Welcome back to another episode of the Homegrown Liberty Podcast, this is episode 40. Today I’m going to be covering an essentials basic tool kit.

I think there are a couple ways to think about buying tools and building up your personal toolbox and repository of implements. So I’ll kind of be talking about both perspectives, the buy the best and take care of it, and the other perspective of buying cheap and often. I tend to find myself mostly in one of those camps, but I see the value in both perspectives for sure. So I hope by the time we’re done here today I’ll have inspired you to think about your personal paradigm, and decide for yourself what’s best for you and your family. And who doesn’t like talking about tools right? This won’t be a laundry list of product placements but rather just a general list to get you to consider these types of tools, and to help you think about strategies for building up to a comfortable set of tools and getting to where you need to be for your lifestyle and choices. I’ll do a specific episode on my favorites with specific tools and links to where you can purchase them. But this one is just going to be covering a lot of the basic tools and will be a quick overview because man, there’s a lot to cover.

Before we get into the show though, I want to make sure I let everyone know about the mexican sunflower plant cuttings. I’ve probably gotten enough orders to sell out already but go ahead and send me an email with your desired number of cuttings if you’ve been on the fence because you never know, I might have extras after filling all my orders. I’ll keep enough to get my spring stuff started for myself but I really do want to get cuttings of these into as many people’s hands as possible I think they’re that good! I haven’t responded to all your emails yet because I’m trying to keep everything organized and there’s not much point in emailing you guys back to let you know I got your email and I’ve gotten a lot of emails on it haha. So as soon as they are ready to ship I’ll let everyone know who has already emailed me with their total, and get a shipping address and get your cuttings shipped. It will probably take at least 3 maybe 4 weeks to get them rooted so I’ll probably ship around the beginning of November. I didn’t want to take anybody’s money for the cuttings until I was sure that they had all rooted and that I could ship them. I’d hate to have to send back refunds if something happened like, oh, I dunno, a certain 3 year old decided it was perfect dirt to make roads with his little tonka bulldozer and ended up killing all the cuttings. Cause that could happen! So the same week that they are ready to ship I’ll get an email sent out to everyone with payment info, and as soon as I receive payment I’ll ship your plants!
Essential Tools for Your Homestead
When we talk about this kind of a topic, there is so much to cover that it’s a little daunting, and expensive too when you start to add things up. So let’s break things down into a bite sized chunk and see if we can come up with a way to incrementally meet the most basic needs while working towards a fully kitted out workshop you could build a boat in! I think this first kit is a great one to have no matter if you have a huge workshop and every tool imaginable. If you do, GREAT! Go grab a bag or toolbox and make up a small basic tool kit to keep handy.

But first let’s talk about some of the categories of needs so we can get organized and think about this methodically.

Workwear - These are things you wear that you NEED if you are going to do work
Measuring - The name says it all, you often need to measure things

Light - You can’t work if you can’t see
Power Tools - This type of tool is a force multiplier and can make a massive difference
Hand Tools - This spans a huge category of tools and we’ll break things down more

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