Surviving Hard Times

Auteur(s): Richard Jacobs
  • Résumé

  • It's one thing to listen to doom and gloom about food and fertilizer shortages, skyrocketing prices, the cost of living, or your job being outsourced overseas or eliminated due to automation. It's another thing to hear practicable, immediately actionable advice from experts who can help you reduce the fear, anxiety, and burden of these problems. Tune in now to the Surviving Hard Times Podcast with Richard Jacobs.
    2022
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  • An Off-Grid Toolkit for Sustainable Agriculture: Thinking Outside the Box with Meag Sargent
    Feb 14 2025

    Farm From a Box is a sustainable, regenerative, environmentally friendly, and efficient way to build your own personal garden filled with nutrient-dense, culturally affirming foods.

    Meag Sargent believes everyone deserves this. She’s a horticulturist, farmer, artist, and a member of the sales team at Farm From a Box. She joins the show to share her insights from over a decade of experience growing food.

    Tune in to learn:

    • The primary components of the all-in-one Farm From a Box
    • What ‘sustainable agriculture’ really means and how it works
    • The most important aspects of regenerative farming and how to get started
    • How Farm From a Box can deploy multiple systems that work together on the same farm, creating large-scale operations

    Interested in learning more?

    Press play for the full conversation and check out https://farmfromabox.com/.

    Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3bO8R6q

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    24 min
  • Green Energy: A Solution that Never Seems to Come – Analyzing Energy Sources with Andrew Morriss
    Feb 7 2025

    Is green energy really the solution, or just a false promise?

    Press play to explore:

    • Whether electric vehicles are truly a better choice than gas-powered vehicles
    • How cobalt is obtained and what it’s used for
    • A clear way to make dramatic energy improvements now, and why these changes aren’t being implemented
    • The problem of being overly dependent on one energy source
    • What energy policies might look like in the coming years

    Andrew Morriss is a lawyer and economist who has been teaching for almost three decades. As a Professor of, Bush School of Government and Public Service and School of Law at Texas A&M University, he analyzes regulatory measures – investigating how they work, why we adopt the ones we do, and how they can be improved.

    Having heard about “green energy” since high school, and always being told it was the ultimate solution almost within reach, he decided to enter the field and dig into the topic himself. His work is data-driven above all else, which demands the attention of anyone who disagrees with it or follows the pervasive narrative of green energy.

    Tune in for all the details and find his work at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/results.cfm.

    Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3bO8R6q

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    30 min
  • Taking A Fresh Approach To Sustainable Farming With Emma Torbert
    Jan 31 2025

    Today we sit down with Emma Torbert to discuss her distinctive approach to sustainable farming practices. Emma is the Market Garden Manager and Educator for the Student Farm at UC Davis. Started in 2020, the Student Farm is a nine-acre mixed vegetable farm and adjacent hedgerow that familiarizes UC Davis students with agriculture and teaches them how to grow organic crops.

    With a passion for community-supported agriculture, Emma is a foundational part of the UC Davis community. Using her position in this program, Emma facilitates experiential learning for students across all majors…

    Join the podcast now to learn more about:

    • What a market garden is.
    • The challenges that can arise in the Student Farm program.
    • How sustainability plays a role in Emma’s work.
    • The importance of providing students with hands-on learning experiences.

    Farming is a valuable skill that can be challenging to learn without the proper resources. Fortunately, experts like Emma are passing this knowledge on to people from varying walks of life so that they can participate in this essential part of sustainability!

    You can find out more about Emma and her work with the Student Farm by clicking here!

    Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3bO8R6q

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    37 min

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