function stacking show up even when designers don’t use the term.  A perfect example is all the “tiny house” TV shows and videos.  Equally you see it in RVs.

As soon as that living space is scaled down that table and chairs is now a place to eat, a place to work, converts to a couch and converts to a bed.  I am sure you can think of many examples like staircases that are also for storage, etc.

But why do we wait until we have to function stack to do so?  When we intentionally design function stacking into all designs we do more with less.  As in less material, less energy, less money, less on going maintenance, less future inputs and less money.  Sound good?  Tune in today to learn more.

Join Me Today to Discuss….

  • What is function stacking and why should you care
  • What is the 3 reason rule of design and how does it create 3 or more functions to the element
  • Some Projects I am Doing and How they will Stack Function
    • My Duck feed/composting system using waste water, aquatic plants and more (video)
    • My new berry beds that are going in this spring (may be part of a workshop)
    • My shop redesign
    • My new pattern scheduled duck pool system (super low tech)
    • My new mobile duck/chicken hopper feeder
  • How to maximize your ability to function stack
    • Take in new information constantly
    • Think constantly about energy output and energy flow
    • Be clever with low tech solutions (aquarium siphons for instance)
    • Push yourself when you evaluate every element
      • Why this spot
      • What can it do
      • What are its needs and its outputs
      • How does it or can it relate to other elements and energies
      • What can I eliminate or provide with something I already have
  • Final thoughts on why this is one of the most important skills of a good designer

 

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