tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71944641933456267052024-03-17T22:03:51.259-05:00The Rural Economist & Bringing Rural Back PodcastWe promote homesteading, self sustainability, and being prepared. Come ride along with us on our journey.Gregg Carter Outdoorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17883555321904190949noreply@blogger.comBlogger321125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194464193345626705.post-19708480222696373672017-09-17T15:15:00.001-05:002017-09-17T15:15:51.449-05:00Celebrating 1000 Subscribers<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kmZlfWqOfbo" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;">We have 1000 subscribers on YouTube. To celebrate I am giving a project of mine away. 50 plant pdfs of edible and/or herbal plants. This giveaway will run till next Sunday September 24. Winners will be announced on Monday. Everyone has access to 2 plant pdfs and Foraging guidelines. Must leave a comment on the video to enter.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This giveaway is in no way sponsored or endorsed by YouTube. Go and check it out. </div>Gregg Carter Outdoorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17883555321904190949noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194464193345626705.post-48681892571383093402017-08-23T18:15:00.000-05:002017-08-23T18:15:02.042-05:00Muscadine; The foraging Series<div style="text-align: center;">
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I have this plant cultivated on my little homestead. Great eating fresh, makes excellent jelly and jam as well as a traditional southern wine.<br />
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Muscadine is without any doubt my favorite wild berry. A member of the grape family and a wonderful addition to any homestead. This is an earlier video, I hope I have improved, but there is still good information. </div>
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Believe it or not it is never too early to be thinking about how you will be staying warm when winter comes. Most people, depending on where you are, should have a heating source that you have control over. In our case we have wood as a backup heat source. When I was growing up heat was our primary source of heat during the winter. As a result, I have cut my fair share of trees and split a lot of stove wood. <br />
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This time we are talking about American Pokeweed. At one time this was a heavily eaten plant. So much so that companies actually commercially canned pokeweed. The Allen company canned a lot of poke. I tried to find a photo of the old cans that I could legally share but I didn't find any. </div>
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Poke can be cooked as a pot herb but the most common way they are eaten is with scrambled eggs. A nutritional powerhouse. This plant must be processed correctly or it can make you quite sick. </div>
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There are also several ways it can be used as an herbal medicine. In fact, I really need to make some extract. I have promised some to friends of mine. </div>
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Today we are going to talk about the pros and cons of direct sow, seed starts, and buying transplants. Each have their own strong points and weeknesses. They vary on cost as well as time to harvest. Which is best for you? You will have to make that decision. I hope you enjoy the video.</div>
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I have used a mix of all three. My goal for next year is to not purchase any plants. We are adding a greenhouse this fall and will be producing not only our own plants, but will have some for sale as well. This is just another step we are taking to become as sustainable as possible and serve our local community with the highest possible quality plants. Wish us luck. </div>
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Why did I tell you that? To let you know that in the niche of Homesteading and Preparedness content creators, they are doing it because they want to spread a message and to help others. It is as simple as that. They can supplement their income by helping you find products that you will use or by directing you to learning opportunities, but in general any money earned is a trickle. </div>
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I myself have come to this place. I may be slower than most, but that is okay. I have set my sights on producing PDFs on wild edible and herbal plants. This will enable anyone who is interested to create their own foraging notebook. That is just step 1. Step 2 would be an eBook and step 3 is a printed workbook. In order to make this happen, I need some help. We have a <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/216123255/wild-edible-and-herbal-plants?ref=8ksq3g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a> running. The <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/216123255/wild-edible-and-herbal-plants?ref=8ksq3g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a> ends July 4, 2017. You can watch the informational video below. </div>
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Lambs quarters is considered by many to be a noxious weed. Those poor people don't realize what they are missing. It is one of the most nutritious wild edibles there are. A hearty, fast growing annual that has almost world wide distribution. Lots to learn about this one.<br />
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It won't be long before the berry deliciousness of blackberries will be coming in. So many memories are wrapped around picking berries. There used to be a place not far from the house that was called the bone yard. A man who owned 1000's of acres and dairy farmed hauled all of his sick, dead, and dying cattle to the bone yard. For some reason that place produced the biggest and sweetest blackberries. It also produced some of the biggest rattlesnakes I have ever seen in person, as well as billions of chiggers. My dad was more susceptible to chiggers than I. There were times he would be covered with the little parasites. <br />
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Blackberries are a biannual plant meaning they produce fruit in their second year. The wild varieties have thorns that will tear you up. Some are sour, some are sweat. Wild varieties can be improved by taking a minimum amount of care. I have also seen blackberries used as a hedge and it makes a very impressive one at that. <br />
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Depending on where you are, the blackberries could be ripening now or in the near future. Cobbler is without any doubt my favorite way to eat blackberries, well besides fresh if the berries are sweet. As an added bonus. I am going to share my recipe for blackberry/peach cobbler. The combination of these two fruits makes the cobbler even more special.</div>
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<span id="goog_1580554152">This is the first of the wild edible plants that I discovered as an adult. The discovery was made by accident. I was pulling several of the plants up when I realized it smelled just like a carrot and the root looked very similar as well. As a result of that observation I was on to more research. I have always been a plant geek and had a desire to be constantly learning. The original post that contains a full write up has been pinned more times than a hand me down dress pattern on Pinterest. Nothing else comes even close. There is so much to know about this plant. </span></div>
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Just last week JC Penny announced that it would be closing stores and offering early retirement for F6000 employees, Macy's announced they would be closing some of their stores, Family Christian Stores are closing all of their locations. Sounds rough right, well that is only the beginning. Sears/Kmart close a few more stores every single year and Lowe's is laying off full-time employees in an attempt to "restructure" their staffing model.<br />
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After all of these announcements I saw a blog article entitled "Retail Apocalypse". Now I will be honest I didn't read it, the title alone was enough for me to just smile and move along. But there is a question out there that is worth answering. Are we seeing the death of retail? Sadly this is not a new question. Just a quick internet search renders lots of people proclaiming the death of retail. I'm not just talking about fringe blogs here either. Forbes in 2014 posted an article entitled "The Death of Retail--And Perhaps a Resurrection", The very next year Forbes had an article entitled "Don't Buy the Death of Retail Story" So the same publication contradicted itself in the period of a little over a year. Which is true?<br />
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There are really two primary types of shoppers. Those shopper types are the things that determine their method about a purchasing decision. There is the efficient shopper and the experience shopper.<br />
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The efficient shopper really is all that worried about the atmosphere. As long as it is safe and clean that is really all that is required. The efficient shopper does all of their research ahead of time, limits their options to only a couple and then wants to go somewhere that they will be able to compare their product finalists. For these people shopping is a chore not an adventure. Shopping really is about getting the things they need or want in a timely manner. These people hate having to spend hours out shopping. They are more of a get in, get it, and get out personality.<br />
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The experience shopper is the one retailers love. The search and discovery of an item is part of the joy of shopping. These are the people that will dedicate an entire day to getting a new outfit. For these people it is relaxing and even rewarding to spend hours looking for this or that. I have known people that spent time each week for over a month looking for a pair of shoes. There is an emotional component to their search. If they don't have an emotional reaction to the item, they won't buy it.<br />
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The experience shopper is the group for which malls and shopping centers were created. They are also the ones that sales were created for. If they want a new pair of shoes, but are unwilling to spend $100 for the ones they want, a simple sign of 15% of can be enough to sway them.The emotional part of them is convinced they got a bargain. This is true even if the price went up a week before the sale and they really didn't save very much at all. All that matters is they think they have saved money.<br />
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The price only shopper is one of the biggest problems for the retail market. If they were to look at 2 products that have the same function, say on is $3 and one is $10. The less expensive one is made of cheaper material and will honestly last about 3 years. The one that is $10 is made of much more durable materials and is likely to last say 15 years. The price only shopper will automatically go to the $3 item. Very little consideration is given to quality or longevity of the product.<br />
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This is the area that I try to be in most of the time, but I will admit that I bounce back and forward between price only and value. The value shopper is one who is willing to pay more for quality. The quality must be consistent with the increase in price. It must meat the ratio of product life expectancy to price. It must be a superior value. For example if a $5 item will last one year and a $10 item 2 years eccetera there is really not enough motivation to purchase the higher priced item because the value is the same.<br />
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These are the people that are logo/name brand focused. They have to have this designer or that. Some of these people even get part of their identity from the brands they buy. These are the people that are catered to by the upper end retailers and are honestly the primary target of the sales. Each group can benefit from a sale, but the prestige shopper is the primary target. These people are proud of spending large amounts of money on items because they have a designers name.<br />
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With increased access and familiarity to online shopping has come a major shift of behavior for all of the customer types and sub-types listed above. The more online shopping improves the more pressure that will be placed on brick and mortar retail sellers. Online retail will continue to grow.<br />
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The average brick and mortar retail location can have between 50,000 and 125,000 items on site. The same retailer may have in excess of 3 million items available online. Rather that driving all over the place and looking for "the item" sometimes even visiting the same store just different locations. You can fine whatever you want online with a few clicks of your mouse.<br />
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In general online shopping is going to be less expensive. The reason is quite simple, OVERHEAD. <br />
The companies that are exclusively online are always open, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. They don't have the expense of location scattered across the countryside. They don't need as many employees. Utilities costs, insurance costs, labor costs, really all of the costs of operating a business are much lower. These lower costs are what make lower prices available online. <br />
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I really hate that I am having to do an I'm back post. In fact I started not to do one at all. But as I look around I realize a lot of people are or have gone through the same things we have. So I decided I would share what we went though. I hope you get something out of this. </div>
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The last time I posted an episode was last April. At the time I was working nights and still trying to produce content. My heart was in the right place but I couldn't stay consistent. I was making okay money, but my energy level for almost everything else was in the tank.</div>
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The Friday before Independence Day I was called into the office after my shift was over and basically told they no longer needed my services and I was being let go. Calling my wife that morning and telling her that I no longer had a job was very difficult.</div>
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Something that I had always heard, but really didn't believe was that the older you get the more difficult it is to fine employment. When I was dismissed from the company for which I had worked for over 5 years, I hit the ground running. I didn't sit around for a single day without looking for opportunities, submitting resumes, filling out applications. Since I had this sudden freedom I started shooting for the really good jobs that I really wanted. I was qualified, for everything that I applied, but I shot for the moon.</div>
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After a couple of weeks with no employment, a buddy of mine asked if I had thought about getting into insurance. I had not, not at all. I have had some bad experiences with insurance agents and just couldn't imagine trying to sell things to people they didn't want. He told me that stigma was really on the life insurance market, he was talking about property insurance. This is the area for automotive and home insurance, but he told me if I really wanted opportunities to open up to study and take the test for Property and Casualty. This covers business insurance, worker's compensation, automotive both private and commercial, as well as several other areas.</div>
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I did a little research and decided that maybe, just maybe I could take my outlook on the world and be one of the "good" insurance agents. I signed up for a self study course and passed the course. I scheduled and paid for the state exam and passed it as well. I learned more about the insurance industry than I really ever cared to know, but it was worth wild.</div>
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One thing that I learned was that a lot of people, especially in the poorer areas will let their insurance lapse during November and December so they can spend that money on the holidays. That means that the holidays are the time of year that many insurance agents make the least money. When you take that in addition to most insurance agents are paid on a commission based salary, my wife was not happy. There is the opportunity to make incredible money, but there is also the opportunity to make very little.</div>
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I want to state something right here.<b> Security is an illusion</b>. I know that, my wife knows that, we have talked about it a good bit, but she believes that somethings are more secure than others. This isn't a lack of faith in me, this is a lack of faith in an industry. After I passed the state exam I talked with a few agents about working with them and they all wanted to wait till after the new year for the reasons mentioned above. We needed me to have employment before that.</div>
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Another friend asked if I was still looking for a job and said that there was a department in the company that he worked for that needed help pretty bad. He did warn me that is was a hard job, he was right. But I took it and before long moved into a job that was much better on me physically.</div>
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So we made it through without too much difficulty. Why were we able to do that? Were we just lucky? Do we live in an area that is more economically vigorous that other places? Or is there some secret ingredient? I would be foolish if I said the local economy didn't have some impact, but I believe the "secret ingredient is how we dealt with the challenges we faced.<br />
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You have probably heard the saying that Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude. This is true to a major extent. When some challenge arises, our reaction sets the tempo for our recovery. Some people sit down and cry, others protest or picket, others just pick themselves up, dust themselves off and start off again. You can see all of these responses around you everyday.</div>
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Like I said earlier, I saw the sudden job loss as an opportunity. I looked at my education, experience, interpersonal and physical skills, and I decided that it would be a good idea to enhance my education in the area of insurance. Without an honest inventory of yourself you really don't know where you could use improvement. We should always want to improve so we should always know the areas that need the most improvement.</div>
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You might think that attitude and outlook are the same thing. They are not. They can be related, but they are not the same. Attitude is the way you respond, think, and to some extent feel about what is going on right now. Outlook is the way you see, think, and plan for/about the future. This is where the word vision can come into play. This is as much a plan as anything. Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland had a line that was said the the Cheshire cat. "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there". This is so true and this is directly related to outlook. </div>
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Determination could be as the grease that keeps a person moving. Without determination a person could simply be going through the motions without any real passion or drive. It is the force that helps a person get up and keep going even when they don't feel like it. Without determination all of the other assets are worth much less. Could you imagine only trying when you feel like it? It wouldn't take long before a person like that never feels like it. </div>
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This is the one that is most difficult for me. I have always thought I could power through anything. But honestly there are some things I just cannot physically do. This is an evaluation of each of the items in your personal inventory. Sometimes you must change your goals, your process, and yes sometimes you even have to change your direction.</div>
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We as a society have made it too easy to just give up. The unemployment numbers that are reported every single week do not include the people who have stopped actively seeking employment. They have given up and are no longer even counted.</div>
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Gregg Carter Outdoorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17883555321904190949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194464193345626705.post-74098601746798784232016-08-03T05:00:00.000-05:002016-08-03T05:00:03.121-05:00Homestead Blog Hop #94<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">Just like everyone else we are slowly getting back on a halfway normal schedule. It is difficult sometimes to juggle all of the things in life that we want. In fact many times it is actually impossible to do all of the things we have even promised ourselves. That is when you take the time to step back and reevaluate your priorities. Self Reliance should always be a priority, but sometimes other things have to give way. I hope this finds you well and working toward true independence.</span></div>
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Danielle - <a href="http://www.therusticelk.com/" target="_blank">The Rustic Elk</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/therusticelk" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/therusticelk" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="http://www.twitter.com/therusticelk" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/therusticelk" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)
Gregg - <a href="http://theruraleconomist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Rural Economist</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Rural-Economist/242783022525294" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/treconomist/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/ruraleconomist" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://plus.google.com/+TheruraleconomistBlogspotselfsustainable/about" target="_blank">G+</a> | <a href="https://instagram.com/theruraleconomist/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)
Jennifer - <a href="http://www.homesteadingongrace.com/" target="_blank">Homesteading on Grace</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/homesteadingongrace" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/jennifera_hsog/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/jenniferongrace" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Homesteadingongrace14/posts" target="_blank">G+</a>)
Katey - <a href="http://mamakautz.com/" target="_blank">Mama Kautz</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mamakautz" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/mamakautz" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="https://www.twitter.com/mamakautz" target="_blank">Twitter</a>)
Kelly - <a href="http://simplelifemom.com/" target="_blank">Simple Life Mom</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/thesimplelifemom" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/simplelifemom/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="http://www.twitter.com/simplelifemom_k" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://plus.google.com/+KellySLM/posts" target="_blank">G+</a>)
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1. <a href="http://easypeasylifematters.com/recipes/whole-grains/zucchini-texas-sheet-cake/" target="_blank">Zucchini Texas Sheet Cake</a> from Easy Peasy Life Matters</div>
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2. <a href="http://organic4greenlivings.com/trench-composting-how-to-recycle-your-food-scraps-without-a-compost-bin/" target="_blank">Trench Composting: How to Recycle Your Food Scraps without a Compost Bin</a> from Organic 4 Greenlivings</div>
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<a href="http://farmingmybackyard.com/chicken-coops/" target="_blank"><img alt="55 Best Chicken Coops For Practical People - Featured on the Homestead Blog Hop" class="aligncenter wp-image-3785" src="http://www.notsomodern.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/55-Best-Chicken-Coops-For-Practical-People-683x1024.jpg" height="550" width="367" /></a>
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3. <a href="http://farmingmybackyard.com/chicken-coops/" target="_blank">55 Best Chicken Coops for Practical People</a> from Farming My Backyard</div>
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Gregg Carter Outdoorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17883555321904190949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194464193345626705.post-9985854095704058602016-07-20T08:50:00.002-05:002016-07-20T08:50:28.024-05:00Homestead Blog Hop #92<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">Life has a way of throwing you a curve ball. This seems to happen most often when you just start to thing that you have everything under control. You start to make bigger plans or dream bigger dreams, then out of left field something hits you that you had no way to expect. When something like that does occur, and believe me it will eventually, you find out the ones you can count on and the ones that will turn their back. I am sure you can look for several posts about this adventure in the future. But for now let's enjoy reading some posts from fellow homesteaders and take time to just breathe.</span></div>
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<b>Now on to the hop</b>... Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: <i>real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to's, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! </i>Basically anything related to homesteading.
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Bonnie - <a href="http://www.notsomodern.com/" target="_blank">The Not So Modern Housewife</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/notsomodern" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/notsomodernblog/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/notsomodernblog" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://plus.google.com/106041570073917205777/posts" target="_blank">G+</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/notsomodern/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)
Danielle - <a href="http://www.therusticelk.com/" target="_blank">The Rustic Elk</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/therusticelk" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/therusticelk" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="http://www.twitter.com/therusticelk" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/therusticelk" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)
Gregg - <a href="http://theruraleconomist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Rural Economist</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Rural-Economist/242783022525294" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/treconomist/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/ruraleconomist" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://plus.google.com/+TheruraleconomistBlogspotselfsustainable/about" target="_blank">G+</a> | <a href="https://instagram.com/theruraleconomist/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)
Jennifer - <a href="http://www.homesteadingongrace.com/" target="_blank">Homesteading on Grace</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/homesteadingongrace" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/jennifera_hsog/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/jenniferongrace" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Homesteadingongrace14/posts" target="_blank">G+</a>)
Katey - <a href="http://mamakautz.com/" target="_blank">Mama Kautz</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mamakautz" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/mamakautz" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="https://www.twitter.com/mamakautz" target="_blank">Twitter</a>)
Kelly - <a href="http://simplelifemom.com/" target="_blank">Simple Life Mom</a> (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/thesimplelifemom" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/simplelifemom/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> | <a href="http://www.twitter.com/simplelifemom_k" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://plus.google.com/+KellySLM/posts" target="_blank">G+</a>)
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<a href="http://easypeasylifematters.com/recipes/party-food/clean-eating-baked-potato-logs/" target="_blank"><img alt="Featured on the Homestead Blog Hop - Clean-Eating-Baked-Potato-Logs from Easy Peasy Life Matters" class="aligncenter wp-image-7935 size-large" src="http://simplelifemom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Featured-on-the-Homestead-Blog-Hop-Clean-Eating-Baked-Potato-Logs-from-Easy-Peasy-Life-Matters-467x700.jpg" height="700" width="467" /></a> </div>
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1.<a href="http://easypeasylifematters.com/recipes/party-food/clean-eating-baked-potato-logs/" target="_blank">Clean Eating Baked Potato Logs </a>from Easy Peasy Life Matters</div>
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<a href="http://thymetoembraceherbs.com/fresh-lemon-leaf-tea/" target="_blank"><img alt="Featured on the Homestead Blog Hop - fresh-lemon-leaf-tea from Thyme to Embrace Herbs" class="aligncenter wp-image-7936 size-large" src="http://simplelifemom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Featured-on-the-Homestead-Blog-Hop-fresh-lemon-leaf-tea-from-Thyme-to-Embrace-Herbs-525x700.jpg" height="700" width="525" /></a><br />
2. <a href="http://thymetoembraceherbs.com/fresh-lemon-leaf-tea/" target="_blank">Fresh Lemon Leaf Tea</a> from Thyme to Embrace Herbs</div>
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<a href="http://www.thecapecoop.com/top-7-ways-to-keep-your-rabbit-cool-in-summer/" target="_blank"><img alt="Featured on the Homestead Blog Hop - The Cape Coop" class="aligncenter wp-image-7934 size-large" src="http://simplelifemom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Featured-on-teh-Homestead-Blog-Hop-The-Cape-Coop-560x700.jpg" height="700" width="560" /></a><br />
3.<a href="http://www.thecapecoop.com/top-7-ways-to-keep-your-rabbit-cool-in-summer/" target="_blank"> Top 7 Ways to Keep Your Rabbit Cool in Summer</a> from The Cape Coop</div>
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Gregg Carter Outdoorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17883555321904190949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7194464193345626705.post-82272198462811412012016-04-11T23:35:00.000-05:002016-04-11T23:35:56.136-05:00Episode 55 The Hollywood Disasters Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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super-volcano eruption. The reason I approached these two together is
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Airsoft can be an effective training tool. These can be purchased in many configurations and can actually be the true weight and design of several real firearms. This will help a shooter and will enable them to practice at home. Some older children use airsoft to play war. There isn't any real danger, but they do hurt when hit with one of these plastic bbs. </div>
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