Here’s a salad with plenty of protein and taste. So clip the hair of that chive plant, get some turnips, and go to town. Read more
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Join us for a discussion on the new summer schedule at the homestead, forward progress during the heat, garden issues, and more.
Featured Event: Freedom Trinity Free Webinar
Sponsor 1: DiscountMylaarBags.com
Sponsor 2: KangenWaterCollective.com
The new schedule
The Salatin Webinar
Forage
- Paw Paw Update
- MINT
- Oyster Mushrooms
- Seeing Mullein Blooms
- Lambsquarter
Livestock
- Fodder Tree and Plantain Morning Ritual
- Livestock stopped acting crazy
- Rabbit tractor is not great – needs to be bigger squares on the ground
- Update on little sheep’s ears
- The snapping turtle
Grow
- Garden is not great, but I just keep putting in seeds
- Greens, chard etc
- Tomato Update
- Potted peppers are looking good
- Wood Vinegar
- Garden sprinkler is better but it went through 100 degree days with a non working water system
Holler Neighbors/Community
- Vehicle circus
- 6 trucks, 1 works
- Holler Dinner Tonight
Infrastructure
- Tree project update
Finances
- Saving money by using the fodder trees and augmenting rabbit feed
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!
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Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Today we talk about how adjusting when you do things on the homestead can really impact the day to day frazzle.
Sponsor 1: The Wealthsteading Podcast
Sponsor 2: HollerRoast.com
Assess the pain points
Put everything on the table
Establish priorities for production, health, happiness
Make the change – Here is what we did and why
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
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Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Join me for a group discussion with John Willis of Special Operations Equipment and members of our community and beyond about building the life you choose, current events, building a durable life, community development, business, getting started, health and more.
Each Tuesday, we welcome a different guest to tell their story, as well as take your questions live.
Featured Event: The Self Reliance Festival, SelfRelianceFestival.com
Sponsors:
- The Self Reliance Festival: SelfRelianceFestival.com
Show Resources
https://www.youtube.com/@TheAngryPrepper
https://www.youtube.com/@TheAngryTruth
Main content of the show
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
Community
- FreeSteading Group: https://freesteading.com/groups/living-free-in-tennessee/
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
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- Twitter: @nicolesauce
- IG: @nicolesauce
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingFreeInTN
Resources
Today, we have a replay of the speech I gave at the Exit and Build Land Summit.
Featured Event: Joel Salatin Webinar TOMORROW
Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/Webinar
Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com COUPON CODE LFTN
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
- Not much coming off the garden this year yet so we are not canning
- Preparing easily reheatable meals for the coming weeks of commuting to California
Weekly Shopping Report
This week’s trip started with Hobby Lobby. The store looked normal overall, with the usual assortment of craft items and dust collectors, but there were empty hooks here and there; finding something specific you want may not be a sure thing.
Next stop was Home Depot. They still have a lot of cordless tools from the recent Fathers’ Day deals, but selections are dropping. A 2x4x8 is unchanged from last week, at $3.48. They also have a LOT of solar yard lights, much better than the cheapies you find in dollar stores or even in China-mart. These are potentially good power failure lights or inside guide-lights; put them out to charge during the day, and bring them in at night. Regular batteries also remain in very good supply.
Aldi was last. Produce quality remains a little erratic, but quantities are still good. We found everything we wanted, although there was little pork, and some prices have edged higher once more. Staple prices were: bread (20 oz. white): 1.35 (+); eggs: $1.78 (+); whole milk: $2.83; heavy cream: $5.39 (+); OJ: $3.29; butter: $3.59; bacon: $3.99; potatoes: $4.49; sugar: $2.99; flour: $2.35; and 80% lean ground beef: $3.79.
A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.599.
Frugality Tip from Margo
We did a week long road trip around Self Reliance Festival. Two nights with family, one night with friends and 4 nights in a fantastic little cabin in the woods. I packed half our cooler with frozen meat when we left the house. I grilled and cooked at the cabin. We did not NEED to spend any money on eating out the whole week. (We did choose to support the food vendors at SRF because they were there). So if you are on the fence about the expenses involved in traveling, you can save a lot money buy bringing your own food. The couple of months before we left I grabbed a bag of nuts here, some other snacks there and had a bag of food ready to go when we left the house. With Airbnb we paid for the cabin in installments and it was paid for before we got there. With a little creative planning you can have a week long vacation with little expenses spread out over time.
Also stashed cash for months and came home with enough cash to cover the gas and misc bills that we incurred on the trip.
So take the trip to find your tribe!!
~Margo
Operation Independence
Wholesale adjustments on the homestead
Main topic of the Show: Nicole’s Speech at the Exit and Build Land Summit
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GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
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Resources
Squashed avocado is a perennial favorite dip for young and old, and avocados ripen in various countries at several times during each year.
Avocado contains at least a little of vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, C, E, magnesium, manganese, copper, iron, zinc, and phosphorous. There’s quite a bit of potassium. They’re also packed with monounsaturated fatty acids and fiber.
Here’s my favorite guacamole recipe. I warn you: each of the three women in our family has a different favorite recipe. Maybe you’ll use this as a starting point to settle your own “best guacamole” formula. Read more
Join me for a group discussion with John Willis of Special Operations Equipment and members of our community and beyond about building the life you choose, current events, building a durable life, community development, business, getting started, health and more.
Each Tuesday, we welcome a different guest to tell their story, as well as take your questions live.
Featured Event: The Self Reliance Festival, SelfRelianceFestival.com
Sponsors:
- The Self Reliance Festival: SelfRelianceFestival.com
Show Resources
Main content of the show
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
Community
- FreeSteading Group: https://freesteading.com/groups/living-free-in-tennessee/
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
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- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingFreeInTN
Resources
You can learn all the things about permaculture and zones and planning and STILL get into bad habits.
For the past 17 years, the Holler Homestead kitchen garden has been in a place affectionately known as Sunshine Plot. Out of sight and behind my home, I try to remember to go up there every day to at least take a look at it. Because it is in such a weird location, we have tried to change where livestock was and other things to make my morning coffee roam pass through there.
The things I grow in my aquaponics system get the most care. The garden that Tactical built for himself outside his back door gets plenty of attention. Sunshine plot is managed through methods to help keep things going even if I don’t drop by – with heavy mulch to keep down weeds and automated watering.
Over the past seven years, we have worked hard to adjust the design of this homestead from its original layout to one that integrates zones so that it is easier to maintain and just flows. For seven years, we have oft discussed ways to stretch my zone one to include that garden. For seven years this approach has been just plain silly and it hasn’t worked.
Then Tactical asked the question: Why, after seven years, have we not just moved that garden into your zone one?
Sometimes on your own land, you stop seeing the big picture for the details and the fact is, that garden was there when I moved in. That is why that garden is there seventeen years later. Even better, that garden was there because it WAS in zone one for the original 1880’s era cabin that was first here. You could walk out its door into the kitchen garden which also integrated chickens. I had to take that cabin down due to termite damage which is why I know this.
So my garden, firmly in zone 2, is there because someone who built a one-room cabin in the late 1800s put it in THEIR zone 1 and no one ever moved it after my house was built.
When Tactical asked me this question, it was very clear where the garden should go.
Timing is everything.
He asked this before we were about to embark on a process of transforming my kitchen garden into raised beds so that they would be easier to tend in 20 years. After he asked me this, it was so clear where my raised beds should go it, that there wasn’t any debate on the topic. Just a plan for how many beds and in which configuration.
Which brings me to today. Having JUST become an affiliate with Vevor, I plan to test their $96 raised beds in that space. They have a $70 one too that is smaller. If you are interested in these beds and you use my links to them, I get a small cut. (Use coupon code VVPROMO for 5% off).
I plan to document the advent of this project as we go. Here’s to putting my kitchen garden in zone 1 where she belongs!
Today we talk about trees coming down on fences and power lines, funky sheep ears, type 1.5 errors in design and more.
Featured Event: Haven Earth Trade School Homestead Bootcamp This Week
Sponsor 1: Kangen Water Collective
Sponsor 2: Self Reliance Festival
Forage
- Berries
- Elderflower
- Day Lillies
Livestock
- Lambs Ear
- Escaping Dog
- Dog Shed Issue
- Rabbit Tractor No kill list
- Broody Ducks
- Baby Duck Fail
- Goats Getting Out
Grow
- Tomato Wall Update
- Lower ap is back up and running
- Garden is growing slow but steady
- Garlic is near harvest time
- Garlic scape issue
Holler Neighbors/Community
- Chicken Class Update
- Eversoles Found Land!
- Homesteaders Alliance
Infrastructure
- Trees
- Type 1.5 error
Finances
- Paying a tree guy
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!
Community
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Today I am joined by Aron Wagner of American Cloud to chat about digital matters.
Sponsor 1: The Wealthsteading Podcast
Sponsor 2: EMP Shield, Coupon Code LFTN
Show Resources
Aron Wagner is CEO of American Cloud, a data hosting solution that cares about freedom of speech.
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