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012 – Nine Characteristics Of A Sovereign Homestead
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Continue Reading: 012 – Nine Characteristics Of A Sovereign HomesteadToday’s show covers 9 different characteristics of a sovereign homestead. What are the things that make a homestead more sovereign? It all comes down to choice. A sovereign homestead is one that gives you more choice about how you live your life. The more sovereign your homestead is the more free you are from external…
011 – Design Your Sovereign Homestead Using The SADIMEA Framework
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Continue Reading: 011 – Design Your Sovereign Homestead Using The SADIMEA FrameworkThis week we take a look at the actual process of designing your homestead. The framework we use to guide our design process is called SADIMEA, and it consists of the following 7 phases: Survey – This phase is all about gathering data – developing intimate knowledge of the environment and context within which your…
010 – Air Pruning 101 – How To Grow Better Trees Than You Can Buy And Save Money Doing It
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Continue Reading: 010 – Air Pruning 101 – How To Grow Better Trees Than You Can Buy And Save Money Doing ItToday’s show is all about the science and application of air pruning to grow hundreds or thousands of trees with incredibly healthy root structures in a small area. Air pruning is what happens when a tap root or growing root tip gets exposed to air – it essentially dehydrates and goes dormant. This creates a…
009 – Green Is The New Grey For Thriving In The Dim Age
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Continue Reading: 009 – Green Is The New Grey For Thriving In The Dim AgeToday I make the case why Green is the new Gray when it comes to surviving and thriving in an era of rising totalitarianism – a.k.a the Dim Age. Living with more connection and interdependence with Nature is the way to live healthy and free when the powers that be and the greater societal…
008 – Why You Should Start Planting Trees On Your Homestead Yesterday
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Continue Reading: 008 – Why You Should Start Planting Trees On Your Homestead YesterdayIn today’s show we cover some of the amazing gifts and benefits that trees can provide to your homestead and larger landscape, including: Trees are the ultimate alchemists – creating stored sunlight Trees are energy translators – between the surface world and the subsurface world Trees are hydraulic engineers – they bank water for hard…
007 – High Value Livestock Fodder Trees For Temperate Climates
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Continue Reading: 007 – High Value Livestock Fodder Trees For Temperate ClimatesToday we are talking about livestock fodder trees and why, if you’re raising livestock and want to continue eating high-quality meat and animal products in a time when livestock are being demonized as the cause of all things bad…you’d be wise to start growing and diversifying your feed inputs for your animals. Fodder trees produce…
006 – Genesis of TSH & Where We’re Headed
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Continue Reading: 006 – Genesis of TSH & Where We’re HeadedThis show is a free-form ramble through the history that led to the creation of TSH and the podcast. No outline today, more story instead. From my slow awakening after a zombified college experience, to starting my own fitness training business at the age of 22, paying off the student loan debt and then making…
Light, Water, Soil & Life – The 4 Pillars Of A Productive And Profitable Homestead
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Continue Reading: Light, Water, Soil & Life – The 4 Pillars Of A Productive And Profitable Homestead4 universal homestead productivity leverage points: Light, Water, Soil and Life. Each is present everywhere on the terra firma of planet Earth. Each represents a foundational ecosystem process that can be managed at the homestead level to maximize production, profit, resilience and enjoyment.
004 – The Minimum Holistic Goal: Essential Homestead Design Tool
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Continue Reading: 004 – The Minimum Holistic Goal: Essential Homestead Design ToolIn today’s show we cover… What a Minimum Holistic Goal is and WHY its important to create one The three distinct parts of the MHG, their functions and how to create them, HOW to actually USE and LEVERAGE your MHG with the 7 Decision Tests for applying your MHG in real-life and in real-time to…
High-Value Livestock Fodder Trees For Temperate Climates
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Continue Reading: High-Value Livestock Fodder Trees For Temperate ClimatesFodder trees are trees that produce vegetation that is highly palatable and nutritious for livestock. Using trees for fodder – either as direct browse, cut and carry, chop and drop, or in the making of ensilage or tree hay – is a profitable way to increase yields by stacking productive elements vertically, while improving animal…
Land planning fundamentals for creating a homestead that works for you by working with Nature…
Building Your Sovereign Homestead
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