Episode 11: Iron man

In this episode, we implore you to chill out when it comes to your cast iron cookware. You don’t have to baby it. It’s literally big chunks of metal that will outlive humanity.

Sara wants to help you get your head right when you catch the homestead bug. There are some basic questions you want to ask yourself and some rudimentary steps you should take to prove you’re serious about taking control of your life.

Bob’s going to try medicating his tomato plants as a preemptive strike against blight. This opens a whole other can of worms and now we’re making pain killers out of tree branches.

I referenced an old NPR article about the cost of growing a small garden. I said it was called the $500 tomato, but the actual title is the $64 tomato. The article came out in 2006, though… so hey, inflation’s a bitch. Here’s the article