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🔨- Design your Intentional life.
🐓- Homestead
🍓- Garden
🤝 – Community
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Tips on Crafting Apple Cider, Apple Propagation, and Apple Grafting. More detail than most books!How did the Sept. Regional Catholic Land Movement Conference go?We deep dive on Mike's apple cider steps:He ferments English bittersweet apples in oak barrels with natural yeast.Barrel prep with a cold water rinse and cold water swell.Fill the barrel to overflowing, with no headspace.Natural cool fermentation < 55 degrees.Rack into bottling tank. Cold weather crash the bottling tank. Then bottle in champagne bottles.The use of recycled wine oak barrels - does it impart into the cider?Apple cider vinegar - the end road result of failure.Propagation and Grafting.Growing apples rootstock from seed.Grafting apples onto homegrown rootstock.More info on the Catholic Land Movement: https://catholiclandmovement.info.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/apple-ciderIt's September and I've already grown $236 of veggies and it wasn't even a bumper crop year.How do I know that? I use: Thriving Garden Planner tells you how much you need to plant, the spacing, etc. Plus track your planting, harvest, and compare to grocery prices to see how much you saved growing your own. This is my design. Now 20% off at ThrivingGardenPlanner.comIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,
Shudra is back and we discuss the solution to the recent "emergencies":New virus?Plant treesCultivate gardensTend livestockBank limiting your cash withdrawals?Plant treesCultivate gardensTend livestockAliens in the news?Plant treesCultivate gardensTend livestockWe also discuss aquaponics and his recent article on Thriver.News: Homestead Aquaponics, Step by Step – The World’s Greatest Ebb and Flow Bed:https://thriver.news/homestead-aquaponics/This article is step by step detail to create a homestead aquaponics system from IBC totes, and includes everything, including the fitting details.Plus updates on his local kangaroos - Tilda and Harley and how to plant a tree with humanure.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/plant-treesIt's September and I've already grown $236 of veggies and it wasn't even a bumper crop year.How do I know that? I use: Thriving Garden Planner tells you how much you need to plant, the spacing, etc. Plus track your planting, harvest, and compare to grocery prices to see how much you saved growing your own. This is my design. Now 20% off at ThrivingGardenPlanner.comIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,
Do You Feel Like Quitting?It's Sept. It's still hot. My Fall garden lettuce and greens will not germinate in this heat. I may run out of growing time before the first frost.For my wife, Feb and March are the worst times. The horses are covered in mud and it seems like it will never end.Tips for when you feel like quitting - how to come back?Failure is an option.Embrace the seasons.Take the time.Re-evaluate your goals.My goals are to grow as much of my own food as possible and to learn and share skills.Seems like a lot of people quitting homesteading lately. Or redefining it as "farmsteading", "freesteading" or "lifesteading".So what is a "homesteader"?Maybe the deciding factor should be: Homesteaders have poison ivy X number of times per year. 😆I’m going on having poison ivy the 4-5th time, but it’s been a slow year.A remarkable amount of people arguing lately about who is a homesteader and who is Larping, especially after off grid Guy Alaska posted a pic on Twitter of his native Alaskan wife washing clothes in the creek and it brought out the haters - from people saying that he was Larping, to the feminists who said that his wife was enslaved. ("Larping" is Live Action Role Playing, like those dweebs acting out D&D live in the park, wearing fake Hobbit feet and play fighting with foam rubber swords.)Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/quittingWant to Create a Food Forest and Grow 3-5X More Food?🔎- Check out Will Horvath's Free Food Forest ToolkitWhat you get:How to create a food forest: step-by-step implementation checklistSite-Survey Checklist: how to “read the landscape” and analyze your site5 plug-and-play Permaculture Guild examples you can copy and recreate in your food forestThe exact Layout Planning Guide that Will used when establishing his food forestI also recommend Will's Finding Land Course - now $100 off.See my apple guild that I created after taking Will's course.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,
After two years and almost 100 episodes, we discuss how our views of community have changed.In Ep. 1 of the podcast Perpend and I discussed what is necessary for successful community:WorldviewSkin in the game/Proof of WorkProximityCommon purposeCommon cultureAre you doing community or just networking?Networking can be transactional and extracting; Community is more holistic and is more about people. It is sharing life and culture.When your community workshops become so mundane that you don't take pictures anymore, It is something that you do. Something that shares life and culture. That's where you see people stay or fall away.After things went back to "normal" we saw less engagement and people don't want to get together and do stuff. They just wanted to create a network, and have a "parallel economy". How did that work out two years later?Then I discuss the different levels of community. You naturally have inner and outer circles. There is no purity test unless you are talking about forming intentional community. The inner and outer circles are gates that function to answer the question "who can I trust?"Tips for building community:Meetups - these can be formal (monthly meeting) or informal (coffee shop or restaurant).Workshops - build community by sharing skills.weekly chats or calls.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/community-vs-networkingWant to Create a Food Forest and Grow 3-5X More Food?🔎- Check out Will Horvath's Free Food Forest ToolkitWhat you get:How to create a food forest: step-by-step implementation checklistSite-Survey Checklist: how to “read the landscape” and analyze your site5 plug-and-play Permaculture Guild examples you can copy and recreate in your food forestThe exact Layout Planning Guide that Will used when establishing his food forestI also recommend Will's Finding Land Course - now $100 off.See my apple guild that I created after taking Will's course.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,
The Catholic Land Movement is a colloquial network of Catholic homesteaders who are looking to support one another educationally through fellowship and mutual aid with focusing on Catholic liturgical life as the center of those homesteading activities.They are a network of chapters in Catholic parishes nation wide, who host workshops, coordinate work projects, share skills.Mike Thomas from The Catholic Land Movement shares about the movement. Mike is a homesteader who lives in upstate NY.Based on an early 1900's book by Father Vincent McNabb, which encouraged readers to turn away from modernity and "quit the towns for the land". Reading this book drove Mike and others to the deeper faith and practices of their ancestors.Lots of tips on building community in this episode - teaching skills, networking to set up people raising animals with a farrier, chicken processing together. Then taking it to a larger regional and national network, with regional leaders, and even regional conferences (one coming up in Indiana in Sept).Conference info: https://catholiclandmovement.info/welcomeWe also talk about the importance of liturgical life, the liturgical calendar that defines and augments the seasons for life.Mike's apple orchard, making apple cider, and his very impressive apple cider operation.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/catholic-land-movementWant to Create a Food Forest and Grow 3-5X More Food?🔎- Check out Will Horvath's Free Food Forest ToolkitWhat you get:How to create a food forest: step-by-step implementation checklistSite-Survey Checklist: how to “read the landscape” and analyze your site5 plug-and-play Permaculture Guild examples you can copy and recreate in your food forestThe exact Layout Planning Guide that Will used when establishing his food forestI also recommend Will's Finding Land Course - now $100 off.See my apple guild that I created after taking Will's course.If you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,