Glenn, take it from one who grew up in the country and the deserts; I would love to be there instead of in the cities given the chance. It’s not necessarily we have gotten away from nature though, it is America has drawn away from what makes US truly AMERICANS.

WE have allowed the struggle of each and every day to dominate our lives; instead we need to return to where WE take control and make the choices; while there shall be events we cannot influence such as hurricanes or floods, we still can control how we deal with them and with the others around us.

Understand Glenn, the old world is now past, the new one is to be forged by us HERE and NOW. Those who feel to return to nature, go for it. I have my charge here in my home town and will do as God directs; choose how you wish to make the future, for yourself and your children. Choose if you will be controled and dominated, or will you retain the ability to choose what and how you will interact and respond.

The baby jesus and the 99% love glenn’s comedy routine.  He’s a joke!

Glenn, looks like you got away from sunscreen too…. but I know what you mean.  I spent the weekend at my parents’.  I picked strawberries and ate them, still warm from the sun. I rode the horse.  I practiced with my 9mm.  I sat on the porch.  I didn’t watch TV, didn’t get on my PC, didn’t use the cell phone and didn’t check my email.  It was close to heaven.

The best vacations are those where there are no radios, no TV’s,
no phones, no paper.  Just plain old out and out serenity.
If you haven’t tried it, do so.  Heavenly.  Pure joy to clear your mind.

Great you can do this. I would love to still have a small farm. Went broke farming in the Jimmy Carter admin. Cost to much to get back into it now.

Love this!! We live in the country and off the grid sounds lovely, but so is not a reality. Where we live there are many days the sun doesn’t shine, and the wind doesn’t blow so gasoline, wood, coal, water and electricity are the only ways to go!! My four boys, own their own lawn mowing business, just pulled down a barn for a neighbor, play in a worship band for the local summer camp, and I have one who is tech driven. My husband and I have 4 jobs between us. We work hard, but we play hard too! On any given night after their jobs are done you will find the boys down @ the lake or river jumping off the 45 ft. high tree on any one of three levels into the water, swinging into the water on the rope swing or nite fishing with their buddies. My husband and I chose 20 years ago to bail on City life- with that came a huge pay cut, and many many long extra hours no one ever sees, but we traveled to Central park this year and… let them mock away I wouldn’t trade any part of my life for what you have there. Loved the City and will visit again, but I love the country, its values, its friendship, and most of all its people. God Bless America; only here in America do I have a chance to choose to live a life I love, work hard for the things I need and serve God without fear of death. May we always be ready to stand and fight for our freedoms. I am not entitled to anything, I must work hard, be honest, love others and do my best to raise my kids the same way. May we all not be @ peace till we have done all can with everything we have to “serve God and serve our Country

What we are surrounded and bombarded with in the media is the amplification and reverberation of the Fallen Nature of Man. It’s a wonder anyone is sane.

that is what i have always said. we need our farmlands back and the barder systems instead of relying on government rely on neighbors helping neighbors. We need the farmlands back. Get up with the son and go down with the sun. if children had to work on farms no spoiledness of internet. wouldn’t need gyms, working for your food keeps you in shape,too.

you just do not understand common sense!!you and ows are followers!we feel sorry for you and pray for you!

Good to hear you enoyed your “no Frills”vacation,  trying to gt you on my roku, but am having problems, sure hope  someone finds a remedy to the situation ! 
 

2008 ELECTION WAS RIGGED  –==  2012 ELECTION HAS ALREADY BEEN DECIDED AND IT TO IS ALSO RIGGED  — YOU WILL SEE IF YOU DON’T ALREADY.

Stuck in city where some jobs are, barely getting by, too old to quit lousy job and start over again, hoping that the world really does end on 21 DEC 2012, take me now!

Hey Glenn – send people my way – my ranch is for sale 140 acres … floridahorseranchforsale.com

Maybe you should get one of these.
I want one in my back yard! http://www.bloomenergy.com/newsroom/videos/

Grew up farming, miss it, loved it, and I think everyone should try it.  You are right, we’ve gotten away from reality…

YUP Glen….you’re right. We figured this out years ago. We have horses, ponies, milk cows, beef cows,  LOTS of laying hens and roosters, our own artesian well, and we are currently building and will be OFF the grid….solar with hydrogen backup instead of expensive batteries.
Next project after our house is complete will be green houses and some goats and lambs.

Good Luck!

By the way Glenn….we are located high in the mountain valleys, hours from a major city. Clean air, lots of fish in the streams and will hard to get to us when it hits the fan. No tornadoes or hurricanes here. Just lots of snow in the winter.

3 trucks a bunch of wire and some folks to keep the generators running, thats all it takes to bring you GB “Live via Satellite”. Oh and that one truck needs a satellite view of the sky, no spelunking. That’s how we watched Glenn live from Babes Chicken. It looked high def to me.
So GB, live where you want to live. City, Country or Island you are the one with the internet show.
Go be with the chickens, I don’t mind the backdrop. 

BTW didn’t you just move to Big D ? 

We spent the 4th of July week in a “cabin like atmosphere” in Cashiers NC!  Took all our kids and grandkids and had an old fashioned 4th for the 3rd year in a row…   Music festival on the green,hiking, pony rides, hot dogs, gem mining in a “creek”, fly fishing, story telling, games,wearing red white & blue for days in a row,  sparklers and fireworks. And an auction in Highlands!   Waterfalls everywhere and mountain vistas and the nicest people you will ever meet!

Dearest Glenn,  Sorry your power system is so crappy.  I have lived off the grid for years.  Completely off line.  First you need a real power production system, not what some salesman sold you for too much.  Second, you need the right resources to make it go.  I lived in SW Idaho, being the first wind-farmer in Idaho, learned there is a third requirement.  That would be, being a real “conservative” in your life style!  I can not explain all you did wrong here ( don’t know enough from your discussion), but your dialog smacks of pompus ignorance of how it is really done.  You can not do it from a city life-style and “intellect”.  

My first home was off gri, was 4500 SQ. FT., and had 3 computers, home theater,4+ bedrooms, 2 1/2 bath (Electric fridge), …and an under-home hanger.  We produces 125% of our power needs.  On many occasions, we sold power back to the grid when we finally hooked up.  While off grid, I NEVER had an unscheduled power outage, and NEVER wanted for pure clean power!  When I hooked up, the power was dirtier, much more intermittent,  and NEVER was worth the thousands we had to pay to hook up.  

Glenn, if you really want to see how a real system is designed, installed, and managed, … call me, … any time, … if you dare.  I am no tree-hugger.  I am as libertarian as the next Conservative.  On this subject, I would say you are fully and completely, puking spoog into the mike and hoping I’m not there to call you on it.  

Other than that, … I like your show and listen as often as time permits.  Lead on in love hope and charity.     

Watching the radio show on ROKU and it seems as if Glenns solution for what ails us is “More Cow (bell)”.

If our economy collapsed and we didn’t have all those toys you mentioned – if we didn’t have power to heat us and cool us and run our refrigerators and all the other amenities that we have grown accustomed to – many would go crazy. There may not be the option to go back at the end of the week or month. Maybe not for a year or more – if ever. We need to really sit down and think this through. It is always a good idea to hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst. Those who do will have a jump start over those like Stu! Poor Stu would be a basket case before the first night was finished. He needs to go to the farm and roll up his sleeves and give the real life a try. It is an eye opener. You may not have the luxury of a solar panel or a windmill or all those batteries or even propane. Think about it. Be ready.

 Do you have a way to get the 300–400 gallons per minute of water out of the ground if you have no power or propane or anything to make electricity?

Dan I’m interested if you want to extend your knowledge to me!  Tuckerbutter@yahoo.com

Well, Glenn, what brought you back to the city? If you’re so fond of extolling nature and farmland living, I’m sure you could afford to do it. I doubt that you would survive in your isolation much beyond a month. Life on earth is a progress, determined to evolve just as the population expands. If you want total freedom, you can always go back and live like cavemen did. The world is progressing daily, so you might as well face reality. Such is life.

http://www.simplepump.com and http://www.wellwaterboy.com two options, not at 300-400 gallons per minute, but reliable water without electricity wind or solar.

It wasn’t so long ago that I had 3 TV stations (no color), no computer, no internet, and a rotary dial home phone.  Life was not awful and far from “caveman”, “goat herder” or any other so-called “progressive” term to deride a simpler life.

Before this century is over, the last person who knew a world without personal computers, internet, cellphone, and cable TV will be gone.  The last surviving soldier who fought WWI is gone, those who lived through The Great Depression are dwindling, the veterans of WWII are disappearing quickly.  First hand accounts go with them and then we depend upon our recorded history as a reference — a reference that gets compromised so that we forget, twisted so that we believe that we are “comparing apples and oranges”.

The so-called “progressives” are terrified of a world that isn’t changing — for better or worse.  For them, standing still is a nightmare, silence is ear shattering and Truth is a roadblock to avoided at any cost.  Enslaved to Pride and Greed they must toil in an imagined “onward” in vain to an end that never arrives.  This situation isn’t “progressive” (funny, the wordsmiths again), at all — it’s running around in circles. The world is not progressing by running around in circles.

Face reality?

When does one face reality?  When they are dead.

Glad you had a great trip to the farm. We live in the country and just bought some acres so our kids can work the land. Our town is small. This weekend I met a city man and he asked me if our lives aren’t boring. The LAST thing farming is is boring. I was raised in SE Idaho on a farm, and I know it was a sacrifice for my parents to live there. City life would have been much easier/more convenient. But the farm raised a lot more than wheat and barley and alfalfa and cows. It raised kids. I hope our little chunk of land can raise kids too. And I hope the same for you and your family.

Glenn, this is one person in that small town and it really is “real” life here.  People making a living, people living next to nature and with nature, families growing up, moving pipe, feeding animals and most of the time thanking God that we get to have this type of life.  We love it here and we’re excited that you are our neighbor.  Welcome to country life!!!  BTW, next time come to your own ward.  We all would love to meet your family and welcome you to the neighborhood.

I don’t know the first thing about farming but it’s always sounded like nice way to live to me. 

I refuse to live in towns with stoplights or sidewalks. There is a reason for that.

Glenn, look into the “bloombox” as a solution to your “off the grid” problem.  New energy source, very expensive, for personal use, at the moment.  Presently successfully, being used by large companies. Cheaper personal pricing coming in the near future.  Exciting concept………. look into it……..

The easiest and simplest way to ”get away” would be to UNPLUG all the non-essentials.

No TV, no computer, hide the phone.  I’m an old dame so I don’t have the hand held devices

such as iphones, ipads or any kind of electronic ”games.”  Don’t need ‘em.  Being unplugged,

I would enjoy reading.  My one and only plugged in vice would be something on which I could

play music, like a DVD player.   We live near a small park, so walking there can be quite nice.

We have a backyard which has birds and squirrels.  They are fun to watch.  Life can be simple.

Jefferson prophesied that the concentration of wealth in the cities, the disconnection with the land and with the fruits of one’s own labors would be the end of the
Republic.  He saw what was happening in Britain with the onset of the Industrial Revolution and he knew that the U.S. would not survive if those dynamics played out here…Smart man, that Jefferson.

OMG…………..Beck in COWBOY BOOTS and a COWBOY HAT. You go glen. Look great. When are you going to release your firs single? ROFLMAO

Hey Brad, that’s why they named a university after him, UVA. He is my favorite.

Glen you said:

“Not all the actual bullcrap, but the wind‑power and solar power. We
have a farm that is off the grid and it’s wind‑power and solar power.
That’s bullcrap.”

I just went through 8 days in Ohio with zero electricity. I thought I was prepared for this but by the third day of sweltering in high 90 degree weather I was ready to break. We live out in the country and our well pump of course wasn’t working so we had no water. Luckily we have a rainwater collection system so we could at least flush toilets and filter water for sponge baths. I love the country but my garden and my rabbits and chickens suffered from the heat and very little water like us! We all have to find a way to to create a happy medium between modern urban convenience and a rural life. Wind and solar are a nice hobby power source but not to be relied on. Not yet, not till a dependable power storage scheme can be developed.

In this new age not everyone can live rural, it would be impossible.

Sounds like you’ve “Cached” in on some great property.  Just up the road from my home town.

Yep, when my parents moved from the city when I was in high school I thought I’d die.  Then, I learned I loved the smell of fresh peaches ripening on the tree, I loved the cool nights in the country, the summer rain storms,  and the pace of life.  Kids in school who hadn’t been raised correctly were snarky, but in a different way.  Didn’t take but a while and I was glad this was done for me.

My Grandparents had a red hand pump and used that for all the water they needed. My Grandmother would fill her washtubs with that water and wash clothes by hand on a scrubboard, hang them in the Sun. There was an outside pump and an inside one in the kitchen. She filled the resevoir on the wood stove with water and always had hot water for dishes. Course they did have an outhouse! But I loved staying with Grandma and that pound cake from her wood stove was heaven. It can still be done that way.

Glenn,  If you are having problems with your solar/wind/batteries there let me know perhaps I can help.  If you listened to a solar outfitter you could have gotten screwed on what you have there, may not be enough for your needs. Also go LED on lights they use much less then anything on market.  It can be done I’ve made major changes to my home with solar and wind and yes it was not a party in doing it learned a bunch of stuff I never knew could happen with solar/wind power

Glenn,  If you are having problems with your solar/wind/batteries there let me know perhaps I can help.  If you listened to a solar outfitter you could have gotten screwed on what you have there, may not be enough for your needs. Also go LED on lights they use much less then anything on market.  It can be done I’ve made major changes to my home with solar and wind and yes it was not a party in doing it learned a bunch of stuff I never knew could happen with solar/wind power

Sorry if My word scared you.  What do you want to know specifically?  Please email direct so as to not clutter this site.
Dan H.

Sorry if My word scared you.  What do you want to know specifically?  Please email direct so as to not clutter this site.
Dan H.

Just spent 5 days on the land where my ancestors built their original log cabin (18′x18′)  in 1740, just north of Shippensburg, PA. – 72 acres along the Creek. Land contains their 2 log cabins, open meadows and forest.  Waded into their stream. Walked under their trees.  Touched the wood of their original log cabin.  Watched the sun set over their horizon.  Watched the fire flys light up their pastures.  Looked out their windows.  In that 18′x18′ cabin they had 9 children.  Sat in front of their old stone fireplace and looked out the windows of their sleeping loft.  Great Patriots they were!  They held the torch high.  They have done their work and now sleep.  Sleep on sweet ancestors……. ’til we meet one day. 

The problem is that those makig the descisions think Gas comes from a pump, Milk comes from a jug, electricity comes from a wire and meat comes from the butcher case. The hve no idea the time talent an treasure it takes to get tose things to market. “The further you get away from the dirt the stupider you are”

Good For You!! there is nothing like working the ground and raising/growing your own! This government of ours is playing GOD and running off with Big Pharma and Monsanto to put the family ranchers/farmers out of business!!

YUP….it’s it called solar system with hydrogen backup. And JUST in case I also have a generator for short term. The well is artisian so the water pours out without a pump.

We don’t need 300-400 gpm. However that is what our well is capable of IF there is a 1 hp pump on it.

I don’t pray for them but I DO feel sorry that OWS followers are so stupid.

whether or not you realize it, all energy on earth is solar in some way. the fossil fuels that we use so readily today are composed of decayed and compressed plant matter that got its original energy from the sun. we are powering our civilization with stored solar power, liquid batteries that we pull from the earth, carbon chains stitched together from the solar energy of the past. so we pull the carbon that was stitched together eons ago by photosynthesizing plants and release that energy by breaking the bonds in combustion. we release that stored energy but we also release the stored carbon as well, changing its location in the environment. 

tapping into this well of stored solar energy has allowed us to scale up the amount of industrial production to great heights, but it also puts us at the mercy of this fuel abundance. only a great fool would argue that this is a long term solution. a longer term solution is tapping into the source of all energy on this planet and finding an efficient way of storing it for future use. 

so, we already rely on solar power. we’re just taking advantage of an efficient solar storage system developed by nature eons ago. 

Welcome Home, Glenn and family!  ha! Welcome to my world.

If you have a stream with a drop you can use a water ram to pump water to wherever-  I use one sometimes in the winter, and can pump aprox 200 ft higher than the ram.

Don’t have a stream besides it is illegal to use water from a stream unless you have a water right to that stream. Our water right is in the well itself.

I live in that town you are talking about.  One you would probably make fun of.  Have live her all my life and would not live anywhere else.  Funny thing.  We have had people come here as fill-in ministers, or for visits to other friends nearby and they tend to end up moving here permanently as they love the vibe of this small town.  Same as you found whereever you went.   I’m not sure what the draw is as Ive always been here but there is evidently somethig that draws people here,  

Wind energy when using the correct wind technology is the most efficient technology available. The wind generators that are being put up now pay for themselves in 8 months to 3.5 years depending on where they are placed. 1.5MWH x .25 (25% capacity) x 24 (hours per day) x 365 (days per year) x $0.10 (10c per KWH) = $324,000.00 per year (3 years to pay for themselves). The cylindrical wind generators run 100 percent of the time at 100% capacity, produce $1,500,000.00 worth of electricity per year.

I am a conservative who turned off the radio when Glenn Beck (who couldn’t figure out how to start a Chevy Volt that is powered by an electric motor and battery) said that people like me who have crawled into the bathroom in the morning, more than once, and have a bleak future that may be in a wheel-chair for the rest of their life with degenerative disk disease “need to just go out and get a job”. Glenn Beck is a high-school, I mean an 8th grade drop-out who has no medical or political experience. TURN OFF THE RADIO PEOPLE AND THINK FOR YOURSELVES.

We would love to go off-grid. Hope to soon and after we perfect the hand pump machine (for the home) that operates the same pump system of a 12 foot windmill.  Right now we get 5 gallons in thirty seconds with just 10 strokes of the handle.  Check it out,

http://wellwaterboy.com/id88.html

There are pitfalls to agrarian society. Feudalism and Slavery fueled agricultural societies for thousands of years, so farm cultures don’t automatically guarantee equality.

I’m pretty sure I live in that town Glenn went to visit :)  Yep getting away from the farm is the beginning of the end

Piece of cake. It’s called a windmill. They’ve been in use for centuries. Just have it pump the water into a holding tank whether on the ground at an elevated location or into a water tower, and you have water when you need it without electricity or propane.

Have I missed hearing how Glens vegetable garden is growing?