FarmHopLife Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Join Matt, Kaitie, and Milo Derosier as we explore and connect with farmers, homesteaders, and gardeners across this great nation.
"you are not your f*cking khakis"
or are you?
when the SHTF, what's your role? where do you bring value? are doomed to just roll over and die?
DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
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Homestead Padre website
Homestead Padre on Twitter
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When was the last time you intentionally stopped using social media? It's not as important as you think.
Homestead of Payne on Twitter
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Homestead Padre website
Homestead Padre on Twitter
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Another student suicide, this time by a 10 year old boy. Did the parents do enough? What are some other options?
DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
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DeweyLikeDonuts on Youtube
Homestead of Payne on Twitter
Homestead of Payne on Tiktok
Homestead of Payne on Instagram
LongStoryFarms on Twitter
LongStoryFarms on Instagram
LongStoryFarms Facebook
LongStoryFarms website
Homestead Padre website
Homestead Padre on Twitter
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It's the end of April, are you already behind on your plans for this year? What the hell happened?
DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
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Homestead of Payne on Twitter
Homestead of Payne on Tiktok
Homestead of Payne on Instagram
Homestead Padre website
Homestead Padre on Twitter
Caylon DePalma on Twitter
Six Day Acres Farm on Facebook
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Growing concerned over the Ferguson Riots, Josh started to think and respond differently to how to better prepare himself and his family should anything happen. He writes a great Substack called Unprepared.Life and even the free content is worth subscribing
Unprepared.Life
Josh Centers on Twitter/X
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Started in 2020 and tired of hustling for pennies at the farmer's market, Caylon found a shortcut to maximize profits on specialty crops selling to.... grocery stores! Plus his journey to quickly ramping up production on his farm.
Six Day Acres on Facebook
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we're back and it's been weird being gone. but it's also good to take some time and figure out what you SHOULD BE DOING instead of just going through the motions and following a path to no where or somewhere you don't want to be
Homestead of Payne on Twitter
Homestead of Payne on Tiktok
Homestead of Payne on Instagram
Thriving The Future website
Thriving The Future Twitter
Thriving Garden Planner
Grow Nut Trees website
LongStoryFarms on Twitter
Homestead Padre website
Homestead Padre on Twitter
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FarmHopLife #20x23project
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you're trying to do too much again
time to learn about Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese farmer who pioneered the "do nothing" method by listening, trusting, and working with nature
Lets go
Fukuoka was born on Feb 2nd, 1913. His father was an educated man, completed an exceptional eight years of schooling, and the local leaders repeatedly selected him mayor. His mother was of Samurai descent and also well-educated. The land had been in the family for over 1400 years
a troublesome student, he angered the teachers, and one day his music teacher broke the village organ in frustration
His father sent him to Gifu Agricultural College for higher education to prepare for inheriting the family farm
In 1934, Fukuoka secured a role in Yokohama Customs Office's Plant Inspection Section. Working in a hilltop laboratory, he delved into studying diseases, fungi, and pests on imported plants
"in amazement at the world of nature revealed through the eyepiece of the microscope"
His third year at Yokohama, Fukuoka battled acute pneumonia, enduring harsh treatments like exposure to wintry air. Isolated, friends shunned him due to contagion fears. Even nurses fled after temperature checks, leaving him sick, lonely, and fearing for his life at 25
After recovering, Fukuoka, haunted by his brush with death, obsessively pondered life's meaning. During a solitary walk, he reached a cliff's edge, contemplating the impact of his death. Realizing his lack of true friends, he collapsed in a deep sleep under an elm tree
Waking to a heron's cry at dawn, he watched the sunrise through mist, birds singing, realizing
"all the concepts to which he had been clinging were empty fabrications. All his agonies disappeared like dreams and illusions, a something one might call 'true nature' stood revealed"
Fukuoka quit his job the next day. For months he lived on severance pay proclaiming "everything is meaningless."
Dismissed as eccentric, he returned home, retreated to a mountain hut, and entrusted with his father's citrus grove. Testing his revelation, he began doing nothing.
He let meticulously pruned fruit trees go wild. Insects attacked, branches interlocked, and the orchard withered. His father's grove taught Fukuoka a crucial lesson: abrupt changes harm cultivated trees, realizing the importance of gradual adaptation to natural farming
His odd behavior concerned his parents and as the mayor's son, "hiding" wasn't acceptable
In 1939, he was offered the chief role at an Agricultural Experiment Station, he accepted at his father's wishes. He moved to Kochi and was expected to increase wartime food production
Independently, Fukuoka conducted studies comparing yields from chemically enhanced crops with those grown naturally. He scientifically established natural farming's superiority over chemical aids, building upon his earlier revelation that "doing nothing was best"
"I just emptied my mind and tried to absorb what I could from nature"
Instead of asking "how about doing this?"
ask "how about not doing this?"
Over the years, as a more natural ecology was re-established, the less he did, the better the land responded
Fukuoka observed, "The earth cultivates itself" Recognizing roots, worms, and micro-organisms thrive, he saw no need for human intervention. Plowing alters the environment and encourages weed growth.
His first principle: No plowing or soil turning
Chemical fertilizers aid crops but harm soil. Nature itself can do better than compost and chicken poop (which can cause rice blast disease). Instead, use cover crops like clover as a natural fertilizer.
Fukuoka's second principle: No chemical fertilizers or prepared compost
Plowing stirs deep-lying weed seeds and chemical herbicides leaves poison. Weeds don't need to be eliminated, just suppressed with straw and ground cover, plus timely seeding to eliminate intervals between crops is crucial
His 3rd principle: No weeding by tillage or herbicides
Pests and diseases attack the weakest plants, allowing the strong to survive. Chemical solutions, though effective in the short term, are hazardous in the long run, leave weak and chemical-dependent plants
Fukuoka's 4th principle: No dependence on chemical pesticides
O-bon festival is when ancestors return to earth for 3 days to visit the living. On the 3rd night the ancestors go back with a sendoff of songs and fireworks
Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One-Straw Revolution, passed away on Aug 16, 2008, on that 3rd day of O-bon
He was 95
Thank you very much for listening.
Links in the show notes for the articles and videos referenced here. Image credit: farmerandchef.co.uk
If there’s another farmer you’d like me to cover, send me a message! @farmhoplife on all the social medias or matt@farmhoplife.com
Go feed yourself.
it's time to get your seeds and starts in order. you ready?
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There are plenty of ways to win at farming for profit. Key is you have to keep track of your finances to actually know you're on the right path. But first, quit thinking about it and just do it already.
Lindsay Graham and her husband operate a 7 acre farm in Oklahoma raising pigs, chickens, and lamb selling wholesale. How well does that work? Really well actually!
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Do you have a plan for your property or are you always shooting from the hip?
I’ve been taking a permaculture design course the last few months by William Horvath of Permaculture Apprentice. After working through the modules, homework, and coming up with a first draft, William set up a meeting to discuss my plans for my property. This episode is that meeting. You’ll see my draft I’ve submitted for review, hear a lot of specifics about the property, and William’s feedback for improvements to the design.
Sign up for this Permaculture Farm Design Course for 50% off CLICK HERE, an incredible deal
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Learn more about Permaculture Apprentice
What are you holding onto that's keeping you from wins and this year?
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"With every new species we bring to the farm, it supports 8 more who can thrive. That's promoting biodiversity"
Let's learn about Greg Judy
Greg was born in 1960 on a dairy farm in northern Minnesota. His family moved to Missouri in 1966, mainly to escape the cold long winters
Greg Judy started milking the family cow at 7, a routine he continued until leaving home after high school. Providing fresh milk for the family fueled his early passion for farming, creating a lasting connection to the land and its rhythms
1993-95, Greg acquired 205 acres, combining his Uncle and Dad's farms at $350-$400 per acre. A 10% down payment connected the plots, incorporating challenges with neglected land, cedars, and erosion. Relying on his town job to meet farm payments without starving
With many challenges on his 200-acre farm, Greg encountered a farmer with premier pasture on 160 acres during a drought. Introduced to Management Intensive Grazing, Greg enrolled in a grazing school and subscribed to Stockman Grass Farmer. Needing a change to avoid lifelong debt
During the 3 day grazing school, Greg slept in his camper to save money. Trapped by floods one night, he found high ground and camped, unbothered by the constant rain. He learned about forages, fences, and herd health. Eager to apply newfound knowledge, he hurried home
Allan Nation warned about the cattle crash and despite initially planning to increase his herd, Greg sold everything. In February 1996, he swiftly bought back all his cows shortly afterward, making strategic moves considering the drop in cow prices, actually making a farm payment
However, that summer Greg faced a another blow - discovering his wife's manic depression, leading to divorce. The financial strain intensified as divorce and farm payments depleted all available cash and cattle. Greg felt hopeless and looked like the farm was finished
Greg wrote up a contract to graze rodeo horses and that covered the six months of farm payments. Then, another Allan Nation article shifted his perspective. Rather than just land ownership, focus on making a living from the land. He started looking for unused pastures to lease
No ownership stress, Greg sells his management skills, developing idle land for grass gain on stockers. This let Greg pay off his farm and house in 3 years. He faced financial struggles, now shares experiences to guide young graziers, emphasizing the pitfalls of land ownership
Greg Judy now owns 4 farms & leases 12 more
1600 acres total
900 is timber
700 is grass
Green Pastures Farm offers pastured pigs, sheep, chickens, grassfed beef, shiitake mushrooms, some lumber, & furniture
Greg uses "mob grazing" trying to emulate the natural systems of the prairie when the buffalo roamed
2 mobs, about 300 animals in a mob. Move twice a day. Combine your herds for more horsepower to build your soil
Pasture ratio: 30% grazed, 30% trampled, 30% left standing
For the woods, first thing is to run your cattle in there at high density. Trample, cow pee and poop to fertilize the ground. Let Mother nature take over. No seeding. Only take the pigs through the timber once a year, let the timber recover
Wanting to get more forage in the woods so that the sunlight hits all sides of every mature tree, thin out the smaller ones. He took out 70% of the trees and inoculated them with shiitake mushrooms
Thank you very much for listening.
Links in the show notes for the articles and videos referenced here.
If there’s another farmer you’d like me to cover, send me a message! @farmhoplife on all the social medias or matt@farmhoplife.com
Go feed yourself.
source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4
Image credit: glassenfarms.com
When do you call it quits despite how badly you want something and how much money you've spent?
Kiel talks about the few years he spent homesteading, giving it his all. But with a job away from the homestead, the expenses kept piling up. Finally, he had to leave and return to the city.
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new year, time to step up because the crazy train is going full steam
📖 we're going to recap a few major events that happened in 2023
🥅 did you hit your goals in 2023?
🏋️ discuss our plans to do more this year
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If only I could be so blessed as being able to farm until I’m 100 years old, what a life that would be
Catherine Hagel born Nov. 28, 1894, on a farm near Dayton, MN to John and Mary Dahlheimer. At 5lbs, her father doubted she would survive.
Catherine met her future husband, John at age 16, when he was digging a hole for an outhouse.
They married in 1916. Then in 1918 She worked to maintain the family farm when her husband fell ill during a flu pandemic, while caring for two children
a farmer's wife who made nearly everything from scratch, picking berries and canning hundreds of jars of fruits and vegetables every year, and had no electricity and running water for decades
She made her own soap, sewed her family's clothes and was an avid quilter. She spent all winter tearing rags. Her children would tie the rags together and she would use them to make rag quilts.
The Depression found them struggling to hold onto the family farm. Catherine attributes her deep religious faith for serving her through the ups and downs of it all.
"She used to tell such stories -- about the Indians living nearby when she grew up, seeing her first car, meeting Dad when he came over to help on the farm, about growing up one of 10 kids and then raising 11 of her own," Her daughter Cecilia said.
"When Mom was about 80 we tried to get her to move after the house burned down, but she refused," her daughter said. "She camped out on a cot in the garage, then in an old trailer house till we rebuilt the farmhouse."
Until she was 100, Hagel stayed on the 40-acre farm near Rogers after her husband died in 1966, keeping up a huge garden, sewing, quilting and visiting relatives.
Increasing frailty and a painful case of untreated shingles drove Hagel to leave the farm and move to a care facility.
Catherine taught her children, by example and expectation, the value of hard work, a positive attitude and an utter trust that God gets everything right.
“When something bad would happen, Mom always said, 'Well, it's in God's hands,'" Cecilia said
"We grew up poor and didn't eat" her son Al laughs saying, who still lives at the family's farmstead, has fond memories of growing up on the farm.
Catherine had three girls and eight boys; the last four were two sets of twins.
"don't go rooting around" was something that Catherine lived by. In fact, she has only left Minnesota once in her 113 years, to visit a cousin in Wisconsin.
expected and unexpected visitors were welcome to the Hagel home. "Dad was always bringing home bums and mom would always have something to feed them," said Al
He remembers the vagabonds that would hop off cars at the railroad station in Rogers and find their way into the house for a warm meal.
Catherine died on December 6th, 2008 at the age of 114 years, 8 days.
She is the 2nd oldest Minnesotan, and 81st oldest American to ever live.
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"plant the rain"
when you live in the most arid region of Zimbabwe and modern farming techniques have failed, you take drastic measures to provide for your family
and that's after being jailed and beaten multiple times for years
let's learn about Zephaniah Phiri
Zephaniah Phiri was born Feb 1927 in Rhodesia
1950s during the colonial days, he was arrested for planting barn grass and kikuyu grass to preserve water in his catchment area. At court, the validity of his arguments led the Magistrate to visit Phiri’s fields and let him go free
Phiri was arrested again in the 1960s. Brutally beaten up, thrown into a detention facility, spending his entire time there in leg irons.
His farming aptitude began while in detention, a place of extreme scarcity, when he started a piggery project so he could “eat better.”
after release and banned from working, forced him back to his small farm at ~8 acres. Phiri experimented with farming techniques
capturing water from the hill, redirecting it into trenches at the bottom of the hill for future use. Earning him three arrests for “farming in a waterway.”
Intrigued by Phiri's continued defiance and quantity of produce at a time of severe drought (1972/73), the magistrate decided to visit Mr Phiriʼs farm. Impressed, freed him and had the Government Land Development Officer opposing Mr Phiriʼs strategies replaced.
1973, Mr Phiri opened his first pond, discovering that the bands of clay brought water to the surface and these could be used to make dam walls that prevented water loss when it was abundant.
“Ponds enabled holding more water in the marshy patch, without water-logging the soils"
August 1976 during Zimbabwe’s liberation war, he was arrested for possession of firearms left at his home by the freedom fighters, "terrorists" to the colonial government. Tortured, two of his shoulder bones, broken, hip joint disjointed, and forever left with a limp
Afterwards, he was taken to Gweru Prison where he suffered for four and half years, handcuffed and restrained with leg irons.
By 1983, he had constructed two additional dams of combined storage capacity 1,5 million litres, nearly 400,000 gallons or an olympic sized swimming pool
encouraged by the experiments with sand filtration using concrete rings, Mr Phiri discovered in 1987 the concept of “Phiri pits” – holes in contour trenches where water accumulates, forcing water infiltration deep into the soils uphill to feed downhill fields later in the season
During the 80s and 90s, he placed pits across his land. Many villagers followed his example. Between 1984-86, he founded the Vulindhlebe Soil and Water Conservation, and the Zvishavane Water Project, two key NGOs that equipped farmers with skills to manage their water better
over 10,000 visitors to his farm in the past 30 years. Academics, university students, researchers, public officials, fellow farmers, all learning from a man who had elementary school edu. Mr Phiri did not need a degree to understand hydrology, and how to make it work for him.
His now famous “Phiri Pits” have captured the rain water whose seepages have literally met the water level in the ground below; thus resulting in raising the water table that ensures constant moisture to his trees and crops.
Brad Lancaster of Arizona, author of “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond”, had visited Zimbabwe in 1995
“And when I told him how concerned I was with the water situation in my community and watershed, and how I was thinking of leaving my community because of this... "
Phiri said "You cannot leave. You must set your roots deeper than you ever thought possible. Because if you run from your problems, you will just plant problems everywhere you go... "
“You must instead try to find solutions. If you succeed, you will then have the ability to find solutions anywhere.”
He was never selfish. He freely offered well-structured training to smallholder farmers in his area and throughout Zimbabwe, particularly women.
Phiri, famously known as the "Water Harvester" passed away on September 1, 2015 after suffering a severe stroke
“In his years Mr Phiri took to thanking Mr (Ian) Smith (the cruel former Rhodesian prime minister) in his speeches,” Dr Ken Wilson said in his condolence message
Dr Ken Wilson “He would say that from Smithʼs inhumanity and his vulnerability had come the prayers that had opened his heart to hear the Word of God and enabled him to commit his familyʼs well-being on the stewardship of his little piece of land.”
To see photos, check out my Twitter thread on Mr Phiri
Thank you very much for listening.
I’ll have a link in the notes for everything you’ve just heard.
If there’s another farmer you’d like me to cover, send me a message! @farmhoplife on all the social medias or matt@farmhoplife.com
Go feed yourself.
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man check. what are you up to?
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
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Homestead of Payne on Tiktok
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Homestead Padre website
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Tony, aka "Farmer, Till, I die or get Disappeared", kicks it off with how his house got raided by a SWAT team because he was feeding the homeless in is area. Followed by how to escape the maze they've put us in. And of course how to grow your own food! He's an excellent teacher by showing you exactly how to build these systems no matter your situation.
Farmer, Till, I die or get Disappeared on Twitter
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- Ron Finley grew up in the Harvard Park area of South Los Angeles, the middle child in a large family.
- Everyday, school was a battle. Toward the end of high school, he was diagnosed with dyslexia and finally learned to read.
- When Ron was a teenager, he felt frustrated because “I wanted to have the kind of clothes you see in the movies, but nothing fit right.” With $15 he went to a tailor and got his pants altered. They fit great, but he couldn’t afford to keep going to a tailor. When he was 15, he used the family sewing machine to make his own clothes.
- At 16, he was making clothes for family and friends; when he was 17 he got a scholarship to enroll in the Los Angeles Trade Technical College fashion design program. He bought his first power sewing machine, and in 1984, created DropDead Collecxions, tailored clothes in natural fabrics for men and women that were sold in high-end stores. By 1998 he had completed a 12-week entrepreneurial training class at USC to grow his business, but in 2008 when the recession came, the sales stopped.
- During that time he Went to the store and saw a tomato with a sign that said “may be coated with shellac” and started noticing a pattern.
- Ron Got tired of seeing people dying of curable diseases. Got tired of seeing the obesity rate in his neighborhood 5x that of beverly hills, only 8-10 miles away
- Finley, who studied gardening in a UC Cooperative Extension class taught by Florence Nishida, later hooked up with Nishida and a couple of other folks to address what they call the food desert in South Los Angeles, where healthful options are in short supply. The group is called L.A. Green Grounds.
- So he Planted food in the parkway in front of his house, 10ft x 150ft
- Its owned by the city, but you maintain it
- Someone complained. City issued a citation. Then a warrant followed. Because he grew some food in his yard. Think about that.
- Someone started a petition and got 900 signatures. Issue was dropped and the law changed.
- In 2017, The house that Ron rents and has established this jam packed garden had gone up for auction and the new owner had tried to evict him. There was a fundraising campaign and over $500,000 was donated for the Ron Finley Project to own the home outright
- In his 2013 TED talk, he explains that
- Over 20 million people in the US have to travel more than 3 miles to get fresh food, something not from a can
- It’s unclear if he started the phrase “Growing your own food is like printing your own money”
- But I’m pretty sure he Coined the term “plant some shit”
- So ron started a “plant some money” campaign
- He and his group marched a planned route, 3 miles and stopped in front of the Federal Reserve building, and planted some custom made dollars with ron finley’s face on it
- At plantsomemoney.com you can get your own kit to grow your food at home
- Theres a little shovel on one side that has seeds attached to it.
- Probably what he’s known best for is turning an old dresser drawer into a small garden. Got lots of replies and pictures on instagram and facebook
- He can’t afford to fill the swimming pool in his backyard, so instead of it sitting empty, it’s used for growing more plants, teaching classes, hosting presentations, and even some lunches and dinners.
- He doesn’t like using the term guerilla gardening because that implies secrecy and neglect. He wants to garden out in the open and care for it
- Ron tells a story of a mother and her child taking food from his garden around 10:30 at night. He talks with the lady saying that he purposely put it on the street for people to come take and eat
- That’s the kind of community he’s building by making gardening sexy. Becoming a Gangsta Gardener. Not drive thrus and drive bys
- Ron has traveled the world encouraging people to grow their own food that’s healthy and free of harmful chemicals.
- He still resides in Los Angeles
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Having a homestead sure isn't profitable, so why do it?
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
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Homestead of Payne on Tiktok
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Thriving The Future website
Thriving The Future Twitter
Thriving Garden Planner
Farmgineer website
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Josiah Young on Twitter
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With only days left, Ginger and her husband flee Canada to Costa Rica to build their new life truly based in freedom. Having never had a homestead before in a country they've never been before, they were absolutely starting from scratch.
Ginger on Twitter
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Play It Again with Mike and Ginger
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What would you like to receive or possibly buy for yourself this Christmas? Pick 3-5 things. Realistic or not.
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Josef "Sepp" Holzer, born July 24, 1942, in Ramingstein, State of Salzburg, Austria. sometimes referred to as "the Siberia of Austria"
growing up, Sepp had to walk two hours to school everyday. along the way, he would notice the plants, animals, and insects, and how they changed during the seasons. this attention to nature would stick with him throughout the rest of his life.
In Austria, it's customary to give the land to your son when he turns 19, as his father had been operating it with some health problems. So in 1962, Sepp took over the Krameterhof, the family farm, At 3,600 to 4,900 ft altitude.
initially, Sepp had followed his university's methods and would spray chemicals to ensure a good harvest. but this did not work well for Sepp. he quickly ditched conventional farming and focused on learning from nature to give the land what it needs.
the day after his father signed the farm over to him, Sepp had an excavator onsite to install fish ponds. people would say "you're mad! you can't install a fish pond on the side of a mountain" at first, his father was in agreement with the people. in time and as Sepp became successful, his father loved to show people the farm Sepp had built. his parents found it risky. "they're whole lives they didn't spend as much as I did in a couple of years" Sepp said
his neighbor had cleared the land of timber, then sold the property to Sepp, making the Krameterhof a total of 111 acres. it was required of Sepp to reforest the barren acreage by forest laws, so he terraced the land and planted fruit trees. this was not acceptable in the eyes of the forestry. so Sepp removed any tags indicating that they were cherry trees, implied they were berries and they okayed the reforestation efforts.
his neighbor comments about how Sepp isn't careful with the land. Let me explain. Sepp looks to see where the land can tolerate a "wound" using the excavator, but these wounds heal exceptionally fast. A large focus of these restoration efforts is putting water back into the ground.
Sepp has raised pigs, wild cattle, yaks, bison, and Scottish mountain cattle. when his neighbors start doing what he does, he stops doing it to prevent competition. if someone copies him, he changes what he's doing. this way, you keep things interesting and always learning, he says
he started planting his fruit trees at the bottom of his Austrian mountain-side property, and they thrived! so he kept terracing and planting higher and higher all the way to the edge of the property and everything is doing well. he believes it could work at even higher elevations. Sepp harvests apricots to eucalyptus, figs to kiwi fruit, peaches to wheat, just to name a few.
Sepp often refers to using raised beds in his terraces, but those raised beds are much different than you're probably thinking. he's using traditional Hugelkultur, burying timber and mounding soil on top at a steep pile, oriented 90 degrees perpendicular to the wind.
A method to his madness is Sepp's plant guilds, using beneficial root systems and earthworms for support. "If the plants are healthy, then the animals and humans are healthy too. and that is our foundation. whoever destroys it and treats it irresponsibly needs to be told to his face promptly, that's a crime and has no right to act that way, and he's too dumb to enjoy life"
Another technique for food production at high altitudes is his use of rocks. Sepp shows off a patch of pumpkins growing around a large rock. The rock absorbs heat throughout the day and radiates it out at night to help keep frost away. this acts as a thermal battery for plants and extend the growing season
The name Agro Rebel, or Rebel Farmer given to Sepp comes from a comment from a professor visiting the Krameterhof in the documentary titled "The Agro Rebel" from 2001. "People say about Holzer that he is stubborn headed. Which he can also be when necessary. but that this stubborn head demonstrates such a flexibility, well, basically, he is an agro rebel. you have to be when you take such an unusual path. He isn't eligible for any of the subsidy programs. He doesn't fit into any of the schemes of the bureaucrats in charge of farming. for this reason he's forced to rebel”
In 2009 Sepp Holzer left the Krameterhof in the hands of his son Josef Andreas Holzer. Since 2013 Sepp Holzer lives on his new farm - the Holzerhof farm - in the Burgenland, Austria. Sepp is currently 81 years old.
Long Live Sepp Holzer
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A fine spring day, lambing was going well. Then it quickly turned ugly and tragedy struck. Adam from Debra Get Redpilled Podcast talks about homesteading life in the PNW, lessons learned, and the difference growing for yourself verses growing for profit.
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André Marcel Voisin, born on January 7, 1903, in Dieppe, France, was a renowned French biochemist, farmer, and author. He is most famous for his groundbreaking work in developing the theory of Rational Grazing, also known as Voisinism, Voisin Grazing, or Rational Intensive Grazing. Voisin's theories and ideas on grazing practices have been widely acclaimed, leading to numerous lectures and the translation of his books into 18 different languages, with multiple reprints.
Voisin's upbringing revolved around agriculture as his parents, Albert Voisin and Marie Antoinette Morthe Legendre, were established farmers and landholders. He began his primary and secondary education at the Jehan Ango school in Dieppe, starting in 1910, and later attended the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.
After completing his military service with the French navy and graduating as a lieutenant in 1923, Voisin pursued a diploma in biochemistry from the School of Physics and Chemistry, école supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris in 1924. Following his graduation, he initially worked as an engineer in a tire factory, where he made significant contributions to improving production efficiency. Later, he took on a senior engineering role at the firm SIT, further showcasing his ingenuity in developing innovative methods.
In 1936, Voisin traveled to the University of Heidelberg to enhance his proficiency in the German language. There, he completed a thesis titled "Goethe and France" and was honored with the distinction of becoming an Honorary Citizen of Heidelberg.
During the tumultuous period of World War II, Voisin's life took a different course. In 1943, he married Martha Rosine Fernagu in occupied Paris. At the outbreak of the war in September 1939, Voisin left his position in the rubber industry to actively participate in the war effort. Initially stationed with the French Navy in Algeria, he was involved in two naval missions in the Mediterranean and was severely injured during the second mission. After receiving initial treatment in Algiers, he spent four months in the Val-de-Grâce hospital in Paris.
Voisin engaged in various ground operations in France in 1940, including the Narvik Campaign. As the Fall of France loomed, he was ordered to evacuate to England. Alongside a small group, he embarked on a daring boat journey from Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, which lasted several days, resulting in their successful arrival in England. In England, Voisin met with Admiral Thierry d'Argenlieu and was appointed as Secretary Attaché to Admiral Émile Muselier, the leader of the Free French Naval Forces.
In October 1940, Voisin returned to his family farm, "Le Talou," located on a 320-acre estate in Gruchet, south of Arques-la-Bataille, in occupied France. From 1941 to 1944, he played a vital role in the Resistance by covertly arranging food deliveries from his farm. Additionally, he worked as a translator for the mayor, Albert Thoumyer, in his dealings with the Nazi occupiers. In an act of bravery and compassion, Voisin successfully advocated for the pardon of a farmer who was facing execution by firing squad in March 1943.
After the liberation of Paris in August 1944, Voisin entrusted the care of Le Talou to his wife and traveled to Paris to meet with Admiral d'Argenlieu. He was assigned to a regiment of marine infantry and participated in various campaigns with the Free French forces, notably the intense but short-lived Battle of the Vosges in October. Voisin sustained injuries once again, this time in Benfeld.
In 1946, Voisin published his memoirs of the war, titled "A Single Foot on the Earth," based on his war diaries. The book was enriched with illustrations by Commander Luc-Marie Bayle, the official Navy artist.
Towards the end of 1945, after fulfilling his duty to his country, Voisin returned to Gruchet to pursue his true passion: farming.
Voisin found immense satisfaction in observing his cattle graze on the pasture. He began to notice distinct differences between the grazing behavior of cows and the process of mowing and feeding them hay. When a pasture is mown for hay, all the grass is cut at once. However, when cows graze, the pasture is only consumed at the pace they are able to eat. Additionally, while a cow in a feedlot can eat as much as it wants without moving, a cow in a pasture must actively seek out desirable sections of grass and graze on it bit by bit.
These observations led Voisin to realize that existing theories of grazing did not accurately describe the conditions of a grazing animal. Most scientific studies focused on either growing grass without grazing animals or feeding cut grass to animals in feedlots, rarely considering the behavior of cattle grazing on pasture. Voisin recognized that this interaction between the cow and grass, which he called "the meeting of cow and grass," was fundamentally different from either action performed alone.
This understanding led Voisin to a critical realization - time played a crucial role. The number of animals per acre was not the main factor in determining overgrazing, but rather the amount of time the plants were exposed to grazing animals. If animals remained on the pasture for too long, a palatable plant would be grazed a second time before it had a chance to recover from the initial grazing. Additionally, repeated grazing at short intervals prevented plants from achieving their maximum growth rate, limiting the amount of sunlight energy captured and converted into useful feed.
Voisin's work on his farm began to attract scientific attention, and he was invited to give lectures both domestically and internationally, including in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany. In 1956, he was appointed an associate professor at the National Veterinary School of Alfort and became a member of the Academy of Agriculture of France.
In 1954, Voisin recorded an effective stocking rate for the most productive part of the grazing season (10 May - 23 September) as 2.2 Livestock Units per acre. Before implementing rational grazing, Voisin claimed his stocking rate was only 0.6 LU/acre, demonstrating a significant growth in stocking rate through his methods.
Voisin eventually formulated his "four laws" of rational grazing, which he believed applied universally regardless of soil conditions, climate, altitude, latitude, or longitude. These laws were as follows:
First Law: A sufficient interval must elapse between two successive grazings to allow the grass to accumulate reserves in its roots for vigorous regrowth and produce a high daily yield per acre.
Second Law: The total occupation period of one paddock should be short enough so that the grass initially grazed on the first day is not cut again by the animals' teeth before they move to another paddock.
Third Law: Animals with higher nutritional requirements should be given access to the greatest quantity of high-quality grass.
Fourth Law: For optimal milk yields, a cow should not stay on the same paddock for more than three days. Maximum yields can be achieved when a cow is kept on a paddock for only one day.
These laws formed the foundation of Voisin's approach to rational grazing and represented his findings based on extensive observation and experimentation.
In June 1964, Voisin received an invitation from Fidel Castro to deliver a series of lectures at the University of Havana on the subject of Rational Grazing. Despite the negative perception of Castro's communist government, Voisin agreed and arrived in Cuba on December 3.
Voisin and his wife were personally greeted by Castro at the airport, and they led an inspection of a nearby farm owned by the Cuban Prime Minister. The series of lectures opened on December 8 at the University of Havana.
Castro praised Voisin's work and stated that "human health, human happiness, is the main objective of Professor Voisin's work." On December 11, Voisin was awarded an honorary doctorate from the university.
However, on December 21 at 3:50 pm, Voisin died suddenly of a heart attack in his hotel. Castro announced his death on national television that evening. A state funeral was held the following day at the Great Hall of the University of Havana.
Voisin had previously expressed a desire that, if he died while giving lectures abroad, he wished for his remains to be buried in the country of his death. Following his wishes, he was buried at Colon Cemetery in Havana.
Voisin became celebrated in Cuba, and the Cuban government declared 1965 "The Year of Agriculture" in his honor. A commemorative stamp with a face value of 3¢ was issued on the first anniversary of his death.
Despite Castro's advocacy for Voisin's work, Cuban farmers largely ignored his methods until the collapse of the Communist Common Market in 1989, which resulted in a three-year economic crisis called the Special Period. The loss of Soviet energy and chemical imports called for a transition to organic and skill-intensive agroecological models based on the principles of Voisinism. This transition was successful, and by 1995, urban agriculture, especially the use of organoponicos, was widespread in Cuba.
Voisin's work gained attention and recognition among English-speaking authors, including Allan Nation, Joel Salatin, and Allan Savory. Savory, who developed Holistic Management, was greatly influenced by Voisin's principles and wrote the introduction for the 1988 reprint of "Grass Productivity."
Despite the impact of his research on the permaculture, holistic management, and grass-fed beef movements, Voisin remains relatively unknown in his home country of France, partly due to his political leanings.
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Shudra is working hard everyday to build up his 10 acre homestead in Australia. If water wasn't already an issue, his property sits on top of an old gravel pit, so the ground doesn't hold water.
Can he build up enough top soil to reduce the water from passing right through into the ground?
Can he collect enough rain water from his roof during monsoon season to make it through the year?
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depopulation is happening. is it good? is it bad? what are the effects?
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how do we raise our boys to become men?
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Clint and Christine Rarey started FAFO Farms near Austin, Texas this year. And even with some hard learned lessons already, they're still eager to get to work everyday to provide their community with raw milk, cheese, soap, and pastured poultry.
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Clifford Allan Redin Savory (born 15 September 1935 in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) educated in South Africa (University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany) pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe.
“The Wild Life of Allan Savory”
C.J. Hadley
Reprinted from the Fall issue of Range Magazine, 1999
"Throughout that," says Savory, "there was constantly just one theme-poor land means poor people, social upheaval, political unrest. We farmers and ranchers have destroyed more civilizations than armies have done. Armies change civilizations. We farmers and ranchers destroy them, they never rise again. And I've been obsessed with this problem of why this is happening, why it's happened for 10-15,000 years, and why we've never been able to stop it.”
Allan Savory's memoir reveals his involvement in preparing for guerrilla warfare through the British Colonial Service in the Northern Rhodesian Game Department. He learned local bush skills and animal tracking techniques that could be adapted for military use. Initially, his recommendations for military training were rejected, but his ideas gained traction when the elite all-white Special Air Service (SAS) incorporated his tracking and bush craft courses for counter-insurgency purposes.
During the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, Savory was a Captain in the Territorial Army. He quietly opposed this move. He proposed forming a Guerrilla Anti-terrorist Unit (GATU) to infiltrate and eliminate African nationalist insurgent groups, but internal disputes led to the unit's disbandment. Instead, the Tracker Combat Unit (TCU) was created, focusing on tracking and targeting insurgents.
In 1970, Savory was elected to the Rhodesian Parliament, representing Matobo constituency. He later reformed the Rhodesia Party, aiming to secure the future of white Europeans in Rhodesia through strong government and economic superiority. However, his party supported racial segregation, and his controversial statements led to his removal from leadership.
In 1977, Savory led the National Unifying Force (NUF) against Ian Smith's policies, but the party didn't win any seats. Savory opposed the Internal Settlement under Bishop Abel Muzorewa and, due to conflicts with the government, left Rhodesia in 1979 for self-imposed exile to focus on his scientific work.
After leaving Zimbabwe, Allan Savory introduced holistic planned grazing to reverse desertification in grasslands. He co-founded the Center for Holistic Management in 1984, later forming the Savory Institute in 2009. He also established the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe in 1992, aimed at training holistic land management techniques.
Four principles
Savory stated four key principles of Holistic Management® planned grazing, which he intended to take advantage of the symbiotic relationship between large herds of grazing animals and the grasslands that support them
Nature functions as a holistic community with a mutualistic relationship between people, animals and the land. If you remove or change the behavior of any keystone species like the large grazing herds, you have an unexpected and wide-ranging negative impact on other areas of the environment.
It is absolutely crucial that any agricultural planning system must be flexible enough to adapt to nature’s complexity, since all environments are different and have constantly changing local conditions.
Animal husbandry using domestic species can be used as a substitute for lost keystone species. Thus when managed properly in a way that mimics nature, agriculture can heal the land and even benefit wildlife, while at the same time benefiting people.
Time and timing is the most important factor when planning land use. Not only is it crucial to understand how long to use the land for agriculture and how long to rest, it is equally important to understand exactly when and where the land is ready for that use and rest.
In his TED talk “How to fight desertification and reverse climate change” in February of 2013 Savory shares the story of when he was a biologist in Africa in the 1950s tasked with improving the landscape for national parks. After reviewing evidence at the time, he comes to the conclusion that they must reduce the number elephants in an effort to help the land maintain stability. The government had a team of experts to evaluate his research, and they agreed. Savory says “Over the following years, we shot 40,000 elephants to try to stop the damage. And it got worse, not better. Loving elephants as I do, that was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life, and I will carry that to my grave.” Since then, he’s determined to devoting his life to finding solutions.
His system for livestock management mimicking nature works like this… Greatly increase the number of cattle, sheep, or goats confined on a fenced off piece of land for a short period of time. The animals will eat the grass, then pee, poop, and smash the remaining grass into the ground. At that time, they’re moved to another paddock to repeat the cycle. This stores carbon and breaks down methane. In nature, large herds of animals are pushed out of an area due to predation. But with intensive rotational grazing, this is done manually using physical barriers.
Still, Criticism of Allan savory stems from the methane gasses produced by the cattle needed for his regeneration efforts. As well as the claims cattle are still the problem and should be reduced, not increased. Sounds like the critics missed the part about getting rid of the elephants not working…
Allan Savory and his wife Jody Butterfield live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is currently 87 years old
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Ron Miskin and his family have been raising bison in Texas for over 40 years, selling the meat and making great socks (and other items!) with the fibers. They also have some cows, pigs, turkeys, and chickens for home production.
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Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
Permaculture City by Toby Hemenway
Toby Hemenway born April 23, 1952
In grade school, he loved reading and writing, would entertain his fellow students with a series of short stories about the adventures of a boy genius, according to his sister, Ann
“He studied a lot and read on his own,” she said of his early days growing up in the Detroit and Chicago areas where his father was in marketing and sales for General Electric and auto companies.
“He was a busy kid, a brilliant, busy child, always doing science experiments. Things were blowing up in the basement a lot,” she said.
After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories including Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces. A career change followed, and Toby and his wife, Kiel, spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was the editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004, and spent six years developing urban sustainability resources there.
He served as an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and field director at the Permaculture Institute (USA).
In 2009, he published his first book “Gaia's Garden: a guide to home scale permaculture” still the best selling book on ecological gardening
From Permies.com,
Paul reviews the third [permaculture] ethic with Toby Hemengway [return of surplus]. Toby finds it ironic that people are quick to tell him he should be giving away his book as surplus. Toby goes through some history on how he got his first workshop paid for. When people come to Toby looking for a break on a price he gets upset when people are able bodied and intelligent. Asking for a subsidy should be a last resort.
Paul explains that some people are taking advantage of the third ethic and surplus. People do not have the right to come in and tell you what you have in surplus and how you should give things away. Paul and Toby discuss the difference between a gift economy and a theft economy. Toby explains how an ethic works and how it is meant to serve the community. Ethics are not meant to serve a person.
An interview by Chelsea Green, publisher of Toby Hemenway’s new book The Permaculture City, published in 2015, provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy security, close-knit communities, local and meaningful livelihoods, and sustainable policies in our cities and towns.
CG: You started off in Seattle, moved to rural Oregon, and then to Portland, and you now live in the Bay Area. How did this follow your own evolution in terms of using permaculture design principles to guide your own daily life and choosing where to live – rural versus urban?
TH: I met my wife in Seattle in 1990 when I was working in biotech and she was at Microsoft. We both soon realized that our lives, stressful and busy, had strayed far from giving us what we desired in life. I had just discovered permaculture, and at that time, it was being applied mainly on large, rural properties. So we bailed on city life and moved to ten acres in southern Oregon. In retrospect, being such a newbie to permaculture, the move was a hasty decision that wasn’t well grounded in permaculture principles: our property didn’t have good water or soil, for example. But I believed firmly that by using permaculture design, I could make up for that. And we did, to a large extent. So it was a trial by fire and I made a lot of mistakes. One thing I learned, very much the hard way, was that each time I violated a permaculture principle, it didn’t work out well. Because we had a lot of land, I planted far more fruit trees than I needed—I didn’t do a good assessment of my needs, I just wanted it all—and put them far from the house. So I wasn’t following the principles of start small and start at your doorstep. And once all my other systems started producing, those trees got neglected and suffered.
I also was trying to run a large homestead by myself, not following the principle of “each function should be supported in multiple ways.” And the land itself didn’t really want to be a food forest; the soil and microclimate were much more suited to being conifer forest. Thus I wasn’t working with nature but against it. In spite of all those mistakes, the land became very productive and diverse, and we accomplished a lot—pretty much everything we had gone there to do. That’s when we realized we were driving everywhere and burning tons of fuel and other resources to sustain this supposedly sustainable lifestyle, and we were lonely. So we moved to Portland and were amazed at how much our resource consumption shrank. I was still able to grow a huge amount of food in a 6000-square foot yard, but we didn’t need to drive long distances to have a social or cultural life. That brought us back in tune with the principle of relative location: placing the things you use the most near where you spend your time. Thus I really learned the power of permaculture’s principles by breaking most of them and being taught by that why they were worth following.
Sadly, tragedy struck Toby and his family in 2015. In the fall of that year, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After undergoing chemotherapy, he was nevertheless told that his cancer had spread from his pancreas to his liver. While Toby had begun his second round of chemo in October, he developed septic shock. Septic shock occurs when an immune system weakened by cancer allows for a widespread infection in the blood, as well as dangerously low blood pressure. Since, additional scans show the cancer continued to spread.
Toby passed away December 20th, 2016 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
However, there are many recorded presentations and podcasts of Toby so that his teachings will continue to inspire the next generation of those working to restore and repair the land we live with.
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Robert Fletcher Jr.
The only child of walnut farmers, was born July 26, 1911 in San Francisco and grew up in Brentwood, graduating from high school in 1929. He then attended the University of California, Davis beginning in 1930 where he earned a degree in agriculture.
After college, Fletcher ran a peach orchard in Red Bluff, California, and then became a state shipping point inspector (agriculture inspector). Starting in 1942, Fletcher began working for the Florin Fire Department.
Executive Order 9066, by FDR, in 1942 forced relocation of 122,000 Japanese-Americans, most of them citizens, to internment camps, where they were held without charges out of a misguided suspicion that they might be disloyal. In addition to losing their liberty, the Japanese-American internees often lost the homes and businesses that they had to leave behind. In particular, Japanese-American farmers, who had to leave their crops untended.
Near Sacramento, many of the Japanese who were relocated were farmers who had worked land around the town of Florin since at least the 1890s. Mr. Fletcher, who was single and in his early 30s at the time, knew many of them through his work inspecting fruit for the government. The farmers regarded him as honest, and he respected their operations.
Al Tsukamoto, whose parents arrived in the United States in 1905, approached Mr. Fletcher with a business proposal: would he be willing to manage the farms of two family friends of Mr. Tsukamoto’s, and to pay the taxes and mortgages while they were away? In return, he could keep all the profits.
Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Tsukamoto had not been close, and Mr. Fletcher had no experience growing the farmers’ specialty, flame tokay grapes, but he accepted the offer and soon quit his job.
For the next three years he worked a total of 90 acres on three farms — he had also decided to run Mr. Tsukamoto’s farm. He worked 18-hour days and lived in the bunkhouse Mr. Tsukamoto had reserved for migrant workers. He paid the bills of all three families — the Tsukamotos, the Okamotos and the Nittas. He kept only half of the profits.
But Mr. Fletcher’s efforts put him at personal risk, in a community where many viewed the Japanese-Americans with suspicion and resentment, in the wake of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. He was reviled as a "Jap lover," and was nearly hit by a rifle shot that someone fired into the Tsukamoto family's barn.
Many Japanese-American families lost property while they were in the camps because they could not pay their bills. Most in the Florin area moved elsewhere after the war. When the Tsukamotos returned in 1945, they found that Mr. Fletcher had left them money in the bank and that his new wife, Teresa, had cleaned the Tsukamotos’ house in preparation for their return. She had chosen to join her husband in the bunkhouse instead of accepting the Tsukamotos’ offer to live in the family’s house.
“Teresa’s response was, ‘It’s the Tsukamotos’ house,’ ” recalled Marielle Tsukamoto, who was 5 when she and her family were sent to the Jerome center.
“Few people in history exemplify the best ideals the way that Bob did,” said Tsukamoto’s daughter, Marielle “He was honest and hardworking and had integrity. Whenever you asked him about it, he just said, ‘It was the right thing to do.’ ”
But Fletcher's efforts put him at personal risk, in a community where many viewed the Japanese-Americans with suspicion and resentment, in the wake of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. He was reviled as a "Jap lover," and was nearly hit by a rifle shot that someone fired into the Tsukamoto family's barn.
“I did know a few of them pretty well and never did agree with the evacuation,” he told The Sacramento Bee in 2010. “They were the same as anybody else. It was obvious they had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor.”
After the war, resentment against the Japanese in Florin continued. If Mr. Tsukamoto tried to buy a part at the hardware store only to be told that the part was not in stock, he would ask Mr. Fletcher to buy it for him.
The Fletchers bought their own land in Florin after the war and raised hay and cattle. Mr. Fletcher was a volunteer firefighter in Florin for many decades before becoming the paid fire chief. He was also active in historical groups.
He was never much for celebrating his role in the war, and he noted that other Florin residents had helped their Japanese neighbors.
“I don’t know about courage,” he said in 2010 as Florin was preparing to honor him in a ceremony. “It took a devil of a lot of work.”
Mr. Fletcher, who was in good health until a recent leg infection, was a reserved man of simple tastes. He drank more than a quart of milk a day and enjoyed spending time with his wife or working.
“I did know a few of them pretty well and never agreed with the evacuation,” he told the Sacramento Bee in 2010. “They were the same as anybody else. It was obvious they had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor.”
At Fletcher's 100th birthday celebration in 2011, Doris Taketa, who was just 12 when her family was sent off to a camp in Arkansas, recalled how they had viewed him as a hero. "My mother called him God, because only God would do something like that," she said.
Mr. Fletcher, who settled in Sacramento as a farmer after the war, also served people in other ways. He spent 20 years as a volunteer firefighter with the Florin Fire Department and retired in 1974 after another 12 years as paid chief. He helped start the Florin Water District in 1959 and was a board member for 50 years.
“He never stopped working hard — but not for himself,” said Rick Martinez, a former Florin and Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District chief. “He worked hard to get done whatever needed to be done for others.”
His inspirational story is recounted in history books, including “We The People: A Story of Internment in America” by Elizabeth Pinkerton and Mary Tsukamoto, whose family farm he saved.
“I don’t know about courage,” he said in 2010 as Florin was preparing to honor him in a ceremony. “It took a devil of a lot of work.”
Mr. Fletcher, who was in good health until a recent leg infection, was a reserved man of simple tastes. He drank more than a quart of milk a day and enjoyed spending time with his wife or working.
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Looking at problems a different way may help you come to solutions faster in the long run. Using his engineering background, Alex tackles the same problems everyday homesteaders face and coming with something better than a "farmers fix."
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What is wrong with our food today? Buying directly from a farmer doesn't mean it's good. Grass fed, organic, or "product of the USA" doesn't mean it's good.
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Can fungi help heal a badly wounded body? Dead Eye 2 Tongues talks about his injuries and how he turned to natural medicine to get his life back.
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Cooking, farm hopping, and the future of food. Dan got into cooking from going to the farmers market. Then got into farms from cooking. Full circle.
Dan Vanderpool on Twitter
Dan Vanderpool on Instagram
Tomato clips
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
How would we get the bison population up to 10 million? What would happen? Same with elk. How would you increase wildlife to your area without it being destructive?
Homestead of Payne on Instagram
Homestead of Payne on TikTok
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Are you listening? The land is telling you what works and will fight you if you try to force fit something. Drake moved to Canada with his wife where they have cows, sheep, and pigs on silvopasture.
Drake on Twitter
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Just a theory. First, we define what we mean. Turns out, I don't know anything. Second, all the lines are blurred together.
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
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DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
DeweyLikeDonuts on Instagram
Amber Oaks Ranch website
Amber Oaks Ranch Facebook
Amber Oaks Ranch Instagram
Amber Oaks Ranch Twitter
Patrick Heizer on Twitter
Patrick Heizer Substack
FarmHopLife website
20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Amber Oaks Ranch, 35 minutes outside of Austin, TX, offers grass fed beef, pork, lamb, chicken, and seasonal turkeys. John and his wife Molly operate their 70 acres by themselves thanks to a lot of systems thinking and planning ahead of time, years before they even bought their current property.
Amber Oaks Ranch website
Amber Oaks Ranch Facebook
Amber Oaks Ranch Instagram
Amber Oaks Ranch Twitter
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
What makes someone a radical or an extremists? Mindset? Ideals? Action?
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
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DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
DeweyLikeDonuts on Instagram
Homestead of Payne on Instagram
Homestead of Payne on TikTok
FarmHopLife website
20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Work? Commuting? Books? Podcasts? Netflix? YouTube? Church? TikTok? Hobbies? Family time?
If you cut out all of it, what would you do?
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Emily, Danae, and Eric wanted eggs and honey for their own families. After some prayer, they decided to turn it into a business also adding pigs to the mix! Although they're just getting started, they've already had some stories to share.
Could one piece of your farm pay for all the other parts? Brian raises Mangalitsa pigs and they're so profitable that they cover the cost of all the other parts of his farm, including goats, chickens, flowers, and a garden.
"Mother of Pigs" as WMUR9 News called her during an interview, Kim Musticchio was moved after watching an open rescue by Direct Action Everywhere. Six years later she got her first rescue pig, Petunia, and plans to expand more this summer.
What were you given and you made lemonade? We share a few stories and a couple good ideas from goats eating down your peppers to using rocks from the property, housing crash of 2008 to selling DIY poison dart frog kits.
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Where have we been the last six months? Busy.
How do you protect your children from violence? Predators? Garbage food? Literal wolves? Isolate or insulate?
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After a few setbacks and staying persistent, this mom of three has a positive outlook towards the future. Her raised beds and rabbits where she's renting gives her peace and satisfies her soul.
Time, energy, money, sentiment, family, knowledge. All these things have a value in exchange for something else. Do you give them up for free? What are they worth to you?
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A stay-at-home mom of 5 children who homeschools and runs a homestead in Oklahoma, Michelle talks about the benefits of living a homesteading lifestyle and the challenges of adapting to a new environment after moving from Florida.
Very visual, probably not the best audio episode. Spoiler alert: it works now.
I get some help on getting my generator up and running from the guys
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From LA to rural Maryland, Patrick, his wife, and baby girl are new to their 11 acres. Improving the land though establishing trees to pave the way for paddock shifting cattle in the future. We also talk about the multi-purpose homestead, energy flows, inputs and outputs, and Great Depression thinking.
My parents are in town and thought it would be fun for my dad to sit in on a Men's forum. We get a little bit into his time growing up on a farm, but he ended up asking Grant and Padre questions about their stuff! Oh, and Grant finally shows his face.
Waiting patiently for the right property to get your family out of the city and onto some acreage has it's rewards, but not without it's hard work. Russell saw the city he lived in getting worse and didn't want to raise his family there anymore. So they moved and took over a mostly abandoned homestead, working hard to improve the house and the land.
Do you adjust well to changing conditions? Or do you struggle? We share stories of ruined vacations, job changes, lifestyle changes, and a lot of microgreens. Like, a ton about microgreens.
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
Homestead of Payne on Instagram
Scott of Little Pine Farm in CO on Twitter
Spring garden plans, doom scrolling, staying sane, meeting people, having goals. Scott Miller of Thriving the Future podcast was kind enough to drop in and help me get an episode out this week. Enjoy!
From garbage to gardens, Kenny was in the family business of driving trash trucks, started his own company, then sold it in 2021. Now he has a 5 acre property of which two is dedicated to his home and nursery. His new business is transforming people's grass lawns to food producing yards. Less mowing, more growing. We cover all of this, plus a little bit about the dirty secret of recycling and carbon capture projects.
What are you afraid of?
Riffing off of part of the discussion last week, the fear of CBDCs and all the other trash government tries to pull is greater than the actual thing itself. My point is that their goals are mostly a bluff and will fizzle put.
Maybe for them it's a game of inches. Little bit here, little bit there, in 20 years we'll have a full CBDC. But they overplayed their hand with COVID. After spending trillions of dollars, they didn't get anywhere close to their 80% herd immunity rate. We know the tricks. We know the actors. We're on high alert.
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What are you afraid of?
Riffing off of part of the discussion last week, the fear of CBDCs and all the other trash government tries to pull is greater than the actual thing itself. My point is that their goals are mostly a bluff and will fizzle put.
Maybe for them it's a game of inches. Little bit here, little bit there, in 20 years we'll have a full CBDC. But they overplayed their hand with COVID. After spending trillions of dollars, they didn't get anywhere close to their 80% herd immunity rate. We know the tricks. We know the actors. We're on high alert.
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Transforming his suburban lot in Georgia, Old Crow Hill, Tres finally found a hobby, gardening. He's working hard to build it into something of a mysterious, neighborhood beer garden. Also into writing stories, playing cover songs in his greenhouse, and more.
Some ideas for making sure your family is well taken care of for many generations to come
(not financial advice)
-what does that mean to you and your family
-define it, make it a goal. 5, 10, 20 year plans
-mindset in wealth
-grow up poor, or financially challenged
-education for kids
-low cost index fund
-real estate
-own a business, buy existing business
-reduce inheritance tax
-earn money vs make money vs keep money
-estate planning
- life insurance
- will or trust
- stocks that pay dividends
- net worth inner circle, surround yourself with a few people doing slightly better than you. Not too high so it's not realistic
- start a brokerage account and wait
- pay your kids through your business to contribute to their own Roth IRA
Scott of Little Pine Farm in CO on Twitter
Scott of Little Pine Farm in CO on Instagram
The female, Canadian version of Alexander Supertramp with a lot less dying and much more community. So overall, 100x better. That's @loamygirl15 in a nutshell. She lives in an RV in Eastern Canada, has a garden, and raises rabbits for meat and fur.
"For most people the years 2020-2022 simply did not happen. There was 2019 and then there was 2023." -@StewartalsopIII
Did you build up and improve your life during Covid, or did you let it tear you down and set you back?
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
Scott of Little Pine Farm in CO on Twitter
Scott of Little Pine Farm in CO on Instagram
Matt Sargent of Advanced Agroforestry stops by for a property evaluation. We're looking to start over in order to be more efficient on our homestead. The whole walkthrough was two hours long! What kind of tips do you have?
Advanced Agroforestry Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/advanced\_ag...
FarmHopLife website
FarmHoplife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Author, farmer, podcaster, blogger, Amy Dingmann of A Farmish Kind of Life joins me to talk about her books, snail mail newsletter, podcast. Also the farm operations, livestock, wins, losses, the struggles, and why it's all worth it.
A Farmish Kind of Life website
A Farmish Kind of Life Instagram
A Farmish Kind of Life Facebook
A Farmish Kind of Life Pinterest
What do you want to learn this year? How will that help you get to where you're going?
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What would you do if shit hit the fan today? Good mindset to have to help prioritize your needs now before the event actually happens. Was going to cover all six areas (food, water, shelter, health & sanitation, energy, communication) but each area will probably have it's own episode. This is just about energy.
We can help each other. Ready, set, prep!
I have today Jake Wolki of Wolki Farm in Austrailia. He shares how it all started with his dad's hobby farm, buying the butchery, adding product & livestock, The Beef Initiative, homeschooling, teenage years on the farm, and a lot more!
Toolman Tim talks about his previous experience with homesteading, gardening, canning, little farming. What happened, why he doesn't do it anymore, and will he try it again? We also talk about Grandma's recipe's, hunting with dad, being broke, DIY, freedom through entrepreneurship, and getting sh*t done.
"My wife and I moved from NS to AB a nearly a decade ago and left poverty behind 5 years ago when we first started focusing on entrepreneurship and the freedom it brings. We spent many years in Nova Scotia homestead and learned a ton of lessons, lately our focus has been on prepping and building our businesses however we most recently bought 10 acres in TN which will be an incredible project."
What would you do if shit hit the fan today? Good mindset to have to help prioritize your needs now before the event actually happens. Was going to cover all six areas (food, water, shelter, health & sanitation, energy, communication) but each area will probably have it's own episode. This is just about communications.
We can help each other. Ready, set, prep!
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
DIRT-CHEAP EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION PDF
Scott of Little Pine Farm in CO on Twitter
Ken Eash and I talk about finding community, lots of losses, mangalitsa pigs, meat goats, refining what works, finding your purpose, and near death experiences.
Ken and his wife Carmel live on a small farm in Burkesville, KY. Between raising Golden Retrievers, goats, and bacon seeds, they each also have a full time business. Ken, in construction, and Carmel in house cleaning. They also find time to pursue personal interests, hobbies, and side hustles, which gives them so much to do and so little time.
https://emfomem.co/share/cn5lc2W7YICCbv8n
https://www.facebook.com/Keneash86
https://www.tiktok.com/@keneash
https://www.instagram.com/kennetheash/
January is gone. What'd you do? We talk about oil drilling in Alaska, chicken feed conspiracy, Chinese spy balloon, and lot's of other nonsense.
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This is our pilot series on our 20x23 project, to visit 20 homesteads in 2023. I’ll explain more later. I visited my friend Joe Senger’s house to make some deer sausage and catch up on lots and lots of stuff. Please excuse the audio quality at some parts, I’m still working through the finer details.
Previous interview
What would you do if shit hit the fan today? Good mindset to have to help prioritize your needs now before the event actually happens. Was going to cover all six areas (food, water, shelter, health & sanitation, energy, communication) but each area will probably have it's own episode. This is just about health and sanitation.
We can help each other. Ready, set, prep!
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What would you do if shit hit the fan today? Good mindset to have to help prioritize your needs now before the event actually happens. Was going to cover all six areas (food, water, shelter, health & sanitation, energy, communication) but each area will probably have it's own episode. This is just about SHELTER.
We can help each other. Ready, set, prep!
How was your 2022? Wins/losses? What does your 2023 look like? How will you achieve these goals?
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What would you do if shit hit the fan today? Good mindset to have to help prioritize your needs now before the event actually happens. Was going to cover all six areas (food, water, shelter, health & sanitation, energy, communication) but each area will probably have it's own episode. This is just about water.
We can help each other. Ready, set, prep!
What would you do if shit hit the fan today? Good mindset to have to help prioritize your needs now before the event actually happens. Was going to cover all six areas (food, water, shelter, health & sanitation, energy, communication) but each area will probably have it's own episode. This is just about food.
We can help each other. Ready, set, prep!
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Homestead of Payne on Instagram
Pure Bama Apparel by DeweyLikeDonuts
First thing we did to make money, first W2 job, worst job, and most interesting job. Someone was almost blown up at the Olympics, someone was mistaken for a porn company, and someone was filming the Super Bowl.
Recorded on 12-5-2022
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
Homestead of Payne on Instagram
Recorded on October 5th, 2022
Scott Miller of Thriving the Future had me on his show to talk about our 20x23project and how it all started. Scott has actually become a good friend since then. Be sure to follow him and check out his other episodes!
Thriving The Future website
Thriving The Future Twitter
Thriving The Future Youtube
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Saving seeds, swapping seeds, creating hybrid plants, hybrid chickens, almost extinct sheep breed, and more!
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
Homestead of Payne on Twitter
Homestead of Payne on Instagram
DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
DeweyLikeDonuts on Instagram
Pure Bama Apparel by DeweyLikeDonuts
Thriving The Future website
Thriving The Future Twitter
Thriving The Future Youtube
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Crazy, off the rails talk, trying to define what is an echo chamber? How's it different than a hive mind? And is this Men's Forum a circle jerk? Plus, We get into conspiracies because we can.
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
Homestead of Payne on Twitter
Homestead of Payne on Instagram
DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
DeweyLikeDonuts on Instagram
Pure Bama Apparel by DeweyLikeDonuts
Guy Alaska on Twitter (don't follow him)
Long Story Farms on Twitter
Long Story Farms on Facebook
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Recorded 11-17-2022
Matt and Kaitie talk about our #20x23project for FarmHopLife. What is it, how it started, our grant application, failed promo, new job, conflicted feelings, and now what?
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
What relationships would this thinking apply to? Is recognizing a relationship as transactional a bad thing? What about giving or generosity? We discuss
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
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Homestead of Payne on Twitter
Homestead of Payne on Instagram
Long Story Farms on Twitter
Long Story Farms on Facebook
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Recorded on November 10th, 2022
Tonight my guest is Jess of Living Tiny Homestead on TikTok where she promotes living simply and within your means, ditching the idea of needing expensive things to be happy.
We discuss her and her husband losing their jobs, how they converted a shed to a home, surrogacy, waterglassing eggs, trying new things, and the hardships of being apart from your spouse.
Living Tiny Homestead on TikTok
Living Tiny Homestead on Instagram
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
"Under the Influencer" discussing the people who have a platform to say something to encourage others to do something, either positive or negative. Could be Donald Trump on "Stop the Steal", Andrew Tate on whatever it is he says (never listened to the guy), Joel Salatin on starting a farm, or Wendell Berry on perspective of small town America.
The other half will also be questioning the psychological state of the individual listening to the influencer. "What was that person dealing with that made them vulnerable to these ideas being presented and then absorbed?"
If it makes no sense, hopefully it will when we get to discussing it.
Thriving The Future website
Thriving The Future Twitter
Thriving The Future Youtube
Grant Payne Twitter
Grant Payne Instagram
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Recorded November 4th, 2022
Tonight my guest is Chicken Whisperer.
Master of colorful language. There's your explicit warning!
He's on the space coast. Never even thought about trying to homestead until 3 or 4 years ago... Got chickens the first year, put a lot of time into learning about them, had knack for it. Added ducks and had more plans, but last year slowed them down. Started canning last year and that turned out really well for the tomatoes, plan on getting more next season and really we're trying to focus on an herb garden to and learning homeopathic thoughts in medicine.
Chicken Whisperer on Twitter
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Recorded on October 27th, 2022
Guest tonight is Scott Miller of Thriving The Future Podcast, finding positive solutions to thrive in the tough times ahead. Scott is in NE Kansas.
We talk about getting out of the city, making compost, community, learning crypto, not being an expert, what is Thriving the Future, and a whole lot more!
Thriving The Future website
Thriving The Future Twitter
Thriving The Future Youtube
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Time. Money. Energy. We can only get so much of each, so how do we choose what gets done?
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
DeweyLikeDonuts on Instagram
Pure Bama Apparel by DeweyLikeDonuts
Grant Payne on Twitter
Grant Payne on Instagram
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Recorded on October 21st, 2022
My guest, Grant Payne and I talk about starting small, scaling up, bartering, free materials, making things pay for themselves, going back to school, and a lot more!
Grant, 21, did both homeschooling and public school did competition shooting when he was younger. After he graduated high school in 2019, he picked up gardening and that snowballed into the aspirations to homestead after learning about all of the utter crap that we eat.
Grant on Twitter
Grant on Instagram
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Social media is pretty toxic, but it also has it's uses. We discuss doxxing, harassing billionaires, creating community, and so much more!
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
Homestead Padre on Twitter
Smith Homestead website
Long Story Farms on Twitter
Long Story Farms on Facebook
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
recorded August 1st, 2022
Spontaneous chat that discussed the NICU, pepe, lots of chickens, grifters, content creators, drugs, and a whole lot more
Recorded on October 6th, 2022
"...buy the dip on California"
Brian Harrington is a Bitcoin activist who lives in the desert of Southern California with his wife Sherin and son Riot. Brian and Sherin have been long time Bitcoiners and are doing what they can to build a self sustainable home on a regular suburban sized lot as well as talk to people about the crossover between Bitcoin and homesteading.
We talk solar Bitcoin mining, ROI on your property, local economy, engineering efficiency, dropping fiat, and TONS MORE!
Brian Harrington website
Brian Harrington Twitter
Brian Harrington Youtube
Brian Harrington Instagram
Brian Harrington TikTok
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Where's Baby? Matt and Kaitie tell the story about how 7 weeks in the NICU and time in the Ronald McDonald House went.
We cover picking the WRONG hospital, heading straight to the NICU, fighting with doctors, SWITCHING hospitals 3 weeks in, everyday is the same, and feeling stuck. Then suddenly, we're headed home.
There's so much we didn't cover. If you have a question, please don't hesitate to ask. If you have a story to share, please do!
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Family, friends, work, hobbies, politics? Where don't you fit in?
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
Homestead Padre on Twitter
Smith Homestead website
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Recorded on September 22, 2022
Kenan Todd, part owner of Acorn Bluff Farms. They raise purebred Mangalitsas, selling direct to consumer and helping others get started.
We talk about different types of Mangalitsas, fence types that keep them contained, foods that they won't eat or affect the meat, farrowing issues, shipping to the consumer, and much much more!
Acorn Bluff Farms website
Acorn Bluff Farms Twitter
Acorn Bluff Farms Instagram
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Super behind on everything and wanting to catch up with the boys
What have you fallen behind on and why? How do you plan on catching up? Matt Derosier of FarmHopLife, Christopher de Vidal of Secure Coop, Jeremy deweylikedonuts, and Scott of Little Pine Farm come together to discuss this and much more!
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
DeweyLikeDonuts on Instagram
Pure Bama Apparel by DeweyLikeDonuts
Scott Thompson of Little Pine Farm CO on Instagram
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Recorded on September 7th, 2022
Zach lives with his wife, Elise, and their two kids in the Driftless region of Wisconsin. They raise alpaca, pigs, chickens, and goats and are learning on the fly.
We talk about the Driftless region of Wisconsin, croquet with Mark Shepard, doing projects for free, but money fixes things, finding community, and more!
Zach @VictoryIllinios on Twitter
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Recorded on September 1st, 2022
Generous Farmer hasn’t been into farming long. Bought a farm after Covid happened with plans to farm full time if he was ever forced to get, you know, the thing. never got fired and now has two jobs! Building a farm business while working full time.
We talk about the farm being his backup plan, hustling with patience, becoming sustainable, defining regenerative, and so much more!
Generous Greens website
Generous Farmer on Twitter
Generous Farmer on Instagram
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
How do you communicate? How do you support your spouse? How do they support you? Are you even listening? Any tips for newly married folks?
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
Boundaries in Marriage book
Long Story Farms on Twitter
Long Story Farms on Facebook
DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
DeweyLikeDonuts on Instagram
Pure Bama Apparel by DeweyLikeDonuts
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Jeremy aka deweylikedonuts, his wife, and son live in suburban Alabama and raise chickens for eggs, garden, and try to be as self-sufficient as we can. He believes in being prepared for the craziness this world throws at us and embrace the label of preppers.
DeweyLikeDonuts on TikTok
DeweyLikeDonuts on Instagram
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Al Storm, Located in North Florida, started advancedprimitive.net Located in North Florida, Lost 80 pounds by eating a more natural diet then started producing his own food by hunting, fishing, gardening, and raising livestock.
Advanced Primitive website
Al Storm on Twitter
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Life is full of stuff you don't want to do. Either get over it, or work hard to do less of what you don't want
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
"Dad, there's little pink aliens in the garage!"
Ben Husmann, his wife Allison, and their two kids moved from Chicago to Western NC a year ago, and they’re starting a homestead. Allison homeschools, Ben works a tech job remote. Currently raising angoras, chickens and geese, planting trees, and planning for the future.
We talk about the move, little pink aliens, making a plan, playing catchup, and how the homestead is like restoring pinball machines.
Ben Husmann on Twitter
Ben Husmann on Instagram
Ben Husmann blog
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
A life of ease is no life at all. What are some things you've done that are physically hard? Mentally? Emotionally? Spiritually? Relationships?
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website [DISCOUNT CODE IN EPISODE]
Long Story Farms on Twitter
Long Story Farms on Facebook
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Nathan Gates is a 10+ year homesteader in Illinois, homeschooling and self employed psychotherapist. Before that lived the Colorado life.
We discuss being human, growing up a country boy, am I a farmer or homesteader, coming back to family, vibing on a cow, and so much more!
Nate on Twitter
Tripping with Nate Substack
Nate's Farm Instagram
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
What ideas have you had to make money? Which of those have you tried? How'd they do? What happened? What are you working on now?
Matt Derosier of FarmHopLife, Chistopher de Vidal of SecureFarm and SecureCoop, Joseph Smith of Smith Homestead (aka homestead padre)
Links:
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website
Homestead Padre on Twitter
Smith Homestead website
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
The Great Reset? The Great Depression? Both? Repression of the masses? Eat the bugs or grow the bugs? What's China got to do with all this?
Matt Derosier of FarmHopLife, Chistopher de Vidal of SecureFarm and SecureCoop, Joseph Smith of Smith Homestead (aka homestead padre) and Warlord Rancher all come together to talk about the World Economic Forum and so much more.
Links:
Duck Tales episode
Seminar by Dave Canterbury at the 2015 NPS Expo in Louisville, Kentucky
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website
Warlord Rancher on Twitter
Homestead Padre on Twitter
Smith Homestead website
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
How do you take back control of your life? This ain't political. Take back control of your time, money, food, family, employment, community.
Matt Derosier of FarmHopLife, Chistopher de Vidal of SecureFarm and SecureCoop, and Warlord Rancher all come together to talk about taking back control.
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website
Warlord Rancher on Twitter
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Today my guest is Slow Cheetah, a Christian SAHM with a passion for getting back to basics and learning how to be self sufficient in these crazy times. We discuss having a suburb garden, "approved" chickens, time with family, learning the basics, and homeschooling. A lot of homeschooling! Plus so much more.
Slow Cheetah on Twitter
Coop Queen cookie Twitter
FarmHopLife website
20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Joseph Smith of Smith Homestead in Mississippi. He's been homesteading for 11 years, full time for the last two years. Homeschooler, market vendor, stay at home dad, married 7 years with three kids. Small space homesteading expert and intensive gardening expert.
We talk about when he was homeless for over a year, going full time homesteader, shifting your mindset, using marigolds, working the market to your advantage, community, and much more!
Smith Homestead website
Joseph Smith on Twitter
FarmHopLife website
20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Is it toxic? Is it ripe for failure? How to avoid burnout? We've all been hustling, have we peaked yet? And more! Matt Derosier of FarmHopLife, Chistopher de Vidal of SecureFarm and SecureCoop, BowTiedScapeGoat, and Dylan Schnese of Steady Presence all come together to talk about hustle culture.
Christopher de Vidal on MeWe
SecureCoop website
BowTiedScapeGoat on Twitter
BowTiedScapeGoat links
Dylan Schnese on Instagram
Steady Presence website
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife #20x23project
FarmHopLife links
Matt talks with Warlord Rancher from Twitter aka @oglibate. We discuss what makes a good warlord, leaving big tech, community, securing cattle, juggling projects, blacksmithing, and a whole lot more!
Warlord Rancher on Twitter
20x23project
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife links
Matt talks with Christopher de Vidal, of SecureFarm to talk Florida plants, RV living, David the Good, chronic fatigue, low money gardening options, and much more!
There's a promo code for SecureCoop at the end of the audio, go listen!
Resources mentioned:
David the Good Youtube
TheSurvivalGardener.com
Grow a Little Fruit Tree by Ann Ralph
The Frugal Homesteader by John Moody
Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth
I had said that the How To Grow More Vegetables book by Jeavons is public domain but now I'm not certain about that. But anyone anywhere can borrow a copy from the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/search.php?query=How+to+Grow+More+Vegetables+Jeavons&sin=
SecureCoop website
SecureCoop MeWe
SecureCoop Facebook
SecureCoop Twitter
SecureCoop Gab
SecureCoop Flote
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife links
Matt speaks with BowTiedScapeGoat from Twitter about high yield/low space gardening, rental property in Puerto Rico, landscape design, being a small business owner, and a lot more!
BowTiedScapeGoat on Twitter
BowTiedScapeGoat on TikTok
BowTiedScapeGoat on Substack
BowTiedScapeGoat Links
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife Links
What makes a good dad? What was your dad like? How does that influence how you father your children?
Long Story Farms on Twitter
Josiah Young on Twitter
FarmHopLife website
Matt Talks with Simon Gooder of Permapeople.org, a seed marketplace where people can buy and trade all different kinds of seeds. We get into localism, building community, living in a van, finding Permaculture, guerrilla gardening, and a lot more!
Simon Gooder on Twitter
PermaPeople on Twitter
PermaPeople.org
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife social media
Do you have a lawn? Should we take advice from older generations? Can working mothers have it all? Are you part of the "follow your passion" crowd or "do what you're good at and you'll learn to like it" crowd? All of this and more!
Long Story Farms on Twitter
Josiah Young on Twitter
FarmHopLife website
Matt talks with Matthew Hamilton, he and his family, have a small homestead in Southwest Missouri. Full time tradesman. They have pigs, chickens, geese, fruit and veg.
We discuss the best way to store chicken, urban rural fringe, closed loop systems, Jacob sheep, skilled traded, roping pigs, and a lot more!
Hamilton on Twitter
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife social links
What's the real proper human diet? What is ancestral? What's sustainable? What do top performing athletes consume? We talk about all this and more!
Long Story Farms on Twitter
Josiah Young on Twitter
Guy Alaska on Twitter
FarmHopLife website
LaurenInTheWild on Twitter
LongStoryFarms follow recommendations
Frank Mitloehner on Twitter
Frédéric Leroy on Twitter
ALEPH2020 on Twitter
Matt and Brian sit down to talk changing jobs, building skills, leaving the homestead, RV life, and a lot more. Loved this one because it's so relatable.
LOTS Project website
LOTS Project Telegram channel
LOTS Project Telegram chat
LOTS Project on Flote
LOTS Project on MeWe
LOTS Project on Odysee
LOTS Project on YouTube
LOTS Project on Rumble
LOTS Project on Instagram
LOTS Project on Facebook
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife Links
Matt Derosier, Josiah Young, and Guy Alaska get together to discuss the ethics, principles, and morals of raising meat, hunting, and fishing.
Josiah Young Twitter
Guy Alaska Twitter
FarmHopLife Website
FarmHopLife Links
Matt and TJ from Life on Milo's Farm discuss being prepared, eating clean food, wedge-tailed eagles, and learning traditional skills.
Life on Milo's Farm Website
Life on Milo's Farm Instagram
Life on Milo's Farm Facebook
Life on Milo's Farm Youtube
FarmHopLife Website
FarmHopLife Links
Is the term homesteader tainted? Does it not mean what we think it means? Are people who are homesteading not liking the homesteader label? We discuss....
Matt Derosier of FarmHopLife, Scott Thompson of Little Pine Farm, Josiah Young of Over the Moon Farm, and Geoffrey Long of Long Story Farms all come together to talk about what makes a homesteader. We find the line in being a producer vs consumer, mindset, intention, and lifestyle. Plus we discuss how to make others feel involved in your farm or homestead. A+ conversation
MartianFarmer on Twitter
Little Pine Farm Youtube
Josiah on Twitter
Long Story Farms on Twitter
Long Story Farms on Facebook
FarmHopLife Website
FarmHopLife Links
Matt speaks with Madi Oskey of Madi's apartment in Minneapolis, MN. She and her dog grow veggies, herbs, and fruit on their apartment balcony. We discuss inheriting skills, inspiring others to start, friends and family, mentorship, and finding a career in a niche market.
Madi's Twitter
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife Links
From Amy at A Farmish Kind Of Life:
Today’s interview is withMatt and Kaitie from FarmHopLife. We talk about their beginnings as homesteaders as well as their 2023 plan to start traveling the country, helping other homesteaders with work that needs to be done. Matt and Kaitie discuss what FarmHopLife grew out of, what people think about their upcoming adventure, and how they plan to handle life on the road with young children.
We hope you enjoy this interview!
— Amy, Matt, and Kaitie, 5-19-22
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Matt Derosier of FarmHopLife and Dylan Schnese of Steady Presence get together and talk briefly about the Bitcoin dip and what happens if Coinbase goes away.
Moving onto the main subject, leadership. Are you a leader? What makes a good leader? Leaders in your household? Do you even want to be a leader?
Leave a comment!
Steady Presence website
Steady Presence Instagram
Steady Presence Linktree
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife Linktree
Matt Derosier and Jason Snyder sit down to talk all things metamodern vs post modernism, regenerative agriculture, localism, permaculture, community, and more!
Jason Snyder on Twitter
Doomer Optimism Podcast
FarmHopLife Website
FarmHopLife Linktree
Matt and Kaitie talk about foreseeable issues and solutions with raising kids in an RV. First, a pregnancy update from Kaitie! Things like waiting until they're older, remote learning, exposure to hard skills, making money vs earning money, being an entrepreneur, friends, sports, and space.
Leave a comment or question!
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife links
Matt Derosier of FarmHopLife and Dylan Schnese of Steady Presence get together and talk about Bird Flu, symptoms to look out for, prevention methods, and immunity boosting herbs to give chickens.
Honey Grove Homestead Chicken Farmacy
https://www.instagram.com/p/CcZPwTHlHJT/
Moving onto the main topic, Branding, Sales, and Marketing. What's the difference? We talk a little bit about Gary Vee, TikTok, Instagram, people telling your story for you, converting those stories into sales, and things we ourselves need to improve to get more stories told.
Leave a comment!
Steady Presence website
Steady Presence Instagram
Steady Presence Linktree
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife Linktree
Matt speaks with Sophia Neeld of Honey Grove Homestead in Central Georgia about the ups and downs of homesteading. After 12 years and multiple homesteads, Sophia has a lot of experience to share, especially when it comes to treating chickens for all kinds of diseases and learning to prevent those diseases. We talk about her house potbellied pig, her chicken farmacy, finding community, and quality of life.
Honey Grove Homestead Instagram
Honey Grove Homestead Youtube
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife links
Matt Derosier of FarmHopLife and Dylan Schnese of Steady Presence get together an talk about a few current events: new list of banned books, Ministry of Truth, and Ukraine admitted Ghost of Kiev isn't real.
Moving onto the main topic, Mental health. What do you do to promote mental health? No News is good news for us. Prayer? Meditation? Working out? Martial arts? Food? Alcohol? Drugs?
Leave a comment!
Steady Presence website
Steady Presence Instagram
Steady Presence Linktree
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife Linktree
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Reposting from The LOTS Project
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Matt talks with Luke and Megan Wilson of Wilson Homestead in Montana. They're real life friends of ours! We discuss raising all the livestock, easy breeds of sheep, saying goodbye to rabbits, and growing plants vs raising animals.
Wilson Homestead website
Wilson Homestead Instagram
Wilson Homestead Facebook
Wilson Homestead Youtube
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife links
4/25/22 - Matt Derosier, Dylan Schnese, and Josiah Young discuss some current events such as Bird Flu, food processing centers being burned or destroyed, then move onto the main topic: education. Join in by leaving a comment or question!
Josiah Young - Over the Moon Farm
Dylan Schnese - Steady Presence
Steady Presence Instagram
Matt Derosier - FarmHopLife
FarmHopLife Links
Matt talks with Matthew Sargent of Advanced Agroforestry in Hamilton, MT to discuss working with Mark Shepard, keyline design, planting 1200 trees in KY then moving to MT, and trash. Lots and lots of trash.
Matthew's Instagram
Advanced Agroforestry Instagram
Two Poppies Apothecary Instagram
FarmHopLife website
FarmHopLife Links
Matt Derosier and Tenzin Botsford discuss price increases, employees, and community!
Red Door Family Farm Instagram
Red Door Family Farm Website
FarmHopLife Website
FarmHopLife Links
Matt talks with Scott Thompson (@ExoAgriculture) of Little Pine Farm in Pine, CO. We talk Elon Musk, Mars, experiencing other farms, and starting new.
Little Pine Farm Youtube
ExoAgriculture on Twitter
FarmHopLife Website
FarmHopLife Links
Matt sits down with Jordan Green of J&L Green Farm in Edinburg, VA to talk about helping others, Polyface Farm, military experience, price increases, and bashing kunekunes!
J&L Green Farm Website
Farm Builder Website
Farm Builder Facebook
Farm Builder Instagram
Farm Builder Youtube
FarmHopLife Website
FarmHopLife Links
"Guy Alaska" comes on the show to talk about moving to SE Alaska, the difficulties, the benefits that come with it, like the freedom he and his family have, gold over Bitcoin, and much much more!
"Guy Alaska" Twitter
Shayla's Instagram
Farmhoplife Links
Matt Sorrell of Freebird Homestead tells me the extreme event that got him and his wife out of NYC to a 100 year old farm house outside the city and start homesteading. We talk about wearing his dogtags as a mindset, systems thinking, his to-the-point handyman youtube channel, and remote tutoring services.
Freebird Homestead Twitter
Freebird Homestead Youtube
FarmHopLife Links
"we like the challenge of putting something together"
Matt talks to Tenzin and Stacey Botsford of Red Door Family Farm in Athens, Wisconsin where they have 36 acres for their organic vegetables, operate a Farm to Family program, and also supply boxes of food to Afghan refugees. We talk about successes, failures, challenges, sustainability, employees, soil health, and so much more!
Matt and Kaitie have a happy announcement! We also talk about the long hard road to get here, how it went, how this one's going, and how that affects our timeline! Be sure to leave a comment or question or send an email!
FarmHopLife Links
"growing tobacco isn't that hard"
Josiah Young of Over the Moon Farm near Kansas City, Missouri comes on to talk about automation, goats, timber framing, growing tobacco, and a lot more!
Josiah's Twitter
FarmHopLife Links
"I got bit by the bug and I went crazy"
Matt talks with BowTiedFarmer (on Twitter) about how he got started, why his raised beds failed, what works for him, the hard parts of homesteading, why he's anon and more!
BowTiedFarmer Website
BowTiedFarmer Twitter
FarmHopLife Links
"...health is not the priority"
Matt chats with Ashley and Dylan Schnese of Steady Presence Farm. We talk about community, cops arresting chickens, and being prepared.
Steady Presence Links
https://linktr.ee/Steadypresence
FarmHopLife
https://linktr.ee/farmhoplife
Matt and Kaitie go over ideas we've had about making income while on the road. Airbnb extras, campground coffee, partnering with farmers and homsteaders, value for value, and some quick money ideas.
"Well when you're the daughter of a demi-god...."
Matt is joined by Lauren to talk about her upbringing of parents that were 1840s fur trappers in the 1980s, living off grid in a teepee on the Blackfoot reservation, permaculture, bitcoin, the need for strong me, and so much more.
Lauren on Twitter
FarmHopLife Social
Matt and Kaitie talk about what to do with the house. Airbnb or rent? And discuss the challenges of getting there by shifting focus.
Matt sits down with Kayliegh Harte of Chicken Harte Homestead. We talk about her son with autism and how goats have greatly improved his capabilities, why ducks suck, and the why of homesteading.
Chicken Harte Instagram
Devin Michael Housman Memorial Scholarship Fund
FarmHopLife Linktree
Matt and Kaitie go over what our plan is for FarmHopLife, things we're working towards, and things we're doing now to get ready for the journey!
FarmHopLife links
Matt interviews Geoffrey from Long Story Farms to discuss how he got started, why he grows his own food, and still maintaining a time intensive work life.
Long Story Farms Twitter
Long Story Farms Facebook
Long Story Farms Instagram
FarmHopLife links
Matt and Kaitie introduce themselves and explain what is FarmHopLife
Leave a comment or send an email!
FarmHopLife website
Matt interviews Ariel from A Tiny House Called Fy Nyth video blog. We talk about life growing up in Pennsylvania, family, off grid living, self reliance, and why she still uses a flip phone.
Fy Nyth YouTube
Fy Nyth Odysee
Fy Nyth Flote
Fy Nyth MeWe
FarmHopLife Social Links
Joe Senger tells us what keeps him up at night. Spoiler alert! It's chicken breeds
FarmHopLife Social Links: https://linktr.ee/farmhoplife
Graze and Roam Instagram
Joe Senger explains what happened when he switched to an organic chicken feed. I couldn't believe the difference
FarmHopLife Social Links: https://linktr.ee/farmhoplife
Graze and Roam Instagram
Joe Senger of Graze and Roam farm in Victor MT gives us 10 tips on farming
FarmHopLife Social Links: https://linktr.ee/farmhoplife
Graze and Roam Instagram
Matt interviews Joe Senger of Graze and Roam Farm remotely about getting started farming
Social Links: https://linktr.ee/farmhoplife
Graze and Roam Instagram
Matt interviews Joe Senger of Graze and Roam Farm remotely about getting started farming
Social Links: https://linktr.ee/farmhoplife
Graze and Roam Instagram