Up And In It

Episode 320 An interpretation of “being woke”

-Being dumbed down -What goes around comes around. No one is exempt  -The end of the drain pipe -Everything has a purpose  -Human up and spread kindness  -Live by example  -Know yourself    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8...

Episode 319 Emergency food storage preparedness buyers guide

-Buy what you eat -Eat what you store  -Keep it interesting with spices Laurys  Garlic salt Smoked paprika  Smoked salt Pepper  Oregano  Thyme Onion powder Garlic powder -Dried foods and grains 25lbs jasmine rice Beans  Quinoa  Nuts Powdered protein -Canned foods Chicken  Tuna Refried Beans Coconut milk Masala sauce Alfredo sauce Tomato sauce Honey -Boxed food Broths Milks -Freezer variety  Meats  Veggies  Fruits Leftovers f...

Episode 318 Joseph Lofthouse on Landrace Gardening

Our guest today is Joseph Lofthouse  He is the author of the book “Landrace Gardening” We discuss the topic of Landrace Gardening.  Joseph gives us insight on how he has been able to grow vegetables in a way that is resistant to diseases, animals and insects to name a few.  Breeding plants for ultimate flavor and production.  All this without the use of any inputs such as pesticides, herbicide’s or soil amendments.  The information that you will hear is astonishing.  It changes...

Episode 317 A financial crash survival rant

Born into never doing without  What our current situation is  The booming run we have had Where we would go from here How to hedge against it   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFeg?view_as=subscriber TikToc Spotify  A...

Episode 316 Zero waste ish practices

Opt out on receipt printing Glass mason jar drinking water Vegetable oil for chainsaw Lemon water and deodorant Cast iron pans Wok cooking Stainless steel dishes Stainless steel mason jar lids Separating recyclables such as batteries Shampoo Less Fresnel lens Solar cookers Refillable pens BCG gardening: Burlap  Galvanized everything  Wood chips Paint recycling  Car parts Food scraps  Plastic molding machine    Thank you for being here today.    ...

Episode 315 Living and being the change you want to see in the world

-One less bag to the landfill expression  -Sober October  -Sharing fresh homegrown food -Nature garbage clean ups -How about “good day” first conversation starters    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFeg?view_as=subscriber ...

Episode 314 The Special needs child life lessons

-It is what it is realization  -The perks  -The power of observation  -Inspecting the body regularly  -Live in they’re shoes perspective  -Exposing them to new things -Gradual transitioning -The tendency to do everything for them and why you shouldn’t  -Behavior patterns  -Socializing  -The gift of not being so called “normal “   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www....

Episode 312 Emergency preparedness Energy

Tesla coils Geothermal  Wofaty/root cellulars Tankless water heaters Warm, dry or cool shaded clothes  Sleeping tarp Green houses Alternators on running water and wind Maximizing the body battery  The mind energy and why you should care   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTu...

Episode 312 Emergency preparedness Energy part 2

Tesla coils Geothermal  Wofaty/root cellulars T ankless water heaters Warm, dry or cool shaded clothes  Sleeping tarp Green houses Alternators  Maximizing the body battery  The mind energy and why you should care   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtub...

Episode 311 Emergency preparedness Energy

Generator  Fuels Diesel  Gas Propane  Candles for light heat and cooking  Fire wood  Greases and animal fats Flint Fresnel lenses Solar cookers Dakota fire hole Rocket mass stoves Thermal cookers Thermos  Solar power DC powered equipment  Truck battery bank Usefulness of a bicycle Biodigesters  Mulch piles Algae ponds    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook ...

Episode 310 Simple life low cost weight loss

-Intermittent fasting -Stationary exercise  -True feeling of hunger -The power of decision  -Emergency lunch preparedness  -Change your foods Replace: Sugar Noodles Bread Rice  Flour Chips Soda Milk Salad dressing Ice cream   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouT...

Episode 309 Gardening for beginners

-Getting started with container gardening and why -Utmost importance of a soil test for all in ground gardening  -5 Simple starter plants Tomato  Cucumber  Peppers Lettuce  Zucchini  -Choose one species at a time -The Permaculture Zone 1 and what it accomplishes  -Water the simple way -Just Burying compost     Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/gro...

Episode 308 Make more money

-Stand out from the herd -It’s not what you make it’s how and what you spend  -Solve a problem  -Improve and tweak everything  -Follow the money   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFeg?view_as=subscriber TikToc Spotify  ...

Episode 307 Gardening hacks

-Stagger planting -Natural cloning -Dealing with powdery mildew -Pond fish waste capture and use -Growing kale with live fish -Pepper plant winterization  -Transplanting tomatoes   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFeg?v...

Episode 306 Money saving hacks

-Damaged goods -Cash discounts -Strategize everything  -Look for and ask for free stuff  -Side hustle everything you are already doing  -Simply ask for a discount -Online coupons  -Bulk buy    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxve...

Episode 305 Life organization hacks

-Utilizing freezers -Work/school clothes -Keys, phone, wallet/purse placement  -Making time with alarms and reminders  -Trash can liners  -Creating healthy routine’s  -Batch everything you can  -Journal your struggles  -Write ideas down as they come    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandi...

Episode 304 Strategic living location’s

-Living on the fringe of the wealthy -Climate considerations  -Wind, solar and hydropower  -Soil types  -Medical needs -Foraging -Hunting -Government, rules and regulations  -Social interaction  -Learning and seeing that there is a strategy in everything    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com...

Episode 303 The urban permaculture backyard

-Soil building and health  -Size matters -ROI -Building habitat  -Relying on nature for equilibrium and why you most likely will have to do it yourself  -Swale or not to swale -Water collection and storage  -Vertical applications  -The more restrictive space the more creativity unfolds    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagr...

Episode 302 Good practice habits

-Respond to all texts, emails and voice messages  -Listening and controlling responses -Slowing down the pace of everything  -Owning your word and how to repair it -Knowing the true meaning of enough    -Respond to all texts, emails and voice messages  How I feel empowered by doing so -Listening and controlling responses Sales Children Problematic people-keep asking questions never give answers -Slowing down the pace of everything  -Owning your word and how to repai...

Episode 301 Abundance in scavenging the city

-Free food -Fire wood -Compost materials  -Wood pallets -Cardboard and other recyclables  -Dumpster diving in general -Free stuff on the internet  -Ask your neighborhood for stuff -Free paint -The day after or late evening of an estate sale   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ Y...

Episode 300 Repurposing Things

-Wood pallets -Old couches  -Free BBQ’s -Cardboard construction  -Soups  -Clothes patches  -Old dental floss -Dryer lint -Pet food bags  -5 gallon buckets -Old tires  -Dead tree branches -Drift wood  -Busted concrete    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https...

Episode 299 Utilizing food scraps

How to render animal fats Carrot pulp bread Edible plant parts such as flowers, stocks and leaves Compost Fried chicken skin Bone broth Saving seeds Banana peels on roses Coconut husks  Re-planting herbs   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/cha...

Episode 298 Lawns to gardens

-Insect refuge and decorative looks -The role of Biodegradable container gardening  -Free wood chips -Trees to consider -Wild edibles as under growth -My drop and forget it method     Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFe...

Episode 297 5 easy ways to a less stressful life

-Get everything in writing  -Organize a schedule for everything and stick to it -Create a plan and know what you are doing -Start an emergency fund  -Realize that failure is your friend    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBF...

Episode 296 Aquaponics good, bad and the ugly

-Different types and how they work -How and why size matters -Floating raft aka Deep Water Culture -Flood and drain aka media based -Hydroton  -Nutrient Film Technique  -What can go wrong -Is it really sustainable? -Toxicity considerations   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouT...

Episode 295 The practice of Essential living

-Survival in the wilderness vs civilized living -Are we struggling by our own design? -Minimalism vs Essentialism  -Let it be known that you do have the choice Free yourself!   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFeg?view_as=s...

Episode 294 Significance of the long game

-Sustainable living for your future in old age  -Living life for today for tomorrow we die -The accumulation of life skills -Why the current assigned lifestyle designs don’t work and never will -The significance of setting up gifts for your future self   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ ...

Episode 293 What I’d do differently in lifestyle design (relationships ) Revisited

Intimate  Your children Friends  Mentors  Business partners My relationship to my self   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFeg?view_as=subscriber TikToc Spotify  Apple podcast Contact  [email protected]...

Episode 292 How to have purpose in your life

In order to be successful in life or business come up with a purpose instead of a plan The connection of growing your own food The sacredness of preparing meals a.k.a. cooking True contribution to society, to your community, to your children, to yourself and last but not least the earth and world around you Having the ability and the ability to learn to re-purpose and fix things Problem-solving and critical thinking skills   Thank you for being here today.    If you like th...

Episode 291 Joseph Lofthouse on Landrace Gardening

Episode 290 Simple living rant

  Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFeg?view_as=subscriber TikToc Spotify  Apple podcast Contact  [email protected] Adrian Babashoff     Biodegradable Container Gardening  https://www.youtube.com/account ...

Episode 289 Strategies of pivoting in life and business

Learning to adapt to the changing times  Having to reinvent yourself Skills and mindsets and how to use them  Interesting how life compares to a business structure when things start to fall apart.  If you want to gain more control and learn to change with the coming tides, you will need to start now.      Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752...

Episode 288 Adaptation to changing times

How and why to learn how to pivot Lessons from nature on change    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFeg?view_as=subscriber TikToc Spotify  Apple podcast Contact  [email protected] Adrian Babashoff     ...

Episode 287 Strategies for Supply chain shortages

Why we are sitting ducks  What to stock up on Why you should stock up A short list of what I’m doing Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFeg?view_as=subscriber TikToc Spotify  Apple podcast Contact  Www.upandinitshow@gma...

Episode 286 The ideal Homestead-Water part 2

-Ram Pumps -Remembering life with a windmill -Zepp Holzer man made spring -Utilizing street runoff  -Roof rain catchment -Structured water  -Vitamin c for chloramine treatment  -Recycling gray water -Cloud nets -Polyurethane water hoses and why I use them -Final words on personal connection with water    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360...

Episode 285 The ideal Homestead-Water

  -Geographic location is everything -Soil types  -Land size matters  -Calculating rain fall for maximum success and minimization of destruction and danger -Contours and why you should care -Gabion’s  -Rain catchment cisterns -Swales -Berms -Hugelculture/wood core garden beds -P. A. Yoman  -Reservoirs -Pond repair with ducks? -Key line design  -Mark Shepard water for ever farm -Utilizing gravity for water pressure -Drip irrigation for automation -Use of re...

Episode 284 When it’s time to take a break rant

I’ve been very overwhelmed and worn out lately. I didn’t know quite what to talk about today, other than I found myself needing a break. I started to think about everybody else out there.  All of the things that are going on right now.  I think we can all use a break.  I just shoot off the hip today about how screwed up things are and what we can do about them. Especially when we take a break. When we can just stop.  And we can get a greater vantage point.  Hope you enjoy.  I...

Episode 283 Lifestyle design how to

-Establishing your goals -Day dream and write them down -Take a reality check -Focus on how you can instead of why you can’t  -Sequence of events to get you there  -Jumping in or tapering  -Close all loose ends  -Planning is everything  -It always revolves around money -Low overhead, simple living always wins    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/...

Episode 282 What to do in the coming harder times

-Why prices on everything is about to explode -Design or have your life designed for you  -Utilizing minimalism -Practicing essentialism -Permaculture as a design for everything  -My personal spin farm philosophy  -The significance of developing USFULL relationships  -Last words on how it all starts with you yourself  The time is now to react    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook ...

Episode 281 Self reliance

-Why now more than ever  -Building and repairing soil as a philosophy -Where minimalism lifestyle design falls shorts -Self reliance when reliant on the monetary system -Trading quality and integrity that is wanted and is not wanted to go away -Utilizing all systems for maximum abilities     Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagra...

Episode 280 Unf@$k yourself From yourself

-Are we in control of ourselves? Societies programming  Movies  The subconscious mind -Who is holding us back? -How intuition has been and continues to be destroyed through science and logical thinking  -The spell of spelling  -Thoughts on mantras -The affects of the arts on the human body -Water memory  -In the middle of the desert experience  -What “Woke” means to me   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upa...

Episode 279 Preparing and surviving supply chain shortages

How this affects businesses and our personal lives  The significance of simple living Difference from consumer vs producer The immense usefulness of owning land     Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxQFBYhxvea6sQ8JWLBFeg?view_as=subscriber ...

Episode 278 The dangers of a resilient mind set

-The urge to share the permaculture miracle -The rules of the Majority -What a true monster really is -Observing practices of constant waste and how to deal with it -Understanding the separation gap within society  -Self fulfillment and the beauty that comes with it   Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram....

Episode 276 Vegetable production from small to medium part 2

-Container gardening considerations Mobility  No bending over Way less weeds Less animal intrusion  Multiple configurations  Time saving  Money saving Repair of soil biology  Seed saving nursery’s  Sick recovery area Decoy affect    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube...

Episode 275 Preparations for an uncertain future

-Why this is necessary regardless of the outcome  -Food production  -DIY fix it skills and why you should care -Thoughts on owning land  -Alternative to owning land -Thoughts on buying a home in competition with large and wealthy investors      Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTu...

Episode 274 DIY life-own your life rant

-No one knows you. It’s a positive  -There is no there to get, to also a positive  -The meaning and origins of sheeple according to muah:) -How to regain happiness and love for yourself  -Practice things you love not like     Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upandinit/ YouTube https://www.you...

Episode 273 Vegetable production from small to medium part 1

-Find the species you like at the grocery store first(a word  on flavor) -Preserve or not to preserve  -Nutritional values  -Seed block making -How much to sow  -How to store live seedlings and why  -Utilizing excess supply  -A little bit of part 2 on container gardening and why    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram http...

Episode 272 Simple start to financial control

-Money.  Why, how and what to do with it -Identify all the important things you do have control over Spending Saving Investing with a twist  -Practice identifying the things you don’t have control over Taxation  Inflation  -My simple tracking starter method recommendation    Thank you for being here today.    If you like this sort of thing check us out on  www.upandinit.com     Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/565360640644752/ Instagram https:/...

Episode 271 What if everyone...

A fun different approach today. Many thoughts as I have returned from my mini retirement.  Things are different and apparent when one is away for awhile.  You begin to notice things.  Here are a few positives for some negatives. Let me know if you like these types of shows.    -Used forest wood for camp fires? -Urinated in the same camping area? -Fenced off land to farm and live? -Planted insect attracting flowers? -Stoped buying unsustainable products for a day?   ...

Episode 270 How and why to slow down Life

Todays show contains a message I had to remind myself about.  Yet again.  I thought about how important and how easily over looked the subject matter really is.  We forget. We move forward at break neck speeds.  Paying attention to what we think is important.  Sometimes we miss things.  Some times these things are very percarious and beautiful. Life goes on and sometimes we may pause and look back and wonder.  Where did all the time go? What happened? I think the title ...