Getting ready for Spring

This week 02/02/2013, on Self Reliance Expozed, the official radio show for Backwoods Home Magazine, and Self Reliance Expo, with your hosts Colorado Ron and Bubba DaVinci.

This week Colorado Ron and Bubba DaVinci

We will be talking with:  Charles Sanders

Charles Sanders lives in southwestern Indiana, with his wife Patti.  For many years on their land in Martin County, they raised beef cattle, tended a large garden, a small orchard, a home greenhouse, honeybees, and cut firewood.  Currently, they live in neighboring Daviess County where he works, gardens and writes about homesteading and other topics.

Charles is 57 years old and has been an Indiana Conservation Officer for 36 years.  He has served as a certified police firearms instructor and armorer and is supervisor of his district of Indiana’s 10 southwestern counties.  Some of his vacation time has been spent on Indiana’s Inter-agency Wildland Fire Crew and has taken him to Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, and Kentucky.

He is a licensed General Class Amateur Radio Operator (KB9STE) and also enjoys making homemade wine, wildcrafting, shooting, hunting and trapping.

Charles is a frequent contributor to Backwoods Home Magazine, and has written for Fur-Fish-Game, Indiana Conservation Afield, Good Old Days, Back Home, Outdoor Indiana, and other publications.  His books include The Self-Reliant Homestead (available in the BHM book selections).