Raised Bed Gardening for Dummies – Epi-171 – TSP Rewind

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

Today’s episode was originally Episode-2560- Raised Bed Gardening for Dummies and was originally published on December 5th, 2019.

This series of rewinds running from Oct. 19th – 29th will be a skill set based rewind series.

All episodes will be dedicated to improving skill sets and knowledge base.

The following are the original show notes from that episode…

I got an email recently that said…

I have not had much success the past few years in growing food. I trie

d Mel Bartholomew’s square foot gardening last year without luck, problems with bugs, too little or too much water not sure.

Here’s my plan:

  • 16′ x 3′ raised bed about a 16″ deep in an area that gets sun from around 9 or 10 am through nightfall.
  • I plan to use part of this space for composing until I get a full bed of nice topsoil. And I’d like to add some PVC irrigation to the bed that I could hook a hose up to.
  • There is good soil on the ground in this spot now so I was thinking I could pile up as much as possible on one side while I work on getting the other side up to snuff.
  • Should I just throw some dirt from under my leaf pile into there as a filler? Should I bury some wood in the bed? Am I too late to get the soil proper before the next growing season? Worms?

 

I live in zone 7b (Richmond Va) and we have wet springs and the end of our summers can be very dry. So how can you tell when the plants have the proper amount of water?  Thanks, Walker

I realized after reading it that it has been a long time since we talked about this subject.  Also that winter is a great time to plan out and often to build raised beds.  I also realized that many people might (note might) be doing raised beds when going with “in ground” or “on ground” beds may be a better option.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • What are the goals of a garden more over what should they be?
    • Grow plants, today we are looking at food but plants are plants
    • Optimize the growth of what you want vs. what wants to grow in that spot
    • Minimize your work load
    • Give organization to chaos, ie create a pattern you can manage
  • My issues with “square foot gardening”
    • 4×4 beds dry out fast
    • In the end it is just a planting pattern
    • Attempts to oversimplify
    • I still love Mel!  Don’t get me wrong
  • What are the advantages of raised beds
    • Total control of “soil mix”
    • Start weed free and usually disease free
    • Good drainage
    • Clear demarcation point between “lawn” and garden
    • Easy to install irrigation during construction
  • What are the disadvantages of raised beds
    • Cost of construction
    • Cost of fill materials
    • Dries out far more quickly in hot weather/climates
    • Initially requires more labor
    • Semi permanent structures
  • Raised Bed Construction Material Options
    • Timbers
    • Treated Lumber
    • Cinder blocks or or other man made hardscape materials
    • Natural stone, rock, etc.
  • My rules for raised beds
    • 4 feet wide unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise
    • If your ground really sucks (rock etc) go deep
    • Be sure of your location before building them
    • Be sure a raised bed really makes sense, sometimes they are the best option
    • Employ weed blockers
    • Get over your fear or treated lumber or don’t use wood
    • Consider heavy mulch and weed blocking around and in between beds
  • Building soil
    • Use my fertility regiment
    • Mulch, then mulch, then mulch again
    • Cover crop or tarp in winter, or anytime not in use
    • Compost, then compost more, always compost
  • Bed orientation and location
    • If you can’t see it, you won’t take care of it
    • Ideal locations have eastern sun and western shade (subject to your climate)
    • Wind can be your enemy, for many reasons, set up wind blocks
  • Managing your garden
    • Weed early and weed often
    • Keep records of what grows, when things happen, etc.
    • Irrigate on a schedule, automation is best
    • Fertilize on a schedule, this is on you
    • Harvest frequently, you will get more production
    • No matter the technique the soil is the key, we grow soil, soil grows plants
  • Final Thoughts

 

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Distilling from Hobby to Full Time Business – Epi-170 – TSP Rewind

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2414- Distilling from Hobby to Full Time Business and was originally published on April 3rd, 2019.

This series of rewinds running from Oct. 19th – 29th will be a skill set based rewind series.  All episodes will be dedicated to improving skill sets and knowledge base.

The following are the original show notes from that episode…

Jason Justice is an Amy logistics officer and recipient of the Bronze Star Medal, who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn.  He is also the owner of Justice Label Distillery in Sinton, TX and founder of the Veterans Alcoholic Beverage Competition and Freedom Fest designed to benefit our veterans and promote entrepreneurship.

Jason joins us today to discuss distilling and the science behind it.  Along with how he started out small time and took his passion and family tradition of distilling into a full time business.

We also discuss how the industry is no where near as hard to enter as it might appear and what it takes to be successful as an entrepreneur in a highly competitive industry.

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Making Sausage and Making Mead as Life Skills- Epi-169- TSP Rewind

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2343- Making Sausage and Making Mead as Life Skills and was originally published on December 11th, 2018.

This series of rewinds running from Oct. 19th – 29th will be a skill set based rewind series.  All episodes will be dedicated to improving skill sets and knowledge base.

The following are the original show notes from that episode…

As we head into Christmas time I thought another sort of fun show would be in order.  First I was going to just do a show on mead today but then I realized that not everyone imbibes, so I decided to do a two fer, half on making meads and half on making sausage.  While good sausage and meads do pair well, I figured this show would also pair well with last weeks stand alone show on Making the Most of Winter Down Time.

I also do consider these two things, life skills.  In that if you can make mead, you can also make wine, cider, beer and likely a ton of other things.  When it comes to sausage making, we are talking about one of the oldest culinary skills known to man.  Every indigenous culture has forms of sausage.  I have even seen for instance Mongolians making sausage on the fly when cooking a whole sheep in a traditional style.  Tune in to hear about that today.

Both of these processes remarkably easy but have some mental barriers.  I have found when people get past that barrier a few things occur.  First the creative process opens, would x, y and z make a good sausage, well screw it, let’s find out.  Or would A and B make a good mead, well hell, let’s try a gallon and see.

This then leads to a new way of thinking for many.  Would these two meats make a good stew, hell would that sausage I made go good in a stew, well let’s find out.  It is the second half that is really critical for folks, LET’S FIND OUT!

Now look there are things that a simple “let’s find out” attitude is not a good idea with.  Such as I wonder if I can get that racoon out of my chimney with my bare hands, yea, bad idea.  Yet I have always been amazed when people propose something that MIGHT work and trying it has almost no serious consequences, but they just sit, wonder and never act on it.  Today we seek to correct that in a fun and enjoyable way.

Join Me Today as We Discuss…

  • The basic small batch mead making process
  • Choosing honey for your mead
  • How to make meads sweet or dry
  • Aging meads
  • The beauty of a “core recipe”
  • Some Meads I have going or will be making soon
    • Of Course 3FB
    • Apricot
    • Cranberry Orange
    • Coffee with Vanilla
    • Cucumber Mint
    • Goumi
    • Persimmon
  • The basic sausage making process
    • To case or not to case and casing options
    • Why you should really think before you smoke a sausage batch
    • Tips for perfect grinding every time
    • Why even if you hate liver it probably should go in your sausage
    • Source of fat beyond the typical “pork butts”
    • Thoughts on “texture” and how much emulsification to do
    • Collagen vs. natural casings
    • Some of my favorite sausages to make and try
      • Venison Cherry
      • Duck Armanac
      • Turkey Cranberry – Yea seriously
      • Jalapeno Garlic and Meat of Your Choice
      • Simple Venison Black Pepper
      • Jack’s Breakfast Sausage
    • If you say you don’t like sausage you are saying you don’t like food
      • Meats people don’t think of that make good sausage
        • Lamb
        • Mutton
        • Goose
        • Shrimp or Crawfish – no I am not kidding
        • Hearts – Yep what ever you can get
    • What can you come up with, that is the real point.

 

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I Go to Sanibel – You Get a Sale

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Okay I thought about it and if I am going to spend 10 days fishing you guys should get something too right?  Well, call it a last minute gift for some but how about and MSB Sale?

Okay this will be for new customers only, sorry I really can’t do manual renewals on the road.  However if you have an expired account you can use the code to renew, I just can’t do early renewals.  Trust me I wish I could it is a system limitation that create double billing if I allow it.

Price?  30 Dollars a year and it locks in on recurring.

How?  When you sign up online, choose 12 months for your term and use code beachshark when you sign up.  It is that simple.

If you want to pay with crypto you can and I will honor the rate but it may take a week for me to get back with payment instructions.

If you want to pay by check or silver in the mail we will honor it.  With silver we give more time to cover the discount with a check just adjust it yourself.  But if you pay by mail Dorothy won’t get you set up till se get back.

That is all, now off to catch those sharks!

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Jack’s Cooking Hacks and Cheat Codes – Epi-168- TSP Rewind

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2190- Jack’s Cooking Hacks and Cheat Codes and was originally published on March 27th, 2018.

This series of rewinds running from Oct. 19th – 29th will be a skill set based rewind series.  All episodes will be dedicated to improving skill sets and knowledge base.

The following are the original show notes from that episode…

So as many of you know one of my passions in life is cooking.  To me it is more than just food, it’s understanding other cultures and history.  It is chemistry, biology and science as well.  And to me anyway cooking is fun, trying new things, making something simple not just taste good but look amazing.

Take the picture to the left for instance.  To make that we just took a walk around our property.  We foraged some wild garlic flowers, some lambsquarters, nasturtium, pea tendrils and some veggies from our grow beds.  We made a salad with left over cut up chicken.  Simple, but why does it look so amazing, simply the arrangement.  I can tell you that it also tasted as good as it looked.

So today I want to give away a bunch of what I call me “cheat codes”, these are various ingredients that add amazing flavor with minimal effort.  Additionally I feel if an ingredient is a “cheat code” it has to do more than just what it is intended to do, for instance sure you can make chipolte mayo for a taco with chipolte canned peppers, but you can also make a BBQ sauce for ribs that will blow your mind.

I am also including “Jack Hacks”, little things I have learned over the years to make things work better or to make them easier to do.  Like how about a way to make perfect rice and not even give a damn about how much water you use.  Okay you are going to have to tune in for that.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • Why we should make cooking an e
    ssential life skill in America
  • Some of my favorite “cheat codes and what to do with them”
  • Some of my hacks
    • Cook rice like you do pasta
    • Infuse rice with flavor
    • Par cook bacon that is going to used to wrap something
    • Always do your marinades or brines in a zip top bag
    • If a marinade has water and oil bases always add mustard
    • Mix marinades in a ball jar
    • Partially freeze any meat you want to grind or slice
    • Steam your hard boiled eggs instead of boiling them (Alton Brown Hack)
    • Grill fruit
    • Use water from re-hydrated veggies
    • Salted Steaks and Salted Squash (how to make zoodles)
    • Salt aging steaks (Alton Brow Hack)
    • Defrost meat on cast iron cookware – yes it works
    • Use cast iron to start or finish sear food on the grill
    • Soak skewers in a water bottle (Another Alton Brown Hack)
    • Cook chicken bones/cores in a strainer (I love this pot and strainer from Ikea)
    • Put a lemon in chicken stock
    • The above also makes a great steamer
    • Cook in the oven with a cooling rack and a baking pan
    • Finally, do put some thought into presentation
  • In the end just try stuff, it will often work out

 

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Out Back with Jack – Epi-2978

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Today we we have our Friday show,  “Outback with Jack”.  These podcasts will be generated though back porch live steam sessions done early on Friday mornings.  That will be approximately 0730-0830 CST.

These podcasts will are a lot like old school TSPC episodes on a variety of topics, many quite topical from the news and from social media.  Each show will covers a bullet point list of 5-12 topics that I will handle rather rapid fire.

From there we will talk about what ever the live audience comes up with.  These livestreams will then be converted to MP3s and put out in the standard TSPC Podcast feeds under the new series title of “Outback with Jack”

Today we are all freestyle.  We are joined during the live feed by Nicole Sauce, Charles the Humble Mechanic, Tim “Toolman” Cook and a few members of the audience as well.  We talk about winter preps, reality vs. fantasy and a ton more.  Definitely tune in to this one!

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Out Back with Jack – Epi-2977

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Today we we have our Friday show,  “Outback with Jack”.  These podcasts will be generated though back porch live steam sessions done early on Friday mornings.  That will be approximately 0730-0830 CST.

These podcasts will are a lot like old school TSPC episodes on a variety of topics, many quite topical form the news and from social media.  Each show will covers a bullet point list of 5-12 topics that I will handle rather rapid fire.

From there we will talk about what ever the live audience comes up with.  These livestreams will then be converted to MP3s and put out in the standard TSPC Podcast feeds under the new series title of “Outback with Jack”

Today we discuss crypto rankings, states pushing back, resource shortages, investing in alt coins, pushing back on mandates, primitive diets, finding your path and more.

Today on TSPC we Discuss…

  • Why really caring about Crypto rankings, top ten’s etc by market cap is just plain stupid
  • Gov. Abbott should be renamed Gov. 60 Days after DeSantis, please grow a pair already!
  • Is the resource shortage going to hit almost all other developed nations harder than the US and North America
  • Who should and should not “invest in Flote Token” or anything similar
  • If we want to end this we should, but we won’t, because we don’t, sadly, or do we, finally
  • One more time, it was impossible for primitive man to have sustainably over consumed carbohydrates
  • The ven diagram to find your path to a business or career as I just explained it to my grandson, he got it, do you
  • My Pandora channel this week was based on Meatloaf

 

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Expert Council Q&A for 10-14-21 – Epi – 2976

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Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on liberty, government over reach, generators, heart conditions, diet, log construction, entrepreneurship 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…

  • How every problem with the CoVid disruption is made by & worsened by government – Ron Paul
  • Thoughts on bariatric surgery for those who feel they can’t lose weight – Dr. Ken Berry
  • Dealing with pet waste smell and taking care of your generator – Tim “Tool Man” Cook
  • Thoughts atrial septal aneurysm and what it means – Doc Bones
  • The skinny on “peeling logs” for construction use – Paul Wheaton
  • Writing a business plan and launching an “item of the month” product business – Nicole Sauce
  • “Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg”. – QOTD – Jack

 

Resources for today’s show…

 

Council Member and Content Specific Links for Today

 

Websites of the Expert Council Members

 

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The Survival Podcast Announces Official Partnership with The Ron Paul Liberty Report

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We at The Survival Podcast are pleased to announce that we have entered into an official partnership with The Ron Paul Liberty Report.  This agreement will allow us to have Ron and his team featured weekly on our podcast.  While Dr. Paul’s role in expert council shows will be slightly different that most of our members, he will be adding exceptional content for our audience on a weekly basis.

Rather than answer individual questions Dr. Paul’s team will assemble a weekly segment for our Thursday shows focusing on some of the most important aspects impacting liberty in our nation for that week.  We will feature these segments each Thursday to broaden the material we cover on our weekly expert council shows.

This partnership was entered into after we were fortunate enough to have Dr. Paul join us on Episode 2964 of the Survival Podcast.  We reached out to Chris Rossini at Liberty Report and he presented the idea to Dr. Paul who was gracious enough to approve the plan going forward.

We are excited about this partnership and look forward to a long relationship with Dr. Paul and his team.  Truth be known Dr. Paul is a huge reason that TSPC exists today.  Over 13 years we have built our podcast on four pillars,

  1. self reliance
  2. self sufficiency
  3. individual independence
  4. personal liberty

 

It is hard to think of a person who personifies our fourth pillar the way Dr. Paul does.  Indeed we are honored to have him become part of the TSPC community in an official capacity.

If you would like to catch the video of our interview with Dr. Paul just check out the video below.

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Group Hotel Info for TSPC – 21 Workshop

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If you are coming to TSPC Fall 21 and want a hotel room vs. camping we have a group rate negotiated for you guys.  The rooms are held till Nov. 1st then you are are you own after that.

We have 7 King and 7 Doubles held at the Comfort Inn located at 5825 Quebec St. Forth Worth, 76135 which is a quick 15 minute drive to our location.

The rate we have is 84 dollars a night, the contact there is Lucy Kendall and you can reach them at 817-237-2300 and just say you want the group rate with Jack Spirko.  You have to call in to get the rate.

If you want to check out the hotel itself you can find it here.