There's a better way to do this.

Let me show you a better way.

And we are live, folks, just a few minutes earlier then scheduled, which is good as late in the day as we're starting today.

We're about three hours after our normal start time, which means I'm usually finishing up right about now.

But this was worth doing.

We have a special guest named Abraham Pittman, and he is an engineer.

He is also a homesteader.

And he's going to be talking to us today about those two things put together, homesteading with an engineering mindset.

I think this is something that really fits well.

And what I found is like some of the best people I know in the permaculture space are not actually

known that heavily as permaculture people. You know, like when I think of Alan Booker as a perfect

example, he actually has a PDC that he does for people that is only for engineers. Now, anybody can take it, but he's like, if you don't have an engineering background,

it's probably not going to work out for you.

And then the other thing I've always noticed is, like, some of the best engineers I know,

now they may not be credentialed engineers.

Maybe they didn't go to college or engineering school or something like that.

But they are engineers in what they do by trade.

Are farmers.

I have seen farmers come up with some of the most ingenious systems thinking oriented

projects of any group of people anywhere.

And it makes perfect sense, especially when you're talking like, you know, you're kind

of old school farmer, your guy that has a few hundred acres, maybe even up like 1,200 or something.

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