The Resilient Homestead with Nick Ferguson – Epi-3678

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Nick Ferguson, founder of Homegrown Liberty, is a seasoned homesteader and educator who has been a personal friend of mine for at least a decade now. A long-time Survival Podcast community member, Nick has taught at nearly every Fall Workshop, sharing practical homesteading solutions. His approach focuses on actionable and practical systems solutions, distinct from Permaculture’s activist scope, saving clients tens of thousands through smart property design. Nick runs Rare Plant Store (www.rareplantstore.com) for sustainable plants and is building a Texas teaching hub and demonstration site. Nick empowers families to create resilient homesteads, with the ethos of not letting perfect … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	There's a better way to do this.
0:07.0	Let me show you a better way.
0:12.0	You don't have to be another face in the crowd. And we are live about five minutes early today.
0:24.1	Nick got into the green room early, and I'm like, you know what?
0:27.3	Nick made a point, it's better to be early than late.
0:29.4	There's even a guy that wrote a book, and the first chapter's about that.
0:32.6	So here we go.
0:33.8	We're rolling a little bit early today.
0:35.5	Hopefully it doesn't bother anyone.
0:37.1	Anyway, I got Nick Ferguson in the green room right now.
0:39.5	We're going to talk about building resilient homesteads with Nick.
0:43.4	Most of you guys know who Nick is.
0:44.9	If you don't, when he comes on, we'll have him introduce himself a little bit to you.
0:49.5	But Nick and I go pretty far back.
0:51.5	I think the first time Nick and I hung out together was about 2013.
0:56.8	I'm going to guess.
0:57.4	It was right after I moved into our current home.
1:00.5	We had a little get-together after a prepper convention, and Nick came by and brought
1:06.5	me some beer, some really good beer that comes in a big bottle with a cork on top of it.
1:11.0	That was a good way into the, to the Spirco fold, and we just hit it off, and we've been
1:15.4	working together ever since.
1:17.4	And I'd like to think that we've learned a lot from each other.
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