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Episode-1217- Jason Bruns on Capturing Wild Swarms

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Jason Burns lives near Liberty, IN. His primary profession is in hospital pharmacy. He began keeping bees in 2010 because he was interested in pollination for his garden and obtaining a honey for his family. Initially he had planned on keeping two hives. Things got interesting when he figured out how easy it was to catch feral bees that were local to his area. Currently he keeps about 30 hives of untreated/unfed bees amongst endless fields of soybeans and corn (mono-crop hell). Jason joins us to discuss sourcing honeybees by Swarm trapping for sustainability and self sufficiency for the backyard … Continue reading →

Episode-1049- Surving Superstorm Sandy and The Southern Maryland Beekeeper

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We have two interviews for you today, first up Mike Prunty “The Backyard Pioneer” who has a small urban homestead in Long Island New York on his experience with Hurricane Sandy. Mike is a 39 year old suburban husband and father, he works as a Lineman for Verizon and is an avid hunter and do it yourselfer.  He heats with wood and grows a big garden each year. This year he started to get into using a smoker and has his first batch of home brew going right now.  Unfortunately like many in the North East his progress was more … Continue reading →

Episode-1029- Jack Jones on Bee Keeping

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Jack Jones is a small business owner in Ardmore, Oklahoma.   He is a 3rd generation owner of his family’s plumbing business.  Currently 33 years young and the proud father of 3 beautiful children. Jack and his family live on their family farm and raise chickens, beef, and pigs.  He also enjoys gardening, hunting, shooting.  He’s been member of his towns local volunteer fire department for 7 years. He has now been involved in beekeeping about 3 years.  At one time he had 21 hives but last year but lost 15 hive because of colony collapse disorder (CCD). Even with that … Continue reading →

Episode-1015- Disaster Response and Backyard Bee Keeping

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Join me today for a two parter,  First a mini segment on an idea I want to develop with this community in 2013, the TSP-DRT or The Survival Podcast – Disaster Response Team. As I watch people in need in NJ and NY right now I want to help and I have realized I am highly prepared to take care of my family, myself and my neighborhood.  I realize, however, that I am not well prepared to help fellow citizens many states away, and I should be. Next we have Keith Blazer on for an interview on amateur back yard … Continue reading →

Episode-00991- Ned Farrell from Happiary.com on Beekeeping

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Ned Farrell has been a beekeeper for the last 24 years.  Part of his beekeeping experience was in Paraguay, South America, teaching farmers how to keep honeybees with the local African (killer) bees. Ned uses and teaches people how to keep bees with both the modern Langstroth hives common in the U.S., along with what he considers “more appropriate technology”, top bar hives common in other parts of the world. Ned like many beekeepers feels the honeybee in the United States is in trouble. tis is due to a combination of factors like the overuse of pesticides, attacks by predatory … Continue reading →

Episode-955- Matt Reed on Natural Beekeeping

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Special Note –  For the next two weeks get 8% off of all hives at Matt’s site, Bee Thinking with the discount code “survival”. Matt Reed founded “Bee Thinking” in 2008 as an internet resource for beekeepers throughout the world. At the same time he began mass-producing foundationless Top Bar and Warre hives for his own apiary. Soon he had a great deal of interest from many people who were getting involved in foundationless beekeeping so he began selling the same hives he uses to those in the bee keeping community. Today he sells these hives to people all over the … Continue reading →

Episode-944- Phil Chandler “The Barefoot Beekeeper”

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Phil Chandler got his “wake-up call” in 1971 when he met Edward Goldsmith who was about to launch The Ecologist magazine.  Phil lived for several years in the 1970s a hut in the hills in northern England, learning to fend for himself by hunting, growing, learning about farming. Along the way he started own printing business, published local magazines, and later progressed to data processing when computers became available. He even taught IT for a while, then ran rehab project for people with disabilities, many ex-military. Phil heavily campaigned against GM crops in 1990s, during which time he came to … Continue reading →

Episode-349- Listener Feedback and Events for 1-5-09

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Today we do another feedback show with a bit of a change up, I also include a blog post from a fellow preppers blog, a news article, a story from the great north and an amazing email about TSP’s impact in Iraq. In fact the letter from Iraq is so amazing I was only able to read part of it on the air so I posted it so you could read it in full (with a few edits) on our forum. Tune in today to hear… Soup is for the prepper – cool item from Safecastle The TSP Iraqi audience … Continue reading →

Episode-233- Listener Questions 7-08-09

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Today I am broadcasting live from the BOL and will answer questions about I answer questions about water storage and harvesting, storing diesel fuel, raising bees, bugging out, indoor gardening, power outages and more with an upload and posting assist from Starbucks and their awesome wireless hot spots. As you may already know we were delayed in our return from Arkansas due to a break down.  When I got to the hot spot last night to update everyone and get all my mail there were a ton of new questions.  So not having the time to do any research I … Continue reading →

Episode-180- Survival Podcast Listener Calls 4-15-09

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Join me today as I take calls from the audience on a variety of questions.  Enjoy the enhanced audio today as I will be back podcasting from the car tomorrow. Tune in to hear… What should you do with your tax return?  Spend it to stimulate the economy or save it? What about emergency kits?   How do you create one, what goes in them? How do you plan multiple routes out of your city and what about new features from Google maps? When and how do you plant in areas with long cold winters like Wyoming? What steps do you … Continue reading →