Stop Prepping Alone: The Case for a Family Compound

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[00:01:12] Let's talk about the family compound. So everyone, I think, like when you have the initial thought of a prepper or a survivalist, they always think of like, maybe it's like Mark Wahlberg out in the woods with a cabin, or maybe I remember the movie Commando. We had the governor out there with Alyssa Milano out there in the woods. She was just a little kid. That man, that was, that's it. Pre who's the boss, isn't it?

[00:01:42] I think so. And, but they're out there, you know, kind of braving the world. And, and it definitely has like that romantic fantasy idea, that whole, you know. Well, I mean, it's only really romantic if you're a hermit, you know, I mean. Yeah, that's a good point. I think you, you and I both would be all right, just by ourselves. And nobody else has that shared vision.

[00:02:09] I mean, other people like to interact with friends and family. Yeah, that's, I was just talking to somebody at work about going to the doctor and they were like, you know, I'm like, I said, it's funny, you know, but my wife doesn't like to go because she always like has this building fear. They're going to find something wrong. And I'm like, I really doesn't even cross my mind.

[00:02:32] And my only thought about going to the doctor is I have to talk to somebody, you know, that's kind of the, yeah. So I guess we're committed to the whole hermit thing, you know, but maybe it is just us. I don't know. I don't know what went wrong, but moving right along. So again, people kind of think I have to be able to do everything myself. Now I get redundancy.

[00:02:59] I get, you know, being able to cover everything, but you can be a lot stronger as a group. Right. And that definitely is a thing. So especially if your family isn't like incompetent, you know what I mean? You kind of have to teach your family or, you know, let them teach you. There you go. Maybe they might know something we don't. Right. So that's, that's a big thing. So family compound. I mean, we're obviously going to touch on a whole lot of homesteading.

[00:03:29] I actually have some great money-making ideas for the homestead that we're going to get to, but it basically, the big thing is, you know, building a community and working together. And, and when I say family compound, it can be you and a bunch of your buddies. Cause turns out family, you know, blood isn't what actually makes the connection of, now I know a lot of people take it that way. They're family is family's blood, you know, we, whatever.

[00:03:59] But to be honest, you need somebody who's like-minded and, and shares your goals. Now, obviously a strong family has usually similar goals. You know, you go and you learn different things, but you, in theory, are bringing that back to the community and things are, you know, getting better. Yeah. Because I, you know, I feel like, right. You choose your friends and you don't choose your family.

[00:04:26] And sometimes, you know, this isn't personal experience, but sometimes like your family is trash. You know, sometimes your parents are terrible. Sometimes your siblings are awful people, you know, and they say blood is thicker than water, but that's from Macbeth. And what that actually means is a blood oath is thicker than the water of the womb. Meaning the people you tie yourself to are more important than the people that you're, the family you're born into.

[00:04:54] So is it kind of like a complete opposite of the way people typically interpret that? Yeah, it is exactly opposite of how people interpret that. All right. All right. I see where you're going. I'm picking up what you're putting down. So let's think about like, what, what are some of the benefits, right? Like, why would you even want a family compound? Well, one shared labor, right? You can do so much more, you know, with a couple of people, you know, you think of like

[00:05:21] the Amish barn building, you know, barn raisings and things like that. Um, you know, obviously clearing a field or picking a harvest when it's ready, those things, if you have a couple of people, it makes a dramatic difference. In what you're able to do, um, shared security, right? That's huge. If you're able to like stand a full watch, no, obviously in the typical modern day, none of us are keeping a watch outside and everything works out. Okay.

[00:05:51] For the most part. Um, you know, we have a security camera, maybe that is that extra level of vigilance. Um, a lot of you like to share your stuff with Amazon with the ring doorbell or whatever that is, but you know, you can, whatever I chose to go another way. I share all my property views with China. I use like China camera that I'm sure, you know, I'm sure the chairman over there, whoever

[00:06:18] is, uh, watching my compound and making sure he sees everything on my compound. And, you know, Hey, you know, Winnie the Pooh sitting there with piglet somewhere and keeping an eye on things. Right. That's, um, all right. Shared equipment. That's actually kind of huge. Um, if you can have one tractor for five families, you know, my tractor isn't used every day. It's probably used every other day.

[00:06:45] I kind of liked it, but that that's maybe just cause I like to ride my tractor. Right. You got to start it up sometimes, you know, but you know, I'm, I'm like, Oh, I could buy a stump grinder. Then I can be on my tractor again, or I could go till the neighbor's field. I could be on my tractor again. You know how it is. Um, shared childcare, uh, for younger families. You know, if you're not quite as old as I am and that's your thing, you can, Oh, here we go.

[00:07:13] The next one on my list is elder care. So there you go. You guys can start to take care of me. Um, you know, you can watch crazy grandma cause you know, and Hey, maybe she knows some secret soup recipes that, you know, Papa's drunk and on the tractor again. There you go. That's it. We had a guy, a local guy, not that I'd say it was a year and a half ago, like died on his tractor.

[00:07:42] I think like he had a heart attack out there and just like rode it to the end of the field and flipped over. And, and I was like, I'd like to go that way. Like that guy was living his best life. You know what I'm saying? Um, but you know, Hey, that that's just me. You know, not everybody shares the same dreams. Yeah. Yeah. It's a story about a, a hundred and one year old man that died because he rolled over on his four wheeler. And I was like, exactly. That's right.

[00:08:12] That's, that's the way to go. You know, what are you going to do? You're going to sit and be stupid. I was watching, uh, I don't know. One of these shows, uh, Oh, I think it was, uh, the Madison. It's one of those, uh, Tyler Sheridan, whatever shows that, you know, whatever, like Yellowstone. Right. And, uh, so anyway, and, and the guy's like, yeah, my wife, you know, flipped over a four wheeler being stupid and died, you know, whatever. And I'm mad at her for being so reckless, but you got to enjoy life, man.

[00:08:42] You got to live it to the, cause why, why are you even alive? If you're not enjoying every minute of it, you know, that's kind of, I see that I get that, you know, and, and I know some people's dream isn't, well, you know, you just said riding a tractor, are you really enjoying life? Do you get a tractor and tell me that that's all I can say about that. Um, but also you have a greater purchasing power.

[00:09:10] You can, uh, you know, you can buy a lot cooler things, right? So if five families put their tractor budget together, we can go from the little lawn tractor to a, you know, something kind of cool, like subcompact, you know, little Kubota or something with a bucket. Something cool, you know, you, you things like that, right? You get your, it's exponentially better. How about that?

[00:09:37] Um, you just in general get a better quality of life. Now, obviously if we're all secretly hating each other and we're like, that guy isn't doing the work. Kevin's always lazy. He's always in there sitting, you know, I don't know what he does, but he doesn't come out. Then it's not so fun, right? You're doing what? I said, I hear that a lot. Yeah. See, you know, there you go. Or, Oh, Chuck's always drinking whiskey, drinks all the whiskey, never leaves any for any of the rest of us.

[00:10:04] You know, whatever you do, we all have, you know, our issues, but you decide if these are the people that you want to spend your time with, right? That's the important thing. But again, it doesn't have to be every minute. You just need to be somebody that somebody can count on and then things kind of work, work out. So choosing the right people is important. Um, shared values, right? So what, what do we need to agree on? We need to like kind of agree on work ethic, right?

[00:10:34] Just like we were saying, everybody's kind of got to pull their share or you need to understand that person's not going to pull their share because they're 90, you know, maybe their knowledge pulls a heavy load. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes that's a thing. Um, I mean, that's the only reason people keep me around is I still remember a few things. Once my memory goes a little bit more, forget about it. They won't have any use for me. They're just going to boot me out. But, uh, money, maybe that's it, right?

[00:11:03] If they're bringing, how are we going to organize money as a community? Do we all have private money? Do we, you know, like if we're, you know, half of us are gardening and raising crops and then we send the ladies off to the farmer's markets to go sell everything or they have a stand out front, then is that going to, you know, go to the community? Does it go to the ladies? Is it just the family in charge of the garden?

[00:11:32] Whereas the guys run in security, they're not bringing in cash. How does that work? Right. It doesn't matter how you set it up. We could all have our own jobs. The husbands could all go off to work and have their own family money, you know, for their individual small unit. That's fine. But it's just something you have to agree on before you do it. Right. That's something to think about. Um, usually like people have like community refrigerators, you know, like they'll have

[00:11:58] beverages at all the houses across the, you know, property, things like that, that, you know, you might not think of as traditional. You know, the kids can go run from house to house and, you know, do things that need to be done. Um, religion that can tear families apart. Right. So you need at least a tolerance or some kind of, you know, or just all be Mormon. You all have to, you know, if you could all just get on top, uh, you know, on top of the

[00:12:27] same, you know, specific. And when I talk to people about, uh, their different religions, you know, would be a Methodist or Baptist or, you know, all the, it's such a tiny like difference that they have with each other and they're willing to fight to the death over it. You know? Yeah. It's crazy. Right. It does. It tears people apart over nonsense. I mean, that's honestly, I mean, you know, you get that we're American, but Republican and Democrat, and it's so like nuanced.

[00:12:57] Right. You know what? And it's like, it goes, you can't even mention it without tearing and dividing people. So I hate to say it, but like you talk about abortion, but it's like, well, cause I'm so mad. Cause if a girl gets pregnant, then that's, you know, if she doesn't, you know, she uses the wrong birth control, it can be like, you know, you're committing a crime in some state or whatever, but it's the nuance where a lot of people would be like, well, that's ridiculous. You know, that that's not what we mean or whatever, you know? Right.

[00:13:27] It's all, but it's all different, like little nuance of how it's presented to somebody. Yet we just hate each other for, you know, whatever reason or, you know, reasonable gun control. I might want everybody to have full auto and have to carry a gun with them everywhere they go just cause good measure. And you might be like, well, they should only have to carry three days a week and see, I mean,

[00:13:53] we all have to, we might be worlds apart, you know, cause that's it. My wife might be like, well, you know, I don't want to carry a gun everywhere. And I'm like, well, you need to step up your game, you know? And that could be the, the wedge that divides a whole family. You, I, I, yeah. Okay. So, um, also like drugs, things like that, right? What if they're all just like sitting around smoking dope all day, Kevin, you'd know about

[00:14:23] those people. You've seen them. You live by him. I've heard, I've heard of people smoking dope all day. Right. You've heard of that. And then are they good contributors? You know, who knows? Right. Right. I mean, sometimes they're good artists, but I mean, I don't know. Consider that. Yeah. I don't know how important that is to a, to a homestead, but I mean, sometimes. Right. Hey, you know, Kevin, if you could bring joy, then I say good. Yeah, that's right.

[00:14:51] If there's joy in the community and maybe that guy's like the fun guitar player and just smokes dope and, and sings like, uh, I don't know who people want to hear saying, but somebody awesome, you know, Johnny Cash or something out there, you know, the highway men, any of them pick one. Maybe not Chris Christopherson, but you know, like any of the other ones. What's wrong with Chris Christopherson? He did write Sunday morning coming down and that song is pretty great. So I'll give you that. All right.

[00:15:20] Um, anyway. Uh, so you need somebody like an electrician, right? Especially like, even if that's like solar and understanding that stuff, whatever, somebody who's like a medic, like a nurse. I mean, obviously you can have overlapping skills mechanic. You know, they always say, you know, if you're going to have a farm, you need to be a mechanic. Right. I just yesterday was welding the little wheels. Cause I drive like an asshole on my lawnmower. So the mower deck has like four wheels that are guides.

[00:15:50] Um, yeah, I ripped that bitch right off, you know, and I'm like, Hey, there's a wheel laying in the yard. So yesterday morning I'm out there welding. I'm a kind of crappy welder. I have some friends that are pretty good and help me out, but I can make a wheel stick to a mower deck. That's my skill level. And I was pretty impressed. Cause I put a giant pipe wrench on it after and bent it into shape. So the wheel was aligned straight, but it didn't, and it didn't rip off. Yeah. It was like pretty good.

[00:16:20] That's something like that's a guy with skill right there. But if you look at it, you might be like, yeah, I'm not so sure about that skill. But anyway, something to think about, uh, carpenter, right. Uh, farmer hunter, maybe an it guy. I don't know if I need that so much, but you know, I assume your electrician can cover that, but at least he can, uh, keep the star link up and maybe make all the cameras go together, you know, a little insight, uh, maybe a teacher.

[00:16:49] And, and maybe that's not like for the little kids. Maybe that's like just wisdom and, and, you know, able to keep the group going, you know, the general knowledge that could be your olds, you know, something like that. Maybe an accountant, somebody to handle that business. Basically everybody finds a way to contribute and that's why it, you know, becomes useful. Um, now who do you want to avoid? And Kevin, I I'm sure there's some people that come to mind.

[00:17:18] You could picture in your head, like, who do I not want in my compound? And I bet you somebody, you know, pops into mind. Um, but basically you don't want somebody who's going to create conflict, right? Somebody who's always like stirring the pot, somebody who just creates trouble. Now, sometimes their goodness overpowers the bad. Like it's all right to have like a little bit of a, you know, quirk personality, if you will.

[00:17:46] But think about when you're in close quarters, how annoying that's going to be. You just need to, you know, no, but any of us who were in the military, you know, it turns out we find a way, I mean, sometimes people fall off the ship, but for the most part, you find a way to get along and you know, maybe one or two people fall off the compound. I don't know how it works, you know? Um, but you don't need people who, you know, those people who always need rescuing.

[00:18:16] Like they always have the drama problem. You don't, there's always an issue. You don't need always an injury. Always. Always a, yeah. Always a problem. Exactly. Always feeling insulted by somebody from some benign comment. Yep. Addiction, right? People with problems that they can't control. That's something to think about. People who borrow money. You don't want that guy, Kevin. Um, people who refuse responsibility.

[00:18:44] You know, you want the guy who's like, I got it. You know, that's the guy you want on your compound. Um, bad personalities can destroy it. You know, before anything else. That's, that's really what's gonna. So you want that shared vision. You know, what, what are you working towards in 10 years? What's the, the outcome, the goal? So just having this stuff kind of laid out is what's going to make the difference. Land ownership, exit plans, right?

[00:19:14] What if the kids grow up, you know, you have a 13 year old and the compound goes and the guy turns 20 and it's like, you know, I want to go off and marry somebody. Or the one guy, you know, you're, you make it with your two brothers and one of you gets a job in California, a job offer to go make five times what they're making right now. How did they exit? You know, that that's something to think about. How do you have an inheritance set up for your kids?

[00:19:44] Right? Like whatever. How does it go in perpetuity? Just something to think about. It doesn't mean my way or whatever is the right way. It just needs to be something discussed that needs to be, you know, thought about in the thing. How about a guest policy? What if, you know, do you guys vote for somebody to come or anybody can bring somebody in for like up to five days and that's okay. Or, you know, whatever, just something to think about. Right. You know, like whatever, um, you know, without a vote, right?

[00:20:12] Like, Hey, you brought around that guy and he's a real ass hat. You know, that's what you need. Uh, livestock ownership. If that's a thing, I don't know that that would really be a big deal breaker for me on anything, but, uh, tool ownership, you know, work expectations. Um, you know, they always say like a handshake can kind of become a lawsuit. You don't, everything always starts out with good intentions. Like, Hey, I'm going to get all kinds of cool stuff, you know? And then, right.

[00:20:39] And then, so next I would say, how do you lay it out? Right. So sometimes you see, uh, like a hub and spoke, like, so if you had like a big kind of community building, this might have your kitchen, your bathrooms, your, you know, stuff like that. And then you could have like a bunch of tiny houses that don't have, you know, the bigger essentials like that little bunkhouse type, right. Like that's something to think about, you know, maybe, I mean, maybe utilize an outdoor

[00:21:09] kitchen, right. Like a big, you know, that's the different things, whatever you got to just think about the different ways that are going to work for you. Think about privacy. Think about, you're going to want a place to be able to escape to, right. You don't want to be where you're all stuck on top of each other all the time. That's not going to be a fun time for anybody. I hate to say it. Um, you know, multiple tiny houses would obviously be cheaper, but if you could get the big, you

[00:21:38] know, initial house then, you know, but then, Hey, who gets to live in the big house? You know, the who's important. Yeah. Just think about these things. Um, think about, you know, housing, livestock, gardens, workshops, storage, recreation. What are you looking for when you buy a property, right? Make sure you can get these things. Obviously we want a property too. That's going to have lower taxes, right?

[00:22:04] That we're not going to be constantly paying the man unless you have a plan to deal with it. Right. Um, there was that homestead rescue show. I enjoy it and watched a lot of it. One of the big problems everybody always had was finding clean water and having a setup for that. That's a big deal. So that's something to think about. How am I going to get, you know, fresh, clean water for everybody? And same thing, you know, on the flip side of that is how is everybody going to poo

[00:22:33] without a problem, you know? So these are things to think about beforehand. Yeah. Um, one of the, one of the things that when I, I look into that sort of stuff is, um, the rainwater rainwater catchment. We, we talk about that all the time. I looked into it. It's actually not illegal any place in the United States to collect your own rainwater. So there's, I mean, there were laws in certain places, but there are no laws now.

[00:22:58] Um, there are corporations out there that right now are stealing your water and making you buy it back. So accessing the water might not be that easy, but there's a lot of places in the United States that have big aquifers underneath them. You know, where I live right here, it's, it's not very deep, you know, down, uh, that you have to drill, especially on my property to, to access that water. It's just pumping it out of the ground. Right.

[00:23:26] Um, but there are definitely some places where that is a big problem, you know, where you can't access water from well easily anyway, you know, um, you hear about a 400 foot, 500 foot well, something like that. That starts getting serious. Right. And then just getting it up out of the ground. It's a thing, you know, it's significant. Yeah. Yeah. So I think, uh, you know, those, those are really things to, to think about.

[00:23:54] Nobody's going to start intentional community or, you know, a compound in the desert. But if you do, you know, you might want to plan ahead for that sort of stuff. And that, you know, that goes for everything. Um, you know, whether it's, uh, food or energy or, you know, uh, just, just basic shelter. Do you want to, you know, live in Northern Minnesota where it's, you know, winter for eight months out of the year, you know, cause you know, that can be an issue.

[00:24:25] Again. Um, Kevin, maybe they went to Burning Man and they're like, Hey, let's just never leave. Let's keep this party going. You were saying nobody wants to stay in the desert. I'm just saying that you never know. There are people, you know, as long as you can supply them enough acid and weed, they're going to be all right, they're going to make it, you know, they go until they get it, bro. Exactly. Just swallow it back in, you know, and I hear about these water filters that they filter their pee.

[00:24:54] Some kind of, I'm not trying that. Yeah. I mean, you, you don't even have to filter it. You can just drink it, but I, I mean, I'll never know. I've been so sad. So grid connection generators, solar, you know, these are things to just consider. Look at the costs, look at, you know, how sustainable it's going to be. And I don't, you know, sustainable grade for the environment. And that maybe is your reason. And you guys want to, whatever, that's cool, but also sustainable.

[00:25:24] And can we afford to keep it up and working the way that it starts? Right. Yeah. Right. So just be aware of those things. Um, food, right. Gardens, orchards, orchards are just the awesomest thing because you need to put in so little effort once it's up and running. Right. To maintain, um, something to think about, although you'll always be fighting the deer. So, yeah. But if you have enough. I got a new, I got a new peach tree that I've been growing for two years and it's really, like it's really starting to come out.

[00:25:53] It's bugs that I'm having the problems with, but it's really starting to come along, man. There's such a big harvest on such a little tree. Yeah. I like that a lot. I had a lot of apple trees when I was in New York and the deer were problem. Then I started planting garlic around it. The garlic kept them away. And then every time I'd come home, I'd see squirrels swinging from the trees, eating the apples. Yeah. Before they're even ripe, you know, they're out there just getting them before they're even ready. Yep.

[00:26:23] Always out there. So, you know, but again, that just means. It's something to bring in the meat, you know? So, hey, there you go. You know, you turn it around, right? That's all I'm saying. Goats, cattle, rabbits, chickens, you know, eggs, obviously cool thing. Meat, chickens, you know, something to think about. Somebody to take care of. We also want to think about like radios, like ham radio, that kind of stuff. Do you have communication?

[00:26:52] Do you have like walkie talkies about the property? You know, I don't know how big this compound is, but being able to communicate with each other and, you know, say, Hey, I need a hand over here. That's a big thing. Um, having internet, you know, think about what you're going to have. A lot of people kind of go off grid and don't really realize that means like no internet, no TV until Starlink came along. It was crappy.

[00:27:21] Like even where I am, I'm only, you know, 30 minutes from, uh, you know, medium sized city. And it, I had no internet, you know, no, nothing. They're like, yeah, sucks to be, you know, you know, they had like Hughes net. That was like some ridiculous satellite thing that it was garbage. And now, you know, now Starlink's pretty reasonable.

[00:27:47] Um, now I supposedly have fiber and this stuff's kind of crap or internet drops out a decent amount out here anyway. So I don't really know what's going on. I'm hoping they're going to get it together and Kevin won't disappear every time I do a podcast, but you know, Hey, you do you. Um, another thing to think about like security. So lighting cameras, dogs, community awareness, just being paying attention, you know, that kind of thing.

[00:28:15] That's a big issue to, uh, you know, be aware of the next thing is turns out no matter what property you buy, wherever, almost all of them are going to come with some form of property taxes. And there's probably some stuff that you're still going to have to bring in. And that might be animal feed.

[00:28:39] I know there is books and, and ways to completely grow all your own animal feed as well as, you know, I get it, right. There's ways to do it, but it's not easy. So you need to think about how am I going to bring in some cash? And that's like a whole other game. So I, I did promise you, I would come up with some, uh, some ideas on how the produce, how the compound can produce like physical dollars, right.

[00:29:09] To go outside now. So there's lots of cool things that people do, you know, like the Amish we're always making, you know, right. We see the sheds on the side of the road. I don't know if they're really Amish built. They say they are, they say they are, but that idea, right. It, whether it's true or not of building sheds and setting up a distribution, you can just do something that you keep outside cash coming in right by your quality and labor.

[00:29:38] And you can put quality effort and make things, you know, work together that we see, you know, fancy chairs and things like that. That's something to, you know, think about, right. Uh, agriculture, right. So think farmers markets, uh, think about like, I know I used to buy like a half a cow from somebody and you set up something like that. Now you can grow micro greens in the hippie cities.

[00:30:04] Um, you try and do that in like rural North Carolina, where I am, people would be like, what are you talking about? I don't understand it. Um, but it's more to homosexual food. Exactly. But if you were in like California or New York where people, you know, the hipsters, they love that stuff, man. You can sell that stuff. The little cork container for like 15, 20 bucks, whatever.

[00:30:32] I remember people paying like 20 bucks for organic eggs when I was in New York, but we have to drive. Crazy. You know, it's like crazy what people pay, you know, real people do honey. Turns out the bees do the work. You don't even have to. Right. Um, can be a little tricky to get stuff going, but it's something to think about. Yeah. And, and, and if you have people from any city driving past there, all you have to do is put organic on top and they'll, you know,

[00:31:00] and that's the key beat their beat their way to your door, you know? Right. Exactly. And that's it. Look, it came from a real farm. They have a cow out there, you know, that's the, you'd be like, well, we are selling beef. There is, you know, whatever. Um, they say agritourism again, rural North Carolina might not work here to have a farm tour, but you know, Hey, it's weird.

[00:31:25] They actually do like, we don't charge money, but they'll bring like little like homeschool groups and groups to come tour the farm and see the rabbits and the, you know, the growing fields and whatever. And it's kind of cool. Um, I know in New York, they had the hipster, uh, Kevin's surrounded by a bunch of apple orchards and they used to, I'm sure they probably still do people put in some like public bathrooms or even porta potties, whatever.

[00:31:55] I know they had like set up some bathrooms around their farm, but then they have, they got a liquor license and then they have this big festival like twice a year that all these people come in and pay, you know, a fortune to come do. Uh, also by Kevin, there's a headless horseman, hay rides. And this guy, he set up just a, uh, like little spooky thing. And it's not even that populated of an area, but people come from all over the place for

[00:32:24] that forever. And they pay 50, 60 bucks a ticket to go through. Now, mind you, he pays like 20 actors to, you know, stand around and scare people. And you got run around with people and stuff. Yeah. People are getting, you know, stuff, but this guy's bringing in at the last I heard, and this was like over 10 years ago was bringing in like 6 million a year from offering these,

[00:32:49] you know, and, and then it ended up going so well that all of a sudden he had like a Christmas lights festival. And then, you know, and he has all these different, you know, things and he cashes in, but this is something to think about that you could utilize your property. Right. Um, I mean, that always blows my mind. So harvest festivals, pumpkin festivals, corn mazes, petting zoos, you know, that kind of thing you can utilize.

[00:33:16] You just got to make sure you're in a community where, you know, this is going to be worth people coming and checking out. Right. That's not, you know, a middle of nowhere kind of thing. You can be a little bit in, you know, you can be a half hour from population, but you can't be two hours from population or people probably aren't coming. Right. Um, education stuff.

[00:33:39] So gardening classes, canning, uh, firearms, uh, doing gunsmithing, uh, bushcraft courses, blacksmithing, tactical shooting, woodworking, that kind of stuff. Those are all like big ones that, you know, you could really, you also have like the membership models, like CSAs, the community share stuff where basically people get a little like package

[00:34:03] of your harvest, you know, every so often that's a thing you could do. Um, skillshare, that kind of stuff. Uh, you go out, tell other people's stuff. Um, hospitality, like camping, glamping RV sites, tiny home rentals. You could set up some kind of rental stuff on your property, like Airbnb stuff to have

[00:34:30] like three houses where people can come and you could maintain it as part of your, you know, ways to utilize the land. I got to say, when you do something like that, you can control a bigger piece of property. Right. So if I have like five little buildings that I build one at a time as budget allows to bring in, you know, Airbnb stuff or something like that for people to get out of the city, I could

[00:34:58] probably surround that with 10 acres and have it still pay for itself. Whereas it increases my compound in my reach, right? My control of an area. It just makes it, makes it better for me. But again, all this is like initial money layout, right? Something to think about there. Um, obviously digital income, right? People have YouTube channels. They do podcasting. They do blogging. They teach online courses.

[00:35:26] They write eBooks and consulting. I don't know that, you know, how easy it is to make money with that. People do it. I don't know that I'm that guy, but people do it and you can, you know, figure it out. Uh, so just something to look at something to, you know, get into, uh, skilled trade stuff. So you can also be cutting firewood. You can be the local welder guy.

[00:35:53] Maybe you're building cool muscle cars in your garage on the compound. You know, maybe that's what you do. I mentioned, you know, uh, building like sheds and things like that. You could sell those and deliver those, you know, that's the thing. Um, all these things. And obviously, like I'd mentioned in the beginning, you can go and have an outside job and, you know, everybody has one family member that goes out and brings in real cash and, you

[00:36:21] know, you work towards the goal of being self-sufficient, right? You start where you're at. You know, everybody has the fantasy. Well, I want it this way. And maybe they scrape together 20 grand and they buy some piece of crap property that has no water in the middle of nowhere. Maybe if you had scraped together 50 grand, that was enough. You know, I don't know. Like you just have to decide how bad you want it and how it's going to work for you guys. You know, Kevin, any last thoughts?

[00:36:50] That's all I got for today. All right. So with that, I appreciate you guys. I'd say stay safe and we will talk to you guys next week.

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