Paul and JB continue Suze’s consultation on what to do with her sewage situation instead of connecting up to the city sewage network. They discuss what sort of woodchips to use, the current lack of a drain field and the potential issues that causes, and weather or not to use shampoo.

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Suze decided that it was a good idea to willingly give money to Paul for a consultation on what to do with her (urban) community’s failing septic tank system, so he and JB decide to discuss Willow Feeders as they’d be a far cheaper and better solution than coughing up about $40k to connect to the city’s sewage system.

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Paul, Eliot, and Julia continue their discussion on the culture that’s developed in bootcamp, and attributes much of it to the quality of people that tend to come there and stick around. Paul’s own over-eagerness definitely helps with both the culture and filtering some specimens out.

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Paul is with Julia and Eliot talking about bootcamp culture and how it contrasts to, say, another community that apparently causes couples to divorce when they go there, and the story of an Andy that attempted to start his own community and the woes he faced until he found out how to get it on it’s own feet.

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Paul talks with Matt about RMHs and Homestead Living magazine for which Paul and Beau wrote an article and they discuss this and other RMH-related subjects, such as Mud’s aversion to using wood anywhere near a RMH just in case it slowly becomes more flammable.

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Paul finishes up the smakdown with Beau, Liv, and Samantha with a discussion on butter making, dairy in general, preserving meats in ways beyond simply freezing it, and keeping chickens as an introduction to raising animals for meat.

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Paul, Liv, Beau and Samantha continue discussing how to grow enough food to feed a family, with a lot of the discussion this time being about corn, or lack thereof, in the discussion thus far, what with it being calorie dense, having a long shelf-life, and being good fodder for cattle

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Paul, Liv, Beau and Samantha discuss strategies for growing enough food for a family, namely what to grow, how to not get overwhelmed and decide gardening is hard, livestock rearing, what to grow to make gardening fun and potentially profitable, if you don’t mind trading.

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Paul, Clay, and Samantha continue discussing soil tests and other ways of quickly building soil. They talk about “Back to Eden Gardening” , it’s use of wood chips and why that may not be the best plan for a couple of reasons, keyline ploughing, and how much mulch is needed.

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Paul sets out to talk about soil tests with Samantha and Clay, and winds up talking about how most test results just mean “apply mulch”, unless it means “plant alder trees to detox”, Sepp Holzer’s earthworm greenhouse, root exudate, and Paul’s alleged harassment of a friend via mulch.

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