This Feral Life

On this episode: 

We talk about basic preparedness, things to think about, and the basics and reasons behind a grab-and-go bag. a simple 72-hour kit and what you might want to keep in it and in your vehicle. 

We also cover: 

The dust bowl 

Precious metals suck 

Kerosene heaters 

staying warm 

lots of craziness in the news 

The Wafflehouse Index

GTFO if you have a hurricane coming 

how to build a poor mans Berkey filter that works j...

In this episode, we talk about how to turn all that neat farm equipment you own into cold hard cash and make it pay for itself. We give you a ton of ideas on how to make money, from planting trees to grading roads, dirt work, and land clearing and we tell you how to charge for it. We talk a bit about charging per job vs charging by the hour and in what situations charging by the hour will work out in your favor. We cover a lot of g...

Welcome listeners, sorry it's been a couple weeks we got busy with life, the construction of the house and the land clearing and whatnot. It's been CRAZY hot in Texas! Today's episode is a continuation of making money from your homestead or farm. We are gonna talk about animals! So grab a pad and paper, fire up the Google machine and let's jump right in! 

In this episode: 

Making money with cattle: meat sales, soup bones, milk, che...

This episode is a bit of an information dump, we cover a lot of topics on how to monetize your farm. We give you lots of ideas on how to make your farm pay for itself as well. NOT included in this episode are animals and equipment or bees. Those three things require their own episodes, there's just too much to cover with those topics. 

Included in this episode! 

Value added products 

Soap

Flowers

spices

jams/jellies

concrete plante...

In today's episode, we talk about bread making and the history of bread, we also give away one of our most beloved recipes for Biscuits AF. We cover a lot of ground in a short period of time in this episode, it's a bit of a shorter one but we are quite busy. How was everyone's Merika day? Ours... SeaWorld tried to kill us, fun story there.... worst zoo ever. 

In this episode: 

This history of bread back to about 30,000 years ago (1...

In today's episode, we go over seed saving, how to ferment your seeds, and how to acquire seeds from the store... basically pirating them. We cover a bunch of history of corn and of Anasazi beans. We also give you a recipe for pesto, so be sure to write that one down. It's a good episode with a lot of cool information, and a fun easy listen. 

Fermenting seeds

Saving seeds year to year 

Adapting seeds to your land 

Plant of the day ...

Welcome! In today's episode, we talk about supplies you might need in the event of an emergency. we are primarily focusing on family preparedness and personal preparedness and not so much on bugging out. Short-term supplies you might need in the event of a localized disaster like a power outage, storm, or earthquake. These are all items that are good to have on hand even if nothing bad happens on a big scale they will just add to t...

In this episode, we discuss our own method of hydroponics that's kind of a mix of several different ones. Our method is highly effective... although I can't add a bunch of pictures on this platform I will add a bunch to our social media! You can check out our Facebook page or Instagram for a full-picture walkthrough. You can also message us there if you have any questions. 

Also! Best news EVER! We closed on the new farm! YAY NEW...

Today we talk about various domestic fowl for the homestead, we talk about in this order: 

Quail

Chickens

Ducks 

Turkeys 

Guinea Hens 

Geese 

and do a quick bonus round on Pheasants for $$ 

This is a pretty in depth podcast with tips on raising the various critters, cover some processing of the fowl. Feeding and housing, and tips to get them through those first few weeks of life where they are most delicate. There's a few funny ane...

Today we cover various mammals for the homestead in this order: 

Guinea pigs

Rabbits

Goats meat and dairy 

Sheep

Mini Cows vs big cows 

Pigs 

We went long so our next episode we will talk about birds for the farm... then i guess we will talk about aquatic life for the farm. 

We had a lot of fun this episode as it was our first live stream, so forgive any interruptions by our toddler and no cool music or sound effects as it was al...

Hello fellow humanoids! 

Today we talk about food preservation, we cover a lot of topics from canning to freeze-drying, pickling, dehydrating, and fermenting. It's a fun episode although we did mess up a bit shortly after the quails and had to re-record it but such is life. 

In this episode: 

a George the chicken update

Freeze drying 

Dehydrating and where to find cheap dehydrators 

Canning and where to find cheap pressure canners 

In this episode we cover pretty much every category of veggie and fruit we can think of off the tops of our heads. the most important thing to know is to grow what you want to eat, not just fancy things that no one knows what to do with. Covered in this episode: 

Root veggies

Greens

Legumes 

Grains 

Squash 

Melons 

Fruit trees 

We also touch a bit on the acquisition of the seeds, both with a recommendation for rareseed.com and what...

Hello world, welcome to This Feral Life! We are happy to have you, to help you and hopefully teach you. Thank you for listening! Hang in there its just our first episode a kinda introduction to us and our life. 

The one thing that you can consistently control and count on in life is yourself and your reactions to situations. It is ultimately up to you to keep your family safe. The world isn't as tame and gentle of...