The usual Monday episode will air tomorrow as I am taking a light day after all that work.

Tuesday Live is with Amy Dingmann and John willis

I hope you enjoy this livestream – there are f bombs

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

Community

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninjaca

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee

• Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today Today we talk about the past week on the homestead. Projects, livestock, stories and more in order to serve as an inside look at what homesteading is really like.

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• Get your Self Reliance Festival and Hog Processing Workshop Tickets before the early bird price expires

Forage & Gardens

• Watercress
• Green Onions
• Kale
• Stinging Nettle
• Morel season arrives

Food Storage/Pantry

• Freeze drying milk once again
• Making ready to eat meals
• Seasonal shift from root cellar to house due to temperature

Livestock

• Put my processing pants on
• BIG decision you all saw coming
• Poultry classes/Turkey Day/ Sustainable meat chickens
• Rabbits due in 2 weeks
• POOP!

Grow

• AP planted
• IBCs incoming despite everything breaks week
• Upper garden update/rain
• Seeds starting and cuttings

Infrastructure

• Living Fence Update
• Fencing the pond
• Sheep plans

Holler Neighbors/Community

• Processing weekend and collaboration on food
• The story of moving feed
• Gas prices and the weekly milk

Finances

• Feed prices are up
• Chicks are more than double from last year
• More went out than came in this week, BUT the cow finances are looking GREAT

Membership Plug

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!

Community

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee
• Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Join Billy Bond from Perma Pastures Farm and Nicole Sauce for a special Hog Processing Class at Special Operations Equipment in Camden, Tennessee!

• June 10, 10 am – finished (likely around 2 pm)
• Hog Processing Class
• Special Operations Equipment
  4631 U.S. 70
  Camden, TN 38320
• Tickets: $135
• Includes lunch, printed Hog Processing Guide
• Tickets are non-refundable

We will take a hog from walking around to ready to smoke for serving at the Self-Reliance Festival, which starts June 11. If you will attend both events, you are welcome to camp onsite Friday night.

Covered in this course – everything a homesteader needs to know!

• Food safety
• Recommended tools
• Dispatching
• Strategies for moving a big pig with no tractor
• Skinning
• Scald and scrape (discussed, not demonstrated)
• Breaking the hog into fundamentals
• Basic cuts
• Packaging ideas
• Making bacon and sausage discussed, not demonstrated)

Included in this course:

• Hog processing demonstration
• Hog Processing Guide
• Coffee and water
• Lunch by Chef Brett

 

The last two years, I have seen friends take on smoking and drinking addictions and whip them into submission. As part of the journey, I realized a few things about addictions in my own life. Today, I share them with you.

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Webinar for April: Getting Started with Freeze Drying: April 10 at 4pm CT

Livestreams this week:

• Tuesday Live: Billy Bond (12:30 CT): SOE and LFTN Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g
• New Concept with Amy Dingmann: Afternoon Tea with the Spicy Sisters: LFTN YT and Flote:
  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• The failed jar of tomato sauce (Video out tomorrow)
• Freezer Audit/preparation for pig day is complete
• Prioritizing eating up of the older items: 2021 beef, pecans from Kurt, other items
• Freeze dried smoked chilies anyone?
• Precooking chilies and stews for LFTN 22

Forage this week

• SNOW

Operation Independence

• Side Hustlin to earn some extra cash
• Exit and Build Land Summit it May

Main topic of the Show: 5 Addiction Lessons

Mental vs Physical Addiction

• Physical finite, mental takes time
• Every day a choice
• Not just chemicals you consume (Meth, sugar, social media endorphins, helping, etc) When does it become addiction? When it runs you instead of you running it.
• Addressing root problems 

If It Was Easy You Would Not Be Addicted

• Every day choice = a grind
• Using food for emotional things 
• Sugar/chocolate
• Moderation vs not at all

The Change Must Come From Within—And Help Can Come From Without

• Court orders
• Doing it for your spouse, child, etc
• Hitting Rock Bottom is different for everyone
• Speakers
• AA and other methods
• Support and boundaries

Forgiveness

• The only forgiveness that matters is your own
• Focusing on faster resets
• Every day is a choice

Happiness and Enjoyment

• Establishing new rewards systems
• Having fun in different ways (Bar story)
• Some stuff just wasn’t fun and you never realized it
• Rebuilding health (Mental and physical)

Membership Plug

MeWe reminder

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

Community

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee

• Harvest Right Affiliate Link