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Graham Towerton of Permaculture Canada joins me to share about his Michigan farm and his permaculture plans for this year.
He is growing heritage raspberry and asparagus in permaculture with strawberries as the herb layer. Also Olive Leaf Arugula that is essentially perennial. We also share about chestnuts and our other tree plans for this year.
In the last 10 years Graham has transformed his farm from regular corn and soybeans to a permaculture oasis!
Go to the show notes on our website to see the amazing before and after pictures of Graham's farm.
Can you integrate permaculture with a solar farm?
Graham discusses what it's like when a solar farm moves in next door, and how he used that to his advantage, incorporating permaculture as much as possible to best use the bordering zones.
Graham also shares about his mulching and compost strategy to build up fertility without having to bring in outside chemical inputs.
You can connect with Graham on:
Permaculture Canada
Permaculture Adventures Michigan
Graham's Instagram page @GrahamTowerton
Grow Nut Trees is now taking orders for Spring shipping or local pickup.
Grow Nut Trees.com
NEW for this year are more types of chestnuts, including Qing Chinese hybrid chestnuts. Qing (pronounced "Ching") is a Chinese chestnut Half-sib from a named tree that was open pollinated by other trees, including hybrids. The Qing tree is a heavy producer with sweet flavored extra large nuts. These seedlings were grown locally and are adapted to the Midwest.
Grow Fodder Trees! New this year are cuttings for fodder trees - mulberry and hybrid willow. These are fast growing and the leaves are edible as forage for animals (my horses love them - maybe a little too much). Plus the mulberries can feed chickens if planted near a chicken run. And they are good for chop and drop. Get your mulberry and willow cuttings from Grow Nut Trees.
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A former colleague of mine posted a Remote job that got 500 applicants.
I will share some tips with you on How to Find a Job in This Tough Economy.
You Must Know Someone on the Inside
When there are 500 applicants, they are either using AI or a HR-level1 person to filter through the submitted resumes based on keywords and skills. Even if you are a rockstar, your resume is being looked at by someone who doesn't even know what those terms on your resume mean.
You know people who you have worked with in the past. Some of those people are now in leadership positions or are influencers.
Contact them and have them give a heads up to the hiring manager: "I worked with him and he is legit." That's sometimes all it takes. The rest is up to you, but you won't get the opportunity to tell your story if you don't make it over this hurdle.
You need to connect in Real Life.
Say it again: You need to connect IN REAL LIFE (IRL)!
Call that person up. Offer to get together for coffee. Sure, it will seem awkward since you haven't talked to them in 2+ years.
Your resume needs to fit the job
Employers are looking for "what can you do for me?"
Remote work is dead. Position yourself for the "right" return to office job.
If you are still working remotely, or you went back in the office but you still dream of working remotely.
As I said at the beginning, most remote jobs have >100 applicants. The one I interviewed for had 500 applicants.
Side Hustles R Us
In times like these, your side hustles can bridge the gap.
Look, we are moving toward a multi-income stream economy by necessity. Build yours now.
Episode website:
Ep. 151 - How to Find a Job in This Tough Economy
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Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
Raised beds that I am building to test Perennial Kitchen Garden layouts:
Vego Garden Modular Metal Raised Bed (which I will make 5' x 3.5', 17" tall)
Meadow Creature Broadfork is my favorite tool for starting new garden beds. I turn over the sod, add a layer of compost, then Milpa, and cover with woodchips.
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Our reality is choked out by thoughts, static, noise, and by the "cares of this life". (not to mention the electronic noise of being "always on", "always connected".
The other night I went to Vespers service at church. Vespers is my favorite service. The candles, the dim lights, the hymns, the "Now that we have come to the setting of the sun." It recognizes a cycle in the day and in life. It is much needed.
Afterward, I told my priest, Father Nikolai, that it took 45 minutes for the noise of the day to fade away and for me to be immersed in the service - the candles, the hymns.
He replied, with a smile, "That is why our services are so long."
There has been a lot of talk lately in my circles of influence about Signal vs. Noise. How we are bombarded with "noise" to the point where we don't even hear the signal anymore.
I give an update on Perpend. He has been on a quest to become an Orthodox monk. He was "clothed as a novice" monk in May at the Monastery of St. John in Manton, CA.
I share thoughts from one of his letters about this "noise":
We think of static as the white noise and pops between radio stations. If I say "noise", people respond with "sound" and "volume" as their points of reference. Yes, a neighbor's loud music is a potential problem, but I mean more than that. The term "inputs" also doesn't quite fit; it doesn't connect. Maybe "Static" is better.
"Static" is interference in your attempt to bring in the radio signal. In my case, the signal I want is God, Grace, the life of the Church, silence, prayer - a real life. These are the things that actually matter. Static is anything that hinders that.
My thoughts, emotions, perceptions, desires are a static producing mechanism. The added static from those mechanisms is other people entering my life is a lot also. How I choose to react and think about them changes my perceptions of them and those interactions. That is what thoughts determine, what life is about.
Episode website:
Ep. 150 - Decrease the "Noise" in Your Life
Sponsors:
Thriving Food Forest Design - We can create an edible foodscape, a perennial paradise so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. We use fruit and nut trees and perennial plants adapted to the Midwest to create a low maintenance food forest.
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.
Raised beds that I am building to test Perennial Kitchen Garden layouts:
Vego Garden Modular Metal Raised Bed (which I will make 5' x 3.5', 17" tall)
Meadow Creature Broadfork is my favorite tool for starting new garden beds. I turn over the sod, add a layer of compost, then Milpa, and cover with woodchips.
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This year has been the best of times and the worst of times. Okay, maybe not the worst. (after all, I am still employed).
But this is the dichotomy (or is it a contradiction?):
It is performance review time at work. It will be another "Meets Expectations".
But my Goals and accomplishments in real life were off the charts!
This year I:
- Built 4 web sites/side businesses
- Got my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) from Midwest Permaculture.
- Gained my first 2 paid Food Forest design clients, including a huge 3 acre orchard design and implementation that is a several thousand dollar gig.
- Grew 10x+ trees
- 5x my revenue from last year
- Learned to use a mini-excavator
Come along with me as I share my wins (and losses) and get encouraged!
Sponsors:
Thriving Food Forest Design - We can create an edible foodscape, a perennial paradise so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. We use fruit and nut trees and perennial plants adapted to the Midwest to create a low maintenance food forest.
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
Raised beds that I am building to test Perennial Kitchen Garden layouts:
Vego Garden Modular Metal Raised Bed (which I will make 5' x 3.5', 17" tall)
Meadow Creature Broadfork is my favorite tool for starting new garden beds. I turn over the sod, add a layer of compost, then Milpa, and cover with woodchips.
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How Do You Use AI?
Most people use it as a search engine.
Some people use it write blog posts or customer emails.
Some for analysis.
But some assign it a role to do the analysis, like "evaluate this as an executive of XYZ company" or a hiring manager.
My son-in-law, Eric Niday, uses AI for all of the above. Talking with him about his experiences with it was interesting, so I decided to have him on and share it with you.
How far is too far?
In addition to using AI at work to evaluate candidates and write SQL, Eric uses ChatGPT to research and debate theology. He made a chat bot theologian, instructed it with which theologians that he liked, so he could ask it questions. He even made it so it would "counsel" him. The chat bot even offered to "pray" for him (!). Um, that may be going too far.
Episode website: Ep. 148 - How Do You Use AI? - with Eric Niday
Sponsors:
Thriving Food Forest Design - We can create an edible foodscape, a perennial paradise so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. We use fruit and nut trees and perennial plants adapted to the Midwest to create a low maintenance food forest.
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
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Jason Snyder of Doomer Optimism shares stories of how his family in NC weathered Hurricane Helene and what he is doing to regeneratively recover from the aftermath.
Resiliency through community and culture.
"Biblical flood? Plant trees, cultivate gardens, raise livestock."
Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/hurricane
Sponsors:
Thriving Food Forest Design - We can create an edible foodscape, a perennial paradise so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. We use fruit and nut trees and perennial plants adapted to the Midwest to create a low maintenance food forest.
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
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Next week is the election. Once again it is being billed as the "most important election in our lifetime!". And four years from now they will tell us the same thing. If every election is the same way, then maybe they are not as consequential as they say that they are.
In Oct-27's homily/sermon, my pastor, Father Nikolai Meyers talked about the election (starts at 1:30:00, if it is not cued already).
We are sold that there are only two sides to this. But Life has many sides.
We got rain in NE Kansas after weeks and months of drought. The storm brought down trees. Neighbors helped each other to clear the downed trees. Maybe that is more consequential than the circus 2000 miles away in DC.
"If voting could actually upset the power of the establishment, you wouldn't be allowed to do it." - Cyprian
Cyprian (aka Vin Armani) and I talk about the "Invisible Enemy" from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
The Invisible Enemy
For totalitarianism to come into power you must have an Invisible Enemy.
In 2020, Trump called Covid the "Invisible Enemy".
Who is the Invisible Enemy today?
For the Left, it is White Supremacy. It's the white guy with a rifle asking, "What kind of American are you?"
For the Right, it's Trans people or "illegals".
What about the homeless and the poor - are they the Invisible Enemy?
Fear of the Invisible Enemy
The fear of the Invisible Enemy is fueled by social media, especially Twitter. You get more Likes and Views when you scare people with it.
This pattern of declaring someone (or specific people or groups) as an Invisible Enemy and then declaring (social or real) war against it usually happens right before a big upheaval, and usually leads to some form of totalitarianism. Examples in the 20th Century are many: Germany, Russia, China.
The Real Civil War is Within You. What are YOU going to do?
Positive solutions to face your own personal Civil War:
Pray. Pray for humility and discernment.Avoid the mind virus trap of thinking of groups of people as the Invisible Enemy. It never ends well.Give.We discuss: do you give to the homeless person if he will likely spend it on drugs?
If you have an issue with this:
How about asking his name? Greeting him with his name would be acknowledging him as human being.
How about having a meaningful conversation?
"The rich exist for the sake of the poor. The poor exist for the salvation of the rich.” - St. John Chrysostom.
Read the daily Lives of the Saints. Their strength in trials and persecution will be a guide and model for you as you face the same. Because it is coming. (Didn't you learn anything from Covid?!)You may think you are winning. You don't think it will happen to you, but someone will be asking you, "What kind of American are you?" and you likely won't fit their definition.
Episode website and show notes: https://thrivingthefuture.com/civil-war2
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It's been almost a year since Grant and I shared about How to Propagate your own Trees, Plants, and Flowers for Free, and Sell the Extras as a Side Hustle (recently as a Flashback episode on Oct-11.
What has changed with our nursery businesses in the last year? I started my food forest design business and have my first paid design client.
We share about becoming an "expert".
Finding your niche: you are an expert in something (or more expert than others).
How to position yourself as an expert.
One way to start is to speak to audience or perspective client as you would to yourself several years ago.
We also talk nursery biz:
Hostas, trees.Grading nursery stock based on pot size and tree caliper.Episode website:
Ep. 145 - How to Position Yourself as an Expert - with Grant Payne
Sponsors:
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.
Thriving Food Forest Design - Let us create a low maintenance perennial paradise for you so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient.
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
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What are you doing to put your garden to bed for the winter time?
Maybe you are luck and your growing season is still in swing. We are nearing the first frost date. It has been too hot and dry for my Fall greens to germinate so I will need to start them in the greenhouse, where they can grow until Jan or Feb.
How do you clean up your garden beds?
For Milpa beds, I chop and drop the beans and other plants for mulch, cover with a little compost, and then some woodchips.
In the main garden:
I loosen the soil with a broadfork. Not too much. I add amendments like lime, rock phosphate, and liquid kelp.Then a thick layer of compost.I add a thick layer of leaves that I collect from the curbside in town once the leaves drop. Then I cover it with a layer of woodchips.If I am creating a new garden bed, I use the lasagna method:
Break up or turn over the soil with a broadfork.Like Nick Ferguson, I may add a layer of animal feed pellets.I adda layer of compost or horse manure.Then I add a layer of molasses mixed with water to feed the soil bacteria.I cover it all with leaves and woodchips.What do you do to put your garden to bed for the winter time?
Share your wins and losses on our Telegram group. Sign up at signup.thrivingthefuture.com
I also share in this episode -
What happened to the podcast?My tour of Charlie's Chestnuts and the hybrid chestnut called Revival, which is almost as big as the palm of my hand.Episode website:
Ep. 143 - How I Put My Garden to Bed for the Winter
Sponsors:
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.
Thriving Food Forest Design - Let us create a low maintenance perennial paradise for you so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient.
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
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This flashback episode with Grant Payne has tips that you can also use on your homestead to save and propagate trees and plants, with enough abundance to sell the extras. Create your own nursery side hustle,
Propagation - from cuttings - elderberry, mulberry, figs, berries, and discarded trims from nursery plants.Flowers, mums, and bulbsObtaining seeds and plantsWhere to sell - FB, Craigslist, ebay, and creating a popup website. The pros and cons.Episode website: Ep. 144 - Flashback - How to Propagate your own Trees, Plants, and Flowers for Free, and Sell the Extras as a Side Hustle
Sponsors:
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.
Thriving Food Forest Design - Let us create a low maintenance perennial paradise for you so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient.
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
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What are you doing to increase your self reliance and self sufficiency?
Jack Spirko's definitions:
Self Sufficiency – The percentage of your needs met by your own systemsSelf Reliance – The duration in time you can live well without systems of support (or to live well with YOUR systems of support)Let's face it - the 2024 election is not going to go well. The side that loses is not going to accept the results. There will be civil unrest. Plus WW3 conditions are looming.
Change is coming. People can feel it.
What would you do in another 2020-type situation? What lessons learned can you apply from the last time?
What could you do to be able
Long term/short term -
Plant treesCultivate gardensTend livestockMore short term:
Look at your gaps in energy, food, water. What can you improve so that you can live well with your systems of support?Fight the mind virus and the fearPrepare mentally and spirituallyBuild communityLearn skills through self study and networkingExpand your other forms of incomeI share what I am doing to become more self reliant and self sufficient.
Episode website: Ep. 142 - How Are You becoming More Self Reliant?
Sponsors:
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest. Now taking orders for shipping in Sept/Oct.
Thriving Food Forest Design
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
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Lindsay Brandon, CEO and Permaculture Consultant at Permaculture Canada joins me to share about Armagarden, her new project to integrate community design into the permaculture design.
We discuss Armagarden and how it contrasts with the usual permaculture design.
From the website:
What is Armagarden?
Armagarden was born from the desire to get back to the land and live a lifestyle that is connected to family, place and community. Through strategic design methods considerations are made through the design process towards food/water security, community resource management, and holistic design from a community perspective. With the recent increase in people desiring a homesteading lifestyle many realise that self-reliance is best when combined with the skills of their community. That we are stronger, more resilient, and can accomplish much more when we pool our resources, talents and skills together.
The community resilience is created with elements including food production, on-site (off-grid) energy production, infrastructure for community events, educational courses and sustainable construction and energy efficiency practices for all buildings.
Episode website: Ep. 141 - Armagarden - Regenerative Community Design, with Lindsay Brandon
Sponsors:
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest. Now taking orders for shipping in Sept/Oct.
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
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With tough times, more people are looking for homestead property, or to add gardens, fruit and nut trees, and chickens to their existing suburban property to be more self sufficient.
Kerry Brown of Strong Roots Resources joins me to share tips to find your homestead property:
Look for off-market properties. Properties are selling before they show up in Zillow or MLS. Contact your network of folks, like realtors to give you a heads up when something is coming available. If you are in the Tennessee area, Kerry recommends Marcie and Jeff Yadon. On FB as on fb as Marcie n Jeff Yadon or email: [email protected] CommunitiesSome have a membership model or you can live there seasonally.FB Group - Homestead RoommatesTSP Land Group on TelegramPermies SKIP program on Permies.comWhat to consider when looking at a property:
Water sourceAccessSolar aspectForaging and trees - what is on there now?Suburban tips:Look at space and think of "what else could that be used for?" (stack functions)Avoid HOAsDon't discount garage space (like for aquaculture).Episode website: Ep. 140 - Tips to Find Your Homestead Property - with Kerry Brown
Sponsors:
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest. Now taking orders for shipping in Sept/Oct.
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Last time, in Ep. 138, Jason Thomas shared stories and we discussed how to design your intentional life.
We talked about the main categories - wealth, health, relationships, and spirituality.
I was contemplating my journey to design my intentional life and I had more to add.
Having an Intentional Life means:
Aligning your life and actions with your values, as much as possible.Being deliberate in your actions and forming good habits.Taking positive steps rather than being driven by your circumstances and surroundings.Preparing for adversity - both physically and mentally.Being more at peace and having a positive view of your future.Focusing on your physical and spiritual health.Write down your values.
Evaluate things to Change:
Make a plan. Start simple.
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs. You won't get to 100% (unless you are very lucky, or you have the right situations). There will be some tradeoffs.
It's not All or Nothing.
Get out of the "I am going to replace my job!" mindset.
Redesign your life by changing your lifestyle and expectations:
Paul Wheaton's (in)famous "Story of Ferd and Gert"
Get out of the "progressive mindset"
Grow your own food.
Find your tribe - Grow community.
Episode website: Ep. 139 - More Tips to Design Your Intentional Life
Sponsors:
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest. Now taking orders for shipping in Sept/Oct.
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What does your perfect day look like? Does today look like that perfect day?
In this episode, Jason Thomas of Regeneration Nation Costa Rica shares foundational steps to design your intentional life.
Needs most people have:
WealthHealthRelationshipsSpiritualityWhat does your perfect day look like?
We also discuss how to apply permaculture principles to your business or side hustle.
Check out Jason's FREE e-book: 77 Ways to Practice Permaculture Professionally. (some may surprise you)
Episode website: Ep. 138 - Jason Thomas on How to Design Your Intentional Life
Sponsors:
Permaculture Business Design Course from Regeneration Nation Costa Rica - This course will guide you step-by-step toward designing a profession that cultivates your permaculture education into a regenerative livelihood.
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest. Now taking orders for shipping in Sept/Oct.
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It's been a crazy week. The assassination attempt on Trump.
Now a Global cyberattack (“no, it was just a bad patch!”)
What will you do with this moment?
Focus on your local Circle of Influence and Circle of ConcernPlant treesCultivate gardensRaise livestockPrepare mentally and spirituallyGrow your local communityBecause Gov’t will not save you.
Episode website: Ep. 137 - What Will You Make of This Moment?
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Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest. Now taking orders for shipping in Sept/Oct.
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My friend Kevin Brubaker from Dallas Media Productions, an independent film producer in Dallas, joins me to talk about LLC Tips (and lots of film stuff).
What does a film producer have to do with my usual content of homesteading? It fits into creating side hustles and businesses to Design Your Intentional Life.
We were having a conversation about LLCs and we decided to record it. We also talk a lot about film. How can you make money on film production in the streaming era?
We dove into these topics:
Should you have an LLC for each project or side hustle?Should you wait to become profitable before forming an LLC?Do you have to be profitable after 3 years to be considered legit (or bear the wrath of the IRS)?Should I spin Grow Nut Trees into its own LLC?To answer these questions, you have to ask yourself - why have an LLC?
Although you want to use an LLC to offset your expenses, an LLC is mainly to protect you in a hyper-suing culture that we are currently in. If I was sued (for some reason) on trees, I would lose all my businesses, including the podcast.
Tips:
It is recommended that you have an LLC for each project or side hustle.You do not have to be profitable after 3 years if you are showing growth and an "intent to make a profit".Make sure that you create an LLC in a state where the application and charge is one-time only. (some states require yearly renewal). I have mine in KS (cost me $166). Kevin has his in TX and cost about $150. You can create the LLC and get an EIN on the state website - you don't need a lawyer or Legal Zoom.Find a mentor.Disclaimer: This is not tax or financials advice. Discuss with your tax or financial planner for your situation.
Episode website: Ep. 134 - Surprising Small Business LLC Tips
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If you like this content and the podcast, here is how you can support the podcast and my Thriving empire of side hustles:
Shoot me a tip on Venmo or CashApp @ThrivingtheFuture.Go to the Stuff page on Thriving the Future site and buy something.OR - click on one of the Amazon links on the Stuff page and then buy your other stuff that you want. Anything you buy on Amazon for 24 hours will give Thriving the Future a credit.Sponsors:
Grow Nut Trees: Buy Elderberry, pecan, hazelnut seedlings, and red mulberry seedlings - all adapted to the Midwest. Seeds and trees have “memory”. They thrived and reproduced in a certain climate.Often when you buy chestnut trees, seeds, or plants online, you have to buy from nurseries in the Northeast or Southeast US, or the Pacific Northwest.
Take it from us, trees and plants grown in those climates do not do well in Kansas.
So buy Elderberry, pecan, hazelnut seedlings, and red mulberry seedlings - all adapted to the Midwest. At GrowNutTrees.com.
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Jeremy is better known as DeweyLikeDonuts on Instagram and TikTok.
We start his story in 2008 and how a SHTF can be your own personal apocalypse. He turned to "raising chickens, growing his own food, and striving for a more sustainable life" (his tagline).Prepping to Thrive rather than survive. Not living in fear.He shares about is recent adventures with a bee swarm.How he grew his Instagram account with a chicken video that went viral.And what is the "Internet in a Box"?Episode website: Ep. 133 - Striving for a More Sustainable Life - with DeweyLikeDonuts
Join the mailing list and our Telegram group and you can keep up to date with all of Grant Payne, Homestead Padre, and my homesteading projects. Signup at https://Signup.ThrivingtheFuture.com
If you like this content and the podcast, here is how you can support the podcast and my Thriving empire of side hustles:
Shoot me a tip on Venmo or CashApp @ThrivingtheFuture.Go to the Stuff page on Thriving the Future site and buy something.OR - click on one of the Amazon links on the Stuff page and then buy your other stuff that you want. Anything you buy on Amazon for 24 hours will give Thriving the Future a credit.Sponsors:
Check out the Solar Food Dehydrator. Watch the movie, get the plans, all for a reasonable cost.Grow Nut Trees: Buy Elderberry, pecan, hazelnut seedlings, and red mulberry seedlings - all adapted to the Midwest. Seeds and trees have “memory”. They thrived and reproduced in a certain climate.Often when you buy chestnut trees, seeds, or plants online, you have to buy from nurseries in the Northeast or Southeast US, or the Pacific Northwest.
Take it from us, trees and plants grown in those climates do not do well in Kansas.
So buy Elderberry, pecan, hazelnut seedlings, and red mulberry seedlings - all adapted to the Midwest. At GrowNutTrees.com.
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Part of Thriving is embracing both the wins, as well as the losses.
Homestead Update:
My Spring garden has failed, for the most part.
I usually sow plants and then spread lettuce and kale seed around to act as a cover crop - hey, lettuce is a companion plant of everything.
This year hardly anything came up. The starter plants that I planted also did not thrive.
Why? Lots of rain.
In Kansas we do not get "April showers bring May flowers."
We get May and June thunderstorms. Almost all of our annual rain comes in May and June.
This year it rained almost every other day in May. We even had a mini-tornado pass just south of us and we got 8-10 inches of rain that week. Should have been a Spring bonanza of crops.
I added a couple of truckloads of compost from the nursery. The compost is worse-than-usual municipal compost.
The perennials saved the day - plantain, walking onion, bloody dock sorrel. They all did wonderfully.
Some trees thrived. Some did not.
My apple grafts are all thriving. Nearly 80% success so far, which is rare.
But the chestnut seedlings from last year didn't come out of dormancy. The 5 year chestnut trees are looking sickly, with half the branches with no leaves. I need to heavily fertilize and see if they recover.
Side Hustle Update on GrowNutTrees.
I sold hundreds of $ of elderberry on FB marketplace.I am adding black lace elderberry for next Fall and in 2025.Episode website: Ep. 132 - Never Give Up, Never Surrender
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Shoot me a tip on Venmo or CashApp @ThrivingtheFuture.Go to the Stuff page on Thriving the Future site and buy something.OR - click on one of the Amazon links on the Stuff page and then buy your other stuff that you want. Anything you buy on Amazon for 24 hours will give Thriving the Future a credit.Sponsors:
Check out the Solar Food Dehydrator. Watch the movie, get the plans, all for a reasonable cost.Grow Nut Trees: Buy Elderberry, pecan, hazelnut seedlings, and red mulberry seedlings - all adapted to the Midwest. Seeds and trees have “memory”. They thrived and reproduced in a certain climate.Often when you buy chestnut trees, seeds, or plants online, you have to buy from nurseries in the Northeast or Southeast US, or the Pacific Northwest.
Take it from us, trees and plants grown in those climates do not do well in Kansas.
So buy Elderberry, pecan, hazelnut seedlings, and red mulberry seedlings - all adapted to the Midwest. At GrowNutTrees.com.
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Enough talk. Get Stuff Done. It's Proof of Work.
Grant Payne and Matt Derosier share what Stuff they are Getting Done this Spring, as well as Side Hustle and Tree Nursery tips.
Hear why "The IBC King is Back":
Grant's weddingGrant added MANY chickens and ducksTurkey production - if you start now will they be ready to sell for Thanksgiving?Tree nursery tipsHedge production by coppicing.Grant Payne - PayneHomestead on Twitter
Matt at FarmHopLife
Episode website: Ep. 131 - Get Stuff Done - with Grant and Matt
If you like this content, shoot us a tip on Venmo or Cashapp @ThrivingtheFuture
Sponsors:
Check out the Solar Food Dehydrator. Watch the movie, get the plans, all for a reasonable cost.Grow Nut Trees: Buy Elderberry, pecan, hazelnut seedlings, and red mulberry seedlings - all adapted to the Midwest. Seeds and trees have “memory”. They thrived and reproduced in a certain climate.Often when you buy chestnut trees, seeds, or plants online, you have to buy from nurseries in the Northeast or Southeast US, or the Pacific Northwest.Take it from us, trees and plants grown in those climates do not do well in Kansas. So buy Elderberry, pecan, hazelnut seedlings, and red mulberry seedlings - all adapted to the Midwest. At GrowNutTrees.com. - Показать больше
