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Kyle Beaver joins us today to discuss building food and income self sufficiency through specialty mushroom cultivation, then using documented farm income to gain access to USDA land programs most people have never heard of. This is not a story about buying a giant farm, borrowing a fortune and hoping it all works out. Kyle started with $300, limited land and no farming background. We will dig into why specialty mushrooms made sense, how he found buyers and what it took to build a real business while still working a full time job. We will also discuss lion’s mane as … Continue reading →

Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend. Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Otlonpe Rechargeable Portable Fan.  Okay on the surface it is a way to stay cool on the go, but what if I told you it was a great tool for your kitchen?  It is and Alton Brown turned me onto it while I was at 32K feet in an airplane.  I’ll explain that in a bit. First the basics of what … Continue reading →

Joel from Fortress K9 reached out and let me know he is now taking reservations for his 2026 puppy litters. This year he is doing one litter each of German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois and Dutch Shepherds. These are the same lines his trained dogs come from, not random backyard bred dogs with a fancy website and a pile of buzzwords attached to them. He is only taking 4 reservations per litter and one of the German Shepherd spots is already gone. ~~~~~~~~~~ There will be untrained puppies and started puppies available. The started pups are for folks who want Joel … Continue reading →

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Today we have our first Tuesday Coffee Chat with John Willis of SOE Tactical Gear and Nicole Sauce of Living Free in Tennessee. These discussions are always a wildcard and can go anywhere. We usually hit on some current events of course. We also tend to talk about things like entrepreneurship, homesteading and a ton more. In general we try to inspire you a bit, make you laugh a few times, entertain you and teach you a thing or two along the way. Some things we covered today included weather events, keeping sheep and turkeys, Artificial Intelligence, Bitcoin, the media, … Continue reading →

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Today we are joined by Chris Daigle to discuss what he has learned from 50 real world AI implementations. These are not lab tests, theory sessions, or corporate guessing games. These are actual deployments inside real companies, with real people, real workflows, real mistakes, and real lessons learned the hard way. A lot of companies know they should be using AI. Many of them already are, whether leadership knows it or not. Employees are using tools on their own, data is moving around, policies are either weak or nonexistent, and most managers are still pretending this is something they can … Continue reading →