Recent content by Jshubin

I live in a rural suburb area (not even close to paid off lol), but it would be nice to own land in different regions of the country for those geopolitical or natural disasters mentioned above... In recession type of situation, having an alternate paid off (or cheaper) piece of land with a...

Here is my rant for the day... I am not prepared to spend the rest of my life working in a society as a gear in massive capitalistic system. I am a man of pastoral/agricultural descent and have fine tuned desire to raise and live off the animals and land that I raise and cultivate. Only when I...

Hey... who you calling a frog? haha jk I think a slow decline or the "balance" of our USD will be most likely. I am not a economics expert at all, but it seems we have dominated for a while now and a natural balance will happen. Emerging/competing economies have probably began to figure out...

Some more FREE from work!... these pallets were for 12' sheet metal and work great for make shift fence panels when stood on edge.. made some gates and shade covers with them also... My hillside goat pen

I got these crates for FREE from work.. used for shipping long aluminum tubes, they just throw them away when they are done... so I grabbed a few. Already have a plastic liner too! A few legs and I could have had them a bit higher... (not really a requirement for me)

Was a good post.. I previewed a few of those Homestead videos with Brad.... very informative. Watched the wheat grass one in detail. Bought 40lbs of barley grass seed and looking to finish my aquaponic system soon. In the mean time.. Dirt works...

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays" - Soren Kierkegaard

But you are probably right... economies trying to revive themselves will do whatever it takes to build back up again... which would be fossil fuels if they are cheap and available.. otherwise they'll be forced to use whatever is available (coal, bio-fuel, geo, solar, tidal or oxen power) haha

I would bet on the Russian/Chinese coalition too (I'm of Russian descent BTW 50%) but I know they are having tensions as well... I think fossil fuels will always be around (even if just for classic gasoline cars)... but I think our dependence on them will be drastically reduced when these...

Its not just American politics... I have many international friends (I work for big international corporation) and they all same similar distrust of their governments. The French only elect Presidents from one University and nobody else has a chance, Brazilians just impeached one corrupt...

Why would you clear the brush? to make room for crops? Brush seems like a good free food source for your goats... unless you feel like you need to plant crops for other needs. I would like to do this with my goats... but I dont have a gate out to the hills behind my house, I'd have to lift...

I will read that petrodollar thread.. sounds like interesting read... macroeconomics (not my best subject)

I'm working as an Engineer, my wife is a RN. We are still young, barely 30. Paid off my student loans just recently, but wife still has several thousands. I just started my own Machine shop business in my garage, and hoping that will pay the bills soon, so I dont have to continue working for...

what about the brother / sister issue.. Do you think that will be problem? will offspring have issues? I know its not best practice, but my kids are attached to the goats now and I dont want to separate them.