Plan Your Homestead For Old Age - EP 964

Join me today as we dive into how to come up with your homestead design plan that works as you age. We will also talk about our usual Monday segments and the Shopping Report is BACK!

Featured Event: Partner with Trees on the Permaculture Homestead with Strong Roots Resources, November 2, $90

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Livestream Schedule
Tuesday, 9:30 AM: Coffee with Kiri Torgler os Thunderhill Farms and Shawn Mills from Hack My Homestead
Friday, 9:30 AM: Homestead Happenings with the Tactical Redneck

Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Counterintuitively, we are doing our best to use up things in the pantry (WHY)
Pizza party and cake with the neighbors
Planning the finishing of the prepper pantry
Time to "really" can the rest of the frozen tomato
Picking up the Harvest Right repair project again

Weekly Shopping Report
Dollar Tree: Stock is good in all areas, including plastics. They also have TP and paper towels.
Home Depot: A 2x4x8 was unchanged from last week, at $3.85. Quickly looking at some tools, they have reduced the quantities of a lot of other brands like Klein in favor of Milwaukee, but pegboards were full.
Aldi: Once again, they had almost no wet cat food, just individual small "peel" cups. There were actually some price decreases this week. Staple prices were: eggs: $2.15 (-); whole milk: $2.88; heavy cream: $5.39; OJ: $3.45; butter: $3.99; bacon: $3.99; potatoes: $3.99 (-); sugar: $2.99; flour: $2.35; and 80% lean ground beef: $4.49. They again have a small amount of TP in stock
A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.599.

Frugality Tip from Margo
Have you ever had a bird peck your window non-stop. Like wake you up and then you have a constant headache for weeks or months because it's trying to kill it's reflection?!
Don't waste your money on all the gadgets to keep birds away like plastic owls, window clings and spinners. Go to the store and buy a $5 cloth shower curtain and hang it on the outside of your window with a couple of cup hooks. It lets light in and can get rained on and most important, it works.
So save your money on all the things that say they deter birds and just block their reflection.
I did this two years ago and still have the same shower curtain up on the bedroom window and we sleep peacefully.

Operation Independence
The sheep are split and ready for a visit from the ram. Lamb futures we hope!

Main topic of the Show: Plan Your Homestead For Old Age

Assess Your Homestead
What works well for mobility matters
Are things far away that should be close (Zones)
How is the house for injuries or illness, prolonged versus
What happens if you have to be suddenly gone for a few days (Watering, livestock care, self care, pipes freezing, etc)
Community needed? (On site helpers, etc). SOPS? Succession housing
List manual processes
What does it cost to maintain with you doing the work? With outsources help (lawncare, firewood, etc)
What happens with land, pets and livestock when you die?
Har far are medical services and how ready are you to wait? (Yellowstone)

Brainstorm Solutions and Changes
Automations
Relocations
Renovations
Relationships
Permaculture

Timeline and Budget
Prioritize projects (Spa - what?)
Assess before you begin
1 step at a time - enjoy the journey - that is the point of a homestead.
Be ready to just let some things go (sheep, housing, trade skills for food in your community, homestead and off-grid purists, etc)

Connect with the community!

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

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