Monthly Archives: December 2016

Episode-25- TSP Rewind - The Profitable Small Acre Homestead [ 1:47:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally, Episode 1379- The Profitable Small Acre Homestead and originally aired on July 1st, 2014.

The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

Homesteading is a dream for a lot of people, a some day idea.  Generally it is usually this way.  I need a job, so I need to be close to work, so we can’t afford a  huge place close enough, so ONE DAY I will have enough saved to make the move.

This can and does work, but one day has a way of becoming a moving target, a carrot before the horse that keeps the cart moving yet never is tasted for many.  So my view is for some at least, the homestead can at least in time become a significant income source.

Join Me Today As I Discuss…

• Our basic plan and why it might not be right for you
  • Start with eggs, build a customer base
  • Sell other nice items, meal worms, candles, etc.
  • Begin selling plants, cuttings, fertilizers
  • Sell produce as it comes into production
  • Possibly at some point sell poultry
• What I think you can learn from our plan and how you should build your design
  • Specialize in something that builds a customer base
  • Expand slowly over time
  • Develop DEEP relationships with your customers
  • Let them guide your development
• What I would look for in a property
  • Close to a reasonable population center
  • Decent internet access
  • Good drive buy traffic
  • No restrictions (unincorporated if possible)
  • Deep soils with pond sites
  • Flat to relatively flat
  • As always it comes down to water, access, structure
• Thoughts on different revenue elements
  • Paddock shift silvopasture poultry (eggs, meat)
  • Market gardening
    • raised beds of fixed length
    • heavy weed blocking
    • designed to the sun or shade by climate
    • Develop a CSA around it fast
  • Small nurseries
  • Small “orchards” for produce
  • Specialty craft products
  • Bees and bee products
  • Dairy
  • Other stock, cattle, sheep, goats, etc
  • Focus on value added products
• Some final thoughts
  • It takes time, how much is based on how much you have
  • You can’t do everything so don’t even try to, do one thing then another
  • It isn’t for everyone, that is great!
  • It isn’t easy, but in reality it is simple
  • It is hard to do on your own, a multi family approach has a lot to offer
  • Making a living is better than working for a living

Resources for today’s show…

• Join the Members Brigade
• The Year 1379
• Join Our Forum
• 13Skills.com
• Join Our Forum
• Walking To Freedom
• TSP Gear
• PermaEthos.com

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-24- TSP Rewind - You Are Your Only Solution [ 1:13:19 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally,

Episode-1269- You Are Your Only Solution and originally aired on Dec 13, 2013.

The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

Day in and day out I get emails from listeners that mean well, but frankly most don’t get it.  They are emails about passing a law for this or that, as if that would really fix anything.  Franky I am at a point where the only laws that need be passed would be a law undoing an existing law.

Government and restrictions on liberty are the problems, hence stop looking for solutions from the people causing the problem.

Like It Or Not, You Are Your Own Answer!

Some sound good, such as, people that want to amend the constitution to say, “Congress shall make now law that “all laws made by Congress applying to citizens of the United States apply equally to members of Congress themselves”.

Sure that sounds good but you are saying, please let us ask the wolf and the fox to pass a law that says they can’t raid the hen house.  How likely is that to work?

It doesn’t help that this myth is attributed to Warren Buffet who first never said it and secondly shouldn’t be trusted any more then Barack Obama or George Bush, in other words not at all.  The government has created every single major problem it is currently trying to supposedly solve.

Let me be blunt you are NEVER EVER NEVER, going to see a world where our government becomes “good” or “smaller” or “less corrupt” unless it simply fails and even that is no guarantee of anything.  Sorry to tell you folks but you are your ONLY solution to any and all real problems that you and your family will face.

Join Me Today As We Discuss…

• Stop worrying about the next disaster and see the one you are in right now
• Stop being so pissed off about “rounding errors”
• Why government not only won’t but can’t and never will fix our problems
• Why you would not government to fix things even if it could
• The lesson of your destitute, drunken, dope addicted “Uncle Sam”
• What you must do to thrive in coming years
  • You are your own answer
  • You have to learn from boxers and MMA fighters, train before a fight!
  • But what about community, it isn’t just me is it
  • Take responsibility for your food
  • Take responsibility for your health
  • Take responsibility for your education
  • Take responsibility for your own waste
  • Take responsibility for your own energy
  • Do shit and never apologize for doing good shit!
  • Act because you want to, not due to fear

Resources for today’s show…

• The Year 1269
• Join Our Forum
• 13Skills.com
• Join Our Forum
• Walking To Freedom
• TSP Gear
• PermaEthos.com

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-23- TSP Rewind - Listener Feedback on Genetically Modified Organisms [ 1:10:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally,

Episode-613- Listener Feedback on Generically Modified Organisms and originally aired on Feb. 28th, 2011.

The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

GMO Food is Far More Sinister Than Most Realize

The concept of GMO’s (generically modified organisms) is largely misunderstood and I feel somewhat hyped as both overly safe and overly dangerous by both sides of the debate.

Today we dig deeply into this issue to fully understand the dangers of GMO’s including the often missed larger implications and impact on the biosphere and system level life webs.

Join me today as we discuss…

• Is GMO the issue or is what they are spraying on the GMO’s the answer
• How is a GMO different from a natural hybrid
• Are GMO’s chemically different from non GMO’s
• Is there a new micro pathogen connected to GMO’s (I am not sure yet)
• Are GMOs and their related herbicides linked to breast cancer (a top oncologist thinks so)
• Will GMO alfalfa cross pollinate and infect other fields, experts say it is a certainty
• Why may our farmers not be able to ever stop growing GMOs now (anyone else think about this yet)
• What is “bent grass” why should you care
• Should we require an IQ test to be a politician (wait till you hear this)
• Why GMOs threaten us even when they are not “food crops”
• What is bioaccumulation and how does it move through “trophic” levels
• How GMOs have an unexpected effect on our ground water, rivers and oceans
• What the gulf dead zone and why it is expanding

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• Interview with the Oncologist Specializing in Breast Cancer I played on the air
• Is Monsanto’s GMO Corn Destroying your Internal Organs
• Study Finds GMO Corn Causes Organ Failure in Rats
• Study Finds Round Up Ready Crops May Be Causing Animal Miscarriages and Infertility – (Can you guys help me vet this?  True or TFH nonsense?  I am not sure yet.)
• 8 Weeks to Optimum Health – Book I mentioned by Dr. Weil
• Experts Say that Contamination by GMO Alfalfa is “Certain”
• A letter from 2005 warning about the dangers of GMO Bent Grass
• From Yesterday the Results of GMO Bent Grass
• Ron Hood’s Survival.com Magazine

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-22- TSP Rewind - Massad Ayoob on Lethal Force Aftermath [ 1:07:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally, Episode-1094- Massad Ayoob on Lethal Force Aftermath and it originally aired on March 21, 2013.  The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

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Massad Ayoob has been handgun editor of GUNS magazine and law enforcement editor of AMERICAN HANDGUNNER since the 1970s, and has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, and law enforcement journals.

He is the author of more than a dozen books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, including “In the Gravest Extreme,” widely considered to be the authoritative text on the topic of the use of lethal force.

Massad Ayoob – Joins Us To Discuss Lethal Force Aftermath

The winner of the Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award in 1998, Mas has won several state and regional handgun shooting championships. Ayoob is one of the very few Five Gun Masters among the 10,000-member International Defensive Pistol Association, and was the first to earn that title.

He served 19 years as chair of the Firearms Committee of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and several years as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. In addition to teaching for those groups, he has also taught for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors and the International Homicide Investigators seminars.

Massad has received judicial recognition as an expert witness for the courts in weapons and shooting cases since 1979, and has been a fully sworn and empowered, part time police officer for decades. Ayoob founded the Lethal Force Institute in 1981 and served as its director until 2009, and now trains through Massad Ayoob Group.

Massad has appeared on CLE-TV delivering continuing legal education for attorneys, through the American Law Institute and American Bar Association, and has been retained to train attorneys to handle deadly force cases through the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network. Ayoob served for two years as co-vice chair of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He also appears in each episode of Personal Defense TV (Sportsman’s Channel).

Massad joins us today to discuss protecting yourself as an armed citizen from the threat we seldom consider, our own legal system.  How to make sure you are not in violation of the law, what constitutes justification for the use of deadly force and having a “prep kit” for after a deadly force incident.

Join Us Today As We Discuss…

• What is the biggest thing most armed citizens fail to plan for
• What happens in most cases immediately after a “justified shooting”
• What plans should you have in place in case you ever have to use deadly force
• How does a deadly force incident differ when it is in your home vs. away
• What about the castle doctrine, how much protection does it really provide
• Can a shooting legally justified in one state and not another with the same facts
• What is the absolute worst thing you can do after a shooting
• When the police arrive how should you greet them
• Is there anything you should never say or do in from of first responders to an incident
• Defense of life vs. defense of property
• Can the appearance of a weapon influence the outcome of a trial
• How can ammo selection be used against you

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

• Members Support Brigade
• Join Our Forum
• Members Support Brigade
• 13Skills.com
• Join Our Forum
• Walking To Freedom
• Articles by Massad on Backwoods Home
• Books by Massad on Amazon.com
• Massad’s Website
• TspAz.com

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.

Episode-21- TSP Rewind - Toby Hemenway on Developing Self Sustaining Urban Communities [ 56:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally, Episode-1610- Toby Hemenway on Developing Self Sustaining Urban Communities and originally aired on July 23rd, 2015. The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which was awarded the Nautilus Gold Medal in 2011, was named by the Washington Post as one of the ten best gardening books of 2010, and for the last eight years has been the best-selling permaculture book in the world.

Toby has been an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and has taught over sixty 72-hour permaculture design courses. He has presented lectures and workshops at major sustainability conferences such as Bioneers, SolFest, and EcoFarm, and at Duke University, Tufts University, University of Minnesota, University of Delaware and many other educational venues.

Get a Copy of Toby’s New Book on Amazon

His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review, and American Gardener. He has contributed book chapters for WorldWatch Institute and to several publications on ecological design.

After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories including Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces.

A career change followed, and Toby and his wife, Kiel (key-ell), spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was the editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004, and spent six years developing urban sustainability resources there. Toby and his wife now live in Sebastopol, California.

Today he comes back to TSP to discuss  urban permaculture, and his new book, “The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience” We will be talking about food, energy, water, shelter, building community, creating livelihoods, and how to use permaculture thinking to arrive at solutions for the challenges of life in towns and cities.

Resources for today’s show…

• Join the Members Brigade
• The Year 1610
• Join Our Forum
• Walking To Freedom
• TSP Gear
• PermaEthos.com
• AgriTrue.com
• GrandaddyGun.com

• Toby’s Links
  
  • Pattern Literacy – Toby’s Website
  • TobyHemenway.com
  • The Permaculture City
  • Gaia’s Garden

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.

Want Every Episode of TSP Ever Produced?

Remember in addition to discounts to over 40 vendors who supply stuff you are likely buying anyway, tons of free ebooks and video content, MSB Members also get every edition of The Survival Podcast ever produced in convenient zip files in blocks of 24. More info on the MSB can be found here.

Remember while Rewind Shows are commercial free you can always support our show by Joining the MSB or simply by doing your Amazon.com shopping though TspAz.com