Thriving The Future Podcast

Why would a tattooed atheist Texas firefighter become an Orthodox Christian?Buck Johnson from the Counter Flow Podcast joins me as we share our stories.Why are so many of the people that we know becoming Orthodox?Is there some connection between libertarianism and Orthodox Christianity? Some (jokingly?) call it the "libertarian to Orthodox pipeline".Why did Perpend go off to become a monk?This video for this episode is also on the Thriving the Future Youtube channel -https://youtu.be/uLUTks7MDv0You can read more about Perpend's Road to the Monastery on Thriver News here: https://thriver.news/monastery.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/buck-johnsonThere are extras on the Thriving the Future Patreon: we talk about the infamous Orthobros on Twitter, catechism, and more Father Turbo stories.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture. Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture.Sponsors:Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, elderberry, comfrey crowns, adapted to then Midwest. https://GrowNutTrees.com.Thriver News - Thriving Community News, without the Noise. https://Thriver.News.

"My father in law has a saying: 'you can do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want. There's always an opportunity cost and tradeoff for the things that you do or don't do.'"John Sutton from Sutton Homestead joins me and shares about their homesteading on 7 acres in Eastern idaho."Homesteading is a lifestyle we love to live, food that we love to eat, and a garden is our gym."John has cows, 15-20 chickens, and orchards.Added a companion goose to the chicken flock to help alert against predators. But the companion goose attacked new chickens added to the flock later. So they added a guinea hen instead.Rotational grazing and dealing with thistle.Failure is part of homesteading.Water on your homestead - they have a pond that fills from an underground spring/aquifer. It doesn't fill from snowmelt or rain in the Spring - it fills from the aquifer in the Fall.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/suttonIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture. Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture.Sponsors:Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, elderberry, comfrey crowns, adapted to then Midwest. https://GrowNutTrees.com.Thriver News - Thriving Community News, without the Noise. https://Thriver.News.

Sometimes it takes a Holler Neighborhood.Nicole Sauce from Living Free In Tennessee and NicoleSauce.com shares that people that knew Nicole from workshops, her podcast, and online community moved into the holler neighborhood. They established a neighborhood culture where they share a common vision and goals and do projects together and watch out and take care of each other. How did they align on vision and goals, while handling boundaries and conflict?What's new on the homestead?The Holler NeighborsHow to setup a community like this?They had visioning talks where they discussed goals, set lines/boundaries, and general rules on how to deal with conflict.Own vs. rent: Nicole and Tactical own most of the land and rent it out to the neighbors, or they know the neighboring landowners who rent out their place to the Holler Neighbors.GSD workshops.Nicole shares her favorite Christmas memory.More info on the Holler Neighbors from LFTN in 2021, Ep. 482 - It Takes a HollerThis video for this episode is also on the Thriving the Future Youtube channel -https://www.youtube.com/@thrivingthefuture/videosEpisode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/nicole-sauceIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture. Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture.Sponsors:Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, elderberry, comfrey crowns, adapted to then Midwest. https://GrowNutTrees.com.Thriver News - Thriving Community News, without the Noise. https://Thriver.News.

Matt from FarmHopLife Podcast (FarmHopLife.com) joins me as we talk about developing patience.Figuring out the pace of others.It requires putting in the reps.Be patient so you don't have to do it twice.Become financially patient.Being patient is being risk adverse.Do you do a lot of little things all at once?Learn when to go 100% on one thing.Old English "Patience" = "Longsuffering". Sometimes patience is developed through suffering. (ugh)This episode was also streamed live to the Thriving the Future Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/live/Q9UbiT16Skk?feature=sharedEpisode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/patienceIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture. Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture.Sponsors:Matt shares about his experience with Will Horvath's Farm Design Course from Permaculture Apprentice. Check it out:https://permacultureconversion.com?aff=119&p=41502Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, elderberry, comfrey crowns, adapted to then Midwest. https://GrowNutTrees.com.Thriver News - Thriving Community News, without the Noise. https://Thriver.News.

How would you Thrive in WW2-style rationing of food and fuel?Christopher de Vidal from SecureCoop.com joins me to discuss.First, we discuss his homesteading in Florida. Check out the website for pics of Christopher's homestead.Then at 17:00 we dive into the topic:We are inarguably in wars that could become a world war. And our leaders regularly talk about restrictions that would lead to a less-resource intensive future.Rationing - how would you handle rationing fuel to a few gallons a week? (WW2 had rations of 2 gallons of gasoline).Return to Victory gardens!Use e-bikes and small engine bikes for transport.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/tough-timesIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture. Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture.

This is Part 2 of the conversation with Grant on How to Build a Nursery Side Hustle.This episode has tips that you can also use on your homestead to save and propagate trees and plants, with enough abundance to sell the extras.Propagation - from cuttings - elderberry, mulberry, figs, berries, and discarded trims from nursery plants.Did you know that figs are pollinated by a wasp, who dies in the flower and is absorbed?Flowers, mums, and bulbsObtaining seeds and plantsWhere to sell - FB, Craigslist, ebay, and creating a popup websiteSeeds and trees have “memory”. They thrived and reproduced in a certain climate.Often when you buy trees, seeds, or plants online, you must buy from other states or regions. They often will not do well in your environment and climate. I learned this the hard way that trees and plants grown in other areas and climates do not do well in Kansas.Grant has many stories about how he wheels and deals for plants as they come off of the season.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/nursery-sidehustle2If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture. Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture.

How to propagate your own trees, plants, and flowers for free, and sell the extras as a side hustle.Learn skills while using your abundance.This is a Master Class on how to build a Nursery Side Hustle, with trees, plants, and flowers. It has tips that you can also use on your homestead to save and propagate trees and plants.Propagation - from seeds, cuttings, air layering, stool bed layeringObtaining seeds and plantsHow to forage, sprout, and transplant chestnutsUse geraniums as trap plants for Japanese beetlesHow to build a quick cold frame from palletsSeeds and trees have “memory”. They thrived and reproduced in a certain climate.Often when you buy trees, seeds, or plants online, you must buy from other states or regions. They often will not do well in your environment and climate.I learned this the hard way that trees and plants grown in other areas and climates do not do well in Kansas.Grant has many stories about how he wheels and deals for plants as they come off of the season. He just bought a truck bed full of geraniums.Did you know that Japanese beetles get temporarily paralyzed after eating geraniums? You can use these as a trap plant.As we approach the first frost, Grant created a quick cold frame with pallets and plastic. Using a black water container for heat retention at night. This gives a quick solution to extend the season into the winter without building a big greenhouse.I propagate chestnuts and hazelnuts from seed, storing them in buckets of sand in the winter until they sprout out, then moving them to 5 gallon buckets or tree pots.For more info, here is a step by step:https://grownuttrees.com/growing-chestnutsPropagating trees by air layering and stool layering, a nice alternative to grafting.Come back next week for Part 2 of this discussion, where we talk about:Flowers, mums, and bulbsPropagating from cuttings - elderberry, mulberry, figs, berries.Did you know that figs are pollinated by a wasp, who dies in the flower and is absorbed?Where to sell - FB, ebay, craigslist, and popup a quick website.Join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You will get Part 2 of How to Build a Nursery Side Hustle without waiting until next week!Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/nursery-sidehustle1If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.

Kerry Brown from StrongRootsResources.com joins me to talk about his move from urban homesteading to his family's land and how he setup a permaculture consulting business.Moving from a mindset where your land and home is a source of production instead of just consumption. "Building resilience from the ground up."He has done everything from swales to soldier fly larvae.Kerry has a local/regional land consulting business where he helps landowners know more about the various plant and tree species that are on their property. He also consults with people who are purchasing raw land and are in need of guidance on developing it into a homestead or for wildlife management.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/strong-rootsIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

Crisis is a Decision Point. Did you Just Fail the Test?On Oct-4-2023, there was a national test of the Emergency Broadcast System, on phones and on TV. Shouldn't be a big deal. But on Twitter and even on some homesteading groups that I follow, they were abuzz with fears that "this is going to activate something" through 5G. Even the people who are not typical of this were caught up in the conversation, trying to talk some sense into people.(And this was even before the outbreak of war in Israel)Most of you are (or should be) adequately prepped and ready for the next 'crisis'. Yet you’re afraid of a emergency broadcast signal. Y’all didn’t learn anything from Covid.We flash back to March 2020 and show the parallels. Never forget - including the lessons that you learned.Remember from Ep. 74 with Cyprian: Crisis is a decision point. The word "Crisis" in Greek really means "decision".Our leaders and their factions want to force a decision point on transhumanism, climate, etc.What you can do to fight the fear:#BuildtheArk. Don't wait for the rain to start falling.Prepare spiritually and mentally.Come to acceptance that the world is changing.Build community.Learn skills.And don't forget Shudra's tried and true formula:Plant treesCultivate gardensTend livestockEpisode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/fight-the-fearIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

My friend Eric walks through his thought process as he re-evaluates his side hustle at the 1 year mark.After 1 year, if the side hustle is not generating revenue, all those entry level fees (hosting, etc.) go up. So that is a decision point whether you are going to exit or change things up.Eric was last on Ep. 55 - How to Recession proof Your Job: https://thrivingthefuture.com/recession-proof-mindsetHis side hustle is a high end lawn care business: TurfBrothas757.com.Other benefits to consider: Skills learned, relationships made, experience gained.Some of these can be transferred over to other side hustles, such as the Wordpress and web experience can be used for consulting with other small businesses/side hustles.Is the economy/recession affecting business? Apparently not the high end biz!Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/side-hustle-1yrIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

Stay Positive by Designing an Intentional LifeShudra, Homestead Padre, and Grant Payne join me on the Thriving Community Call this month to talk about their tips for staying positive in a negative world:Shudra: "Just get goats. You'll never be unhappy again. You'll be angry, you'll be frustrated, you'll be vengeful, but you'll never be unhappy again."PrayerFasting from social media.Perspective, especially as you get older. (This isn't so bad).Be thankful and grateful.We also talk about what projects that have going on:AquaponicsHomestead Padre's steps for Overwintering pepper plants -Dig up the pepper plantrinse off the rootsPot in a medium sized pot with potting soilTrim off the leaves so you mostly have the stem.Replant in the late spring when it leafs outThis saves you time instead of growing from seed.Homestead Padre/Joseph's Hair Sheep and how they differ from wooly sheep.Creative foragingEpisode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/positive-tipsIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

Tips on Crafting Apple Cider, Apple Propagation, and Apple Grafting. More detail than most books!How did the Sept. Regional Catholic Land Movement Conference go?We deep dive on Mike's apple cider steps:He ferments English bittersweet apples in oak barrels with natural yeast.Barrel prep with a cold water rinse and cold water swell.Fill the barrel to overflowing, with no headspace.Natural cool fermentation < 55 degrees.Rack into bottling tank. Cold weather crash the bottling tank. Then bottle in champagne bottles.The use of recycled wine oak barrels - does it impart into the cider?Apple cider vinegar - the end road result of failure.Propagation and Grafting.Growing apples rootstock from seed.Grafting apples onto homegrown rootstock.More info on the Catholic Land Movement: https://catholiclandmovement.info.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/apple-ciderIt's September and I've already grown $236 of veggies and it wasn't even a bumper crop year.How do I know that? I use: Thriving Garden Planner tells you how much you need to plant, the spacing, etc. Plus track your planting, harvest, and compare to grocery prices to see how much you saved growing your own. This is my design. Now 20% off at ThrivingGardenPlanner.comIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

Shudra is back and we discuss the solution to the recent "emergencies":New virus?Plant treesCultivate gardensTend livestockBank limiting your cash withdrawals?Plant treesCultivate gardensTend livestockAliens in the news?Plant treesCultivate gardensTend livestockWe also discuss aquaponics and his recent article on Thriver.News: Homestead Aquaponics, Step by Step – The World’s Greatest Ebb and Flow Bed:https://thriver.news/homestead-aquaponics/This article is step by step detail to create a homestead aquaponics system from IBC totes, and includes everything, including the fitting details.Plus updates on his local kangaroos - Tilda and Harley and how to plant a tree with humanure.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/plant-treesIt's September and I've already grown $236 of veggies and it wasn't even a bumper crop year.How do I know that? I use: Thriving Garden Planner tells you how much you need to plant, the spacing, etc. Plus track your planting, harvest, and compare to grocery prices to see how much you saved growing your own. This is my design. Now 20% off at ThrivingGardenPlanner.comIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

Do You Feel Like Quitting?It's Sept. It's still hot. My Fall garden lettuce and greens will not germinate in this heat. I may run out of growing time before the first frost.For my wife, Feb and March are the worst times. The horses are covered in mud and it seems like it will never end.Tips for when you feel like quitting - how to come back?Failure is an option.Embrace the seasons.Take the time.Re-evaluate your goals.My goals are to grow as much of my own food as possible and to learn and share skills.Seems like a lot of people quitting homesteading lately. Or redefining it as "farmsteading", "freesteading" or "lifesteading".So what is a "homesteader"?Maybe the deciding factor should be: Homesteaders have poison ivy X number of times per year. 😆I’m going on having poison ivy the 4-5th time, but it’s been a slow year.A remarkable amount of people arguing lately about who is a homesteader and who is Larping, especially after off grid Guy Alaska posted a pic on Twitter of his native Alaskan wife washing clothes in the creek and it brought out the haters - from people saying that he was Larping, to the feminists who said that his wife was enslaved. ("Larping" is Live Action Role Playing, like those dweebs acting out D&D live in the park, wearing fake Hobbit feet and play fighting with foam rubber swords.)Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/quittingWant to Create a Food Forest and Grow 3-5X More Food?🔎- Check out Will Horvath's Free Food Forest ToolkitWhat you get:How to create a food forest: step-by-step implementation checklistSite-Survey Checklist: how to “read the landscape” and analyze your site5 plug-and-play Permaculture Guild examples you can copy and recreate in your food forestThe exact Layout Planning Guide that Will used when establishing his food forestI also recommend Will's Finding Land Course - now $100 off.See my apple guild that I created after taking Will's course.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

After two years and almost 100 episodes, we discuss how our views of community have changed.In Ep. 1 of the podcast Perpend and I discussed what is necessary for successful community:WorldviewSkin in the game/Proof of WorkProximityCommon purposeCommon cultureAre you doing community or just networking?Networking can be transactional and extracting; Community is more holistic and is more about people. It is sharing life and culture.When your community workshops become so mundane that you don't take pictures anymore, It is something that you do. Something that shares life and culture. That's where you see people stay or fall away.After things went back to "normal" we saw less engagement and people don't want to get together and do stuff. They just wanted to create a network, and have a "parallel economy". How did that work out two years later?Then I discuss the different levels of community. You naturally have inner and outer circles. There is no purity test unless you are talking about forming intentional community. The inner and outer circles are gates that function to answer the question "who can I trust?"Tips for building community:Meetups - these can be formal (monthly meeting) or informal (coffee shop or restaurant).Workshops - build community by sharing skills.weekly chats or calls.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/community-vs-networkingWant to Create a Food Forest and Grow 3-5X More Food?🔎- Check out Will Horvath's Free Food Forest ToolkitWhat you get:How to create a food forest: step-by-step implementation checklistSite-Survey Checklist: how to “read the landscape” and analyze your site5 plug-and-play Permaculture Guild examples you can copy and recreate in your food forestThe exact Layout Planning Guide that Will used when establishing his food forestI also recommend Will's Finding Land Course - now $100 off.See my apple guild that I created after taking Will's course.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

The Catholic Land Movement is a colloquial network of Catholic homesteaders who are looking to support one another educationally through fellowship and mutual aid with focusing on Catholic liturgical life as the center of those homesteading activities.They are a network of chapters in Catholic parishes nation wide, who host workshops, coordinate work projects, share skills.Mike Thomas from The Catholic Land Movement shares about the movement. Mike is a homesteader who lives in upstate NY.Based on an early 1900's book by Father Vincent McNabb, which encouraged readers to turn away from modernity and "quit the towns for the land". Reading this book drove Mike and others to the deeper faith and practices of their ancestors.Lots of tips on building community in this episode - teaching skills, networking to set up people raising animals with a farrier, chicken processing together. Then taking it to a larger regional and national network, with regional leaders, and even regional conferences (one coming up in Indiana in Sept).Conference info: https://catholiclandmovement.info/welcomeWe also talk about the importance of liturgical life, the liturgical calendar that defines and augments the seasons for life.Mike's apple orchard, making apple cider, and his very impressive apple cider operation.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/catholic-land-movementWant to Create a Food Forest and Grow 3-5X More Food?🔎- Check out Will Horvath's Free Food Forest ToolkitWhat you get:How to create a food forest: step-by-step implementation checklistSite-Survey Checklist: how to “read the landscape” and analyze your site5 plug-and-play Permaculture Guild examples you can copy and recreate in your food forestThe exact Layout Planning Guide that Will used when establishing his food forestI also recommend Will's Finding Land Course - now $100 off.See my apple guild that I created after taking Will's course.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

Ryan Mitchel Brown from Decentralized Radio Podcast shares about his health journey through autoimmune disease.We talk about Low-T, coming back from an eating disorder with the Carnivore diet, the importance of light therapy, limiting blue light to get the best sleep.Disclaimer: This relates a personal health journey and is not specific medical advice. Consult your health practitioner of choice for your own situation.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/ryan-brown.Want to Create a Food Forest and Grow 3-5X More Food?🔎- Check out Will Horvath's Free Food Forest ToolkitWhat you get:How to create a food forest: step-by-step implementation checklistSite-Survey Checklist: how to “read the landscape” and analyze your site5 plug-and-play Permaculture Guild examples you can copy and recreate in your food forestThe exact Layout Planning Guide that Will used when establishing his food forestI also recommend Will's Finding Land Course - now $100 off. See my apple guild that I created after taking Will's course.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

Will Horvath from PermacultureApprentice.com joins to discuss Permaculture Type 1 Errors - in your design and implementation that you regret. Type 1 errors cost you money, time, and decreased return or increased effort.Some of the Type 1 errors that we discuss:Install a pond in the wrong location.Using the STUN method on grafted apple trees and most of them fail.Put a garden in poor sun exposure or a frost pocket in a valley.Locating your home, buildings, or access road in a potential flood zone,Dispersed or spread out home or infrastructure - buildings too far apart, too etc. far way from water, etc.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/permaculture-apprenticeVisit Will Horvath's Permaculture Apprentice site - He has articles and classes on how to assess land and your permaculture property, design your food forest, layout swales on contour, and much more.Want to Create a Food Forest and Grow 3-5X More Food?🔎- Check out Will Horvath's Free Food Forest ToolkitWhat you get:How to create a food forest: step-by-step implementation checklistSite-Survey Checklist: how to “read the landscape” and analyze your site5 plug-and-play Permaculture Guild examples you can copy and recreate in your food forestThe exact Layout Planning Guide that Will used when establishing his food forestI also recommend Will's Finding Land Course - now $100 off. See my apple guild that I created after taking Will's course.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

Andrew Funk, the host of the Royal Path Podcast, joins Perpend and I to talk about Thriving in the Ordinary and Mundane.First a definition:mun·dane1. lacking interest or excitement; dull.2. of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one. "the boundaries of the mundane world""Are you for real or are you going through the motions?" - Kansas lyric from "Going Through the Motions" on the Drastic Measures album (1983).The dog days of summer are still here. Not much is happening. I hate summer. I wish it away. I am always wishing for Fall and Winter to come. But by doing so I am not Being Present, living in the Now. I'm "wishing my life away."Living in the Ordinary TimeLiving in the mundane is a form of asceticism. It is a resetting on one's self.Andrew works in addiction Recovery, and one of the hardest things to get used to when recovering from addiction is getting used to going back to the boring, mundane, ordinary things in life.People aren't having real conversations, or listening to the other person when having conversations. They retreat into their phone and their own little world. Don't be like that, resist retreating. When someone has a mundane conversation, like the weather, do you tune them out? If you listen then they will often get to the real story and go deeper.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/ordinary-timeIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

Homestead Chat Pt. 2. - Grant Payne joins Homestead Padre and I as we share stories of abundance, and chat about piglets, Grant's plans for his nursery, building his side hustle by growing plants from discarded cuttings at the local nursery.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/homestead-chat2If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

This week is a homestead chat with Homestead Padre. We talk about the challenges of gardening in the summer in Mississippi, adventures in the farmer's market, foraging, Grant Payne joins us next week for Pt. 2 of the Homestead Chat.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/homestead-chat1If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

We had a question for Perpend from the Cosmology vs. Worldview episode on "how do you handle not knowing?" (Perpend is on a monastic path, to be a monk, and doesn't know what the future holds or where he will end up).Not knowing is more relevant to your situation than you may realize because each SHTF situation is not knowing - lost job, health challenges, and other issues.Get to the place where you are comfortable with not knowing.Like Cyprian said in 2020: Get to Acceptance as soon as possible.Time used to move slower. Get used to the realization of how slow time actually moves. Don't fill it up with stuff. Leave space.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/not-knowing.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture. Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,

Are you a "Yes" Man? Are you always over-extended? Do you have difficulty saying "No" to family, friends, and at work? Learn the Skill of saying "No".Set boundaries or all of your time will be taken by others.Speak the language of the person that you are talking to.Everything is a negotiation.Are you interested but the timing is not right?Should it be me or someone else? Are you volunteering for too much? Should you delegate it to someone else?Prioritize - If I say "Yes" to this then something else on my plate has to go.The fallout of saying "No".Saying "No" but keeping the relationship.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/saying-noIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture. Or join the Thriving Patreon.Check out HomesteadPadre's unique hot sauces on his website Smith Homestead - https://www.smith-homestead.com/product-page/homestead-hotsauce. Use "Thriving" at checkout for 10% off.

This is part 2 of the discussion with Perpend on Cosmology and Worldview. We discuss Ep. 74 – Crisis is a Decision Point – with Cyprian and Perpend takes Cyprian’s #BuildtheArk- 1 step farther to #BeAnArkBuilder. We talk about life and death, celebration of life ceremonies, and funerals from an Orthodox perspective. It is a deep conversation, and it gets personal.This is part 2 of what was a mammoth almost 2 hours podcast. You can listen to the entire Uncut episode by joining the Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture. Or join the Thriving Patreon.Check out HomesteadPadre's unique hot sauces on his website Smith Homestead - https://www.smith-homestead.com/product-page/homestead-hotsauce. Use "Thriving" at checkout for 10% off.

Perpend shares about his monastic journey, life, death, & homesteading. What is your cosmology and eschaton, and how does that define (and is different from) your worldview?We discuss Ep. 74 - "Crisis is a Decision Point - with Cyprian" ThrivingtheFuture.com/crisis and Perpend takes Cyprian's #BuildtheArk - 1 step farther.This is part 1 of what was a mammoth almost 2 hours podcast. You can listen to the entire Uncut episode by joining the Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture.

Geoffrey Long from Long Story Farms joins me to discuss raising pigs, and selling pork at the farmer's market - even being known as "the Sausage Man".His food forest and lessons learned running chickens tractors through his food forest and the resulting effect on weed succession.The challenges as a small meat producer at the farmer's market.Building local community.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/longstoryLike this episode? Shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture, or on CashApp $ThrivingTheFuture.Join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture and get early episodes and extras, including the bonus episode with Cyprian, and listen in our chicken workshop as we plan incubating, sharing eggs, and processing roosters. Plus our rotating rooster strategy to select for the best traits and to keep diversity in our flocks.Join the Thriving Community Telegram group at signup.ThrivingtheFuture.com.

At the core, thriving is often more about mindset than about homesteading and gardening. If you don't have the appropriate mindset then the rest doesn't fall into place.Randy from the Adirondacks in Upstate NY joins me to talk about his video on Twitter: "You're Gonna Make it". https://twitter.com/shagbark_hick/status/1636460753061306368?s=20I found this encouraging and thought that you would like it too.Randy shares about about purposefully living the life of a vagabond/hobo in his early adult years, and talks about #Thriving even through adversity. Some great insight and tips on having the appropriate mindset, alignment, and most of all hope, in adversity.Like this episode? Shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture.Join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture and get early episodes and extras, including the bonus episode with Cyprian, and listen in our chicken workshop as we plan incubating, sharing eggs, and processing roosters. Plus our rotating rooster strategy to select for the best traits and to keep diversity in our flocks.Join the Thriving Community Telegram group at signup.ThrivingtheFuture.com.

It's mid-May. I've already planted 90 plus plants. I've already had some transplanted grafted trees fail - cedar, apple, rust gets them, even if the book says that this variety should be resistant, (I guess the tree didn't read the book). So this year I started to convert some of my garden, the peripheral parts, into perennials, with annuals in the middle.Regular greens in my garden bolt quickly when it gets hot in early summer.Options to augment those with perennial greens - dock, sorrel, lambs quarters, both narrow leaf plantain and a wider leaf plantain. Perennial are more bitter than annual greens. Dock and sorrel have a slight lemony after taste.Hazelnuts, goji berries around the outside edges. Walking onion, Solomon seal, plantain, dock, with annual lettuce in the middle of one bed.Another perennial bed has hazel and elderberries around the outside edges, walking onion, plantain, dock, lemon balm, horseradish in the middle.Planting Milpa garden or regular annuals in the middle.More info on how I am using Milpa gardening to start new beds, cover crop with produce in the first year. I used a broadfork to turn over grass, spread Milpa seed, covered with a layer of wood chips. It leaves a natural mulch and builds soil.Like this episode? Shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture.Join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture.Last week to get $5 off the Thriving Garden Planner. This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable. It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and is currently on sale for $5 off through the first week of June.

Homesteaders have their share of trials: Garden/Crop failure, predator attacks, sick animals, not enough rain, too much rain, hail that beats your crop to the ground, stuff that worked last year doesn't work this year.Homestead Padre makes a significant amount of his income from selling his produce and baking and selling bread at the farmer's market. His big baking stove broke down.Some (real) homesteaders often live lives of modest means, and these things can be devastating.We talk about dealing with trials and depression.Faith gets us through these times.Sometimes you just have to embrace the suck.Pride is sometimes the reason for depression - "why is this happening to me? This shouldn't happen to me!".Disclaimer - This is not medical advice. It's just two guys talking about our trials. If you are having troubles, talk to someone, and get help. Don't suffer alone.Like this episode? Shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture.JOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.The bonus episode with Cyprian where he explains the banking collapse and why it can be a risk for your crypto - even if you have it in a custodial wallet. Plus - what is a Cargo Cult?Free copies of e-books as they come available.Download the audio from our Community Chicken Planning workshop.Thriving Garden Spreadsheet. Included free with your Patreon subscription.The Thriving Garden Spreadsheet has just released! This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable.It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and is currently on sale for $5 off.

Roman from FoxTwinHollow.com and @FoxTwinHollow on Twitter joins Thriving the Future to discuss empowering youth with the survival skills needed to navigate our world.We jumped off of the engagement and conversation on this FoxTwinHollow tweet:"I am planning my upcoming class on how to help children navigate 'climate anxiety' - a trend that is skyrocketing among youth. What term do you feel best summarizes the OPPOSITE feeling of despair, pessimism, dread, & helplessness?"The Forest School approach to connecting kids back to Nature and essential skills. This is especially impactful for "dysregulated" kids, who are distracted in school.We focus on the solutions rather than the despair. Empowering rather than just protest. Roman took his class to the forest to clear invasive species, plant native trees, and they made baskets from cleared English Ivy.Looking at things in the scope of "Deep Time", to gain perspective.Learn more about Roman's upcoming class – Helping Children Navigate Climate Anxiety at FoxTwinHollow.com Classes.Like this episode? Shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture.JOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.The bonus episode with Cyprian where he explains the banking collapse and why it can be a risk for your crypto - even if you have it in a custodial wallet. Plus - what is a Cargo Cult?Free copies of e-books as they come available.Download the audio from our Community Chicken Planning workshop.Thriving Garden Spreadsheet. Included free with your Patreon subscription.The Thriving Garden Spreadsheet has just released! This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable.It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and is currently on sale for $5 off.

Ashley Colby from Rizoma School and Doomer Optimism joins Thriving the Future to discuss her tweet on Rediscovering Tradition:"A big question for me is - if a majority of your tradition has been lost, at least a generation or two back, what is the best way to rebuild?"Expat life in UruguayIf a majority of your tradition has been lost, at least a generation or two back, what is the best way to rebuild?Instead of building from scratch, look to the past. Pull from the past, realizing that there was always context and a tradeoff in that tradition. What does learning from the past mean for a modern person?Ashley Colby's Linktree, with links to Rizoma School, Doomer Optimism and other podcasts, and Ashley's writing.More on this episode's website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/traditionGet episodes early plus Extras on Patreon:More content and outtakes.Like this episode? Shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture.JOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.The bonus episode with Cyprian where he explains the banking collapse and why it can be a risk for your crypto - even if you have it in a custodial wallet. Plus - what is a Cargo Cult?Free copies of e-books as they come available.Download the audio from our Community Chicken Planning workshop.Thriving Garden Spreadsheet. Included free with your Patreon subscription.The Thriving Garden Spreadsheet has just released! This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable.It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and is currently on sale for $5 off.

Tristan Scott, bitcoinand_beef on Twitter and author of Bitcoin and Beef on Amazon, joins Thriving the Future to talk about taking control of your health and wealth through decentralization.Post concussion syndrome and health changes through dietRegenerative agCrypto and BitcoinGetting connected with the food systemBison meatGrow your own foodTaking control of your health - Direct Primary CareCommunityMore tips on the episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/bitcoin-and-beefGet episodes early plus Extras on Patreon:More on Bitcoin.Washington vs. KSJOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.Free copies of e-books as they come available.Download the audio from our Community Chicken Planning workshop.Thriving Garden Spreadsheet. Included free with your Patreon subscription.The Thriving Garden Spreadsheet has just released! This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable.It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and is currently on sale for $5 off.

Tips and real world examples to start and then grow your side hustle.Niche down. Then go farther and niche down even more to be the expert in that space).Know your customer.What problem are you trying to solve? What you want may not be what your customer wants.Evaluate your goals, including other forms of capital. Often you can build other forms of capital.Become a producer and not just a consumer.Like the permaculture principle - Use your yield. It can be used to give, trade, or sell to grow your forms of capital.Quickly go to market, even if not perfect.Learn skills while doing. Charge less while learning those skills, build clientele and experience, then raise your price.Don't grift for the sake of the grift or people will easily see through you.I share the tools that I use and my real world examples, plus my wins and losses.More tips on the episode website:https://thrivingthefuture.com/grow-side-hustleExtras on Patreon:Bonus episode - Using Affiliate marketing - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.AI - Everyone talks about using ChatGPT for content. Do I use AI?That's on the extras - only on Patreon.JOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.Free copies of e-books as they come available.Download the audio from our Community Chicken Planning workshop.Thriving Garden Spreadsheet. Included free with your Patreon subscription.The Thriving Garden Spreadsheet has just released! This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable.It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and is currently on sale for $5 off.

Scott (@LittlePineCO on Twitter) has a homestead at 8K feet in CO. We talk about his homestead and challenges of setting up a homestead in Zone 4A. We discuss his recent comment on the Men's Forum on FarmHopLife Podcast about "Memetics is more important than Genetics". Memetics is transferring ideas through pictures, symbols. You commonly see it as a meme, but it is deeper than that. It can go viral, and, as we saw in 2020, can even reach the level of a "mind virus". We also compare it to transferring genes to kids. How to transfer ideas to other groups and the next generation if you don't have kids.Show notes at:https://thrivingthefuture.com/mimeticsThis is not the end of the content. There is much more on our Patreon.Memeing in the real world to signal or attract your tribe.Memeing and AI - May you live in interesting times.That's on the extras - only on Patreon.JOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.E-Book - "Are You A Trader or Are You a Gambler?"Free copies of e-books as they come available.Download the audio from our Community Chicken Planning workshop where we decided who was doing what, and discussed our Rotating Rooster Strategy to add diversity to your community's chicken flocks.Thriving Garden Spreadsheet. Included free with your Patreon subscription.The Thriving Garden Spreadsheet has just released! This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable.It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and is currently on sale for $5 off.

Niche Down is the Key to SuccessJohn McCoy, Freelance Blog Writer (@johnmccoywrites on Twitter) joins me to talk about how to become a freelancer.Niche down - set yourself apart from everyone else by writing for your niche. You will be able to get focused jobs and can charge more for your expertise.If you are in the trades, there is a need for writers.How to find clients, especially the "sticky" clients.Use Upwork - it is always a hot client who has posted their need.Learn how to sell yourself.Check out John's LinkTreeThis is not the end of our content. There is much more on our Patreon!Extras on Patreon:SEO Tips and focusing on mom and pop businesses and the trades.Is AI a threat to writers?More on UpworkShow notes at:https://thrivingthefuture.com/freelancerJOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.E-Book - "Are You A Trader or Are You a Gambler?"Free copies of e-books as they come available.Download the audio from our Community Chicken Planning workshop where we decided who was doing what, and discussed our Rotating Rooster Strategy to add diversity to your community's chicken flocks.Thriving Garden Spreadsheet. Included free with your Patreon subscription.The Thriving Garden Spreadsheet has just released! This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable.It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and is currently on sale for $5 off.

As Cyprian recently tweeted: "'Crisis' means 'decision'. Just knowing that fact changes your understanding of reality forever."Are you prepared mentally and spiritually for what is coming?As Cyprian said in March 2020, "the world as you know it has ended. You need to get to acceptance."The larger game at play - It's all spiritual warfare.#BuildTheArk - what does that mean?Show notes at:https://thrivingthefuture.com/crisisThis is not the end of the content. There is much more on our Patreon.We talk about the banking collapse, the Silicon Valley banks collapsing first and the conditions to bail them out, and the surprising impact to crypto (and you - yes, even if you have your own custodial wallet). And what is a Cargo Cult? That's on the extras - only on Patreon.JOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.E-Book - "Are You A Trader or Are You a Gambler?"Free copies of e-books as they come available.Download the audio from our Community Chicken Planning workshop where we decided who was doing what, and discussed our Rotating Rooster Strategy to add diversity to your community's chicken flocks.Thriving Garden Spreadsheet. Included free with your Patreon subscription.The Thriving Garden Spreadsheet has just released! This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable.It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and is currently on sale for $5 off.

How much of your own food do you grow and do you want it to be more? It's that time of year when you see articles, podcasts, and posts on social media that say, Grow ALL of Your Own Food. Or maybe they don't go that far and it's: Grow MOST of Your Own Food. In this episode we're going to concentrate on How to Grow More of Your Own Food:Self sufficiency vs. Resilience - do you know the difference?To grow more of your own food you have to be able to properly store it.To grow more of your own food you have to know how to cook it.Don't forget perennials! Grow chestnuts and hazelnuts. Chestnuts have been called the "bread tree". Dried chestnuts can be ground into flour. Chestnuts and hazelnuts can be pressed for oil.Milpa gardening - 40 seeds all mixed together. Corn, beans, squash as the foundations, with greens, cukes, perennial pollinating flowers. It gives you a harvest through different seasons, covers and regenerates soil, and ends with a dry bean harvest and thatch that you can use a mulch for the winter.More info on Milpa gardening at Thriver News:https://thriver.news/milpaCheck out the show notes on the episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/grow-moreThe Thriving Garden Planner spreadsheet has just released!How much potatoes or greens should you grow to be your primary food source? Not sure?This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable.It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and use coupon code thriving for $5 off.JOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.E-Book - "Are You A Trader or Are You a Gambler?"Free copies of e-books as they come available.Download the audio from our Community Chicken Planning workshop where we decided who was doing what, and discussed our Rotating Rooster Strategy to add diversity to your community's chicken flocks.Thriving Garden Spreadsheet. Included free with your Patreon subscription.Sponsor:Elderberry cuttings and comfrey crowns and root cuttings are still available at Grow Nut Trees - https://grownuttrees.com

Perpend is back and we are planning on How to Breed a Landrace Chicken.What is a landrace? It is a chicken that is adapted to your land and your climate.Autosexing vs. Sex link breeds.Can chicks from the same brood/flock be bred with each other?Our preferences:Chickens that can brood their own eggs (without using incubator)Winter heavy hens - won't easily get frostbite.Rooster of some other breed.Flighty vs. a "lap" chicken? (one that will sit on your lap). Which is more resistant to predators?A Rotating Rooster Strategy to add diversity to your community's chicken flocks.We also talk about Perpend's last tweet: "So long and thanks for all the fish."Check out the show notes on the episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/landrace-chickenThe Thriving Garden Spreadsheet has just released! This includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. It calculates how much space, how many plants/seeds you need for each crop. There are also tabs to track what you plant, inputs, first and last frost dates, and the food costs that you have saved by growing your own food. It's all customizable.It's available now on ThrivingGardenPlanner.com and use coupon code thriving for $5 off.JOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.E-Book - "Are You A Trader or Are You a Gambler?"Free copies of e-books as they come available.Download the audio from our Community Chicken Planning workshop where we decided who was doing what, and discussed our Rotating Rooster Strategy to add diversity to your community's chicken flocks.Thriving Garden Spreadsheet. Included free with your Patreon subscription.Sponsor:Elderberry cuttings and comfrey crowns and root cuttings are still available at Grow Nut Trees - https://grownuttrees.com

Plant Trees, Grow Your Own Food, Tend Livestock.Grant Payne (HomesteadOfPayne on Instagram) joins me to talk about our Homesteading Dreams and plans for this growing season.- Grant's heritage pigs (Ossabaw Thei heritage and Kune Kune/Juliana mix) in a pen made of IBC totes!- Wheeling and dealing for 800 daffodils and 300 tulips- My plans for Milpa gardening this year.- Planting flowers and perennial bulbs around fruit trees in a permaculture guild.Check out the show notes on the episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/homestead-dreamsJOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.E-Book - "Are You A Trader or Are You a Gambler?"Free copies of e-books as they come available.Coming soon - Thriving Garden Spreadsheet, which includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. Tracks what you plant, inputs, food costs that you have offset by growing your own food. All customizable. Included free with your Patreon subscription.Sponsor:Elderberry cuttings and comfrey crowns and root cuttings are now available at Grow Nut Trees - https://grownuttrees.com

Dave and Scott open their first aid kits to compare the contents, and discuss mindset, training, and preparedness.Note: This is not medical advice. This is for entertainment purposes only.Having a first aid kit at home and in your car is a must in an emergency situation. We have first aid kits in the car, under the sink at home, in our bug out bags/get home bags.A medkit (Dave calls his a hospital bag) is a larger bag that we keep at home. It has more contents, as well as splints.Mindset -What problems are we trying to solve?To have supplies to self-treat minor medical issues or stabilize until higher level medical help can be attained.Don't forget the simple stuffSometimes preppers go overboard with a kit that is focused on gunshot wounds and injuries like out of some prepper fiction novel, but forget to stock the simple stuff like small band-aids, poison ivy wash, hydrocortisone anti-itch cream, eye drops and eye wash. Don't make this mistake.We also discuss training, as well as the importance of practicing some scenarios.Check out the show notes on the episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/firstaidkitsJOIN our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thrivingthefutureWhat you get for $5/month:Early episodes.Lots of extras, including outtakes.E-Book - "Are You A Trader or Are You a Gambler?"Free copies of e-books as they come available.Coming soon - Thriving Garden Spreadsheet, which includes a breakdown on How Much to Plant to live off your garden as a primary food source. Tracks what you plant, inputs, food costs that you have offset by growing your own food. All customizable. Included free with your Patreon subscription.Sponsor:Elderberry cuttings and comfrey crowns and root cuttings are now available at Grow Nut Trees - https://grownuttrees.com

Foraging and Perennial Gardening on your Homestead.This week I visit with Roxanne Ahern (Happyholistichs on Twitter) about her book:Holistic Homesteading - A guide to a Sustainable and Regenerative Lifestyle (physical book), and Kindle.We talk extensively about foraging and perennial gardening on your homestead.I like this book because it has a nice balance of permaculture, gardening, foraging, wildcrafting, and cooking. The pictures are fantastic and pop off the page.It's the "weeks of want", the end of February and early March. Before supermarkets, this time would have seen a gap between the end of the stored food and the new greens or crops of Spring.We share our favorite perennials to forage:Henbit/dead nettleChicoryPurslanePlantainDandelionsNettlesWe also share what we are planting in the gardening in the coming year:AsparagusJerusalem artichokesSquashMortgage lifter tomatoesCheck out the show notes. Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/holistic-homesteadingSponsor:Elderberry cuttings and comfrey crowns and root cuttings are now available at Grow Nut Trees - https://grownuttrees.com

Is homesteading (and localism) a form of retreat from society?It can lead down a lonely path if you do not also develop community.Jason Snyder (@cognazor on Twitter) of Doomer Optimism Podcast joins me to talk about his recent tweet:"I don't like the narrative of modern day homesteading (and localism more generally) being a form of retreat or disengagement from larger societal concerns. I see it more as a prefiguration of a healthier society that can emerge from its broad-scale and networked diffusion."We discuss positive steps to move forward, not "retreat":Get back in touch with your where you food comes from - grow your own food. You can be a localist, even in the city.Plant as many fruit and nut trees as possible. Make passive food sources a common part of your city and homestead landscape. Jason knows a guy who grows out lots of nut trees in pots and gives them away.Build community. Learn new skills. Share your skills, even if you are not an expert. We have a motto: "not an expert, but we're still going to get stuff done."Help each other - (work days and workshops). Jason relates how he is building community, forming a 'barn raising' group and helping each other on various homestead/farm projects. They recently had a workday/workshop helping a friend tear down a trailer.We share our plans for 2023.Let Jason's pinned tweet be your goal for 2023:New virus coming? Plant trees, cultivate garden, tend livestock.Supply chain shocks and inflation? Plant trees, cultivate garden, tend livestock.Climate change? Plant trees, cultivate garden, tend livestock.New war coming? Plant trees, cultivate garden, tend livestock.Check out the show notes on the episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/localismSponsor:Elderberry cuttings and comfrey crowns and root cuttings are now available at Grow Nut Trees - https://grownuttrees.comWe are having a contest drawing in Feb for a copy of Roxanne Ahern's book "Holistic Homesteading". For details, and to sign up for the drawing, go to https://thrivingthefuture.com/contest.

This back-to-basics episode is a backyard starter kit for raising chickens.The Spring Tradition of Chick Day is Almost Here!It's Chick Day. This is the time-honored Spring tradition every year where the tractor supply and the other farm stores have chicks for sale. But with the egg shortage and the demand for chickens, there's likely to be shortages of chicks at the farm stores for Chick Day this year.Many people have asked me, “Can you hatch some chicks for me?”Let's dive a little deeper. What do they really want?“I want eggs.”Okay, so do you have any limitations?“I live in town and I cannot have any roosters.”Options for Buying Chicks - Sex Link or Straight RunBreedsCornish Cross are Meat BirdsSources for ChicksBuying Pullets Rather than ChicksPain Points for First Time Chicken OwnersTake it easy the first yearEpisode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/backyard-chicken-basicsSponsor:Elderberry cuttings and comfrey crowns and root cuttings are now available at Grow Nut Trees - https://grownuttrees.comHurry - get them before they come out of dormancy!Use coupon code "Thriver" at checkout for a 10% discount for Thriving the Future Podcast listeners!We are having a contest drawing in Feb for a copy of Roxanne Ahern's book "Holistic Homesteading". For details, and to sign up for the drawing, go to https://thrivingthefuture.com/contest.

If Life is a Simulation - How that Worldview Affects your Mindset.You've seen the Elon Musk tweet: "If you don't think there's at least a tiny chance that you are an NPC...you are an NPC."Everyone is talking about NPCs. Some people consider themselves as the hero in a video game or Simulation and everyone else is an NPC.Perpend is back and we talk about Simulation theory - that life is a simulation or we are in someone's else's simulation. And how that worldview and NPC thinking affect your mindset.We talk about NPC thinking and its root in Transhumanism and Gnosticism.Perpend: "I read somewhere that maybe the NPCs are really something to be admired because they are being very efficient with their life because they're not expending any energy, time, or dialogue on anything that doesn't matter to them.Even the NPC in the game is doing that. The NPC in the game is here to give you the key if you say the right password or you do the right thing. So it will not do anything outside that. So it's actually being the most efficient and therefore it is just preserving energy and being a good citizen."Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/npcSponsor:Elderberry cuttings and comfrey crowns and root cuttings are now available at Grow Nut Trees - https://grownuttrees.comWe are having a contest drawing in Feb for a copy of Roxanne Ahern's book "Holistic Homesteading". For details, and to sign up for the drawing, go to https://thrivingthefuture.com/contest.

Making Solar Work for You - Considerations You May Not Have Thought Of.This is Part 2 in a series on Solar energy. Steve of RegenerativeHomeSolutions.com gives an overview of solar energy, what questions you should be asking yourself, and considerations and pitfalls as you plan for your solar energy needs."I want to add solar to my home." - Considerations:On grid, off grid, hybrid, retrofit system options.Does your house face the south enough to get sun exposure? For example, the outbuilding that Steve has his solar installed on faces the SE, so he doesn't get a full day of sun exposure.Install on the roof or on the ground?We discuss that perhaps it is better to install a free standing solar panel system on the ground, in a pasture.If you install in the pasture, consider installing it higher so that you could mow under it or livestock would graze under/around it.Installing solar on your roof:How old is your roof? You may need to replace the roof first.Installing solar may void the warranty on your roof.Check with your insurance company. Installing solar may affect your insurance coverage. The insurance company will be very interested in the process - who installs your system and how it is installed.Will you need to remove trees?How to navigate the bureaucracy.Do they offer any grants, rebates?Selling energy back to the grid - net metering vs. flat.Sell/Buy ratio: In KS they sell energy to you at about 12 cents per kW. They buy at 4 cents per kW. But they are planning to lower the sell/buy ratio.in CA, the sell/buy ratio is they sell energy to you at 30 cents per kW but they only buy it at 3 cents per kW."How big of a system will I need?" See the episode website link to download a Free energy audit checklist PDF.This was an audio review of a Solar #GSD Workshop that we put on as part of our local community group.For more information on Steve's setup, see his website Regenerative Home Solutions.com - Cultivating a Sustainable Lifestyle.The energy audit worksheet and the solar workshop PDF are available as downloads on the episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/solar1Join the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group or mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.comSponsors:Grow Nut Trees - Elderberry cuttings and comfrey (crowns and root cuttings) now available! - https://grownuttrees.com/

Can you use AI and still Live Not By Lies?Everyone is talking about AI since ChatGPT came out. You can use it to write content for your business, blog posts, full fiction and stories, and even higher education dissertations.So how far will you go? Is it moral to use AI for school or work?I follow a lot of side hustle groups and they are already touting AI where you can "write endless content and not work so hard!"Perpend and I discuss - Can you use AI and still Live Not by Lies?"Simple men create simple times, and overcomplicated times call for men to simply live" - PerpendThe week of Christmas, the Boston Federal Reserve, in typical government style of releasing controversial press releases late in the day on Friday, announced that it had completed its Project Hamilton project, a collaboration between the Fed and MIT developers, who are also on the Bitcoin project (!).The Fed released a white paper last year. It sounded like they were just starting a "Pilot" project. As seen in the video below, they were much farther along (years) than implied.Biden has directed Federal agencies to put forward plans to roll out and operationalize CBDC in their agencies.How close are they to rolling it out? What will you do?How far can you go? It depends on the ultimate question - what are you willing to die for?Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/aiJoin the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group or mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.comSponsors:Grow Nut Trees - Elderberry cuttings and comfrey (crowns and root cuttings) now available! - https://grownuttrees.com/

Making Solar Work for YouThis is the first episode in a series on Solar. Steve of RegenerativeHomeSolutions.com gives an overview of solar energy, what questions you should be asking yourself, and drives into an energy audit as the first steps for sizing your solar needs.This was an audio review of a Solar #GSD Workshop that we put on as part of our local community group.The energy audit worksheet and the solar workshop PDF are available as downloads on the episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/solar1For more information on Steve's setup, see his website Regenerative Home Solutions.com - Cultivating a Sustainable Lifestyle.Join the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group or mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.comSponsors:Grow Nut Trees - Elderberry cuttings and comfrey (crowns and root cuttings) now available! - https://grownuttrees.com/

Perpend joins to discuss our 7 Tips for Thriving in the New Year:Develop side hustles with multiple streams of income. This allows you to be more resilient if you are downsized or lose your job.Learn new skills. Always be learning and continuing your education.Community - join an already solid community rather than building from scratch.Community - while the group is important, only a small part of the group will be there for you and have your back in tough times. Build those individual relationships.Start limiting your options and focusing on more what is important. Limit your time. Limit your intention.Start discipline in your tech life.Perpend turns his phone screen in black and white or grayscale mode to minimize the dopamine influence and to help him minimize screen time and get more done in real life.Seek out Truth.We also discuss Steven Edholm at Skillcult.com method for breeding apples without grafting or growing from seed. He is on a quest to have a good tasting red fleshed apple. He hand pollinates the apple blossoms from two trees, puts a mesh around the blossoms so they can't be pollinated by pollinators or be affected by bugs. Then he tastes the apples and if they pass then he will grow out into seeds. This eliminates the trial and error and 5 year turnaround time from growing from seed.https://skillcult.com/blog/2022/12/11/i-did-it-i-bred-the-red-fleshed-apple-i-want-to-eatComing Jan-12: Join the Thriving the Future ASk Me Anything call with Scott, Perpend, and Grant Payne of HomesteadofPayne on Instagram. Go to thrivingthefuture.com/events for more information and to sign up for this call.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/7-tipsSponsor:GrowNutTrees.com elderberry cuttings and comfrey crowns and root cuttings are now available. https://grownuttrees.com/

You Ain't Mr. Watkins.This is a previously unpublished episode from May.For our May workshop we toured Watkins Mill in Bethany, MO.Watkins Mill is a 1880's textile mill and farm. Mr. Watkins employed 50 people at the mill and about 50 on the farm during planting and harvest.In this episode Perpend and Scott discuss the lessons learned from the mill tour, and how those lessons can be applied to homesteading, prepping, and community. Some of Perpend's conclusions are hard hitting.In the lessons learned we share that "everyone wants to be Mr. Watkins, the Lord of the manor. No one wants to be Bessie Mae, doing the Kiss of Death on the third floor of the mill.""What we really want is friends, family, material needs met, productive fulfilling work, and risk without guaranteed reward. That is what will them a life well lived, a life fulfilled, an engagement in appreciation, and seeing abundance instead of scarcity."Check out our pictures from the Watkins Mill Tour in our show notes at: https://thrivingthefuture.com/watkinsJoin the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group or mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.comSponsors:https://GrowNutTrees.com - Chestnut seeds for planting, chestnut seedlings, elderberry cuttings, comfrey crowns and root cuttings. Adapted to the Midwest.- The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.

How to recession proof your life with side hustles and building skills.More tips from the conversation with Kurt (@LibertyFarmersGuild on Instagram) on how to recession-proof your life:Develop multiple income streams.There is already some competition in your market? Make a market for yourself by finding your niche.Build skills while building your business.As you define success, keep In mind profiting from other forms of capital (besides money) as well.If you have a system that is failing you need to detect it as fast as possible and make it as self healing as possible.Everyone should have a side hustle that they like that could be monetized if necessary. A side hustle that is good in the good times and important for building culture.Use your property as an ag business incubator to help other people get their business off the ground. Co-ops and networking."People need to focus on building things that mean something to other people."(there is some wind noise in this episode)Episode webpage: https://thrivingthefuture.com/more-recession-proofJoin the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group and mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.comSponsors: https://GrowNutTrees.com - Chestnut seeds for planting, chestnut seedlings, elderberry cuttings, comfrey crowns and root cuttings. Adapted to the Midwest. Elderberry cuttings and comfrey (crowns and root cuttings) now available!