Small Scale Life Podcast
Join your Hosts Tom and Julie as they garden, homestead, connect with the land and build community.
Learn, do, grow and bee a little better everyday!
Table of Contents – All Shows
2023
- Tipping Points and Getting Back to Basics
- Building a Beekeeping Business – Part 3 – Adam Files
- Gardening and Beekeeping with Adam Rapier – Part 2 – Adam Files
- Starting High Desert Hives and Homestead – Part 1 – Adam Files
- How to Set Your 2023 Guiding Words and Mantras
- 10 Goal Setting and Self Inventory Questions to Start 2023
2022
- Merry Christmas: Time to Shine Our Light
- MFJ: Garden and Homestead Update – August 2022
- Back to the Land Movement Part 2
- My Farm Journal: Building Wicking Beds, Planting Potatoes and Removing Fence
- Drifting to Driftless: Cedar Rapids and Decorah Adventure
- My Farm Journal: What is Operation WW?
- Modern Day Back to the Land Movement with Mr. Tactical Jay
- Restarting Our Small Scale Life
- Chicken Chat with Amy Dingmann: Q & A about Raising Chickens
- How to Start a Small Business with Maria and Julie
- Full Moon Energies and 2022 Guiding Words with Maria the Intuitive Energy Healer
- Creating Heritage Meals and Deep Roots with Adam Rick
- Grass Fed Farm Business with Adam Rick
- Monetizing Your Homestead with Brian Aleksivich
- Our Journey to Driftless Oaks Farm
2021
- Revisiting Gratitude: Putting It into Action
- Gratitude Practice: How to Start Expressing Gratitude
- Halloween Livestream: Breaking the Silence
- Go with the Flow; Our 10 Step Plan for Difficult Times
- In a Hole? Stop Digging! 5 Lessons Learned from Failure
- Introduction to How to Start Gardening Series
- Our Time is Finite; Prepare for a Season of Change!
- How to Raise You Vibes with Maria the Energy Healer
- The Struggle is Real; Find Your Lighthouse
- Grounding with Hannah from the Wisconsin Homestead Podcast
- Urban Homesteading with Hannah from The Wisconsin Homestead Podcast
- Relax and Meditate to Water Sounds: Quaderer Creek
2020
- Tea Time with Red Dragon Herbs and Teas
- Eagle’s Ridge – Discovering Our Homestead
- Meditation Stream: Tree of Life in Summer 2020
- How to Start a Podcast Business with Glen Tate
- Starting the Northfield Area Driving School with Kris Geissler
- How to Become the Gray Man or Woman with Glen Tate and Shelby Gallagher
- Escape Velocity: Blogging is Art with Atlantis Gazette
- Gardening Tips and Advice with Demler and Bell
- Practicing Gratitude for the Good, Bad and Ugly
- Relaxing Wind Chimes – Wind and Birds in Minnesota
- Building an Urban Farm from Scratch with Michael Bell
- Stream of Meditation – Relax to a Bubbling Creek
- Adapting, Adjusting and Overcoming Obstacles
- SSG: Modern Victory Gardens in 2020
- What is Resilience?
- Whole30 Challenge Results and Thoughts
- SSG: Gardening and Growing Mushrooms in Virginia
- What is Whole30? How to Reset Your Body and Mind
- SSG: My 2020 Garden Plan: My 3-Step Garden Planning Process
- 9 Tips to Start Your $1000 Emergency Fund
- SSG: What is Small Scale Gardening?
- Unique New Year’s Resolutions from a Caldera
- 2019 Year in Review: Top 10 Podcast Episodes and Blog Posts
2019
- 11 DIY Christmas Gifts
- A Long Road Home – Giving Thanks
- Kombucha and the Importance of Mentoring
- 10 Kitchen Thrifty Thursday Tips
- It’s Your Life: Do Something Positive
- SSG: 6 Lessons Learned from the End of My Garden Season
- SSG: Frost is Coming: How to Extend My Garden Season
- 10 Tips to Successfully Plan and Host an Event
- Celebrating the Harvest and Ancestors – Fall Equinox
- SSG: How to Grow 1 Million Meals with Drew Demler
- Back to School: Preparing for the Next Phase of Life
- Small Scale Gardening Podcast: Start with the Why
- Finding Folk and Building Community – July 2019
- 9 Steps to Creating Your First Budget
- How to Dream Big, Set Goals and Take Steps to Achieve Them
- Last Runner Standing Ultramarathon
- Leaving a Legacy – Tribute to Larry Hall
- Taking Inventory and Tracking Expenses
- Happy Mother’s Day 2019: Community and Gardening
- Bonus Podcast: Calling in the Experts
- Our Journey towards Financial Freedom
- Starting to Build Community
- Soup Gardening with Michael Bell
- Renew You Q2: Introduction to Financial Freedom
- Living in the Analog with Terrance Layhew
- Growing Easy with GrowOya at Dallas Half Acre Farms
- Health and Fitness Renew You with Karen Mangieri
- What is Edible Landscaping?
- Tipping Points with Nicole Sauce
- Four Tips for Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
- How to Prepare for the Polar Vortex
- How to Overcome Self-Sabotage with Danny Domres
- Day 7: Leveling Up and Next Steps
- Day 6: Meal Planning and Food Prep for Success
- Day 3: Basic Nutrition with Michael Bell
- Day 2: Basic Movement with Michael Bell
- Day 1: How to Complete the 24 Hour Plan
- Welcome to 2019: Time to Renew You!
2018
- Renew You in 2019 Kickstart
- Growing Salanova Salad Empires in Dallas, Texas
- Pivoting Business Strategies in 614 with Drew Sample
- Happy Thanksgiving 2018!
- Minimizing Time Commitments while Maximizing Life
- Minimalism: Decluttering Questions and Answers
- Happy Halloween 2018: Memories and Stories
- Overcoming October Blues
- First Frost: End of My 2018 Garden Season
- My Hell Week: Dealing with Deadlines and Obligations
- Midweek Motivation: Go Full Throttle!
- Starting Small Scale Life – The Intellectual Agrarian Podcast
- Minnesota Traditions – Labor Day 2018
- Late August Garden Update 2018
- Homesteading for Beginners: Definition of Homesteading – Part 2
- My Weekend Three Things
- Homesteading for Beginners: Start with Why – Part 1
- Importance of Building Community Around You
- Simply Canning’s Safely and Confidently Preserving Your Harvest
- How to Prune Tomatoes to Improve Production and Plant Health
- Midweek Motivation: 3P’s of Success
- Mid-July Garden Update – Welcome to SuperMax
- On the Road: Exploring Tomah, Wisconsin
- How to Build Vertical Garden Planters
- Garden Update: Under Siege from Pests
- Midweek Motivation: Life on the Road
- Homesteading in Ohio with Daniel Bokros
- Urban Farming Advice with Hebert and Bell
- Midweek Motivation: Feeling Overwhelmed
- Midweek Motivation – Stop Distractions: Focus!
- Starting My 2018 Vegetable Gardening Season
- Midweek Motivation: Turn Off Social Media
- Earth Day Tip: Teach Gardening
- How to Start a Lifestyle Business
- BellCast: Profitable Urban Farming
- Midweek Motivation: Be Ready Player One
- How to Declutter to Make a Simple and Intentional Life
- Grow Lights for Indoor Plants
- Start Seeds Indoors for Spring Gardens
- Midweek Motivation: Sacrifice for Others
- Midweek Motivation: Fun to Done
- 5 Steps to Developing a Simple and Intentional Life
- Midweek Motivation – 4 Tips to Keep Going
- Reviewing Top Seed Sources for Your Garden
- Midweek Motivation: The Greatest Showman – Friends, Creativity and Drive
- Four Lessons Learned from Starting Seeds
- Midweek Motivation: Super Bowl Spectacular
- How To Develop A 2018 Garden Plan
- Midweek Motivation: Overcoming Dread
- Midweek Motivation: Preparedness
- BellCast: Winter Urban Farming Blues
- Midweek Motivation – Keep Your Eye on Target
- Thank You for 20,000 Downloads!
- Stoic Farming and Tribalism with Scott Hebert
- Happy Birthday Small Scale Life
2017
- Twas the Night Before Christmas
- Our Five Christmas Traditions
- Doniel Freeman: Wicking Beds and Regenerative Dads
- Cooking Turkey and Making Soup
- Regenerative Agriculture with Doneil Freeman
- Thanksgiving Cooking Tips and Failures
- Congratulations, Jay and Andrea!
- Healthy Lifestyle Update: Good, Bad and Ugly
- 7 Steps to Winterize Your Garden
- Healthy Lifestyle Advice with Michael Bell
- Urban Farming in Dallas with Michael Bell
- Fall Garden Update: Pest Patrol
- Healthy Lifestyle Progress Report
- Fall Garden Update
- Planning a Healthy Lifestyle
- Michael Jordan: Building a Billion Dollar Business
- Michael Jordan: Beekeeping Questions and Answers
- Gratitude for Small Victories
- Michael Jordan’s Beekeeping Jouney
- Becoming Debt Free
- The Land of 10000 Downloads
- What is Square Foot Gardening?
- Moving Forward in Difficult Times with Todd Ehrhardt
- Growing Grass, Not Food
- Travis Swanson’s Bee 52 Honey
- Mr Tactical: Practical to Tactical Skills
- Learning, Doing, Growing
- Preventing Damping Off Disease
- 9 Lessons Learned from Gardening Indoors
- Restarting My Engine
- Remembering Barb Taylor Part 2
- Remembering Barb Taylor Part 1
- Review FX’s Show “Taboo”
- Greg Burns on Tribe and Homesteading
- 2017 Goals and Plans
2016
- Wrapping Up Christmas 2016
- Twas the Night before Christmas
- Winter Driving and Survival Tips
- Winter Tips
- Mind Games
- Happy Birthday, Small Scale Life!
- Rebooted Body with Kevin Geary
- Hogtoberfest and Tribe
- Debt and Real Estate Part 1
- Tribe, Ritual and Debt
- Failing Forward: Losing Weight, Gaining Muscle, Having Discipline
- Vertical Gardening with The Plant Charmer Part 2
- Heathly Lifestyle with Chazington Alloucious
- Spinning Salad
- Vertical Gardening with The Plant Charmer Part 1
- Labor Day Reset
- Healthy Lifestyle Podcast: Introduction
- Garden Update Podcast – Week of 8/15/16
- Charles Hugh Smith
- #Gardenchat with Bren Haas
- Get Out of Your Rut
- Urban Farming and Podcasting with Drew Sample
- Urban Farming with Scott Hebert
- How to Lose 70 Pounds
- Cowbells and Kettlebells
- What is a Sustainable Life?
- How to Grow Seeds Indoors
- Transitions and The Growing Greens Challenge
- Three Questions for 2016
- Grow What You Eat
- Introduction to the Small Scale Life