Marty Raney says he’s seen the best of the American spirit while working on Discovery Channel’s “Homestead Rescue.”

The gritty reality TV star, whose show is currently in its second season, has traveled across the United States helping people who want to homestead. Viewers see expert homesteader Raney and his children Misty and Matt instruct those who want to live off the grid how to survive in the wilderness.

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And Raney told Fox News, “I’m a man of action. I’m a man that gets something done, right or wrong, nothing happens until someone starts moving — so standing around talking doesn’t do much for me.”

Raney shows tough love with the homesteaders, saying he’s “not necessarily [there] to give them a handout but to give them a hand up ….Everyone wants a handout and I’m sensitive to those people, and those people I don’t visit…I’m more impressed by the doers and the workers than I am the talkers and the dreamers.

“What made America was the homesteader, the people who built their own homes. Those people built this country, hard workers, people not afraid to roll up their sleeves. That is a dying breed. I know because I’m one of them.”

Raney, who has been married to wife Mollee for 40 years (she’s chosen not to appear on the show, along with the couple’s other two grown kids), said each homestead has its respective needs such as how to get the basic fundamentals set up to live in the wild—water, shelter, and food. Raney and kids Misty and Matt teach the homesteaders how to tap into solar power, set up heating tanks, and build greenhouses.

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Those who appear on “Homestead Rescue” are “starting to appreciate the power of nature and tapping into things [naturally] and … leaving the concrete jungle further and further behind,” Raney noted. (go to page 2 to continue reading)[lz_pagination]