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Building Community as a Homesteader – Epi-3622

The Survival Podcast

The Survival Podcast

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Today Josh Ewing, a long time listener of TSPC joins us to discuss his families journey as homesteaders. Solar power, green house growing, heating your home and more. We also dive into local politics, building community and community economics. This will be a great one. John Ewing grew up on military bases during most of his childhood. He joined the army reserves and worked in prisons in Kosovo and Iraq. John broke UCMJ law to marry his wife as the closest court house was outside the legal distance from his deployment mobility station during his stop-loss. In 2005 they purchased Continue reading →

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0:00.0

There's a better way to do this.

0:05.0

Let me show you a better way.

0:17.0

And we are live just a couple minutes early. Hey, we got everything ready to go. Why not go ahead and Just a couple minutes early.

0:21.5

Hey, we got everything ready to go.

0:22.8

Why not go ahead and launch a couple minutes early and get going?

0:26.7

And I got a great one for you today.

0:28.6

We're going to have Josh Ewing on in just a minute.

0:31.2

We're going to be talking to him about recapturing our communities and family legacy

0:36.4

through becoming a homesteader. So we're going to talk about his walk becoming a homesteader.

0:38.6

So we're going to talk about his walk as a homesteader, some of the things they've done with

0:42.4

greenhouse growing and solar and other stuff like that.

0:46.0

And we're also going to talk about how it can affect local economies, how to reach out to

0:51.1

your neighbors and a bunch of stuff like that.

0:52.8

So this will be a great show because probably the two things we talk about the most

0:56.6

to get people excited here other than gloom and dome, right,

1:00.0

is homesteading permaculture, all that stuff and community building.

1:03.6

So we're going to put those two things together today.

1:06.1

And we'll have John on in just a minute because I've been working with Josh Hale so much this week.

1:11.4

I keep wanting to call John Josh.

1:13.0

So if I accidentally do that during this episode, please forgive me in advance, including

1:18.6

John yourself, who's sitting in the back right now, waiting to come in.

1:21.9

Before we do that, let's go ahead and take care of some business and our sponsors of the day.

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