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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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TSH-003: How To Identify & Avoid Making Type 1 Errors In Homestead Design
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Continue Reading: TSH-003: How To Identify & Avoid Making Type 1 Errors In Homestead DesignIn this week’s show we dive into the ugly world of Type 1 Errors – those fundamental errors in design or implementation of a homestead that will cost you time, money and energy for as long as they exist – the things that if done wrong at the outset, make it nigh impossible to get…
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TSHP-002: The Prime Directive, 3 Ethics and 12 Foundational Principles of Permaculture As Sovereign Homestead Design Tools
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Continue Reading: TSHP-002: The Prime Directive, 3 Ethics and 12 Foundational Principles of Permaculture As Sovereign Homestead Design ToolsPermaculture is a design system based on natural systems and how they function. The Permaculture Prime Directive – on page 1 in the Designer’s Manual, is as follows: “The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. Make it now.” The Prime Directive is often forgotten but…
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TSH001 – What The Sovereign Homestead Podcast Is About
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Continue Reading: TSH001 – What The Sovereign Homestead Podcast Is AboutSovereign homesteading is an orientation vs. destination. A homestead is sovereign to the degree that it is prepared, productive, regenerative, and closed-loop. These are the four key pillars of a resilient homestead that works for you and gets more productive over time with less dependence on centralized commodities as inputs. Getting started designing your homestead?…
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