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Thriving The Future Podcast

Thriving The Future

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Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 159

Thriving The Future Podcast focuses on

👍- Positive solutions to help you #Thrive

🔨- Design your Intentional life.

🐓- Homestead

🍓- Side Hustles

🤝 – Community

🧰 – #SkillsOverStuff

Podcast website: https://thrivingthefuture.com

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http://Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture
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https://twitter.com/padrehomestead
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Ep. 149 - It Was the Best of Times

Season 1 · Episode 149

Sunday, December 1, 2024 • Duration 13:37

This year has been the best of times and the worst of times. Okay, maybe not the worst. (after all, I am still employed).

But this is the dichotomy (or is it a contradiction?):

It is performance review time at work.

I just copied last year's review and changed the project names.

But my Goals and accomplishments in real life were off the charts!

This year I:

- Built 4 web sites/side businesses

- Got my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) from Midwest Permaculture.

- Gained my first 2 paid Food Forest design clients, including a huge 3 acre orchard design and implementation that is a several thousand dollar gig.

- Grew 10x+ trees

- 5x my revenue from last year

- Learned to use a mini-excavator

Come along with me as I share my wins (and losses) and get encouraged!

Sponsors:

Thriving Food Forest Design - We can create an edible foodscape, a perennial paradise so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. We use fruit and nut trees and perennial plants adapted to the Midwest to create a low maintenance food forest.

Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.

Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.

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Ep. 148 - How Do You Use AI? - with Eric Niday

Season 1 · Episode 148

Saturday, November 16, 2024 • Duration 33:49

How Do You Use AI?

Most people use it as a search engine.

Some people use it write blog posts or customer emails.

Some for analysis.

But some assign it a role to do the analysis, like "evaluate this as an executive of XYZ company" or a hiring manager.

My son-in-law, Eric Niday, uses AI for all of the above. Talking with him about his experiences with it was interesting, so I decided to have him on and share it with you.

How far is too far?

In addition to using AI at work to evaluate candidates and write SQL, Eric uses ChatGPT to research and debate theology. He made a chat bot theologian, instructed it with which theologians that he liked, so he could ask it questions. He even made it so it would "counsel" him. The chat bot even offered to "pray" for him (!). Um, that may be going too far.

Episode website: Ep. 148 - How Do You Use AI? - with Eric Niday

Sponsors:

Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.

Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.

Ep. 147 - Jason Snyder on Weathering Hurricane Helene

Season 1 · Episode 147

Sunday, November 3, 2024 • Duration 30:06

Jason Snyder of Doomer Optimism shares stories of how his family in NC weathered Hurricane Helene and what he is doing to regeneratively recover from the aftermath.

Resiliency through community and culture.

"Biblical flood? Plant trees, cultivate gardens, raise livestock."

Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/hurricane

Sponsors:

Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.

Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.

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Ep. 146 - Flashback - the Real Civil War is Within You - with Cyprian

Season 1 · Episode 146

Monday, October 28, 2024 • Duration 44:31

Next week is the election. Once again it is being billed as the "most important election in our lifetime!". And four years from now they will tell us the same thing. If every election is the same way, then maybe they are not as consequential as they say that they are.

In Oct-27's homily/sermon, my pastor, Father Nikolai Meyers talked about the election (starts at 1:30:00, if it is not cued already).

We are sold that there are only two sides to this. But Life has many sides.

We got rain in NE Kansas after weeks and months of drought. The storm brought down trees. Neighbors helped each other to clear the downed trees. Maybe that is more consequential than the circus 2000 miles away in DC.

"If voting could actually upset the power of the establishment, you wouldn't be allowed to do it." - Cyprian

Cyprian (aka Vin Armani) and I talk about the "Invisible Enemy" from an Orthodox Christian perspective.

The Invisible Enemy

For totalitarianism to come into power you must have an Invisible Enemy.

In 2020, Trump called Covid the "Invisible Enemy".

Who is the Invisible Enemy today?

For the Left, it is White Supremacy. It's the white guy with a rifle asking, "What kind of American are you?"

For the Right, it's Trans people or "illegals".

What about the homeless and the poor - are they the Invisible Enemy?

Fear of the Invisible Enemy

The fear of the Invisible Enemy is fueled by social media, especially Twitter. You get more Likes and Views when you scare people with it.

This pattern of declaring someone (or specific people or groups) as an Invisible Enemy and then declaring (social or real) war against it usually happens right before a big upheaval, and usually leads to some form of totalitarianism. Examples in the 20th Century are many: Germany, Russia, China.

Ep. 145 - How to Position Yourself as an Expert - with Grant Payne

Season 1 · Episode 145

Sunday, October 20, 2024 • Duration 01:13:37

It's been almost a year since Grant and I shared about How to Propagate your own Trees, Plants, and Flowers for Free, and Sell the Extras as a Side Hustle (recently as a Flashback episode on Oct-11.

What has changed with our nursery businesses in the last year? I started my food forest design business and have my first paid design client.

We share about becoming an "expert".

Finding your niche: you are an expert in something (or more expert than others).

How to position yourself as an expert.

One way to start is to speak to audience or perspective client as you would to yourself several years ago.

We also talk nursery biz:

Hostas, trees.
Grading nursery stock based on pot size and tree caliper.

Episode website:

Ep. 145 - How to Position Yourself as an Expert - with Grant Payne

Sponsors:

Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.

Thriving Food Forest Design - Let us create a low maintenance perennial paradise for you so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient.

Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.

Ep. 144 - How I Put My Garden to Bed for the Winter

Season 1 · Episode 143

Sunday, October 13, 2024 • Duration 09:13

What are you doing to put your garden to bed for the winter time?

Maybe you are luck and your growing season is still in swing. We are nearing the first frost date. It has been too hot and dry for my Fall greens to germinate so I will need to start them in the greenhouse, where they can grow until Jan or Feb.

How do you clean up your garden beds?

For Milpa beds, I chop and drop the beans and other plants for mulch, cover with a little compost, and then some woodchips.

In the main garden:

I loosen the soil with a broadfork. Not too much.
I add amendments like lime, rock phosphate, and liquid kelp.
Then a thick layer of compost.
I add a thick layer of leaves that I collect from the curbside in town once the leaves drop.
Then I cover it with a layer of woodchips.

If I am creating a new garden bed, I use the lasagna method:

Break up or turn over the soil with a broadfork.
Like Nick Ferguson, I may add a layer of animal feed pellets.
I adda layer of compost or horse manure.
Then I add a layer of molasses mixed with water to feed the soil bacteria.
I cover it all with leaves and woodchips.

What do you do to put your garden to bed for the winter time?

Share your wins and losses on our Telegram group. Sign up at signup.thrivingthefuture.com

I also share in this episode -

What happened to the podcast?
My tour of Charlie's Chestnuts and the hybrid chestnut called Revival, which is almost as big as the palm of my hand.

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Ep. 143 - Flashback - How to Propagate your own Trees, Plants, and Flowers for Free, and Sell the Extras as a Side Hustle

Season 1 · Episode 143

Friday, October 11, 2024 • Duration 20:05

This flashback episode with Grant Payne has tips that you can also use on your homestead to save and propagate trees and plants, with enough abundance to sell the extras. Create your own nursery side hustle,

Propagation - from cuttings - elderberry, mulberry, figs, berries, and discarded trims from nursery plants.
Flowers, mums, and bulbs
Obtaining seeds and plants
Where to sell - FB, Craigslist, ebay, and creating a popup website. The pros and cons.

Episode website: Ep. 144 - Flashback - How to Propagate your own Trees, Plants, and Flowers for Free, and Sell the Extras as a Side Hustle

Sponsors:

Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest.

Thriving Food Forest Design - Let us create a low maintenance perennial paradise for you so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient.

Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.

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Ep. 142 - How Are You Becoming More Self Reliant?

Season 1 · Episode 142

Sunday, September 22, 2024 • Duration 15:25

What are you doing to increase your self reliance and self sufficiency?

Jack Spirko's definitions:

Self Sufficiency – The percentage of your needs met by your own systems
Self Reliance – The duration in time you can live well without systems of support (or to live well with YOUR systems of support)

Let's face it - the 2024 election is not going to go well. The side that loses is not going to accept the results. There will be civil unrest. Plus WW3 conditions are looming.

Change is coming. People can feel it.

What would you do in another 2020-type situation? What lessons learned can you apply from the last time?

What could you do to be able

Long term/short term -

Plant trees
Cultivate gardens
Tend livestock

More short term:

Look at your gaps in energy, food, water. What can you improve so that you can live well with your systems of support?
Fight the mind virus and the fear
Prepare mentally and spiritually
Build community
Learn skills through self study and networking
Expand your other forms of income

I share what I am doing to become more self reliant and self sufficient.

Episode website: Ep. 142 - How Are You becoming More Self Reliant?

Sponsors:

Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest. Now taking orders for shipping in Sept/Oct.

Thriving Food Forest Design

Ep. 141 - Armagarden - Regenerative Community Design, with Lindsay Brandon

Season 1 · Episode 141

Sunday, August 25, 2024 • Duration 32:15

Lindsay Brandon, CEO and Permaculture Consultant at Permaculture Canada joins me to share about Armagarden, her new project to integrate community design into the permaculture design.

We discuss Armagarden and how it contrasts with the usual permaculture design.

From the website:

What is Armagarden?

Armagarden was born from the desire to get back to the land and live a lifestyle that is connected to family, place and community. Through strategic design methods considerations are made through the design process towards food/water security, community resource management, and holistic design from a community perspective. With the recent increase in people desiring a homesteading lifestyle many realise that self-reliance is best when combined with the skills of their community. That we are stronger, more resilient, and can accomplish much more when we pool our resources, talents and skills together.

The community resilience is created with elements including food production, on-site (off-grid) energy production, infrastructure for community events, educational courses and sustainable construction and energy efficiency practices for all buildings.

Episode website: Ep. 141 - Armagarden - Regenerative Community Design, with Lindsay Brandon

Sponsors:

Grow Nut Trees - Chestnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, elderberry - all adapted to the Midwest. Now taking orders for shipping in Sept/Oct.

Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.

Ep. 140 - Tips to Find Your Homestead Property - with Kerry Brown

Season 1 · Episode 140

Sunday, August 18, 2024 • Duration 36:04

With tough times, more people are looking for homestead property, or to add gardens, fruit and nut trees, and chickens to their existing suburban property to be more self sufficient.

Kerry Brown of Strong Roots Resources joins me to share tips to find your homestead property:

Look for off-market properties.
Properties are selling before they show up in Zillow or MLS.
Contact your network of folks, like realtors to give you a heads up when something is coming available.
If you are in the Tennessee area, Kerry recommends Marcie and Jeff Yadon. On FB as on fb as Marcie n Jeff Yadon or email: Marcieaeasttnhomes@gmail.com
Intentional Communities
Some have a membership model or you can live there seasonally.
FB Group - Homestead Roommates
TSP Land Group on Telegram
Permies SKIP program on Permies.com

What to consider when looking at a property:

Water source
Access
Solar aspect
Foraging and trees - what is on there now?
Suburban tips:
Look at space and think of "what else could that be used for?" (stack functions)
Avoid HOAs
Don't discount garage space (like for aquaculture).

Episode website: Ep. 140 - Tips to Find Your Homestead Property - with Kerry Brown

Sponsors:

Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life: from video courses, to blueprints, to books.

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