10 Years Urban Homestead Maintanence

You're listening to the end if you were passed back. Just good day, folks. What a pleasure it is to be with you today, as you can tell for those of you in video and low reds Okay, low reds today cameras there. Give you a big diet. Tribe about the benefits of low resort, high resort changing mentality. Or if I hit this thing, it's gonna shape camera died. I don't know, this is what it is. I had a great interview with the reverend from South Bushwick Church, the church that burned down in Brooklyn, and people were wondering, wasn't the Buslims, wasn't this wasn't the And we get the full story. And I'm gonna give you sort of my feet later in the week. I'll give you my feeling about that church as a symptom of a sort of goals above American prosperity dark web that exists, you know what I mean in the United States of America, sort of a there's this. We wanted to be nefarious, we wanted to be this big scary thing. We wanted to be this big thing that we can you know. Name and all of that. 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I'm glad it worked out for all you soccer. Fans out there. Will leave it at that, but Uh, there is something a brewing, there's something and it all springboards off of an anti American or or some form of an. Anti American. American prosperity in the background, my goals, in my needs and my greed in foregrounds, right, and that's really it, JR. To share it and chat asks what I had from breakfast? What I had for breakfast was wood chips and wood chips for breakfast. Okay, it's a tree day here at the at the homestead, So now I didn't eat yet, it's too early. It'll be eggs, It'll be what do happen here? It'll be eggs and jalapenos. Man. Maybe a little slice of schaddar, definitely, some buttered toast, maybe some milk, a couple omega freeze, probably some creating gummies. And of course Salura can't go nowhere without that stuff, right. All right? Pork bacon plumes with rice and beans? Is that what you meant plumes? I don't know what a plume is other than when it's smoke or flowers. 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We'll be here on Instagram live tonight nine pm, So stay tuned for that. What the hell is going on in Instagram? Anyway? Look at people? How's everybody doing over here in the ig world, New nest tactical dynamics. What's up, man, You want to sponsor the Prepper broadcast seen network of red Beacomedia will spread the words of preppers far and wide. So let's talk about it, man, let's get into the subject. Here. We got incrediblely. Talented dudes up trees out back with chainsaws doing work that is, you know, highly. Respectable and necessary. And I thought to myself, you know, it'd be a great time to talk about the realities of urban homesteading. You know, a lot of people want the big homestead on ten acres, twenty acres, fifty acres, whatever, get me away from society as far away as possible. So on and so forth. But obviously, based on population, the vast majority of people wind up with a backyard in a suburban area, right. And I'm here to tell you, as a guy with the backyard in the suburban area, that. You can do a lot of fun stuff. Man. You can produce a lot of food. You could do a lot of cool things with your suburban backyard. And we've been at it for what basically since we got here, maybe not the first year, the first year, so just so you got the numbers, right, we live on less than an acre. We live on zero point eight five an acre eighty seven. I don't remember what it is, it doesn't matter, but it's that's less, okay, So keep that in mind. Year one, we doubled the yard. I broke the back fence down, We ripped all the trees down, and double the size of the backyard. Kids, dogs, You know, I mean, you gotta have yard if you're gonna have if you're gonna have a land, you better have like a fenced in yard. Right. And we did gardens for years, you know what I mean. We did gardens for years. Things growing in pots, things growing in the ground, things growing in pallets, things growing, growing, growing right all over. We know. I was doing the annual garden off of sheer desire to grow the things that I wanted to grow and eat. Which is the best way to garden, by the way, it really is. It's the best way to guard. I find myself overcome. These guys are maniacs. It actually looks kind of fun, to be honest with you, It actually looks kind of fun. This tree is probably thirty feet maybe forty, maybe fifty actually at the peak, but they're not going. Up that high. But it's they're just like repelling and repelling with chainsaws, and it's a good look. Man. They're brave. They're brave. We don't talk. About that when we talk about immigration and illegal immigration, do we. We don't. We America firsters get on our high horse and start talking shit about illegal immigration until all of a sudden, you need a tree cut down. I have no idea if these guys are, I have no clue. Right, you can get hey, it goes back to my thing. It goes back to my same old thing, right, assimilation or deportation. Nobody's got a problem with immigrants. Nobody's got a problem with illegal immigrant as long as they show up, work hard, build the family, support the country all the night. Right. WHOA, that was a close one. That was a close one. Sorry. They're literally cutting a tree right out in front of the house here, right out back of the house. So we did our annual garden thing. But let me go back, let me go back. Like I said, it's one of those things. Nobody's got an issue with anybody who's here. You know, you could grab your vote because people wouldn't even know you can grab your most staunch conservative America first person don't matter. Right if people are here and they're doing their job, and they're doing the work, and they're raising a family, and they're not flying isis in hamas flags? Right? And they f the American flag. They celebrate the culture and all these things, right, what as well? That's the all we're looking for. Speak English, come down the driveway, talk to me. You don't got to sound like me, but it is amazing to me. You know, that's how easy it could be. You can't show up and build a village of people that are gonna well, I don't want to get into it. Let's not get into it today. Let's enjoy today. It's a home steady kind of day, you know what I mean. Let's enjoy our home steady kind of day. What's a Firewolf? Is that Brody? Is that Brody? The super saying Cosmo? How you doing in chat man? Welcome, Welcome everybody over there at Instagram. I appreciate We'll be live again nine pm. Guys over at Instagram, join us, Join us. Tonight's gonna be a fun show. Rick Austin, the Survivalist Gardener, the food Forest Maven himself, the godfather of prepping, as I doubt him, and he took for that title too, like title. But anyway, so. We started with annual gardens and you know, icicle radishes in the spring, English peas and all that kind of stuff. I always felt like I was a guy with a garden. Even a couple of years in when I started prepping in Earnest, I still just felt like a prepper with it, with a garden like we had when I was growing up. We had little tiny little row home, little tiny little garden down the path, and that's what we had, and that's what we did, you know what I mean. You know, it always worked, it always produced it. You know, there's no it wasn't that complicated. M hm. So when things really started to change, we put rain barrels in. That felt kind of legit right once we were I remember traversing the highways with rain barrels like okay, we were at another level and we put the rain barrels in installed those started catching rain blurter and then but. It never out better to me than man, these guys are such pros. It's unbelievable. My man up top is hanging from a rope. Okay, but he's also using another rope to guide the trees down as he cuts them. So cool. Anyway, he never felt more like an urban homestead than whence we began with the chickens. And really that's kind of my personal definition for like an urban homestead. Right, you've got gardens, you're catching some rainwater, doing something along. Maybe you got a little bit of solar in that thing, and then of course you got ah. Of course you got some hens clucking around, right, some hens clucking around, scratching and ruining in your grass, doing that whole thing. And we've been at that, man for pretty long time. We've been at that for a pretty long time. We've probably had hens. I think I got a picture. Take pictures, guys, if you get into this homesteading shit, take pictures seriously. Especially we got family. Because there's a picture of my son holding our first day and I think he's about three. I think he's about three. So we've been doing chickens for almost twelve years, eleven twelve years, stuff like that. We've actually been on hiatus for a little while, but we've been we've been doing chickens for a decade. Would you just say that, you know, what I mean, and. It really we really have gotten it down to a science. We've done all kinds of iterations of coops and runs and all this stuff. Man, just just. You know, like you could do it a million different ways. It never felt better, It never felt easier and more perfect than when we did the dog kennel fence right six foot doll dog kennel fence and uh chicken coop inside there, bird netting over the top. That felt like and the and in days when the foxes and the raccoons and things like that we're going crazy. We'd leave them inside that little kennel. I'd lay straw down in that thing, and they kind of play around there. There was enough forge and everything to be But for the most part, I like to let them run the yard and do their thing out there. I don't know if that'll be the case going forward. I don't know. We'll see. We've got a whole new crop of dogs now. I don't know what they're all about. Every dog gets about one chicken, you know, especially when they're young. They wind up like, what's that? I only eat that? You gotta tell them and can't do that. But we've discovered other other things over the years too, at a really word, So the chain link metal facts, like if you have concerns, I know, I told you I live in the suburbs, but my suburbs might be more wild than you're wild. Seriously, my suburbs might be more densely populated with animals than your rural area. You know what I mean. I've been in deep woods and stuff like that and like kind of quiet sometimes going stretches of that stuff is quiet. It's never quiet here. There's a thousand squirrels, bunny rabbits, there's a legion of deer, raccoons all night, possums, coyotes. I mean, it's it's a zoo around here. So you have to put that in perspective when you're thinking about chicken security, because everything wants just like you, everything else wants to eat chicken too, you know what I mean. And that's the way that it goes. Man. So the the chain link metal fence, really, I think it's the cream of the crop. Over ten years of homestead, you know, I've had smaller fences put I put multiple. I always reinforced the coop dars also, you know what I mean, nothing, nothing fancy or it is usually come with these little tiny little sliding boat dead bolt box. They got like a like if a a raccoon does like with its paw, you can get it there. I know. So I always put new ones of those on their bigger, longer ones, and sometimes double it up. I just you know, you gotta do your I do pretty good securing the chickens, but they still all wind up getting most of the time. Anybody, you know it's gonna happen, don't feel bad about it. Is what it is. It's a reminder that this is part of the chicken keeping process. They get old, they die, they get it by snakes, they get eaten by raccoons, they can eaten, buy owls. Whatever the part of the deal. And it's hard the first time. You know, first go around, your first six chickens get or whatever one of them gets off. Then you're like, dang. For me, the great story for us was, I take the picture of my three year old hold on our first day is our first and we did it right. We got our gardens. Now, we got our ring barrels, now, we got our chicken producing eggs like we're getting. So the next morning everything was fully everything was splayed open, headless, flaid dead. Every chicken, every chicken we had, was killed that night after we celebrated our first Hey, and maybe you know, ten years in home study teaches you you better be resilient, You better be able to bounce back from things going wrong. Because of all the things that have gone right now, a lot of things have gone terribly wrong. You know, I just kicked over the stump of a peach tree, the second one that died off on me after about four years, four or five years. One of the things that really killed us, and the reason that this is happening right now, actually it was the biggest killer, the biggest killer of production on our on our little urban homestep was undoubt tree cove shade, lack of sunlight, the death of the sun on our property. And if you're in a neighborhood that has trees, man, you have to account for this and get on it early. Do yourself a favor and get on it early. Like I wish I would have got on it much earlier. But you gotta get on it early, like it's just one of these things. Stay on it, get them trimmed every year. If you can trim them, your I wish I would have done it much earlier, so I get to trim them myself, you know what I mean, And now we're getting them knocked down, so hopefully we can continue that. But it's just one of those things, you know. It's part of that maintenance that when you're twenty five years old and you're having a kid and you're working and all all this stuff, it's like the last thing you're doing is going I wonder. If I have to trim those trees or if are they just going to keep growing? Do they just keep getting bigger? Oh, because they do just keep getting bigger, you know what I mean. And that's you know, that's just a big part of it. But they the the shade rolled in man. From either side and really put a hurt nose, really like nothing's grow. And I put some new apple trees in. Those are like limping along, you know what I mean, and growing like a little bit each year. I think they're like four years in from bear root now haven't produced a single flower, and I know that's why. I know they won't get enough sun. But so yeah, I mean, you got to do that sort of eva like when you set up a garden when you set up a homestead in your head, you know, like, all right, let's take a look and see where what gets eight hours of sun like I hope, Let's see where the soil is good, or figure out what. We have to do to the soil. Right, And you do all this planning in year one, and what you don't think about is what happens in year ten, Right, what happens after a lot can change, Soil can change, what are levels can change, you know, grading of the land can change over time with erosion. Things change, man, you know, And the worst thing you can do, like I said, is not account for it. I felt like I had counted over the years for a lot of things, but what I never accounted for was how quickly and how much of an effect the trees would have on my backyard. And so we're going from we're going from night and debby right now is what's happening right now? We're going from night today. We're going from having the least sunlight we've ever had on our backyard, probably having the most. We had a pot business thing, a giant birch tree. Maybe I'm not one hundred percent sure of just one off in the leaves up close and it just man, it got why the plume was huge, and it was. Just just black and black to everything out, you know what I mean, on all parts of the yard. You could see and you could see the effect on the plants, you know, plant stuff, and they would grow and they would stunt, you know what I mean. It was just like, oh, this is the only things that would do really well are my natives and my perennials, right, but even some of the perennials suffer, really some of the perennials even suffer pretty pretty bad. So we had to be careful. We had to figure it all out, get it all dialed in. I'm excited because now my mentality is next, next ten, Next ten is my mentality now, right, It's like, what are. We gonna do now? You know what I mean? Now now we can rethink all kinds of things. We can, but we can't rethink everything because we do. We do a lot of native, we do a lot of perennial, and those things are in place and that's where they're gonna be. But we have had in the past, we have had some tremendous gardens. Really, we've had some tremendous gardens we've had. I got pictures of my kids, both of them, all eating you know, kind of the kind of the dream of the modern family today. I think with all the world of microplastics, in the world of you know, pestice sides and everything else, modified foods, all. That kind of stuff. Like a picture that you want to look back on. It's like your kid eating food from the garden, you know what I mean, Like chewing carrots, eating. Ripping kale leaves, eating raspberries. And we've always had it. Only in the last few years that we struggled to grow lots of food in a variety of you know, in the way that we used to because we were we were fighting that sunlight. So you know, those things happen, Those things happen with time. So managing the sunlight is es central the movement of but the changing environment in and around your neighborhood, if you're talking urban. Homestand is another big thing. This is a huge thing. You have to understand. You really got to wrap your head around this idea that right outside the window. Oh man, look at it. Oh yeah, a whole new world. So what we're at Redbeaconmedia dot com. Will digress for a quick second. I started a blog and for the lightkeepers Quarters. The Lightkeeper's Quarters is the members area for you PBN members. I'm gonna get you guys a promo code. You'll be able to get in there. Pretty soon, we are going to shutdown Pbnfamily dot Com. 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The cost of entry might seem like a lot of hundred bucks. But that's it, you know, pay no more. You know what I mean? You know, pay no more, and Heaven help you, you're gonna have a lot to choose from. So the world around the urban homestead will change dramatically, and and that probably has been another massive sort of adaptation we've had to make in the United States of condos. People are always building, always digging, always changing, ruining, Right, they love My dad's been telling me this and I'm like tiny, but they love to like dig. It just seems like people love to dig. They love to knock trees down. They go hole, build, you know, and castle put people who live in it. So the migration of animals in the suburban area. Do you start seeing people putting up condos and trees coming down, You got to understand, like things on your homestead are going to change dramatically. Now we have. Three pit bulls and a little French bulldog mini pit bull mix, and uh, you know, these are monstrous creatures from the outside looking in and from a squirrel's point of view, or a deer's point of view, or a rabbit's. Point of view. So we don't we don't have a ton of things that well, actually we have almost nothing that comes into the yard. We have rabbits that come in the yard from time to time. But the other thing we have is the night watchmen. We have missed their oakacs in the real in its real form, Like we have real owls that I think they eat rabbits because they they'll sit. If you pull in late at night, you can catch them sitting on the fence, sitting in the trees, looking down on the yard, like peering down of the yard, and you're like, oh, okay, I see what's going on here. These guys are these guys are gonna just eat all this shit, you know what I mean, anything that comes running across here, mice, whatever, it's getting eat. If you're not in that sort of situation, though, you could get hit, Like you could be in a situation now where you're like, well, I spray a little of this, or I do a little of that, or I hang CDs or I use dog hare and it keeps most of the animals away I put at the fence around. You might find yourself in a situation as development continues in your area. But now you got you're like, what's going Everything's getting neat. There's more everything around, there's more birds in the air, there's more deer around, there's more raccoons at night, there's more. There's clearly more bunnies and stuff eating. Whether the squirrels are eating my tomatoes, I've never had this problem, but I always hear about it. People are all always talking squirrels eating tomatoes, and uh, it's. Always it's always interesting for me. Squirrels eat. But the pests will get you know, they can get rough with time, they can get changed. The other thing they get changes the bugs. You know, bugs can change with time. You can have a garden. Oh there's no problem with bugs, and all of a sudden some years you just have tons of them. You got all kinds of problems with bugs. And it's crazy, you know, it really is. It's absolutely nuts. These are the adaptations you'll have to make in that situation. You know, you'll have to fortify you. You might consider a dog. You'll have to build better fences, higher fences, more fences, whatever. If like fencing is a premium, you can't really have too much fencing, even in a small urban homestead. Small fencing that you can manipulate pretty easily. And I'm not talking putting posts in the ground with cement. I'm talking like. I've used fences that go, you know, like they sort of stab into the ground link together. Like I said, the chain link fences. I've even used four by four lumber and chicken wire to just throw a fence up in an area that I need fenced off. You know, you throw it up, sit it literally create the frame of the fence and just sit it on the ground and then wrap the whole thing in chicken wire and you have, you know, fence for an area. A lot of impermanent fencing gives you the ability to do you know, a bunch of different stuff, but suffice it to say, Man, you know, but the big takeaway today, I think is that once you land on the perfect homes, that situation right, You've done the planning, you've done the work, You've got things figured out, You've got it looking the way you want, the foods grow, and the chickens are doing their thing, and you feel like, man, okay, here we are. One of the biggest things you got to keep eyes on after. That is to maintain this right. You have to be able to maintain. Hey, Jake bird, what's up. You have to be able to maintain And that's what you're hearing in the background you're here chain saws, and what you're hearing is the sound of sunshine, the return of sunlight to the backyard. So keep all that in mind, man, I mean, it's it's essential. One of the big mistakes that I made in own steading was setting a bunch of stuff up and doing. Oh we're good, now, we're good. We'll just do it this way forever, you know, and that is not how it does. Things change, life happens. What more importantly, mother nature happens. You know what I mean. So not to. Believe you the point we're going to wrap the show up, I do want to thank today's incredible sponsor, Hydro Blue. Hydro Blue is with us here at PBN the incredible Versa Flow inline water filter. Get yourself one of these things. I don't know how well this translates on my crappy camera today, but the Versa Flow is amazing. Man. This is incredibly affordable. It's threaded just like it's very similar to the sawyer. It's cheaper than the sawyer, just saying, and it's the same hollow fiber tech. It's got that great inlet that's biggot inlet for the dirty water. The outlet it's twenty eight millimeters threads. 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