Wouldn't it be nice if

[End of the Road]

Most of us probably don't have cable but a lot of us do have a dish which gets the same stuff. We all have seen the shows on channels like PBS, HGTV and DIY. They have some interesting things but not a whole lot that relates to homesteading. Hence the title of this thread. Wouldn't it be nice if they had a show called: This Old Homestead. They could show you how to build a chicken coop, fence in goats, install a wood stove in a mobile home, build a greenhouse, enclose a springhead, install the water resevoir and hook up the pump and pressure tank, maintain a gravel road/driveway, how to make a fish pond and so on. We all have garden predators, here it is racoons, groundhogs and rabbits, somewhere else it might be deer or whatever. Do any of the garden shows on those other channels show you how to fence these pests out? Nope! What about what to look for in a used tractor, how to build a smokehouse or how to properly fell a tree? Wonder if we could get RFD-TV interested in something like this?

[Ford8N]

My favorite program on RFD-TV is "Classic Tractors". I want more antique iron, less horsey action.

[suburbanite]

You should send your post to DIY networks.

[arabian knight]

Originally Posted by Ford8N

My favorite program on RFD-TV is "Classic Tractors". I want more antique iron, less horsey action.

And I want RFD-TV either taken off because of NOT Enough Horse stuff and put a 24/7 Horse Programming on the Channel is called "Horse TV". Or HAVE them BOTH on, Horse TV plus RFD-TV.

[Freeholder]

It sounds like a great idea to me! I might even watch TV once in a while if something like that was on (though we have very limited cable and might not get those stations).

Kathleen

[EDDIE BUCK]

Better not bother RFD-TV. They took my favorite show off, Gospel Sampler. Hope they dont take yours off.

[oldgaredneck]

Man, that sounds like an EXCELLENT idea!

[gilberte]

Excellent idea, I can't imagine why DIY hasn't come up with something. As popular as homesteading seems these days it can't be for lack of interest, or advertisers. Must just be waiting for the right ideas to be pitched to them. Surely there's an aspiring producer amongst the membership here

[End of the Road]

Another thing they could show is how to build houses out of recycled and scrounged materials, and NOT the $500,000 and up McMansions they do on "This Old House". Houses between 600 and 1200 square feet that are solid and safe, maybe solar passive and energy efficient without all the gingerbread that runs the price up. How to figure and build a solar system/wind generator/hydro generator . How to make your own still (for personal consumption only of course ). The things they could do are endless.