The Importance of Building a Real Community

"I think all of a sudden in particular will get on great, but yeah, you try and you're like, oh, hey, I'll just go. Let's go and bunker up with my buddies," he says. "You got to build a real community because if you want to survive anything that's going to go on,. it's the bet."

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Smokey of the State of Appalachia Project joins B.R for a very based one on one chat about homesteading in America’s ungovernable blue mountains! The lads get into the culture of the region, acquiring property, functional vs ‘picture perfect’ homesteads, the amount of hours and labor Smokey and his wife (Deckers Ridge Homestead) put into their homestead daily and processing chickens for meat.

Smokey also explains his ‘Hubsteading’ concept, being realistic about what exactly to ‘prep’ for, the slow fall of ‘Rome’ and why American life and culture will outlive the era of the US Empire, the generational differences between how ‘neighborly’ people are, and the forgotten history of Blair Mountain and how ten thousand miners fought against US government machine gun nests and bombs dropped from aircraft on American soil.

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Check out Smokey of The State of Appalachia Project on IG here:

https://www.instagram.com/stateofappalachia/

Check out Smokey's Substack Articles here:

https://thestateofappalachia.substack.com/

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