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Urban and Small Space Homesteading with Elsie Pickett – Epi-3249

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Elsie Pickett joins me today to discuss growing in small spaces and creating urban homesteads, why growing food can be an entry point literally anyone can achieve and can actually prove much more productive and sustainable than most people think. The Urban Harvest was created by Elise Pickett in 2013 to help others cultivate a more sustainable home and healthy diet by teaching them about growing their own vegetables at home. Her journey to healthy eating and growing her own food began when she learned about our current food system and the impacts that it has on our health. The … Continue reading →

Episode-2490- Growing Food in Small Spaces

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Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping suburban families grow their own food. Together, they run Permaculture Gardens at growmyownfood.com, a website dedicated to help you grow abundantly! In 2017, Permaculture Gardens won the grand prize at the Green Festivals in Washington DC for “Most Innovative Sustainable Brand.” Their work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Permaculture Research Institute – Australia and Green America.org. They also volunteer at their local Title 1 school and started a permaculture garden after-school program for the elementary kids there. Today Nicole joins us to discuss growing food in small spaces as they … Continue reading →

Episode-1130- All About Urban Homesteading

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Given the announcement I made today about SilverBulletSilverShield.com it seems this is also an appropriate topic, I imagine some will get that aside and some won’t.  Today indeed we will discuss urban homesteading or as is often the more accurate term, suburban homesteading, but I just really feel like calling it urban homesteading today. Today I feel like I am somewhere in the middle, I am certainly not in the urban homestead camp nor even the suburban homestead camp as I sit on 3 acres in a quite rural and unincorporated area.  I did have an urban homestead not long … Continue reading →

Episode-883- Victor Alfieri on the Urban Homesteading Movement

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Victor Alfieri lives just 17 miles from New York City on a 1/4 acre lot but he hasn’t let that stop him from being a modern homesteader.  For Victor It all started after hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast when he started to see things a little differently.   While he wasn’t directly effected by the hurricane it got him thinking about being more prepared.  He began researching the aftermath and to him there was one thing that stood out. No one was prepared not the general public, not the local government and certainly not the federal government. Then a … Continue reading →

Episode-824- Dan Vamos from Homestead Dividends

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Dan Vamos is many things.  A father, an English teacher, a homesteader, a DIY enthusiast, a prepper and a patriotic American.  He has also been listening to The Survival Podcast for a very long time, all the way back to the podcasting from the car days. Along the way he founded a website called, “Homestead Dividends”, designed to help the average person transform their home into a true homestead and get more out of their homes both while living in them and when it comes time to sell them. Join Dan and I Today as we Discuss… What are some … Continue reading →

Episode-631- Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen from RootSimple.com

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Today we are joined by Erkik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne of RootSimple.com to discuss urban homesteading (go ahead Dervaes Family, my lawyer can beat up your lawyer because my lawyer has an IQ with 3 digits) and how to convert your home from a consumer to producer. Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen are the authors of The Urban Homestead and Making It and founded the blog RootSimple.com, which was formerly known as Homegrown Evolution, in 2006. They live in the heart of Los Angeles, in a little bungalow set on a 1/12 acre lot where almost all of their land … Continue reading →

Episode-591- Planning and Building the Suburban Homestead

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When you hear the word homestead you typically think of open spaces, rural America and some acreage.  For many American’s though it just isn’t currently an option.  Many of us are bound to the city by employment, family obligations or other considerations. Still I believe homesteading is for everyone and there are some real opportunities for suburban homesteaders who want to convert their homes from consumer to producer. Of course there are challenges for the suburbanite with considerations such as excessive shade, available space, ordinances and retaining marketability of the home for resale. The key to successful suburban homesteading is … Continue reading →