Today I am joined by my older daughter, Ashley, to discuss her Skoolie

Today we talk about really dialing in on your climate and geography preferences before you start looking for your perfect piece of Raw land to develop into a Homestead

Today, we talk about the thing that you really should do first before you even start looking at off grid to acquire for homesteading.

Today we talk about how our systems worked out during the super cold snap here in Tennessee and what projects we have now that that has been experienced

Today we talk about getting ready for some way below average temps getting ready to hit Tn and prepping the Homestead.

Today we talk about how we deal with load shifting and being really energy conscious while off grid when you have a string of cloudy days. We are currently experiencing about 10 consecutive days of cloud cover in our part of Tennessee, and that requires us to really manage our power usage more than we normally do.

Today Im jojned by my younger daughter to discuss her experience living off the grid

Today I talk about what the word of the year is and then talk about what my personal word of the year is going to be for 2024 and why I chose that word and what I am planning on doing about it for this year

Today we talk about the different options for mounting solar panels and what I learned this year from actual hands-on experience.

Today we talk about the specifications of the eco-flow Delta plus battery pack, and how to replicate it at home using components you can buy straight from Amazon

Today we talk about the different things. We are working on at the Homestead and the plans that we have over the next couple of months.

Today we talk about the complete and total gutting of the residential rooftop solar industry in the state of California, which may be exactly what state regulators were trying to make happen when they passed their new rules that went into effect this year, and then change the rules. which gutted the entire reasoning for The new rules in the first place

Today we talk about setting smart goals and what that means and why goalsetting is much better than a New Year’s resolution as well as talk about some of my goals for the podcast next year

I’m getting a bunch of questions about Black Friday deal so I thought it be best to just throw out some information to guide you as you evaluate the plethora of black Friday deals being offered by solar companies today

Today we talk about a recent solar installation workshop that I ran in Southeast Tennessee for a group that is running their own PMA food club.

Today we talk about the Self-Reliance festival(SRF) in Camden Tennessee

Today we talk about the terrorist attack on Israel that happened over the weekend and some things that we can take as lessons to apply to our own lives in the much more relatively stable areas. We live in without a lot of work, but would potentially large positive consequences.

Today we talk about the different zones in Permaculture and how we utilize them in our design process

Today we talk about the projects that we have planned through the fall and winter this year to get us ready for the spring planting rush

Today we talk about come current events. I discussed what I told my daughters about the government shutdown, what I think about the UaW strikes against the Detroit Three Automakers, and Bloomberg’s Blockbuster report that companies in the S&P 100 hired 94% non-white workers in 2021 post the George Floyd murder and related BLM Rioting.

Today we talk about the seven layers of a forest and how to re-create them with productive and beneficial species in a Permaculture designed food forest

Today we talk about the final nine design principles of Permaculture, and how all the different design principles interact with each other and end up creating really beautiful designs and systems that can, in fact be permanent

In this podcast we review the permaculture design basics including the Prime Directive, Ethics, and a quick overview of the first few principles. Permaculture is a design science that strives to create a circular economy within the systems we utilize while implementing the basics of agricultural design. For example we are trying to break the linear consumption model and design systems that have a greater output than input, even if that output is measured over a long period of time, like a nut tree’s production

Today we talk about what’s happening on the Homestead and the progress on some of our ongoing projects as it begins to get cooler

Today we talk about the New Mexico governors unconstitutional gun restriction for Albuquerque county and why I think bad decisions should have bad consequences