June is moving right along, and I hope you are doing well! A while back, I had a great conversation about Homesteading in Ohio with Daniel Bokros. Daniel is one of the Ohio Get Stuff Done Crew, and he has his own homestead called the Red Dog Ranch. In this podcast, we discuss his journey from deploying to Southern Afghanistan with the US Marine Corps to homesteading in the Ohio countryside, and what Daniel and his wife Christie are doing on their homestead.
Topics Discussed – Homesteading in Ohio with Daniel Bokros
May the odds be in your favor! Chickens on Red Dog Ranch in Ohio
Daniel and I had a great conversation about real community, land, Joel Salatin, building soil, bees, pressure canning, chicken pigs and cows. That is a lot to pack into an hour! Here is a list of the topics for Homesteading in Ohio with Daniel Bokros:
Introductions – Who is Daniel Bokros?
- Lumbersquatch Lunch
- Ohio Get Stuff Done – Community for Real
- Bee Frames – Nature’s Image Farm
- Mushroom spawn
- The Power of Community
The Land: Red Dog Ranch
- Marine Corps and Deployment in Afghanistan
- Post-Marine Corps – Living as a Hermit
- Debt Free Philosophy
- Breaking Free; Finding the Land
Chickens, Part 1
- Meat birds
- Egg Layers
- Consignment at a local store; barter for goods and services
- Where to Start with Chickens?
- Varieties
- Hunger Games Feeding
- Free Range Chickens
- Circle of Life on the Homestead
Joel Salatin and Polyface Farm
- Examining Polyface Farm
- Conversation with Joel
Rebuilding Soil
- Deals and Agreements; the Power of Barter
- Neighbors
Bees
- “Nothing to it but to do it”
- The Italian Jobs
Pressure Canners and Canning
- All American Pressure Cookers
- Rule of Thumb: “See the pressure canner you want, and get the next bigger size.”
Chickens Part 2
- Meat birds: Cornish Cross
- Commercial vs. Homegrown
- 8 weeks and Community Butchering
- Pre-Selling Chickens
Pigs and Cows
- Chicken Bedding
- Food Scraps
- Working with Cows
Why Homesteading?
- Escape
- Self Sufficiency
- Community
Putting It All Together
- Closing thoughts
Links for Homesteading in Ohio
Daniel and Christie on Red Dog Ranch
If you want to know more about Daniel and Christie and their Red Dog Ranch, please see the following links:
Nature’s Image Farm – Greg Burns Tribe and Homesteading
Joel Salatin from Polyface Farm
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Did not listen to whole one hour piece but hop skipped through. Very nice work Dan amd Christie. Admire your work ethic and the work you do. Keep on getting better.
Thanks for the comment! I appreciate you listening to this podcast; it was a lot of fun interviewing Daniel. I’ll have him on again….maybe I can get Christie on too!
Really enjoyed this podcast with you and Dan (of course, I’m a little partial to Dan). Thanks for broadcasting, and thanks for sharing your platform to both the city and country community. I follow Smale Scale Life on FaceBook and enjoy your postings.
Thank you so much for the comment and thank you for following us! We are always getting a little better, and having good folks on like Daniel is all part of it. I love talking to folks and hearing about their experiences as they tell their stories. I wish the best to Daniel and Christie (and I hear you are cleaning some chickens too), and I can’t wait to meet them in real life. As I said in another comment, I am going to see if I can get both of them on the show with me and Julie for a “Married to Homesteading” broadcast….Stay tuned!