December 4, 2023 • 10 mins
Problems will happen on your homestead. Do you have the skills to resolve them?
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(00:00):
Let's have a frank conversation about disasterrecovery, especially when your homestead gets wiped
out by a flood or you've hadsome external situation that has completely put you
in a situation where you just feeloverwhelmed. This is an important state that,
once you overcome, will make youstronger, and an important state where
(00:21):
unconventional ideas and concepts are necessary.I'm justin hit from prosperity homestead. So
even if you've built a massively successfulhomestead, or you're just getting started,
or you've lived in a city orsmall town, it doesn't really matter.
Natural disasters will come into play.And I'm working with somebody right now who's
been hit by a flood, andso floods have destroyed their village, have
(00:44):
destroyed their homes, and they're nowcurrently in a camp kind of like a
recovery camp in a school yard,and they're at the point where they're eating
pigweed. Pigweed is that actually inthe amaranth family, and it is healthy
to eat, but if you eatit is the only thing is going to
give you stomach aches. By theway, I'm justin hit with prosperity homestead.
But what this demonstrates is that evenin a time of unusual circumstances,
(01:11):
there still is food available there.But what it takes is leaders. So
your farm's been wiped out, you'velost animals, people have died. That's
behind you. Really, really nota lot you can do about that.
From there, you have to focuson sanitation, clean water, and clean
(01:32):
food. Now I sound so insensitivesaying that you know that's behind you,
You've got to deal with it someother time. Because my mindset comes from
working in high stakes environments. Mypersonality is one of solutions. And yes
it is a little bit insensitive,but there's a time for morning and there's
(01:53):
a time for recovery. And withoutthe recovery, the suffering will go on
much longer. It'll be more pronounced, it'll be more difficult because if you
don't have proper sanitation, people aregoing to get sick. So what do
we do for sanitation, Well,we make sure we can clean ourselves.
We make sure we have our wasteis taken care of. No squatting in
(02:15):
the bushes. You need to haveeither a dry, humaneure toilet or you
need to have some kind of compostingtoilet. Those are likely the most simple
systems, A pit latrine is notthe best solution because you can contaminate groundwater.
The second point is you got tohave clean water, so we need
to have filtration systems. Simple filtrationsystems, if that are makeshift, is
(02:35):
we got to get you started.But later you could build barrel filters.
And we've demonstrated barrel filters here beforeon our fish system. Now, if
I'm building a fish system and Igot commets before because I overbuilt the filters,
the filters were good enough that Icould drink the water that came out
of the fish system into the filtersand poured back into the fish stem.
I could actually drink that water.And a lot of folks said that was
(02:55):
overbuilt. But what if there wasa natural disaster, What if there is
a emergency, a situation, oran extended time where we didn't have water
from a well or we didn't havecity water. I would have been able
to drink the water out of thefish system, literally capture rain water and
process it on site and have cleanwater to drink. You need to know
about boiling water, and then ofcourse the tablets or chlorine or different things
(03:17):
you're going to use the clean water. You need to know three or four
different methods. Finally, you needto have clean food. Do you know
in your region what plants are notonly edible but have other municipal purposes.
So, for example, if youcan grow bananas in your region, you
can actually tap a banana tree forwater. It's going to be a high
(03:38):
potassium rich water, good for health, but it's actually going to be clean
water. So you can have groundwatercontamination and the water brought up from the
ground and processed. Buy the banana. It's not a tree, it's a
plant. The banana plant is goingto give you clean water. And then
also the pith or the centers ofthe banana stems can be eaten. It's
(04:00):
a high starch food. The leavescan be used to wrap food or to
cook food. But again, theseare key elements that are going to move
you towards a solution rather than theprolonged, the misery and suffering. Now
there's an organization I recommend in mylocal area, and of course you can
(04:20):
find organizations in your area, butit's the Sustainable Homestead Institute and they offer
an essential survival skills course and itsuited very well for the temperate climate.
It really depends on what climate you'rein. But again, could you get
clean water, could you handle coresanitation? Could you handle the food?
(04:43):
Now, how you handle that's acompletely different thing. You might have a
bug out bag, you might havea seventy two hour food kit, you
may have a lot of other factors. It's not my place to teach you
those things. Where I can helpyou most is understanding the mental, just
the mental suret that with the rightskills you can overcome situations. It's not
(05:03):
necessarily prepping, but it's through thegardening, through the land management, through
the way you design your property.Would you have a backup food source?
What if prices at the market getreally high? What if there's a COVID
lockdown? Would you be able tofind food seasonally for your day to day
(05:23):
needs? Now it sounds a littleinsensitive. I have the chat up in
front of me and he says,since we're now eat pigweed after destruction of
the farm, we will look forways to catch up with this new and
faster brick to bring food security andstability. And I reply, pigweed is
in the emirant family and it's veryhealthy. Cooks like charter turnip greens and
(05:44):
has vitamin ac and iron and calcium. See, I want to look at
the solutions. I acknowledge problems exist. I have setbacks in my own life.
I help clients overcome setbacks with settingup their farm or or their design,
or overcoming mistakes maybe they've made inthe past that are now getting in
the way of their homestead. Butit takes a mental attitude of let's organize
(06:09):
around solutions. Because yes, wehold funerals so that we can put an
end to the suffering, the misery. Once we're done honoring the person's life,
once we're done mourning the death,we must move forward for the living.
And it's in their name that we'regoing to in this case improve the
(06:32):
farm property so that it is moreresilient to flooding. So what can be
done there, Well, that swales, that's channels, that's maybe having on
your perimeter of the property fast growingacacia or a black locusts or clumping bamboo
so that when the water comes fromthe rivers, it is slowed down by
(06:55):
the vegetation. And then maybe withinthat vegetation we have fruit tree so that
the fruit will be up higher offthe ground. So maybe we have some
ground flooding, maybe we have highwater, but we can still bring the
fruit down from the trees. Wecan still build out a system. Now
if it depends on the situation,it could be a natural disaster flooding,
(07:16):
it could be hurricanes and storms,it could be wildfire. Whenever the situation
is in your environment, we buildinto the design plan fire resistance, flood
resistance, emergency backup points areas wherewe might put equipment higher up off the
ground. So, for example,if you have a generator on your property
to back up should you have apower outage, you want to make sure
(07:39):
that generator is elevated high enough thatif there was flooding that you're not going
to have the generator fail due toflooding. Excuse me, do you see
where we're coming from here? Weare moving towards solutions, even if it's
a little bit out of time,starting first with the minimum viable product,
(08:01):
which is sanitation and of course,being able to wash your dishes, being
able to wash yourself, being ableto keep urine and waste away from your
camp location. And we're going todemonstrate some of that when we're putting together
the off Gride cabin program and theoff grade goats program. But you also
want to have clean water. Youwant to have enough clean water. The
(08:24):
jerry can is an incredible thing.You can get water jerry cans, and
then you can get that household waterput into a safe space so that you
can actually have clean household water whenyou need it. Clean food, not
only the food that you've preserved.Is it in a pantry, a secure
pantry. As talking to a gentlemanwho took an old shed. It's not
an old shed, but he tooka shed and he insulated it to make
(08:46):
an outdoor pantry that provided a smallpreparation place where you can bring in vegetables
and stuff like that and prep themup with a little burner and do some
canning. And then you weren't heatingthe whole house up. But the back
of the shed had a lockable storagearea that had wire mesh in the walls
(09:07):
to make it bear resistant because theyhave bear in that area. And so
they're now able to have another areato store food that allows them to do
the things that they want to doto canned food. And then they have
a thermostat and they're running a smallsplit unit that keeps it at a certain
temperature so it doesn't get too hot, it doesn't get too cold. See
they're doing something. There isn't afrustration. There isn't a worry that is
(09:33):
sustained. See it's okay to befrustrated. It's okay to worry. But
that's a signal that it's now timefor a solution. And so I'm not
minimizing when these storms come, ornatural disasters, or economic collapse, or
government regulations and change. I'm notminimizing those things. Those things are bad,
but I'm encouraging more of a producerresponse. So I'll leave you with
(09:58):
something here. One of the keythings I mentioned to this individual is to
go ahead and start organizing a groupof people. Make a list of what
you want to solve for, andorganize a group of people so that you
can start narrowing down who has whatinsight and focus those insights on a solution.
If you want to talk specifically aboutchallenges you face, visit us at
(10:18):
www dot prosperity homestead dot org.I'm just a hit with Prosperity Homestead.
I want to thank you for listening. I am getting a little warning on
my recording device that we're about fullin the disc, so I'd love to
go into more details. Be sureto ask your questions at www dot Prosperity
homestead dot org
Let's have a frank conversation about disasterrecovery, especially when your homestead gets wiped
out by a flood or you've hadsome external situation that has completely put you
in a situation where you just feeloverwhelmed. This is an important state that,
once you overcome, will make youstronger, and an important state where
(00:21):
unconventional ideas and concepts are necessary.I'm justin hit from prosperity homestead. So
even if you've built a massively successfulhomestead, or you're just getting started,
or you've lived in a city orsmall town, it doesn't really matter.
Natural disasters will come into play.And I'm working with somebody right now who's
been hit by a flood, andso floods have destroyed their village, have
(00:44):
destroyed their homes, and they're nowcurrently in a camp kind of like a
recovery camp in a school yard,and they're at the point where they're eating
pigweed. Pigweed is that actually inthe amaranth family, and it is healthy
to eat, but if you eatit is the only thing is going to
give you stomach aches. By theway, I'm justin hit with prosperity homestead.
But what this demonstrates is that evenin a time of unusual circumstances,
(01:11):
there still is food available there.But what it takes is leaders. So
your farm's been wiped out, you'velost animals, people have died. That's
behind you. Really, really nota lot you can do about that.
From there, you have to focuson sanitation, clean water, and clean
(01:32):
food. Now I sound so insensitivesaying that you know that's behind you,
You've got to deal with it someother time. Because my mindset comes from
working in high stakes environments. Mypersonality is one of solutions. And yes
it is a little bit insensitive,but there's a time for morning and there's
(01:53):
a time for recovery. And withoutthe recovery, the suffering will go on
much longer. It'll be more pronounced, it'll be more difficult because if you
don't have proper sanitation, people aregoing to get sick. So what do
we do for sanitation, Well,we make sure we can clean ourselves.
We make sure we have our wasteis taken care of. No squatting in
(02:15):
the bushes. You need to haveeither a dry, humaneure toilet or you
need to have some kind of compostingtoilet. Those are likely the most simple
systems, A pit latrine is notthe best solution because you can contaminate groundwater.
The second point is you got tohave clean water, so we need
to have filtration systems. Simple filtrationsystems, if that are makeshift, is
(02:35):
we got to get you started.But later you could build barrel filters.
And we've demonstrated barrel filters here beforeon our fish system. Now, if
I'm building a fish system and Igot commets before because I overbuilt the filters,
the filters were good enough that Icould drink the water that came out
of the fish system into the filtersand poured back into the fish stem.
I could actually drink that water.And a lot of folks said that was
(02:55):
overbuilt. But what if there wasa natural disaster, What if there is
a emergency, a situation, oran extended time where we didn't have water
from a well or we didn't havecity water. I would have been able
to drink the water out of thefish system, literally capture rain water and
process it on site and have cleanwater to drink. You need to know
about boiling water, and then ofcourse the tablets or chlorine or different things
(03:17):
you're going to use the clean water. You need to know three or four
different methods. Finally, you needto have clean food. Do you know
in your region what plants are notonly edible but have other municipal purposes.
So, for example, if youcan grow bananas in your region, you
can actually tap a banana tree forwater. It's going to be a high
(03:38):
potassium rich water, good for health, but it's actually going to be clean
water. So you can have groundwatercontamination and the water brought up from the
ground and processed. Buy the banana. It's not a tree, it's a
plant. The banana plant is goingto give you clean water. And then
also the pith or the centers ofthe banana stems can be eaten. It's
(04:00):
a high starch food. The leavescan be used to wrap food or to
cook food. But again, theseare key elements that are going to move
you towards a solution rather than theprolonged, the misery and suffering. Now
there's an organization I recommend in mylocal area, and of course you can
(04:20):
find organizations in your area, butit's the Sustainable Homestead Institute and they offer
an essential survival skills course and itsuited very well for the temperate climate.
It really depends on what climate you'rein. But again, could you get
clean water, could you handle coresanitation? Could you handle the food?
(04:43):
Now, how you handle that's acompletely different thing. You might have a
bug out bag, you might havea seventy two hour food kit, you
may have a lot of other factors. It's not my place to teach you
those things. Where I can helpyou most is understanding the mental, just
the mental suret that with the rightskills you can overcome situations. It's not
(05:03):
necessarily prepping, but it's through thegardening, through the land management, through
the way you design your property.Would you have a backup food source?
What if prices at the market getreally high? What if there's a COVID
lockdown? Would you be able tofind food seasonally for your day to day
(05:23):
needs? Now it sounds a littleinsensitive. I have the chat up in
front of me and he says,since we're now eat pigweed after destruction of
the farm, we will look forways to catch up with this new and
faster brick to bring food security andstability. And I reply, pigweed is
in the emirant family and it's veryhealthy. Cooks like charter turnip greens and
(05:44):
has vitamin ac and iron and calcium. See, I want to look at
the solutions. I acknowledge problems exist. I have setbacks in my own life.
I help clients overcome setbacks with settingup their farm or or their design,
or overcoming mistakes maybe they've made inthe past that are now getting in
the way of their homestead. Butit takes a mental attitude of let's organize
(06:09):
around solutions. Because yes, wehold funerals so that we can put an
end to the suffering, the misery. Once we're done honoring the person's life,
once we're done mourning the death,we must move forward for the living.
And it's in their name that we'regoing to in this case improve the
(06:32):
farm property so that it is moreresilient to flooding. So what can be
done there, Well, that swales, that's channels, that's maybe having on
your perimeter of the property fast growingacacia or a black locusts or clumping bamboo
so that when the water comes fromthe rivers, it is slowed down by
(06:55):
the vegetation. And then maybe withinthat vegetation we have fruit tree so that
the fruit will be up higher offthe ground. So maybe we have some
ground flooding, maybe we have highwater, but we can still bring the
fruit down from the trees. Wecan still build out a system. Now
if it depends on the situation,it could be a natural disaster flooding,
(07:16):
it could be hurricanes and storms,it could be wildfire. Whenever the situation
is in your environment, we buildinto the design plan fire resistance, flood
resistance, emergency backup points areas wherewe might put equipment higher up off the
ground. So, for example,if you have a generator on your property
to back up should you have apower outage, you want to make sure
(07:39):
that generator is elevated high enough thatif there was flooding that you're not going
to have the generator fail due toflooding. Excuse me, do you see
where we're coming from here? Weare moving towards solutions, even if it's
a little bit out of time,starting first with the minimum viable product,
(08:01):
which is sanitation and of course,being able to wash your dishes, being
able to wash yourself, being ableto keep urine and waste away from your
camp location. And we're going todemonstrate some of that when we're putting together
the off Gride cabin program and theoff grade goats program. But you also
want to have clean water. Youwant to have enough clean water. The
(08:24):
jerry can is an incredible thing.You can get water jerry cans, and
then you can get that household waterput into a safe space so that you
can actually have clean household water whenyou need it. Clean food, not
only the food that you've preserved.Is it in a pantry, a secure
pantry. As talking to a gentlemanwho took an old shed. It's not
an old shed, but he tooka shed and he insulated it to make
(08:46):
an outdoor pantry that provided a smallpreparation place where you can bring in vegetables
and stuff like that and prep themup with a little burner and do some
canning. And then you weren't heatingthe whole house up. But the back
of the shed had a lockable storagearea that had wire mesh in the walls
(09:07):
to make it bear resistant because theyhave bear in that area. And so
they're now able to have another areato store food that allows them to do
the things that they want to doto canned food. And then they have
a thermostat and they're running a smallsplit unit that keeps it at a certain
temperature so it doesn't get too hot, it doesn't get too cold. See
they're doing something. There isn't afrustration. There isn't a worry that is
(09:33):
sustained. See it's okay to befrustrated. It's okay to worry. But
that's a signal that it's now timefor a solution. And so I'm not
minimizing when these storms come, ornatural disasters, or economic collapse, or
government regulations and change. I'm notminimizing those things. Those things are bad,
but I'm encouraging more of a producerresponse. So I'll leave you with
(09:58):
something here. One of the keythings I mentioned to this individual is to
go ahead and start organizing a groupof people. Make a list of what
you want to solve for, andorganize a group of people so that you
can start narrowing down who has whatinsight and focus those insights on a solution.
If you want to talk specifically aboutchallenges you face, visit us at
(10:18):
www dot prosperity homestead dot org.I'm just a hit with Prosperity Homestead.
I want to thank you for listening. I am getting a little warning on
my recording device that we're about fullin the disc, so I'd love to
go into more details. Be sureto ask your questions at www dot Prosperity
homestead dot org
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