Monthly Archives: August 2013

Episode-1198- Listener Calls for 8-30-13

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Modern Survival| 50 Comments
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Join Me Today as I Answer Your eMails

Join Me Today as I Answer Your Calls

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your calls on guns, agritrue, self defense, situational awareness, federalism, cover crops, chickens, investing and more.

Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details.

Also please do your best to call from a quiet area with a good connection and speak up so you can be well heard. I can’t put all calls on the air but I do my best to get many of them on.

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

  • Patrick at MT Knives is Auctioning off his Personal Neck Knife (link)
  • Will the AgriTrue certification be usable on packaged amendments and natural fertilizers
  • Council Member Frank Sharpe on situational awareness for children
  • No DO NOT use wasp spray as a substitute for pepper spray
  • Using root crops as part of a cover cropping soil improvement strategy
  • Dealing with a broody hen who you don’t want brooding
  • How to safely store a rifle but still keep it available
  • Texas advertising for jobs and entrepreneurs
  • A spouse gets on board due to something dramatically simple, packing for camping
  • Chickens that won’t lay in their nesting boxes and what to do about it
  • What happens to a pension fund when a company is purchased by another
  • What is the deal with “golden rice” is all GMO bad no matter what
  • What to do with a large amount of windfall apples

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 (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

Also remember we have an expert council you can address your calls to. If you do this you should email me right after your call at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with expert council call in the subject line. In the body of your email tell me that you just called in a question for the council and what number you called in from. I will then give the call priority when I screen calls.

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Episode-1197- Damon Butz on Winter Camping

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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Damon Butz is from Calgary Alberta Canada in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.  He grew up camping, fishing and snowboarding in the mountains. Damon is an architectural Designer by trade with varied hobbies such as Permaculture design, gardening, gold prospecting, preserving and Beekeeping.

However his first love is backpacking.   Damon is a volunteer with a local hiking group where he participates in and organizes summer and winter backpacking trips. He has extensive experience with winter camping trips and day trips involving snowshoes, nordic skis, split board and cross country skiing.

Damon Joins Us Today to Answer Questions Such As…

  • What type of winter trip should you really consider
  • What clothing do you take on a trip
  • What are some of the key pieces of equipment for winter trips
  • What modes of travel are best for winter trips
  • What are some common mistakes made on winter trips
  • How to get started in winter trips if you don’t know anyone doing it already

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 (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-1196- Updates on Future TSP Endeavors and Homestead Plans

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Modern Survival| 82 Comments
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A Lot Has Changed Since We Moved From Arkansas.

A Lot Has Changed Since We Moved From Arkansas.

Time for a good old fashioned chat with Jack style show today.  I am going to provide some more thoughts on the concept of an eco centric libertarian community.  I even have a name for it, PermaEthos, I’ll tell you about the name today.

I will also tell you about some projects I and Josiah have planned on the TSP homestead and some successes and failure thus far for the year.  Additionally I want to lay out a true vision for where TSP is headed.  Some things have become a lot more clear to me lately about the untapped potential of the TSP brand and community.

Join me Today as we Discuss…

  • More on the potential PermaEthos Community (I don’t have all the answers yet)
  • Progress on the aquaponics system that is turning more toward a aquaculture system
  • Planned workshops, what we are leaning and how that relates to PermaEthos
  • Report thus far on the Freedom Ranger Chickens
  • Our need for a livestock guardian dog, making peace with the wife on an “outside dog”
  • Our biggest weakness, water, and what I plan to do about it
  • The true power of the TSP community and what it could lead to

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-1195- Ben Falk on The Resilient Farm and Homestead

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Modern Survival| 24 Comments
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Ben Falk of WholeSystemsDesign.com

Ben Falk of WholeSystemsDesign.com

Ben developed Whole Systems Design, LLC as a land-based response to biological and cultural extinction and the increasing separation between people and elemental things.

Life as a designer, builder, ecologist, tree-tender, and backcountry traveler continually informs Ben’s integrative approach to developing landscapes and buildings. His home landscape and the WSD studio site in Vermont’s Mad River Valley serve as a proving ground for the regenerative land developments featured in the projects of Whole Systems Design.

Ben has studied architecture and landscape architecture at the graduate level and holds a master’s degree in land-use planning and design. He has conducted nearly 200 site development consultations across New England and facilitated dozens of courses on permaculture design, property selection, microclimate design, and design for climate change.

Today he joins us to discuss his new book “The Resilient Farm and Homestead” along with subjects like  wood heat, property evaluation, integrating grazing animals with perennials, permaculture design course, drought and flood proofing, cold climate strategies, ponds and swales.

Resources for today’s show…

Ben’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 (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Today’s TSP Will Be Later Than Usual

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Modern Survival| 15 Comments

I will be interviewing Ben Falk at 1230 central time about his new book, The Resilient Farm and Homestead.  I want to get some work done about booking folks for our upcoming workshop in Oct, so I am not doing a show this morning.  I will run Ben’s show as soon as we finish recording it.  So there will be a show today but it won’t be out until about 2 central today.

If you have questions for Ben, post them here and I w ill get them into the show if I can.

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Episode-1194- Listener Feedback for 8-26-13

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Modern Survival| 69 Comments
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Join Me Today as I Answer Your eMails

Join Me Today as I Answer Your eMails

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your questions and emails on economics, community building, naughty list states, agritrue, gardening 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 Emails On

  • Hungary gives the boot to the IMF, the good, the potential bad
  • Modern monetary slavery foretold in 1862
  • My thoughts on the ecovillage concept previously discussed with Xavier Hawk
  • Thoughts on moving to a state on the WTF “naughty list”
  • How long can you store honey, apparently as long as you can a mummy
  • The exact explanation for why the Federal Debt is static, you won’t like this
  • How is it possible that the entire world is in debt at the same time
  • What to do if you have to install garden beds ahead of planting
  • A paradoy site that will make you chuckle and sigh at the same time, GetPRSM.com
  • The low down on PrimaCane berries
  • A lesson about how we should all live our lives, very cool

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 (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

Also remember we have an expert council you can address your calls to. If you do this you should email me right after your call at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with expert council call in the subject line. In the body of your email tell me that you just called in a question for the council and what number you called in from. I will then give the call priority when I screen calls.

Our Expert Council is Made Up of…

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MT Knives Sells Out All 100 Stakeholder Positions in 6 Minutes

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Modern Survival| 55 Comments

Well even with the MT Website down due to such a huge demand, thanks to the redundancy of Aweber and Paypal direct buy buttons the MT Knives Sale went off with a massive bang.  All 100 positions sold out in a flat 6 minutes.

Thanks to all of you who made this happen.  What an awesome story!

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MT Knives – Site Crashed Be On the Look Out for an Email

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Modern Survival| 36 Comments

Today we tried to launch the MT Knives Stakeholder Program.  What happened?  The MT Knives site crashed.

Solution – Patrick will be sending out an email in the next few minutes to everyone that preregistered.  In this email will be a direct link to a paypal buy page to purchase your Stakeholder Knife.

We will only be providing this link via email to those who registered to be fair to those that did so.  If by chance the positions do not sell in a few hours we MIGHT post the link to the general public for the remaining positions at that time.

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Episode-1193- Listener Calls 8-23-13

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Modern Survival| 38 Comments
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Join Me Today as I Answer Your eMails

Join Me Today as I Answer Your Calls

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your calls on Brink of Freedom, fermenting, gardening, growing mushrooms, trapping pigeons, tropical climate permaculture, investing and more.

Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details.

Also please do your best to call from a quiet area with a good connection and speak up so you can be well heard. I can’t put all calls on the air but I do my best to get many of them on.

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

  • First a Quick Interview with Josiah Wallingford of Brink of Freedom
  • Making fermented pickles and keeping the salt down, how low can you go
  • Ways to help new gardeners/permaculturists motivated in the first two years
  • A very interesting question about “wrongful imprisonment”
  • Is using a 401K loan as a down payment on a house a good idea
  • Trapping pigeons, cooking pigeons and environmental toxicity concerns
  • Thoughts on paleo and the fact that there is no “Paleo Pope”
  • Encouraging wild mushroom production
  • John from W.V. found an “I Miss America” dollar bill, have you seen one
  • What can you grow in zone 11?  Heck, almost anything you want!
  • Getting kids and spouses on board with prepping

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 (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

Also remember we have an expert council you can address your calls to. If you do this you should email me right after your call at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with expert council call in the subject line. In the body of your email tell me that you just called in a question for the council and what number you called in from. I will then give the call priority when I screen calls.

Our Expert Council is Made Up of…

Join the MSB Today

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Want Every Episode of TSP Ever Produced?

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Episode-1192- Mike Haigwood on Mix Species Grass Based Dairy

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Modern Survival| 35 Comments
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A Happy and Healthy Jersey Cow at the P.A. Bowman Farmstead

A Happy and Healthy Jersey Cow at the P.A. Bowman Farmstead

Mike Haigwood is currently the manager of  the P.A. Bowen Farmstead a mixed species dairy operation run by Sally Fallon.  Sally Fallon (who will be on TSP next week)  is the co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation along with nutritionist Mary G. Enig

Mike grew up in rural Iowa three generations removed from Agriculture. He had an average childhood but always loved the outdoors.  Fast forward, he graduated 1986, tried college but didn’t like it, quit after one semester then started working.

Mike then got a chance to work for a guy who started his own traditional lawn care business as a partner in the company, while short lived it started him down a new path.

Mike then started school at Penn State University in 1990, got married and had a son and then graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor in Horticulture. He then moved to Mosurris working in the Kansas City area as a Landscape Designer for a Garden Center Chain.

With the birth of his daugher and new concerns for nutrition his awakening began.  So in 1995 they moved back to Iowa started their own businesses lawn care, garden produce but ended up closing the business in 97.  In this short time Mike learned a lot about marketing, or the lack of it!

At this point he started homesteading, homeschooling, and following the practices in the book Nourishing Traditions (by Sally Fallon) and began interning in the world of agriculture.  In time that led to “bootlegging raw milk” from their own farm.  While successful they grew tired of the dogma around conventioinal agriculture still present in the Midwest.

So in 2009 they decided to move east and pursue alternative farming practices. He and his wife (Barb) met Sally Fallon at a conference in 2010 and asked if she knew anyone that could use a management team for their farm.  Her response was, “send me your resume” and now today the whole family is working on Sally’s Farm P.A. Bowen Farmstead.

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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