Monthly Archives: August 2013

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

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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 … Continue reading →

Episode-1197- Damon Butz on Winter Camping

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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 … Continue reading →

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

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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 … Continue reading →

Episode-1195- Ben Falk on The Resilient Farm and Homestead

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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 … Continue reading →

Today’s TSP Will Be Later Than Usual

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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

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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 … Continue reading →

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

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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 … Continue reading →

Episode-1193- Listener Calls 8-23-13

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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 … Continue reading →

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

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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 … Continue reading →