Start a 1-Acre Homestead: Layout Planning

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astronautrob · 2022-07-25T20:44:19+00:00

Another video from our homesteading here in CO. This one we go over ways that we try to supplement our chicken flock on the cheap while still keeping them in tip-top shape. Would love to hear any other ways you guys supplement your flock. Thanks :)

astronautrob · 2022-07-14T01:06:06+00:00

Hey everyone, hope yall are enjoying your week. This video is a bit of a long one but it covers a lot of ground. The first part of the video is a summer update on the garden and how everything is doing after a wind storm we just had. The second half of the video we go over a few ways how we supplement our chickens here at High Altitude Homesteading. Enjoy :)

astronautrob · 2022-07-10T00:05:07+00:00

Good to know, any info on grapes is much appreciated. Do you grow them where you currently live? I also read they don't like having wet feet which is kind of a problem for us since the soil we grow in is so high in clay. Luckily being in Colorado Springs we don't have a issue with it raining a lot or being damp usually. It's usually too dry here tbh.

astronautrob · 2022-07-10T00:01:58+00:00

Haahahaha, spreading the good word my friend

jet199 · 2022-07-09T17:52:14+00:00

The only thing I know is that damp is often a greater enemy than the cold.

IkeConn · 2022-07-09T00:46:35+00:00

He's the bearded fucker in the yellow shirt.

astronautrob · 2022-07-09T00:44:49+00:00

Wait...where's Jesus in the video?

astronautrob · 2022-07-09T00:34:46+00:00

So in this video we go over everything dealing with grapes. What types to choose based on your hardiness zone, soil composition, planting techniques, some initial pruning, etc. This is something new for us so we will be learning as we go and making update videos along the way. Wondering if anyone else has any experience doing grapes at higher altitudes? Would be very interested to hear your experience. Thank you.

IkeConn · 2022-07-04T05:37:08+00:00

That's not fair. He's got Jesus in there as a ringer.

astronautrob · 2022-06-30T01:45:17+00:00

Hey everyone, this is another video from our urban homestead. In this video we go over the process we are using to attempt to make a self-sustaining food cycle of sorts. It's the first video in a series we'll be making to log our progress with this project. Don't know if anyone is doing anything similar to this, but if so it'd be cool to hear others experience with trying to do something like this. Who knows if this will work, or we'll get anything close to a successfully functioning food cycle, but this is what we have to work with so it's what we're going with. Hope you enjoy and Thanks :)

astronautrob · 2022-06-22T21:59:52+00:00

In this video we go over a couple things that we generally add to our chickens water here on the homestead. Very interested to know if anyone else does something other then the couple things we mention, or something completely different?

astronautrob · 2022-06-17T22:16:51+00:00

https://www.bitchute.com/video/wlyy1u62siZ5/

astronautrob · 2022-06-17T21:59:13+00:00

A couple reasons we like growing potatoes are they seem to be easy to grow and are very hardy. They keep a long time if stored properly and can be a staple food in a survival situation. Other than that, one of the BIGGEST reasons we grow them is to feed our Mealworms. We have a few Mealworm farms going that help feed our chickens, with the ultimate goal being a fully enclosed loop with the potatoes feeding the Mealworms, the Mealworms feeding the Chickens, and the Chickens feeding us. Granted, we can't just eat eggs all day with nothing else, but it would be a big part of our nutrition everyday. We work with what we have :). If yall are interested in what we do with our Mealworms I will do a more in-depth video on that later. Ultimately we want to have our chickens on a free-range, Mealworm, plus Kale and other veggies, type diet. That's the goal, and that's what we're working on.

astronautrob · 2022-06-16T17:08:07+00:00

Here we are back in the kitchen to get at this super easy Kimchi recipe. In this video we use Napa Cabbage, but you can use whatever you have on hand. We've been making this Traditional Kimchi Recipe for a while now on the urban homestead and it comes out great every time. Kimchi can be slightly intimidating at first, but this recipe is super simple and makes the process a lot easier.

fred_red_beans · 2021-05-04T16:41:59+00:00

Please limit yourself to 3 of the same post or else we will ban you for spam.

JasonCarswell · 2020-10-03T23:22:40+00:00

Show notes, links, comments:
https://www.corbettreport.com/is-self-sufficiency-possible-questions-for-corbett-070/

Alternative platforms:
https://archive.org/details/qfc070-agorism
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ObFtEC-gm7g
https://lbry.tv/@corbettreport:0/self-sufficiency:3
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1158919532153700352
https://youtu.be/ObFtEC-gm7g
https://www.corbettreport.com/mp4/qfc070-agorism.mp4

JasonCarswell · 2020-07-11T21:15:09+00:00

I already do more than half of these things. I choose not to do the others for reasons to tedious to explain. I'm a little disappointed I didn't get a take away from this video (my life is pretty minimal), however, I share it here hoping some folks might be inspired. I wouldn't expect anyone to adopt all of these, but maybe there are one or a few things you can consider implementing in your life, for the Earth, for your community, for yourself, and/or for other reasons like economics, minimalist simplicity, practicality, etc.

JasonCarswell · 2020-05-28T11:09:50+00:00

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JasonCarswell · 2020-05-11T03:21:36+00:00

See also:
/s/DecentralizeAllThings/comments/49zw/farmbot_open_source_backyard_robot_for_a_fully/

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JasonCarswell · 2020-05-11T00:35:33+00:00

The OP video and the TED Talk videos are good but out of date. Check this out:

It's time for FarmBot Express and Genesis MAX (2:30) ~ FarmBot, 2019-11-28

Now back to notes on the OP video:

For a kit: $2,900, in 2017, coming down over time (up to 9x more cost effective with the larger 2019 garden versions in the short video above). Does not include water or electricity or wifi. Save $1000 by building your own parts (it helps to have a 3D printer). Almost everything is off the shelf. Open source and completely customizable. The software will only get better. Be independent off grid with a water source (rain barrel, tank, pond, river, etc) and only needs the 2 solar panels ($100 each? or $50 each? and/or with the batteries?). The 4x8 garden should easily provide enough vegetables for one person all year. Getting all your calories is another story. They're working on a bigger tougher 8x16 version to feed a family of 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FarmBot

Official sites:
https://farm.bot
https://forum.farmbot.org
https://software.farm.bot/docs/farmbot-os
https://developer.farm.bot/docs https://github.com/FarmBot
https://meta.farm.bot/docs - Intro to FarmBot Inc

TEDxUCLA | Open Source Automated Precision Farming | Rory Aronson (9:21) ~ FarmBot, 2017-04-12

Using FarmBot as an Accessibility Technology (7:56) ~ FarmBot, 2017-08-01

FarmBot channel on YouTube has 79 videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2O2FyrBnJjzyTSKHxpa9_A/videos

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JasonCarswell · 2020-05-08T10:02:59+00:00

We used to go to Camp & Sons near Willits in NorCal, possibly close to where he is. Epic times.

Reminds me a lot of my grandparents and their log home my uncle took over, but their large log home was bigger than the homes in the video combined. Even the gardens are similar, though in Muskoka extra care must be taken to make the pine needle acidic soil workable. They also had a big tractor with huge wheels to dig and to place the logs building their home. He made a second building for a woodworking shop. Hhe used to teach woodworking and photography for college and highschool. In summer breaks the teachers would keep working and build a house.

JasonCarswell · 2020-05-01T22:38:52+00:00

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JasonCarswell · 2020-04-30T03:56:07+00:00

I'm glad someone noticed. A good one indeed.

Edit: Turns out folks noticed this one too: /s/DecentralizeAllThings/comments/41mi/coronavirus_will_lead_to_a_rennissance_for/

runecrossbow · 2020-04-29T19:19:55+00:00

Thanks for sharing this!

JasonCarswell · 2020-04-27T00:21:46+00:00

Of interest to me in this A+++ video:

Opening quote: /s/quotes/comments/41mv/you_never_change_things_by_fighting_the_existing/
- DuckDuckGo: Buckminster Fuller
Square Foot Gardening: /s/gardening/comments/41n6/square_foot_gardening_nows_the_time/
- DuckDuckGo: Square Foot Gardening
- YouTube: Square Foot Gardening
12 principles of permaculture cued up in the OP video
- https://PermaculturePrinciples.com
- DuckDuckGo: Permaculture
Decentralized networks of freedom cells of 8 cued up in the OP video
- https://FreedomCells.org
- DuckDuckGo: Freedom Cells

JasonCarswell · 2020-04-26T23:59:00+00:00

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useless_aether · 2020-04-26T19:15:26+00:00

the venus project is an nwo / satanist inspired (venus, the morning star is satan) dead end. they keep trying to shove it down our throaths for many years now. it is merged with the zeitgeist project of similar provenance, which is led by peter joseph, a satanist refusing to release his full name.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/LXwuPmJvamFy/

https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/10634-zeitgeist-and-the-venus-project

the 'new age movement' is 'satanism light' created by the jesuit teilhard.

JasonCarswell · 2020-04-26T01:19:54+00:00

I guessed it before I even saw it.

The Bounty is one of my favourite movies of all time. I saw that ship in Vancouver, BC in 1989 or 1990 before it sank years later. The earlier Mutiny On The Bounty remakes are terrific too. I even read Captain Bligh's published account, both fascinating and tedious at the same time (lots of navigation notes). At fifteen in 1986 I spent a summer on the tall ship HMS Playfair. I was fortunate enough to be an advanced sailor, teacher, life guard, record store clerk, and DJ in my teens. Like The Bounty my moody Act 3A "Drift" of my Bittersweet Seeds story takes place on a tall ship.

While it's certainly isolated, I'm not sure Pitcairn Island is the best place to settle.

A few years ago I saw an article or video, now lost in my foggy memory, that took all the factors into consideration, hurricanes, flooding, fire, heatwaves, temperate winters, tornadoes, water, crop potential, minimal population, access to goods, services, utilities, etc etc etc - and it claimed that Jackson County, Florida was the best place to buy property and start your own DIY lifestyle thing. Since then I know that Florida has been going apeshit on off-grid people, so maybe not anymore.

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