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Hey, warriors. Welcome

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to episode number three hundred and

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sixty one.

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In today's episode, We

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are going to be continuing the conversation

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on a home setting skill

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sets to have. This is kind

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of a part three, but it's more like an an

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adage with today's interview. But

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I think you are really going to

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enjoy it. Today's interview is

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with Mallory. From

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Black Rifle Home said, Anne Mallory

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is a military wife and her

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husband is active duty in

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the army. And so this has been really

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interesting because you have

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someone who is home setting but is

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having to move often as,

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you know, is to be expected if someone

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is an active military. But

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how they are able to homestead,

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to what degree, especially with those

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moves but also what they've been

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able to witness by

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living in a lot different places, including

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overseas as home

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centers, and then tips

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Well, Mallory, welcome to the pioneering

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today podcast. Thanks, Melissa.

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I'm so excited to be

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here.

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Yeah. I am too. In fact, when you first

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reached out, the i

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I thought this was an excellent topic.

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And when you reached out, we actually got you get

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old, I did not even

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know that I was going to be doing the

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home setting skills series.

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Right now, I we just released part

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two. But I feel like what we're gonna

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be talking about today fits

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so well within that

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series of topics where we're kind of building

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up on skill sets like here's your, you

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know, your very here's where you start.

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If you're brand new to home setting, here's the

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skills that you start to gather and

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then kind of building that progression where you

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build upon them, But I feel like

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so much of of what you

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guys are doing and have learned over

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the years really really

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balls into that well. So, you know, it's like one

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of those things like, oh, the good Lord knew we were gonna be

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talking and had had a serious plan for

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me. But just for those who don't

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know you, If you could give a, you know, a

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little bit of background about

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you guys, and I I don't wanna

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say unique take to home sitting because I know

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there's actually a lot of people in your situation

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as well, but kind of your guys'

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background and story. Yeah,

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sure. So like you said, my name is

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Mallory, and online, I'm

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known as Black Rifle Homestead. We

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recently rebranded to that

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as we were kinda transitioning into,

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like, yeah, we wanna sure more

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about home setting and like what we're doing

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as a military family to do that.

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So I guess I'll explain the name a

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little bit because some people were a little confused

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when I changed the name. So Black

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Rifle is basically a moniker

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for things that are military related

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because soldiers carry

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a black rifle in combat.

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So, like, anything that has black rifle

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associated with it means, like, military.

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And then I thought it was kind

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of some people might think it's like

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an oxymoron, I guess, to combine

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that with homestead because

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I think when people typically think of homestead,

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they think like, oh, you're

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setting down roots and you're staying

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there for ever. And you

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have animals and a ton of land. But in

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the military, you can't really do that.

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We move every two

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to three years on average.

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Sometimes it's less. Like,

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we're in Kansas right now, I guess, just

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for context. We've been here about

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a year. And before that, we

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lived in Murnia for eighteen months.

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And before that, we lived in Germany

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for two years, and so you kind of get the

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picture we're all over the

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place. And so some people might

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think, well, it's not really possible to homestead

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when you're moving all the time, but I would

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really like to challenge that idea

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because the way I

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approach homesteading is

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primarily through like, changing

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your mindset and, like, looking

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at it as a lifestyle and

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not necessarily

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what your circumstances are.

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So that's that's kinda like

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the background of what we're

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doing. And so, yeah, my

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husband is in the military. He's been in the army

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for thirteen years, I think.

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So he's going for that

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going for retirement for twenty years. So we're

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in it for a long haul. You're in it for some like,

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well, first off. Thank you for your service

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both to your husband and to you and your

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family. because it's not just I know it's

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not just a person who's been there. It's it's

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a whole family effort there and affects

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all of you. But I actually think

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that it's I think it's actually gives

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you an advantage home setting skill wise

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in some aspects because

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you are moving, because you are really

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seeing what can work

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universally across the board in

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almost any setting because you are moving

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so often. And that makes

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it so applicable to anybody who's listening.

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And it also has really helped you

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to develop skill sets, I

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feel really fast in certain aspects

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because you have to learn them

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quick. You are only in one area for so

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long. And as soon as you get to the new area,

7:52

if you wanna pick back up where

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you left off, you have to get

7:56

in you know, you have to jump into that kind of as soon

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as possible. I'm assuming because I've never been in

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that situation. So I think it

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actually has its

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advantages in some aspects.

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Yeah, that's a really great point. Just

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thinking about our situation here

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didn't do much. I had like a

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very small garden in California.

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We were in Monterrey. So, like,

8:18

the weather was the same all year round, which is

8:20

very different to me. But

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then when we move to Kansas, you know, we have

8:25

seasons here. and we moved here

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in at the beginning of summer. And I was

8:29

also very pregnant. I was, like, thirty

8:31

four weeks with our second. And

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so, you know, getting a garden started

8:36

at that time was a little difficult.

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Thankfully, my dad, he's an

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expert gardener down in Texas,

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and

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he helps us get our garden beds set

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up. We have sixteen

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three by six foot garden

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beds. And so definitely the biggest

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garden we've ever had. And

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so

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last year, last summer, it was like,

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you know, just kinda maybe we had,

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like, half of them filled with stuff. And

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then this year, I was, like, okay, I'm really

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gonna take on all of it, get all

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sixteen bids filled with

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crops.

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And

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it definitely like I said, it was,

9:09

like, I'm having to learn things so

9:12

quickly and learn

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specifically what works here.

9:16

you know, so I've been, like, taking notes

9:18

on, like, okay. This works here. I'm

9:20

not gonna do this next year because we have one

9:22

more year here. So,

9:24

like, this year was like a test year and then next

9:26

year I'll be able to implement more,

9:29

you know, what I've learned this year.

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Yeah. So walk me through a little

9:33

bit And because I think that this

9:35

is really good for people who may be

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considering moving. I know a lot of

9:39

people, especially more so I

9:41

would say than probably any other

9:43

recent time in history the past couple of years,

9:45

and even now, are still

9:47

moving to completely

9:49

different locations in a lot of instances, like

9:51

moving out of state from where they spend

9:53

or or whatnot, at least. I know quite a

9:55

few people, myself, both

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who have moved into my area, have moved

9:59

away from our area, etcetera, So

10:02

as a home center state of mind or even

10:04

people who are like I'm just coming into home

10:06

setting, but I've never where

10:08

I live now, like it's not been something I've been

10:10

doing. So what are the things that you

10:12

first assess when

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you are, you know, coming to the new place? And

10:16

maybe it's things that you're looking at before you guys like,

10:18

once you get this is where you're going, you're

10:20

not even there yet. What does what

10:22

does like that very first layer look

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like? Yeah.

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Well, I guess as far

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as gardening goes, You know,

10:29

I made sure to look at our zone. I think

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I forgot to break my little. I have

10:34

your gardening journal and I meant to

10:36

break it in with me and I didn't. But

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we're zone 6AI

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believe. And so, you know, looking at the

10:43

zone, I went online

10:45

to see you know, what kind of

10:47

gardening resources there might be for this

10:49

specific area. And

10:51

we live near a university, case

10:53

state, And

10:54

so they have, like, a agricultural

10:56

agricultural program. And

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so they had some really good information on

11:01

there about gardening and what works here.

11:04

But I guess, like, I like doing

11:06

research like that, but then I'm

11:08

like, I just wanna jump into it. You know,

11:10

I just wanna jump in both feet

11:12

and just See what works. My

11:14

dad also is a great resource. He has been

11:16

gardening like his whole life. So

11:18

I'm always going to him for

11:20

help.

11:21

So, you know, just so

11:23

if you don't have somebody in your family like that,

11:25

maybe somebody like a neighbor or

11:27

a friend or something that you could go

11:30

to to give you personal advice on

11:32

what you're doing because -- Yeah. --

11:34

yeah. It definitely is a lot of learning.

11:36

So Yeah. Just kind of familiar

11:38

familiarizing yourself with

11:40

climate weather

11:41

patterns and stuff like that.

11:43

Yeah.

11:43

Now I know you guys are also

11:46

an advocate of buying whole

11:48

organic sustainably raised food,

11:50

especially because like you said, you're not in a position

11:52

where you can raise livestock. So when

11:54

you're you're looking for those

11:56

types of food items that you're not able to

11:58

provide for yourself, especially if you're

12:00

moving to a new area or

12:02

maybe you've just always for those who may be

12:05

listening, you're like, oh, I you know, I've kinda just only

12:07

spot that just from our local grocery store, but

12:09

I too now want to support that and move in

12:11

that direction. how do you

12:13

start to to source those items when

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you're new to an area? Yeah. Yeah.

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That's that's so important. That's definitely one

12:19

of my key areas that I focus

12:21

on. as a military

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or suburban homes that are wanna

12:25

call it that. So, yeah, we did

12:27

our first house share this past year,

12:29

last last December, And

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we actually have we're so fortunate.

12:34

There's actually a family farm,

12:36

like, two minutes down the road from us

12:38

to where where our neighborhood is. and

12:40

they do cow shares. And then also we have

12:42

an excellent farmers market. So that's a

12:44

great place to start, you know, for somebody,

12:46

you know, if you're new in the area to look up

12:48

online, just do a quick Internet search

12:50

or, you know, look for Facebook

12:52

groups on if you

12:54

have a local farmers

12:56

market. and I found some really good people

12:58

there too. And so but we

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decided to go with the people down just down the

13:02

road for our cow shares, so we got a

13:04

quarter of a cow for our family a

13:06

four. And

13:07

it's last month, we're still eating

13:09

off of it now, so September

13:12

of

13:12

the following year. And

13:13

so that's, you know, a great way

13:16

to kinda

13:16

lock in that price of your food, just

13:18

let me know of inflation, and then

13:20

also support some of these local, and

13:22

then have that food

13:24

available to you, like,

13:26

with, you know, instability that's

13:28

gone on to have food.

13:30

In your freezer, like, stocked, you

13:32

don't have to worry as much

13:34

about, okay, am I gonna

13:36

go to the store today and things are gonna be out

13:38

of stock? Yeah. I'm with

13:41

you. And and I I love that

13:43

when you are buying from someone that local,

13:45

like, you actually because they are so close to

13:47

you, you can lay eyes on

13:49

their farm. Like, you can actually see

13:52

the animals And it's

13:54

so it it is so close that

13:56

there's not the larger

13:58

footprint of that

13:59

beef even as it's being, you know,

14:02

butchered said to the butcher and you

14:04

picking it up, like, it's staying really

14:06

small. And so that also helps to keep cross

14:08

out, especially like you're saying, you know, with the

14:10

increase of fuel prices, unfortunately.

14:12

Just all those different things, the

14:14

closer that we can find to

14:17

home, I think, is so

14:19

important And I realized, you know,

14:21

like, you've got somebody who's raising, you know, a

14:23

couple just a few minutes down the road from

14:25

you. And I know that not everybody is

14:27

in is in that position, but I

14:29

do think that you will be

14:31

able to find Seth even if it's maybe an

14:33

hour from you. You know, that's still

14:35

much much closer than than meat

14:37

that's being processed in China and

14:39

then shipped back like chicken and whatnot.

14:42

Just just ridiculous stuff that goes

14:44

on with our larger agriculture

14:46

system or meat system, you know, all

14:48

of that. So I think that's really great. You know,

14:50

some of the things too I

14:52

have seen where we, of course, raise

14:54

our own beef, but our

14:56

local coop. If you can find a a

14:58

coop, oftentimes

15:00

they will have meat from

15:02

smaller local farms. And

15:05

you sometimes those farms will

15:07

sell meat to like the co op and to

15:09

different stores like that, but you can go

15:11

directly to the farm website

15:13

itself and sometimes buy directly

15:15

from them as well or like you're

15:17

saying doing the calf cow share where you're

15:19

getting a whole half or a quarter of a

15:21

beef, and you could get really good

15:23

savings that way. So sometimes if you

15:25

see in even a regular grocery store.

15:27

Like, they have a section that says, you know, like, local

15:29

raised meat or whatever, see what that farm

15:31

name is, and then go and look them up and see

15:33

if there's an option for you to buy directly from them

15:35

because I know locally, we have a couple different

15:37

farms who actually do that. They have a small

15:39

amount in the regular local grocery store, but

15:41

then you can also just go and buy directly from

15:43

them. So -- Yeah. -- just some great

15:45

idea. Yeah. Yeah. Just some some little

15:47

additional tips that I've seen locally.

15:51

So with the

15:53

military lifestyle, because you say, you know, there's the

15:55

there's the nomadic aspect

15:57

to that So how do

15:59

you

15:59

handle your how

16:01

much do you stockpile or

16:04

build up your pantry? Because you

16:06

know you're gonna likely have to be moving this

16:08

whole said pantry in a couple of years

16:11

and taking glass jars

16:13

filled with food, there's breakable potential.

16:15

So how do you kind of do you have a system that used to

16:17

balance that? Or you're just like, well, we'll just deal with moving

16:19

it or do how do you how do you work

16:21

with that? Yeah. That's that's

16:23

that's a great question. And

16:25

I actually had a really good conversation with somebody

16:28

who's also in the military or she's a

16:30

military wife and into home

16:32

setting. She left a comment on my

16:34

YouTube channel. and we were discussing

16:36

this point. And I'm like, yeah, you're bringing

16:38

us some really good points. So, yeah, with the

16:40

glass jars and, like, having a starched

16:42

pantry, that definitely

16:44

is something to consider. So,

16:47

typically, every it

16:49

it can change so so wildly, you know, the

16:52

military will tell you. something's gonna

16:54

happen, and then it doesn't happen, and then it

16:56

changes last minute or whatever. So

16:58

but at this, like, for us, in

17:00

right now, we know that

17:02

we will

17:02

be moving in twenty twenty four. So,

17:05

like,

17:05

spring summer ish. So if you

17:07

kind of have a

17:09

timetable like that, even if it's just

17:11

like a general timetable,

17:13

then if you

17:15

don't want to go through the trouble of trying

17:17

to move a bunch of

17:19

shelf stable food, then you can

17:22

strategize, like, okay, I know we're gonna use

17:24

x amount, you know, over the next

17:26

x month. and

17:28

make sure you use up most of it

17:30

so that, you know, there's not a lot of food waste.

17:32

You don't have to, like, give away a lot,

17:34

especially with if you're doing your own scanning.

17:36

then have those glass mason jars

17:39

and the movers, like, if you're

17:41

having professional movers come,

17:43

they definitely will not pack that

17:45

because they know they know like, okay,

17:47

this is a breakage risk. We are

17:49

not packing that. If it's

17:51

stuff like hands, goods from a

17:53

store or like dry goods, like

17:55

rice, wheat, and stuff like that.

17:57

They do pack that. Like spices, you

17:59

know, all that kind of stuff,

17:59

like dry goods.

18:02

That

18:02

is totally okay. And

18:04

even liquid items

18:06

that are like from the

18:08

store and they're not open, so

18:10

they're preeth

18:11

their sealed, they will pack

18:13

those as well. But I yeah. I would

18:16

not I would not take the risk with the

18:18

mason jars One option is if you're

18:20

doing, you know, like, driving from

18:22

one from your old duty

18:24

station to the new one, and you

18:26

do have home can goods. You could

18:28

pack those in your own vehicle, you

18:30

know, and drive. But,

18:31

you know,

18:32

that is also a little bit risky too.

18:34

You know, you could still have breakage. So

18:36

kinda strategizing your timeline. I

18:38

think is the best thing and also

18:41

focusing on other

18:43

ways of present food preservation than

18:45

just canning. So, like, dehydrating.

18:47

I've started doing that. We have

18:49

a little dehydrator and, you know, dehydrating

18:52

herbs and veggies, fruit,

18:54

whatever. And so that's a lot

18:56

more compact and

18:58

lighter. What's

18:59

the word? Yeah. No.

19:00

I would need to hydrating. It's it's a

19:02

lot easier to to pack and move

19:04

the hydrated food

19:05

because you're you're right. You can put it in the

19:07

bags if you need to to

19:10

seal it up. It it's a lot more

19:11

portable friendly. Yes.

19:14

Yes. Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah. More space

19:16

say the more space. Yes. Yeah. So yeah.

19:18

So maybe focusing more on that, and then also

19:20

watch you know, watching your freezer

19:23

too, you know, like, if you have a cow

19:25

share or whatnot, then making sure

19:27

that, okay, can we eat this stuff

19:29

before we move? And then making

19:31

sure, like, if a move is coming up, not

19:33

getting another cow share, you

19:35

know, and then you have all this meat, like, unless

19:37

you're moving a couple hours away, you could keep

19:39

it frozen in

19:41

your car. you know,

19:42

then you kinda have to strategize.

19:45

Yeah.

19:45

Yeah. So I'm

19:47

curious about this

19:48

because it's something that I have thought about,

19:50

like, oh, goodness if we did move at one point,

19:52

we had looked at property we're beginning to

19:54

look at property actually in Tennessee, and we're in Washington

19:56

state. So that's a very long big

19:58

big tight move. And when we

20:01

were I'm, you know, I started to think of

20:03

course, my mind went a little, like, gosh, if we really

20:05

did buy that property and we really

20:07

did move Same

20:09

thing like you would have to run

20:11

down your stuff or leave some of it behind as far

20:13

as food storage goes. But then on the other

20:15

hand, that starts to bring me a little bit of

20:17

stress because my My food storage

20:19

is is very much a source of

20:21

a piece for me. Knowing you

20:23

know, knowing that's that piece of mind, knowing that

20:25

we've got this this set amount of

20:27

food, etcetera, So and

20:29

because you are in a military situation,

20:31

that you he said

20:32

how how do you deal, I guess, with that

20:34

kind of, like, emotional aspect

20:37

are you concerned about

20:39

food in our country,

20:41

that type of thing? Yeah, I mean,

20:43

definitely over the last couple

20:45

years, I it's definitely become more

20:47

of a concern in the past,

20:49

like like I remember when we moved

20:51

from Germany to California,

20:54

that especially like overseas moves. Those are even more

20:56

restrictive with, you know, what you can

20:58

bring, you know, what you what they'll pack

21:00

for you. So there is it

21:02

it always pains me whenever

21:04

we move because we do have to

21:06

get rid of, you know, give away

21:09

some food especially, like,

21:11

refrigerated stuff and freezer stuff.

21:13

I do

21:13

you know, like, our dry goods and, you know,

21:15

rice and things like

21:16

that, we can always pack. But

21:18

But, yeah, that it is always

21:20

like, oh, it's good food. We have

21:22

to, you know, give it away. But, I mean, at least if

21:24

you're giving it away, you know, somebody's

21:26

gonna use it. But think now,

21:29

you know, my mindset has shifted a little bit

21:31

over the past couple of years with with

21:33

how everything has changed in our country.

21:36

and so that it definitely is

21:38

a bigger concern for me now.

21:40

So it'll

21:40

be interesting for our next move

21:42

because you know, we will we do have a bigger

21:44

stockpile than we've had in the past. Mhmm.

21:47

So yeah. So that'll be yeah.

21:49

That'll be interesting to see

21:51

how that goes. I'm curious, so

21:53

when you were living in Germany, just

21:56

because

21:56

I've obviously never lived outside

21:58

of the US. So did you notice

22:01

really any differences in the food, and I don't just mean like what

22:03

they culturally cook. But like in the

22:05

food available, their their

22:07

food supply, the way that they grow food,

22:09

like their standards, is

22:11

a country with food, etcetera?

22:14

Yeah. I definitely did. I

22:16

remember they had like,

22:18

Aldi is really big over there. And,

22:20

I mean, that's what it originated from. And

22:22

I remember going to the store and just getting it

22:24

was just regular chicken. It wasn't even

22:27

organic or anything, and I like

22:29

chicken breast. So I brought it home and cooked it and I'm like,

22:31

this actually

22:32

tastes like chicken.

22:35

Like, it tastes like real. I don't know. It was

22:37

just so flavorful. But,

22:39

you know, they're really big on fresh

22:41

eating in season. You know,

22:43

like, I would be looking for

22:46

kale And

22:46

they we had, like, a really beautiful farm like,

22:48

farm market. Like, not

22:49

a farmer's market, but, like, they were open every

22:51

day. So it was, like, an actual farm, and they had, like,

22:53

a produce section and

22:56

dairy section and and I'm looking

22:57

for kale and I'm like, why can't I find

23:00

it and they only have it

23:02

like during the part of the year that it's

23:04

actually grown? you know,

23:06

so they eat varying season, which is

23:08

really nice. A key difference

23:10

that I noticed is that

23:12

they don't have, like,

23:15

bulk food stores

23:15

over there. Like, you know, we have Costco and

23:17

in place and whatnot. They shop

23:19

very frequently

23:21

during the week. you know, they they

23:23

buy things fresh. So they might go grocery shopping

23:26

like every

23:26

other day or something like that, you

23:28

know, because they're always like buying fresh stuff. So

23:31

they don't really do like the

23:32

we see it. I I really like all watching

23:35

on YouTube like the grocery

23:36

hauls like a month worth of

23:39

groceries. They do not do that

23:41

over there.

23:41

Interesting. Do you think it's because more of what they

23:44

are eating can't last that long

23:46

because they are just eating it

23:48

fresh or It's just a cultural,

23:50

that's just how they shop. Yeah. It

23:51

might be both, I think. You know, I mean, a

23:53

lot of it got is very fresh in in

23:56

season. But also, like, their

23:58

houses are just, you know, different. We didn't

23:59

really have gantry. You

24:01

know,

24:02

if kitchens are smaller, it was

24:04

more like a larger cupboard, I

24:06

guess. It was like our pantry.

24:08

So things are are

24:11

smaller and our refrigerators are are

24:13

smaller. Freezers

24:14

are smaller than have much

24:16

storage space as me would and an American

24:18

sized appliances.

24:19

Interesting. So

24:20

yeah. Yeah. It's

24:22

Yeah. I mean, they and people it's

24:24

very walkable over there, so they can walk to

24:26

the market and all that. So it's yeah.

24:29

It's

24:29

just like a different of living,

24:31

I got. Yeah. Did it seem that more

24:33

of their food, especially if you were at the

24:35

farmer's stand you're talking about? Does it seem like more of

24:37

the food that's available to buy is race

24:40

locally in comparison to

24:42

most, you know, most places in

24:44

America? Or Yeah. Okay. Oh,

24:45

yeah. For sure. Yeah.

24:47

fir. And they yeah. They've also had a

24:50

a meat market there where we could I mean, they

24:52

had all sorts of cuts of meat that were, like,

24:54

fresh and if you wanted ground

24:56

beef, they would grind it, like, right

24:58

there. Oh, man.

25:00

So good. I missed I missed that so

25:02

much. It was so great. That

25:04

sounds right. That actually makes me wanna I would love to

25:06

be at a point which it sounds really funny when you

25:09

have a farm and a cherry cow.

25:10

I'm like, I would love to be able to

25:13

travel

25:13

someday to other countries to see their

25:15

their food up close and personal and and

25:17

how they work. But, yeah, that that's

25:19

something much further down down the

25:21

road with with the current life. style,

25:23

but I do find that really interesting, especially because you, you

25:25

know, you weren't just visiting there. Like, on

25:27

holiday, you were actually living there and and

25:29

seeing those. And because I've I've heard

25:32

that a big part Europe anyways,

25:35

that their food is very

25:37

different than ours in the way that it's

25:39

grown like they don't even

25:41

if there's certain some brands that are in the US

25:43

and also are sold over

25:45

there that the ingredients

25:48

are different. like, they don't yeah. The European brands, they don't aren't

25:50

allowed to use as, like, as much

25:52

of the food dies, the high fructose corn

25:54

syrup isn't allowed no

25:56

GMO items are allowed

25:58

in that. And so it's it you think you're buying Cheerios'

26:01

example. But over there, it's a very different Sure.

26:03

It's a I would consider it a healthier version. I think

26:05

most people would especially people who are listening to

26:07

this podcast. So part of it is

26:09

like, oh, man. Like, that sounds so

26:12

wonderful. I hope that we're

26:14

able to start to shift

26:16

things even more so in our country

26:18

with our food. to more

26:20

of that. But anyway, that's a whole another pack. That's

26:21

so packed. So Yeah. No.

26:24

But you're so right. I mean, it's yeah.

26:26

It's it is very different

26:28

in it it was,

26:30

yeah, it was good learning experience

26:33

because I think over here, you know, in the

26:35

US, we can

26:37

find the same quality of food, but it

26:39

just takes a

26:39

lot more Mhmm. I think and,

26:41

you know, sourcing and and

26:43

like doing your due diligence basically. So

26:45

over there, I think it's a little easier just

26:48

So, like, you go to store and, like,

26:50

there's

26:50

seasonal in

26:52

local

26:52

stuff to buy whereas here, like,

26:54

you you have to do a little more footwork. But

26:56

it definitely is it's definitely

26:58

possible. So Yeah.

27:00

Agreed. I'm curious, price wise. Now

27:02

I realize it, you know, probably was not in US

27:04

dollars because you were in Germany, but did you

27:07

feel like that quality of

27:09

food because here it costs more --

27:11

Mhmm. -- and generally generally

27:13

speaking, it costs more to buy that

27:15

higher level of sustainable,

27:18

well raised, in my opinion,

27:20

type food products or not

27:22

food type of food products, but actual food products. Did

27:25

you feel that the price

27:27

was more for that there or it

27:29

was cheaper or just kind of about

27:31

the same? Yeah. As I

27:33

mean, as, like, dollar, like,

27:36

dollar dollar to euro, I can't

27:38

like,

27:38

really remember, you know, as far as, like,

27:40

our budget went. Yeah. But but,

27:42

yeah, as far like, just the quality that you

27:44

would get for the price,

27:46

I definitely think that it

27:49

it was a better a better price

27:51

because you wouldn't necessarily have to

27:53

buy, like, all organic trying

27:56

to avoid a lot of pesticides or or

27:58

whatnot because, you know, things are more

27:59

more restricted over there.

28:02

That's

28:02

just their general standard. It's probably

28:04

closer to what we are organic

28:06

standard is. Yeah. And then yeah. That's fascinating.

28:08

So we kinda got off on a little bit of transit

28:10

there, but I was very, very curious and I'm

28:12

assuming other people are too

28:14

as well. Yeah. But so I

28:16

know your use as you said, your husband is

28:19

working full time as an army officer, and you guys

28:21

have got seven more years. Yeah.

28:23

Got count. Yes. Count.

28:26

I'll then count it down. But

28:28

you said that one of the things that

28:30

kinda caught my attention is that

28:32

he had written a really comprehensive

28:34

blog post on being

28:36

prepared for cyberattacks. Yeah.

28:38

So we'll put the link in that to the show

28:41

notes. And today's episode is

28:43

number three hundred and sixty one. So if you

28:45

are listening in, you can

28:47

always jump over to the blog post that we

28:49

put with every episode at

28:51

melissa canores dot com forward slash three

28:53

sixty one because it's So number three

28:55

hundred and sixty one. But I would

28:57

love for you to kinda walk through as

28:59

a military family as far as

29:01

you know, cyberattacks or your

29:04

emergency preparedness levels.

29:06

Kinda walk me through with, of

29:08

course, whatever you feel comfortable with.

29:10

kinda walk me through some of that and some steps that people might

29:12

want to think about or implement

29:14

if they haven't.

29:16

Sure. Like, specifically regarding the

29:19

cyberattacks. We're just, like, generally I would

29:20

say, like,

29:21

let's start with the cyberattacks, and then we

29:23

can we can go from there depending on

29:25

how how deep we go.

29:27

Yeah. Yeah. So he yeah. I highly

29:29

recommend people read that post. It was

29:31

I

29:31

had people, you know, like, asking me, like,

29:33

you

29:34

know, can he

29:35

talk about

29:36

this because, you know, he really he

29:38

knows so

29:39

much about, like, that

29:41

realm and and survival and

29:43

preparedness and all that. Just of this military

29:45

training. So the first thing with regards

29:47

to that would be preparing your

29:49

home. So, like, you know, we

29:51

think about physical security, like,

29:54

you have alarm system in

29:56

place and cameras and whatnot, but

29:58

it's also important to have that kind of

29:59

security posture

30:01

for your online

30:04

life. So like the strong passwords that we always hear

30:06

people talk about, have

30:08

your antivirus software

30:10

updated regularly, like on

30:12

your computers, And then don't, like,

30:14

don't rely so much on

30:16

what he calls the

30:16

Internet of Things, devices, like

30:19

Bluetooth stuff,

30:20

Alexa devices, that kind of

30:23

thing. You know, because they

30:24

just I don't know. Well, Alexa probably

30:27

just knows so much about all of

30:29

us. So Yeah. That are

30:31

smartphones, oh, boy. Yeah.

30:33

Yeah. They're looking old too

30:35

smart these days. So, you know,

30:37

just kinda reining that all

30:39

in. And

30:39

then the next part the next

30:41

step would be to stockpile

30:45

stockpile, like, one month of food, one month

30:47

of food, at least. Just,

30:48

I mean,

30:51

it seems kind of like not related to

30:53

cyber, but it's, you know, we're looking at our

30:55

overall security here. So having that

30:58

food, that one month supply food

31:00

and water and the

31:02

patients for each member of

31:04

the family If

31:05

you

31:06

can do more, like, three to

31:08

six months of stocked food is

31:10

ideal, but, you know, we all have to start somewhere

31:12

And my favorite way

31:14

of stockpiling is just to do

31:16

it very gradually. So every time

31:18

you go to the grocery store, pick

31:21

up, a few extra things, like a few extra canned

31:24

goods. You know, that's just a few dollars. So

31:26

you don't have to spend a ton

31:28

of money. at one time,

31:30

you know. If you can, that's great. But

31:32

if you can't, you know, to you

31:34

just do it slowly over time. And eventually,

31:36

you will have you know, several

31:38

months of food. And then also

31:40

seeds, you know, if you're growing a garden to also

31:42

have seeds on hand because, you know,

31:44

like, sometimes and we can't get the seeds

31:46

that we want. Lead

31:47

catalogs don't, you know, they're running out

31:50

or they're they're out of stock

31:52

of certain

31:53

certain seeds to

31:54

to have your seeds on hand or

31:56

seeds saved. Like, I know you're a big advocate of

31:58

that -- Yeah. --

31:59

from seed saving.

32:02

And then also water, you know, water heavy water

32:04

is important either

32:06

having, you know, having several

32:08

ways of purifying your water.

32:11

So, like, we have a Berkey and then

32:13

things like like life straws. They're

32:15

like -- Yep. -- they're kind of terrifying stuff.

32:19

having a couple of

32:21

different ways to purify is a really smart

32:23

idea. So, yeah, we have, like, you have

32:25

your main source and then you have a back up and

32:27

they have a backup to the backup. That's

32:29

like a very typical military

32:31

thing to do. And

32:32

then

32:33

with

32:34

with your

32:35

home have

32:36

a secondary means

32:39

of maintaining safe temperatures

32:41

like,

32:41

if the utility is go out,

32:43

you know, there's you can't you know,

32:45

there's no power or whatnot, like,

32:48

a generator or a wood burning

32:50

stove, you know, especially in the winter, you

32:52

know, you gotta keep your

32:54

family from freezing. Yeah.

32:56

So definitely gives consideration to that. I think that's

32:58

something that maybe a lot of people don't think

33:00

about. Like, we're just so reliant

33:03

on our utilities and

33:05

you just think that the AC or the

33:08

heat will always be there, but

33:10

it might not be. So and then, of

33:12

course, you

33:12

know, being able to

33:14

defend yourself, you know, you got all this all

33:17

your stockpile and everything and your family,

33:19

but you have to have a way

33:21

to protect those things. so

33:23

having, you know, some kind of defense system, a

33:25

security system, that kind of stuff. And

33:28

then building a community with your

33:30

neighbors, like finding other people

33:32

who think the same way as you that

33:34

wanna be prepared. You know, that's always

33:36

good. You know, you can barter for

33:38

things or, like, barter

33:40

for skills. you know, so so I'm a nurse,

33:42

I'm a registered nurse, you know, so

33:44

somebody needed, like, medical

33:46

care or something like that. And then

33:48

maybe there's somebody else on the road

33:50

that has some skill that you need, you know, then you can kinda

33:52

trade with skills.

33:53

that film Yeah.

33:54

I love that I love that you

33:56

you bring this up because

33:58

It's interesting. I've been having this conversation a

34:01

lot in different places, which I think is

34:03

good, but it's it's

34:05

interesting because home setting Part of

34:07

our goal is to be self sufficient in a

34:09

lot of realms. Mhmm. However,

34:11

you can't be a one man

34:13

island or even a one family

34:15

island because nobody can ever produce all

34:17

the things and do all the things. It it's

34:20

just not possible even home sitters

34:22

have olden. And so really

34:24

focusing on that community

34:26

aspect is so important.

34:29

Like, we have some newer neighbors who moved in just a couple

34:31

of years ago, actually, two sets of them. But it's been wonderful

34:34

because one of them has the

34:36

automatic chicken plucker, which we don't have our

34:38

automatic chicken

34:40

plucker. But we have a wood splitter

34:42

for firewood, you know, a a splitter.

34:44

And so we swapped. She's like,

34:46

I need to get my firewood up and it

34:49

seems really silly for me to go buy this

34:51

wood splitter for just doing a couple

34:53

cord. And we need we didn't have

34:55

a chicken plucker. And so, you know, we've

34:57

been able to swap things like that rather than both

34:59

of us buying both of those things that

35:02

having them on hand, you know, to be

35:04

able to use those resources and then our

35:06

other neighbor that

35:08

moved in her husband is an electrician, which

35:10

has been fabulous because we've had

35:12

him, you know, covered use of

35:14

electrician work,

35:16

and then they were newer to

35:18

homestead living, so I've been able to give

35:20

them, you know, tips and,

35:22

you know, supplies and

35:24

share stuff from the garden and

35:26

and just you know, like, walk through, I should be like, well, what do I, you know,

35:28

up here, you know, they moved from the

35:30

city where everything is, like, in walking

35:32

distance. And

35:34

not having to have a or So her through like,

35:36

oh, you know this. So anyways, yeah,

35:38

that is so important, and

35:41

I think when we start

35:43

to think about emergency preparedness and

35:46

survival, that is not

35:48

something that's talked about

35:50

very often. Yeah.

35:51

Definitely. Yeah. I mean, you hear the word self sufficiency. It's thrown around

35:53

a lot in the home setting

35:55

community, but it's

35:57

not yeah,

35:59

if you're not supposed

35:59

to be an island or, yeah, you

36:01

can't possibly do every single

36:04

thing on your own. You know, in the

36:06

military, we we do have that kind of

36:08

built in community with other military

36:10

families, which is nice because you're always

36:12

moving. So you always have to meet

36:14

new people. But yeah, that that community is so

36:16

important because you just never know when

36:18

you might need, you know,

36:20

need

36:20

somebody to help you

36:21

out or you might need this culp

36:23

out somebody else. Yeah. I

36:25

think when I I

36:26

sidetracked us because I really wanted to talk about that point

36:28

for a few minutes. You were getting ready to list something.

36:30

So I hope I didn't really hear your train of

36:32

thought. No. No. No. No. You're good. You're good. That's

36:35

a good that's a really good point to

36:37

me. Let's see.

36:37

So, yeah, we were talking

36:40

about the bartering, you know,

36:42

have and also having, like, items on

36:44

hand to butter, you

36:45

know, like

36:46

ammunition, alcohol, cache,

36:48

extra

36:49

food, that kind of thing.

36:51

Car

36:51

batteries is another

36:54

thing, you know, to that people

36:56

just might really need And then

36:59

especially if all of this is overwhelming, getting

37:01

going to an

37:03

outside expert and

37:05

getting like survival and emergency medical

37:08

training for members of the

37:09

family. And that's really important, you

37:12

know, to

37:12

no to learn

37:13

that, you know, not just I mean, it's really great to

37:16

listen and and read about this stuff,

37:18

but go into an actual class. I

37:20

highly, highly recommend that. especially as a

37:22

nurse. You know, there's so many things that you can learn

37:24

just as a late person that could,

37:26

like, say somebody's life. Yeah, are there

37:28

any

37:28

like, where would you go to find out

37:31

about those classes. Do you have any like,

37:33

would your local fire department ever

37:35

offer anything? Or what like, what would be a resource

37:37

that you could go and look at? Like, I wanna take

37:39

these classes, but why don't you start? You

37:42

know, I

37:42

mean, I think the basic place

37:45

to start would be a

37:47

CPR class for sure. like, American Heart Association, and

37:49

that's where I do it, like, through like, as

37:51

a medical professional to get certified, but

37:53

they also offer for for

37:56

lay people to just how

37:58

that CPR and AED

38:00

training

38:00

is

38:01

that's crucial. And then

38:02

as far as, like, more to be

38:04

on things, there are we

38:07

actually did a survival

38:09

training kinda like came up back when

38:11

we we lifted North Carolina before we

38:13

moved to lived in Germany. So we went out to

38:16

Virginia and there's this man

38:18

named Timna

38:20

Welch and he is like

38:22

a self trained survivalist and he offers

38:27

classes in

38:28

the wilderness, like, in the woods of of Virginia.

38:30

Mhmm. And so we went I

38:32

think it was like a three or

38:36

four day thing where my husband and

38:37

I went and he, you know, we he

38:39

was like, you know, you have a

38:41

tent, you camp, and then you're learning all these

38:43

different skills like how to

38:46

build a trap to catch animals, you know,

38:49

to eat, how, you

38:50

know, how to

38:51

forage for different

38:54

medicinal plants

38:56

you

38:56

know, you can use as medicine.

38:58

You know, like, all those

38:59

kinda had a started fire

39:02

without matches.

39:04

that kind of stuff, and it was really, really

39:06

good. And then I went back for another one myself

39:09

that

39:09

was more focused

39:11

on emergency medical

39:14

like,

39:14

wilderness and medical training. So the back

39:16

end

39:16

stuff, you know, there's that up in Virginia

39:18

or there might be local things

39:22

that

39:22

sometimes they're

39:23

through, like,

39:25

self defense places. So I've done,

39:27

like, an escape

39:28

and evasion class

39:30

back when I lived in Texas, through, like, like,

39:32

they taught Kraft Magal there when they did this, the Scape

39:34

and Aviation class, you know, stuff like

39:38

that. So Yeah.

39:39

Self defense studios would be another place to look

39:40

or -- Yeah. -- for local things. And I

39:42

would even say on skill

39:43

sets, is

39:46

something And this is because we've all I've always lived very And

39:48

so our emergency response is

39:50

the volunteer fire department, which

39:53

does have EMTs, And so

39:55

they can generally get

39:58

anywhere from like fifteen to

40:00

twenty minutes because if it's during the day

40:02

and most of the volunteers are working day

40:05

jobs, they're they've commuted and there's not a

40:07

lot on hand. So that can kind of vary, but

40:09

then and that's just for your fire department

40:11

and your EMTs. And then for

40:13

an actual paramedic, to get to

40:16

us, you're looking

40:17

at it usually a minimum of twenty

40:19

minute because they have to come from the neighboring town, you

40:21

know, twenty minutes to a half an hour,

40:24

depending. And so we

40:26

have always you know, like, you always

40:28

have supplies on he and

40:30

and you know, to, like, if it's a if it's a,

40:33

you know, a severe wound, like, to be able to

40:35

put the pressure on and to be able to bind

40:37

that. And, you know, just kind of, like, what you would

40:39

almost think of as as

40:41

basic first aid, but take it

40:43

just a little bit

40:44

further. Yes. Okay. And

40:47

even having a really well

40:49

stocked perstayed kit. Because I think that that's something,

40:51

you know, making sure that you've got, like

40:53

I said, like, you know, those guys' pets and

40:55

and just different things like that

40:58

that you not just a box of

41:00

mandates. I guess it's -- Right. -- you know, like

41:02

and that sounds like a really obvious

41:04

thing. But, again, like, my my

41:06

friends, you know, who are neighbors who had had moved out here. used to living

41:08

in the city and then, of course,

41:10

in an attack or an emergency preparedness type

41:14

situation, those resources are probably

41:16

not gonna be able to reach you very soon, either whereas that's

41:18

just something that's normal for us. But

41:20

just having some of that basic knowledge, like,

41:22

you need put pressure on here. If you did need to put on a tourniquet, like, in

41:24

what situation would you do that? And where would you do

41:26

it? And do you have, you know, the the things

41:28

to do that, which is kind of basic

41:30

per state

41:32

and to agree, but even those types of

41:34

things. And of course, like I said, ideally,

41:36

that you have just those things

41:38

stopped and already on hand.

41:42

Yeah.

41:42

Definitely. The little box of Band A's isn't gonna

41:44

go. I'm getting very far. Yeah.

41:46

That was definitely another one another one

41:48

of my points was to have medical

41:52

supplies on hand, you know, a

41:54

tourniquet, there's something called quick

41:56

clot. So, like, if there's a big wound and

41:58

there's a lot of bleeding, you can put that in the

41:59

wound and that'll help you know, clotting the

42:02

blood. Mhmm. Yeah. Goss

42:04

bandages, medical scissors,

42:06

topical medications, you know,

42:09

like, you know, Sporin and that kind of thing,

42:11

you know, like, yeah, think medical or

42:13

think first aid kit and then

42:15

expand for all types

42:18

of situations. what else? Even like a a

42:20

thermometer, blood

42:20

pressure cuff, stethoscope,

42:22

tweezers, any natural

42:24

remedies, you know, we have

42:27

we have both, you know, conventional stuff and

42:29

then, like, our our favorite natural

42:31

remedies stocked up.

42:33

So, like, manuka honey,

42:35

collateral silver, essential oils. And then also

42:37

don't forget any

42:37

prescription meds that members of your

42:40

family take.

42:42

Like, having extra

42:44

on hand if you can, like

42:46

sometimes doctors could write

42:48

like a larger prescription or, you know,

42:50

you can get like extra month's worth or

42:52

something like that, you know, don't just

42:54

have your one month supply and

42:56

then, you know Yeah.

42:58

what it is -- Yeah. -- to get to the store. Yeah.

43:00

I'm sure it's funny because when you were saying the clot

43:02

thing, I'm like, have your yaro

43:04

have your yaro on it. That's

43:08

too. That's good one

43:10

too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

43:12

No. Those are all really good really

43:15

good things. And feel like we're gonna be releasing this obviously in

43:17

full. And actually, September September is

43:20

national preparedness month.

43:22

So I think it's always good to

43:24

just kinda revisit this because it's funny I was

43:26

talking with a friend again this week and

43:28

I said, you know, when COVID first

43:32

hit, I realized where I had holes in my food supply

43:34

and I'm like, okay, I

43:36

got, you know, eventually got everything stocked back

43:38

up to where we were and I'm like,

43:41

This is the new threshold for us -- Yeah. -- for our

43:44

family. We're not dropping beneath this. You know, and

43:46

that was kinda right at, you

43:48

know, the peak within the first three

43:50

months, etcetera. but it's now been, like, two years.

43:52

And I told her, I said, you know, I was looking at

43:54

things. I'm like, I've gotten a little

43:56

wax again.

43:58

Like, I'd let some things run low that, you know,

44:00

where I've, you know, just kind of I

44:03

don't wanna say became complacent, but I

44:05

just haven't been as as

44:07

focused or or tracking quite as well and making sure that

44:10

we have this certain threshold of the

44:12

things in our pantry.

44:14

And so we were just talking about

44:16

that last night, actually. And so it's funny. We're having this conversation now today, and I'm like,

44:18

yes, it's time for me to do a little

44:20

assessing and

44:23

kinda get things it's have these conversations because a lot

44:25

of what we're saying, I'm sure people have

44:27

heard in other spots or or you

44:29

know these things. Like, I

44:31

I know these things, but I forget.

44:34

And so hearing them, like, this is like, yes,

44:36

I need to, you know, go go

44:38

get on that now. It was actually our first aid

44:40

kit. I'm like, oh, there's some things in there

44:42

that I need to restash.

44:44

Yes. And checking expiration

44:45

dates on meds

44:47

is so

44:48

important. you know, especially if the

44:50

you know, like, we don't use a ton of,

44:52

you

44:52

know, over the counter medication. So

44:54

they're all

44:55

they're gonna expire. So you

44:57

gotta check

44:57

that and restock on a

44:59

regular basis. Yeah. Oh,

45:00

really, really good points. But

45:02

we actually have covered a of

45:04

ground. I just I'm like, wow. Like, we've been talking for a

45:07

while here. So is there any kind of, like, last tips that

45:09

you wanna really make sure

45:11

that we cover? Yeah. I

45:13

I guess kinda

45:16

like a mindset tip for

45:18

people is, you know, hearing about all

45:20

this, like especially the survival, like

45:22

preparedness stuff. it can

45:23

be really overwhelming, and it can be,

45:26

you know, sometimes a little scary for some

45:28

people. Like, oh, no. Like,

45:29

if you're doing all this stuff, then that

45:31

means something bad is gonna happen you

45:33

know. But it's better to have all

45:35

these

45:35

things and, like, be prepared,

45:38

have your

45:39

pantry stocked, even if

45:41

you might never use it, like,

45:43

that's the

45:44

best case scenario. Right? Like, we

45:46

hope we never have to use these things.

45:48

But if you do come into a situation when you

45:50

have to use it, like even like

45:52

something, like COVID, like the lockdowns and

45:54

stuff, you can't get to your store.

45:57

you're gonna be so

45:58

glad that you have all

45:59

that. And in

46:01

the cyber

46:02

warfare article that my husband

46:04

wrote, at the beginning, he

46:06

put a a verse from proverbs. And

46:08

it says, a prudent person sees evil

46:10

and hides himself, put the naive, proceed,

46:13

and pay the penalty. less

46:15

than progress twenty seven

46:17

twelve.

46:17

And so, like, having that kind of

46:20

prudence and, like,

46:22

looking ahead to what

46:22

could happen is, like, that's so

46:25

important to take

46:25

care of your family and

46:27

and

46:27

steward your

46:30

family well. in

46:31

that way. So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No.

46:33

I

46:33

agree. So we will definitely have

46:35

the link to the blog

46:37

posts that people go and read

46:39

that, but if folks wanna follow along with your guys' journey and learn more from

46:42

you, where where are the best spots

46:44

for them to

46:46

connect? Sure.

46:48

So

46:48

I post a lot of Instagram, so it's black

46:50

rifle homestead on Instagram. And

46:52

then we have the blog, black rifle

46:55

homestead dot com. And

46:57

then also I had a a

46:59

YouTube channel, the same name,

47:01

BlackRockwell Homestead. So

47:02

you can pretty much find any find

47:04

us anywhere like, with with the BlackRock

47:07

Full homestead name. Okay.

47:08

Great. Well, thank you so much

47:10

for coming on, Miller. And again, thank

47:12

you guys for your service. and Walmart.

47:15

Yeah. Really, really enjoyed this.

47:17

Yeah. It's great to talk with you

47:19

and and you provide such

47:22

a great service to

47:22

all of us who are learn still learning so much. Like, I've learned

47:25

so much from your podcast, so I really

47:27

appreciate you having me on. Oh,

47:29

I'm happy to hear

47:32

that. Well, hey, there. I

47:33

hope you guys enjoyed that episode as

47:35

much as I did and were

47:37

able to get some good food for thought, and

47:39

some actionable tips for things that you will

47:42

be adding to possibly your first

47:44

aid medicine

47:46

kit as well as your food storage or other implementing

47:48

other things for home security.

47:50

Thank you so much for joining me and

47:52

I can't wait to be back here

47:56

with you Next week, the blessings and mason jars for

47:58

now my

48:00

friends.