Well I folks this is Jack Spirco, another edition of the Survival Podcast, there's only

one man's view of the changing world, the changing times, and that things we can all

do to live a better life if times get tough or even if they don't.

Today is Thursday, September 22nd, 2022, the episode 3172, the Survival Podcast, and it

is called simply minimalist homesteading, hence minimalist title, just two words.

We talk a lot about homesteading, permaculture, we've gone into all aspects of things, all

different types of livestock, from backyard and small livestock, we've done shows on

rotational grazing, raising cows, raising sheep for lamb, we've done everything you can

think of, we've talked about aquatics and aquaponics and aquaculture, we've talked about poultry,

we've talked about growing trees and orcharding and farming and small scale farming, like

all across the board, and it's important that we do that because that way people pick

and choose the things that will work for them in their life, and we have people that are homesteading

anywhere from a small tenth of an acre, a lot in the suburbs, up to thousands of acres of land

that is being more ranched than homesteaded in some ways. But in the end, what happens is a lot of

people get really overwhelmed, and a lot of folks start to feel like I'll never be able to do this,

it's too much to learn, it's too much to do, and the reality is kind of the way that I grew up

is even more than we're talking about today, because we had about a quarter of an acre garden and

we did grow it, metric butt tum of ton of food, really feeding our family and several others,

but when I think through the most basics of it, and I think more of my fraternal grandparents now,

but I think more of my maternal grandparents, what they do is a lot more like what we're going to

talk about today. For a long time in America, the idea that you would walk down a street and look

over fences and not see like a garden in every other or at least every third backyard was kind of

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