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Greening the Texas Desert with Shaun Overton – Epi-3521

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Most of us at some time have looked at “junk land” in western Texas selling for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars an acre. For less than the cost of a new car you can own 100-300 acres of land. But is it worth it, is a good life possible in such a climate? Our guest today is making it happen. Shaun is turning 320 acres of Texas wasteland into a desert forest. He has been documenting the journey on YouTube with 160,000 subscribers so far. Shaun was also recently featured in Texas Highways and interviewed on Texas Continue reading →

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0:00.0

There's a better way to do this.

0:09.0

Let me show you a better way.

0:11.0

A better way.

0:20.0

And we are live. Welcome folks to episode 3521 and the second time is the charm.

0:25.0

This time we actually have Sean Overton on with us.

0:28.1

No technical gremlin shut us down this time and we're going to talk about the work he's done at a place he calls Dust Up's Ranch.

0:35.8

And I've looked at his YouTube channel in some of his videos and it's a pretty bad gone good name for it.

0:41.1

There is an awful lot of dust in West Texas now I don't think

0:45.2

there's a person in our community that hasn't one time or another been looking at

0:49.9

land options and saw that you could buy like 300 acres out in West Texas for less than a new pickup

0:56.8

truck and thought to themselves, man, maybe I should do that and then thought, yeah, but will anything live out there including me can I

1:06.3

really do Jeff Lawton is greening the desert thing in West Texas Sean

1:11.6

decided to take that to another level and instead of experimenting

1:15.7

with it in his mind, put down the money, put down the roots, put down the effort and try to make

1:21.5

it work. And I believe he has about 320 acres if I remember right out

1:26.2

there that he's working on and I've been watching some of his stuff and this is something a lot of you guys

1:31.7

when we were trying to get Sean on last time.

1:33.6

We're really excited to see him.

1:34.9

We're going to have him on today and I think this is a really cool discussion.

1:39.1

You know, we keep hearing nonsense about we're going to have a civilization on Mars.

1:42.8

I think until we can make a civilization out in the West Texas desert,

1:47.5

we might want to stick to Earth.

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