surviving your homestead in tough times

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today is October third, twenty twenty four, and the hurricane
Helene has just come through and wrecked and devastated from
Florida to Ohio. Many people are suffering, many people have
lost all that they've have, and so being sensitive that
I'm going to share surviving your homestead in tough times,

(00:20):
I'm going to talk a little bit about addressing natural disaster,
economic distress, civil unrest, and sometimes even your own ignorance.
Now again, in the case of this hurricane, your own
ignorance is not They're not placing any blame or anything,
but sometimes in our design we fail to address certain

(00:42):
aspects that are going to reduce our threat footprint and
ultimately end up causing frustration and problems. Now again, we're
going to talk about designing for resilience, and we're not
talking about the specific situation here. I just happen to
have this content in the and it's relevant right now.

(01:02):
My goal with this presentation is to help you rebuild
quickly and get back on your feet, as well as
build in such a way that it's going to protect
your home, your family, and your community. And so I'm
justin hit with prosperity homestead. The number one thing that
you need in this situation is fresh food, fresh water,

(01:24):
and safe shelter. And so when we're designing our homestead,
that's really what we're looking for. So the permoculture design
is going to focus on water access shelter, or water
access in buildings. And if you have clean water, you'll
survive much longer than any other condition because in such

(01:46):
a short period of time, you could become dehydrated, you
could come sick. Dysentery is a real thing. And so
when we're reducing our threat footprint, we're amplifying those necessary
and valuable things to get us going in the event
of a natural disaster civil unrest. Now, and we're not
talking about necessarily bug out bags or seventy two hour bags,

(02:07):
but I will tell you that as we're moving to
the homestead here and I'm actively downsizing, I am testing
my seventy two hour bag. Now, what's a seventy two
hour bag. Well, FEMA and the different organizations recommend that
you have at least seventy two hours of clothing, food,
and then some mechanism to purify water. And so in

(02:29):
my seventy two hour bag, I have a couple changes
of clothes, I have water, I have the different things
that I need. Now I establish those things in the
homestead because I'm going to a safe environment that I control.
That's not always the case. If you've got a disaster
barreling in and you grab your a jerry can full

(02:49):
of water, you grab a jerry can full of gasoline
for your vehicle, you grab everybody's seventy two hour bags,
and you're going to have food in these bags. Sometimes
it could just be tune fit, but it's something to
tide you over in this emergency. And you have that already,
you still may not be able to put it in
the vehicle because of rains or hurricanes or storms. You

(03:12):
may have to shelter in place. The big thing is
is we're reducing our threat footprints by narrowing down the
scope of what we're going to have in our immediate vicinity,
and that those things are going to be tied to
your long term success. Now, if you're just starting a
homestead or a small farm, this seventy two hour bag
might allow you to camp. I'm actually sitting in the

(03:33):
travel trailer right now recording this message for you, and
I'm recording it on my phone just sitting here. There's
no devices, there's no microphone, there's nothing, just my phone.
And that's the minimum viable to create a podcast. And
I have that ready, and I have my bag over here.
It's not a seventy two hour bag. If I had
to be here for three days, I'm going to hop

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in the truck and drive down the road and get
something to eat. But there are things on the property here,
like chickens and goats and different types of forage that
are available for me to have a few days worth
of meals if I had to. Now, let's look at
the other side of that. We're looking at the minimal
amount of things to be comfortable to survive a disaster

(04:16):
or a situation. But what about in the homestead design. Now,
I've had people call up and we're doing a design plan,
and they're talking about their seventy two hundred square foot
house with the beautiful wrap around porch and their view
of the mountains, and they're going to have this barn,
and they're going to have the llamas and goats and sheep,
and they just go on and on about all this

(04:38):
stuff they're going to have, and I'm really, now, you know,
doing this for a little while, and now having thirty
two hundred square foot house or having the ability to
travel around the world, I'm more looking at the intentional thrift.
Do I really need a thirty two hundred square foot
house yet alone what a lot of people are looking for,

(05:00):
or these seventy two hundred square foot mansions and stuff?
Do I really need that? Is that really going to
serve my needs? Because really, when you're doing a farm
or you're doing a homestead, there's a lot of stuff
that's outside your property. Even if you've just got five acres,
You've got fencing, garden material, seeds, You've got fuel for vehicles.

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If you God forbid get a tractor, you've got fuel
and repair for the tractor. You've got a lot of
other elements that are going to require resources. So if
you're going to build up seventy two hundred square foot
house or twenty five hundred square foot house, or even
a thousand square foot house, that is a tremendous outlay.
That's why a lot of farms and homesteads cost a
million dollars or more to get started. And trust me,

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I've done the numbers for a number of different people.
If you bought a piece of land, and you've been
sitting on that piece of land for years, and you're
beating yourself up because you didn't. You weren't able to
build that dream house that you wanted. You weren't able
to get the animals that you were looking for, You
weren't able to get a lot of the things done
that you wanted to get done. Listen, it's harder than

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it looks. I know the YouTube videos make homesteading look
like it's easy. It's very idyllic, but they got to
do that to entertain you so that they can get
the views, to get the sponsors, to get the money.
If you're going to set up a homestead, I'm looking
at more of a substance farming because if you can't
grow enough food to care for your family or to

(06:29):
supplement the food that you have to start getting higher quality,
higher value food, then you don't have food security. And
see when we go back to the basics, water, food, shelter.
If you don't have clean water, if you don't have food,
then why bother with a shelter? Because we can really
survive with much less than you might imagine. Now I
have a travel trailer, it doesn't mean you got to

(06:51):
get a travel trailer. I've slept intense before. I'm a
little bit older now, so I prefer sleeping on a
mattress or a fouton. But ultimately I also can just
go sleep in the woods under a tree, presuming the
weather situations right. And lately I've been talking that we
actually require an introductory course to survival before you come

(07:14):
to this property, because we only offer primitive camping. Now,
we don't offer this to the public. It's for private
clients and members and people that are on the newsletter
and stuff like that. But my point being that if
you can't stay on your land in the basics of conditions,
then maybe that land doesn't have enough value to you
to stay in the long term. And so when we're

(07:35):
designing even rebuilding, what's the minimum viable value? Now I
had a note in here, a minimum viable design. Now,
I had a note in here that said, reduce your
threat footprint, run lean, don't fly what you cannot replace.
Now that's a little insensitive for what's going on today,

(07:56):
but that comes from Eve online, which is an online
game where you can you know, at any time, you
can have your ship taken from you. You can be
attacked by people, it can be destroyed, but really it
does still apply in life as you're thinking about rebuilding, Really,
what do you want most from what you had? Not

(08:17):
necessarily rebuilding what you've got, because what was the most
important thing, and that leads to the next thing is
the building of community. I'm seeing more and more with
the political unrest, with the civil unrest, with the economic disasters,
with the failures and decision making the government is making

(08:37):
and that people are making. That a natural disaster is
is just a part of the puzzle. And if we
have good neighbors, or we are a good neighbor, then
we're going to go much further. And I really advocating
you being a good neighbor and beyond your neighbors, building
relationships and networking. Now, this could be a fraternal organization

(08:59):
that you were with, It could be with your local
roots and club, It could be with your local rescue
squad or fire department. But right now, more than ever
I know, technology is focusing us on what's going on
in Russia, or what's going on in the Ukraine, or
what's going on in Israel, or what's going on in
Gaza and it's kind of focusing all of our attention there,
like that's the only thing happening. But there's stuff going

(09:21):
on in China and Taiwan, there's stuff going on in Africa,
there's stuff going on in South America, and it's like
if you're focused always out there. My observation is that
internal suffers one. You get frustrated, you're always looking out
and worried about the next big thing. And that's actually
and we talk about this in another newsletter I have,

(09:43):
that's actually a psychological control, because if you can keep
a population scared, then it's easy to suggest what they
ought to do. Here's something different, though, if you turn
off the TV, you turn off the news, and you
go outside and check on your neighbor. So it's highly
like you've got elderly neighbors. When was the last time
he went over just to see how they're doing, to

(10:04):
check on something they need. A neighbor of mine, she
was checking on me. He came by, he said, justin,
I haven't seen you in a while, because of course
we've been busy getting the homestead up and going and
preparing land and caring for animals and doing those things
that neighbor came over and said, I hadn't seen you
in a while. How you been doing. And then we
got to talking and he said, oh, by the way,

(10:25):
I'm moving along on a project. I've basically had a
garden area and I ended up with like twelve tea posts.
Now tea posts are seven bucks apiece here, and so
anytime somebody wants to get me some tea posts, even
if I got to pull them out of the ground,
I'm all for it. But again, the neighbor didn't come
over to get me to help and pull out teaposts.

(10:46):
We were having a conversation, and the conversation led to
going over and pulling tea posts, because again we're working
together as a community. Now beyond your commute, the networking
provides opportunities for you to find employment, for you to
find new income, opportunities for you to find land that
might be available. And one of the things about running

(11:07):
lean is that if you find a piece of land
and you start your homestead, lean on that piece of land,
and then a better piece of land comes along, you
can actually move to the next piece of property. And
that's one of the things that I help clients with
a lot is how do we increase the value of
the land. And we do that again through water access buildings,

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but we do it in such a way that we're
not tied to the land. Now, I know a lot
of you folks want to plant down in the homestead
and retire and sit on your porch and drink iced tea,
but this world today may not allow that. And then
the natural cycles of things. I do believe Halene was
a one hundred year storm. I don't think that's going
to happen again anytime soon. But again, if it's the

(11:53):
what's happened here in Martinsville, thunderstorms, flash flooding, tornadoes. See,
the hurricane might not happen again, but you could end
up with a tornado, the forest fire, all this other stuff. Now,
by the way, I have something I'm going to offer
you at the end of this. It's no charge, especially
if you're in the areas that have been impacted, because
I want to give back. There's been enough rain and

(12:16):
floods and things going on here in Martinsville Henry County
that I can't go drive out someplace to help help
with restoration efforts. So I'm going to use technology. I'm
going to use my resources to basically help you over
the phone, and we'll talk about that here shortly. The
next thing we want to talk about is want to
manage our pantries? Now, a friend of mine here the

(12:40):
power went out and it was out for twenty four hours.
At the point in which we interacted, we were parking
cars at the NASCAR racetrack down here doing some community
service type stuff, and he was telling me that his
power had been out twenty four hours and he ended
up losing seven hundred dollars worth of food from his
freezer and had a deep freezer and his refrigerator, and

(13:02):
it was just it wasn't devastating. You know, he can
replace the food. His family's doing okay, everybody's doing well.
But how often can you afford to have that happen?
How frustrating would it be if this goes on more
than once? And so when we're running lean, maybe we're
going to put more effort into maybe off grid power

(13:25):
or solar power. Maybe we're not going to be a
purist when it comes to off grid and we're gonna
get grid power and a backup generator. See, there's a
lot of designs we're actually looking at building a container,
standalone container with power that you can connect to grid,
or you can just pop it up in the middle
of the woods somewhere and you can fire that baby

(13:45):
up and run a small cabin. If you guys are aware,
we have the off gride cabin program that we're putting together,
and so we're going to actually have off grade power
for the cabins and that whole design we're going to
make available to you guys, because again, do you want
a seventy two hundred square foot house that you've got
to clean, You've got to furnish that You've got to
deal with a lot of things. Or do you want

(14:05):
that hunting cabin that you're going out seasonally while you're
getting that land prepared for an eventual retirement. See this,
this is what we're thinking about when we're doing a
design plan. Another factor is we want, okay, so an
we're managing that pantry. We want to have dried goods,
canned goods, and a few months worth of staples. So

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we talked about that seventy two hour bag that's going
to have our comfort items. I'm looking at right now,
I've got my so i can brush my teeth, and
so I can comb my hair, and so I could
take a shower. I don't really shower here at the property.
I'll do a wash up in a basin somewhere. And
then I've got bedding and I've got clothing. I even

(14:50):
have my pajamas so i can sleep in my pajamas
and be comfortable. I've got water and some snacky type
stuff to eat, cup that kind of thing. This morning.
In the morning when I wake up, I'm gonna have
a cup of tea, and I've got all of that
prepared and ready to go. But if you had a
natural disaster and you have to evacuate, could you grab

(15:12):
a tote out of your pantry cabinet or to fill
a toad up with a lot of dried goods so
that you could take food along with you. See, this
isn't just about being a blessing to your family and
being prepared. It's about being able to be neighborly and
have enough for others as well. This is the abundance
that I talk about now. A lot of permaculture folks
want to live, you know, sackcloth and ashes, and you

(15:35):
know they want to wander the woods in a loincloth,
spread and seas like Johnny appleseed, but that's not practical
for the long term. It certainly makes a great weekend
fun get away, but it's not practical for the long term.
So we're managing that pantry for day to day, but
we're also making sure that pantry has things that we
can grab and go if that's if that's necessary. We're

(15:56):
also making sure rather than having bulk, we're not just
going to costco and a volume of things. We're cultivating
that pantry for good health. Now, I was looking at
today about dried aged duck, so I'm thinking about getting
some ducks for the homestead here. I want to make
sure that we're on the property more often to have
the ducks, because ducks need to get locked up at night.

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But I'm thinking, if I'm gonna have ducks, I'm gonna
have to feed these ducks. And if I'm gonna feed
these ducks, we want a surplus of ducks, and those
ducks are going to be going to be eaten. I
already know how to process chickens. Ducks process similar. Only
difference is there's stomachs a little bit lower, so you
don't quite go in from the bottom, but ultimately the
duck roasts tasty, and so you don't have to have

(16:41):
all your food in the pantry. Now, if there's a
civil unrest, if there's an economic disaster, if there's a
natural disaster, those could cause problems to come to you.
So there is a factor of physical safety for your
animals when you do have in the case of goats
and chickens and things like that, you can have foxes

(17:02):
and coyotes, so there's a physical need. I was out
here tonight about eight o'clock. It's dark out, and I'm
feeding the goats, and I noticed that after the goats ate,
they're looking at the woodline. They're out there scoping the woodline,
and so I shined a light around. I didn't see anything.
But when I had left the enclosure to go back
and lock up the buckets and everything so that I

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had everything, all the feed in the storage area, I
heard something take off running through the woods. So there
could have been a coyote out there, a fox out there,
that could have been a bear out there. We want
to be mindful of our physical security, so that pantry
in a homesteady situation is going to extend past the
house itself. You could have a cold cellar, you could

(17:45):
have a freezer somewhere. We want to manage those things.
We also want to plan for if we are going
to lose power to keep that thing active. And so
you can see, there's all these other expenses. So a
lot of folks going out there are building their their
dream house five thousand square feet, three car garage. You know,
maybe you could afford that now, but can you afford

(18:07):
it when economy changes? Because that's the last point I
want to leave you with. You want to do more
with less, even if you can afford more. And this
is important. Most six figure earners are one paycheck away
from a devastating credit score, some of them ending up
homeless or getting behind on your bills. And this is

(18:28):
because again, inflation is growing much faster than we're being told,
and your expenses are getting higher and higher, and the
money that you're earning goes less, it doesn't go as
far as before. Another factor is it wages over time
or stagnating. That's why a lot of times we talk
about making money from your land so that you can

(18:49):
supplement your income, or we talk about making money in
ways that are more entrepreneurial than just showing up at
a job. A lot of you folks move out in
the middle of the woods, and now you you've doubled
your commute and it costs a fuel goes up, and
now you're actually making less money and got more chores.
So again we want to look at that. Now. Remember

(19:11):
I've adjusted some of this content for Hurricane Helena that
went from Florida, Ohio, and the cleanup efforts are going
on right now. But I want to share with you
something kind of a takeaway. Here's what we're doing. If
you've been impacted by this hurricane, flooding, tornado, any type
of natural disaster. I'm not even going to ask the

(19:31):
details of it because part of this you're going to
be sending me some pictures. What I'm offering for free,
no obligation. If you're I do ask that you joined
the free newsletter at www dot prosperity homestead dot org
slash newsletter. That way we can share information and answers

(19:52):
to people's questions. But what I want to provide to
you is now I can't come out to your location,
but if you take a picture, if you email that
to me and you have a question associated with that picture.
I'm going to offer free support and coaching to restore

(20:17):
your property, to make it more climate resilient, to basically
restore what needs to be restored back to where you
need to do it. And I'm going to provide that
to you for six months after you're back into your home.
So if you're not in your home right now and
you've got erosion issues, if you're not in your home

(20:38):
right now and you've got you clean up and dry
and roadway and all that excavation type of work. Now,
in some cases, I can help find you vendors. So
maybe you don't have Internet, but you take your phone,
you take a picture or something, and you say, justin
I'm going to need to replace my road. Here's my address,
and you can, by the way, you can go to

(21:00):
the website and you can text that to the phone
number that's on the website. It doesn't come to me directly,
but I'll get it in an email. Include an address
or a relative address. I will sit down and get
on Google Earth and some of the light our systems
and updated weather maps and updated satellite maps. There's a
lot of storm mapping coming through and I'm going to

(21:21):
look at your situation, and I'm going to give you
a quick little write up about what can be done.
I can do a Google search, I can see if
I can find some vendors nearby. Now, a lot of
times in a disaster situation, if I call the vendors up,
they're going to be overwhelmed. But what I'm looking to do,
and at least from the if you don't want to
give me your address, that's fine, take a couple of

(21:43):
pictures and give me the nearest city. The nearest city,
I'm going to put together some small guides and that
way you can start making some phone calls to people
and you don't have to go chase down internet connection
or diddle around on your phone and anything like that.
Now I am about two hours from a lot of

(22:03):
these areas mount Airy and Ashville is about three hours away.
Within forty five minutes there were tornadoes and floods. So
again I'm not going to drive out to your location.
But you're more than welcome to send photographs to the
email address. So if you go to the website www

(22:25):
dot prosperity hoomestead dot org, go to the contact page,
say you want support for disaster recovery, so disaster recovery support,
I will email you back me personally. ME personally will
email you back with it, and then you can just
email a bunch of photographs. You can email the nearest

(22:46):
city or town. And then what I'm gonna do again
is I'm going to answer all your questions. Now you
might be asking, how do I make any money with
you doing this again? This is This is being neighborly,
is being neighbor league. This storm that happened in north
western North Carolina, in southeastern Virginia or southwestern Virginia is

(23:08):
literally my backyard. But I don't care if you're in
Florida or Ohio or any other temperate climate. I will
answer every question you have, So send me an email.
If you just want to share some ideas or concerns
or frustrations you have, send it in. I'm gonna take
a lot of time to do this because again, I'm
investing in my neighbors. I'm investing in people that are

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are interested in permaculture design, interested in reginative agriculture, interested
in living more holistically and better, having better living through homesteady.
Not only that, I'm going to arrange some coaches, and
I'm going to arrange some experts and we're going to
do some group calls. Now, I'm gonna try to try

(23:51):
to make these calls so that you can attend them,
like from a cell phone. You know, you don't necessarily
have to go online or anything like that. They might
be zoom meetings, but we're going to go through the
questions that come in and I'm going to reach into
my network of people. Now, many of them in this
area are rebuilding their own properties, and so we're going
to share stories about some of the rebuilds. We're gonna

(24:11):
share stories about mitigation. I'm really big on the mitigation part.
You want to make sure that water gets out of
your foundation. You don't want to have water in your foundation.
And then of course if you're going to rebuild your house, uh,
there's factors you want to consider there. If our priority
is going to be clean water, clean food, and safe

(24:32):
shelter and so I even have some resources lined up
that can talk about survival shelters or temporary housing issues. Now,
am I going to be able to get you temporary housing?
Am I going to be able to get you a grant?
And all that kind of stuff no, but I will
gather information. Again. I'm going to produce PDF guides hopefully

(24:53):
you can you can look at them on your phone,
you can look at them on a laptop and then
be able to make some phone calls to the areas
people who are gonna be able to help you. Again,
this is gonna be available for up to six months
after you're in your home. So I don't care if
you're in a shelter, I don't care where you're at.

(25:13):
You can start today and then once you're in a home,
in your home, we can then start talking about that recovery.
So this is very important. Now we're gonna keep it lean,
We're gonna keep it focused on health, wealth and wisdom.
We're gonna keep it focused on that lifestyle. And we're
gonna we're gonna get that Zone one taken care of,
get that herb garden taken care of. Now, I'm gonna

(25:34):
dig into my library of videos and the library of
other people's videos and and and questions and answers, and
will develop a course around that. And we're gonna get
you real time answers as as you ask the questions,
and it's all by email, and then we'll invite you
again to a group coaching calls and other areas to
get these insights. But we're gonna look at the application

(25:56):
of permaculture design in order to build a more resilient
and manageable homestead or a small small farm. And then
within that concept that we teach here about getting at
break even or better. Now, not everybody's gonna like my advice,
but but I want you to. You've already been hit
for devastating costs and and and insurance is your premiums

(26:19):
are gonna go up, and there's there's a bunch of
hassles going on with getting the help that you need.
And so we're gonna look at that. We're we're gonna
design for resilience in an ever changing and sometimes dangerous world.
And so we understand it by the time this the
first couple of months, you getting back on your feet
and getting into your home, and you will get back
into a home may not be the one you started with,

(26:42):
but it will be a home, safe shelter. And then
we're gonna get that get that vision together. We're gonna
get those design plans together. We're gonna get you into
some realistic homestead situation. One of the things that we're
gonna look at too is community gardens. Community gardens are
very powerful to start building those networks and to build
up those neighbors, neighborhoods and communities. And again, I am

(27:05):
giving you my dedication to this for six months after
you get into your home, so we can start today,
snap some pictures of your property, ask the questions that
we want. And what we're doing here is we're forward
thinking beyond the disaster. This is going to help you
give hope to your neighbors. For example, you're in a

(27:25):
church organization and the church has had big problems. Let's
get a community garden going in that church so come
spring people can get fresh vegetables. You may have a
little bit of time here in the fall to get
things growing. We want to have sanitation taking care of.
We talked about this in other videos. Sanitation is critical
in a high water flood situation. Septic tanks don't function right,

(27:49):
and so we need to start talking about dry toilets.
We need to start talking about temporary toilets. FEMA is
not necessarily going to be there in a timely manner.
What do you do the short term? Now, again, you
can start right now by visiting www dot prosperity homestead
dot org. Go to the contact page and ask for

(28:11):
a disaster recovery support. Either give me an address so
I can look you up on the satellites and see
what the updated satellites look like as far as flood
are is because you want to know, for example, if
there's high elevations above you and you're in a watershed,
you're going to design a little bit differently than if
you are in a you know where you're on the
high slope. Also, we want to look at some of

(28:34):
the ideas that you have for recovery. You may, for example,
be able to get your garage cleared out and start
basic camp there. The off grid cabins that we're talking
about here has a lot of concepts for living comfortably
with limited resources. And again, most people are one paycheck

(28:57):
away from a disaster. If you're currently facing a disaster
from the hurricane, from tornadoes that kicked off around it,
from lightning strikes that were around there, from the flooding,
we want to help you. Now when I say we again,
I'm going to try to match your question with an
appropriate expert, and then if you send me a picture

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and you say, look, I need excavation services, the clear
mud out of my driveway. I'm going to need a
home inspector to look over my home to see what
needs to be done. I'm going to need to know
your closest town in order to get you that contact
information and to get you those details. And then if possible,
we're going to get a message out to those people
after you we've connected with you, and then ultimately try

(29:40):
to get you to re coordinate the resources. That's what
I can offer. I can offer coordination, I can offer
insights and resources. I can offer guides and tools. But again,
we're dealing with some problems here in Martinsville, Henry County,
Dan dry forks. Some of those areas head flooding and stuff.
And so ultimately the best I can do is coordination, information,

(30:05):
resources and guides. Now, folks, hang in there. This will
all be behind us before you know it. Now we
have to be careful not to get the recovery and
then forget that. Hurricanes can come. They seem to come
every August, and we haven't had a big disaster like
this with multiple hurricanes right after another, not since nineteen sixties.

(30:27):
So again That's why I think this is one of
those hundred year storms. But we're still going to have floods, rains, tornadoes,
civil unrest, economic distress. And again, the ignorance part I'm
talking about is not asking for help, not reaching out
in the community. A lot of folks want to prep
they want to go out there and have their off
grade homestead, They want to drop out of society. What

(30:49):
I'm saying is you're going to transform society, to serve
your family, to serve your neighbors, to serve yourself much better.
I'm justin hit with Prosperity Homestead. I know this is
been a long podcast episode, but again, if you visit
www dot prosperity homestead dot org, go to the contact
page and ask for disaster recovery support. If you're listening

(31:13):
to this podcast. In the comments, if you type disaster
recovery support, I'll get you a link and I'll get
you information so that we can get you started. We're
gonna hopefully do a bunch of of group calls. We're
gonna uh now again, if you send your picture of things,
We're gonna respect your privacy, but any of those pictures

(31:34):
could be used in building out these guides, because what
we want you to do is get good information and
then take it to your neighbors. And then now you
and your neighbors are recovered, and now I'll cut down
on looting. That'll start helping, getting infrastructure in place, and
we can communicate. You might be stuck at your place,
but if you've got if you're listening to this podcast,

(31:56):
then everything I have to share are all the resources
I can dig into, all the searching and getting those
names and addresses together so that you can get the
help that you need is available. See, there's hope. There's
hope when you're surviving your homestead, designing for resilience, and
building up a community, there will always be hope. Again,

(32:21):
contact me by any means that you like. Mention disaster
recovery support, ask your questions, tell me what you need
right now, and if you tell me the nearest town
or city or give me the address of the location
in which has impacted, I will respect your privacy and

(32:43):
not share that information. But I will go onto Google Maps,
I will go to local resources centers, I will go
on the Internet, and I will get these resources put
together and send you a PDF file that PDF file
will not have any private information in it. It'll have
lists of resources, guides, links, that kind of stuff, and
you're welcome to it's designed for you to share with

(33:03):
your neighbors. Then that way people can be making phone calls,
they can get back online, they can get back on track. Folks.
This is about getting you back on your feet. Now again,
when you're back in your house, when you're back on
your homestead, when you're at that next level, when it
comes to your family being able to be comfortable, then

(33:24):
I will continue to support you for up to six months,
because again, homesteading doesn't stop when you build a house.
Homesteading doesn't stop when you do the garden. There's a
cycle of seasons that you're going to go through so
that you can get resilient design. With resilience, erosion management,

(33:46):
flood management, fire mitigation, all that stuff goes into your
permaculture design. Thank you for listening. I'm justin hit with
prosperity homestead and I hope to hear of your successes soon.
Thanks for watching, or you're not whymuch, you're listening anyway,