This weekend, we processed four pigs. We ended up with 700 pounds of meat, maybe more. The cap to the weekend was a late night live with Toolman Tim who will be speaking at my coming spring workshop!
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
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Today I run the audio from a live video shot with Amy Dingmann of a Farmish Kind of Life. We will do these discussions monthly and you get it as a bonus podcast.
This episode has explicit language.
Sunday at 9pm EASTERN - I will be live here with Toolman Tim! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azaD5Z3VVY4
Shit that really happens on the homestead
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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.
Forage & Gardens
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Holler Neighbors/Community
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Billy Bond and John Willis join me today for a replay of yesterday’s livestream. We talk about growing food, mindset and navigating inflation on this episode.
New monthly livestream with Amy Dingmann: Afternoon Tea with the Spicy Sisters.
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Main Topic: Tuesday Live with Billy Bond and John Willis
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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.
Webinar for April: Getting Started with Freeze Drying: April 10 at 4pm CT
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Main topic of the Show: 5 Addiction Lessons
Mental vs Physical Addiction
If It Was Easy You Would Not Be Addicted
The Change Must Come From Within—And Help Can Come From Without
Forgiveness
Happiness and Enjoyment
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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.
Webinar reminder: Assessing your property for microclimates
Email homesteading questions to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com
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Infrastructure
Better Living
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Today I am joined by Charles the Humble Mechanic and John Willis of Special Operations Equipment to discuss getting your business house in order no matter what the current environment.
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I know these machines are expensive and you are the only person I have ever heard even mention them on any show I listen to.
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Main topic of the Show: Fireside Chat with Charles the Humble Mechanic and John Willis
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Forage this Week - not much has changed
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Do your Homework
We haven’t had a hard conversation in a long time. You know the one I mean - the one I mean. The one where we are honest with ourselves.
Just got back from Rogue - got me to thinking about doing my homework (explain the coffee situation there and what we did)
Then starting thinking about SRF 1 and 2 and ways we could have better equipped sponsors, vendors and attendees with information in advance of the festival and realized we had more homework to do as well as a 9 hour drive.
I am very good at handling changing demands of an event with grace, but if I do my homework, there are fewer of these issues.
What do I mean by doing your homework?
The list is endless. And therein lies the rub. The key to finding success and easing your life by doing your homework is knowing which homework you truly must do.
If you don;t change your hvac filters, you end up with a huge mess.
Likewise, if you do not thank your sponsors or other supporters, you damage the relationship. And usually these kinds of problems stem from not doing your homework in advance.
Usually these things keep us from doing our homework:
All are excuses when you embrace who is in control of your life and schedule.
So how then, do we hold ourselves accountable while maintaining that all important health-relationship-work-fun balance?
From planning events, to executing things well on your homestead, to interacting with people better - homework is something that is easy to put off. Part of this is because we are expected to do things that are busy work - like filing our tax reports. And because things like taxes come with a heavy consequence if you do not do the busywork, we have become trained to not separate the true homework that is important from the busywork that it is easy to assign ourselves because we feel good when we do it. You know - that endorphin rush you get when you click things off your list?
But imagine what it is like when you DO set yourself up for doing your homework? Think of how SRF check in will be when we have everyone with parking passes in advance. When vendor spaces are on a map and assigned?
Or think of how easy it is to add people to your table when you have a plan for dinner and a deep pantry?
Or how about when you have a template email ready to go to confirm things?
All of these sorts of structures happen when you do your homework.
But you have to do it or it will never get done.
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Today we have something new: a monthly chat with Jack Spirko and John Willis. These First Tuesday talks are at 12:30 CT and we stream them live on various video channels. Be prepared for the f bomb in these episodes.
Headed to rogue Food Conference this weekend.
Get your tickets for the June 11-12 Self-Reliance Festival
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Main topic of the Show: Fireside Chat with Jack Spirko and John Willis
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Why we are doing this new show series and what do you think?
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We have had two permaculturists out to help review what we are installing at the Holler Homestead. Kerry Brown and Nick ferguson. Today, I run through the list of things that we have to do and will describe how we move on when the list is bigger than the pocketbook.
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Kerry Brown: Strong Roots Resources
Nick Ferguson: Homegrown Liberty
Weekend things in March:
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Spring Forage
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Permaculture Debrief
Process: Goals discussion, walk about, the rain event
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Join Mama Sauce, Tactical Redneck and me as we talk through how we decide to do events, how we get ready for events, and what happens from there.
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Today, we welcome Jenni Hill back on the show to talk about how she designs her medical kit and some steps you may want to take to tailor yours to the needs of your household.
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Jenni is a massage therapist with a strong background in the healthcare field. While navigating auto-immune disorders in her own household, she put a big focus on health, healing and preventative care.
4.How do you rotate and resupply?
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Today we will talk through several things that you need to learn not to be squamish about on the homestead.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Forage
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Squeamishness and Homesteading
Why this topic and the reality of homesteading
Assumptions: livestock, very rural
Squamishnesses
In the end, you do what you have to do.
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Today we have a fun interview show with John Willis and Jack Spirko that was recorded a few weeks ago when I still have the covaids. We talk about current events and self reliance;
Members! Log into your account or check email for the link to this month’s webina: Makin’ Bacon with Mike Leonido. Saturday at 12pm CT.
SelfRelianceFestival.com has the final lineup for the Feb 19 & 20 event. Get your tickets in advance before the price goes up!
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Jack Spirko from The Survival Podcast.
John Willis from Special Operations Equipment
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Today, we continue the pantry management series with a discussion about how to keep your Today’s show was inspired by Krystal when she asked how do you balance “Have tos” and “Get tos”. Great question and worth putting thought into!
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Main topic of the Show: Have to vs Get tot
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Homestead living is often romanticized by those outside the lifestyle. Homesteading takes work and choices to live differently than the “norm”. Today I will talk you through the Holler Homestead’s spring 2022 plans. Because the clock is ticking on getting things planted, built and preserved for another year of abundance.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Forage in Winter
Operation Independence
Network Opportunities
Main topic of the Show: Spring Plans at the Holler Homestead
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Fodder Trees with Nick Ferguson
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Today, I share with you some best practices on getting your podcasts and events promoted by others. Ever reach out to a personality and them get frustrated when they either did not respond or cross promote your stuff, or they shared the wrong information? This episode will increase your close rate for these sorts of communications.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
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Main topic of the Show: Underground Networking and Promotion
What is underground networking?
Why this topic? (Moody)
“If I can help let me know”
Frustrations and communication
If we are going to make an underground network WORK, we need to learn to communicate the important information.
Problems
Why this is a missed opportunity (IF we all share eachothers podcasts, books, events, and the like we end up with a better ecosystem in which to operate)
Solution: Channel your inner Gabby
Underground networking is more than secret handshakes and selling eachother beef. It is about building our ecosystem and we can do this by cross promoting eachother’s work.
Our community is ripe for rabid growth
John is not wrong.
But It doesnt work to expect that someone will just know you are doing a thing. Sending a link to your website is a non starter and most websites are hard to go through to find the skinny.
We can all do better and make this happen - start by
See what happens next. I think you will be surprised
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Nicole Sauce Unplugged - Resilience
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Main topic of the Show: Military Lessons, Homestead Applications
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The thing has landed in the holler. Years ago I did a show on how we handle illness in the Holler when Norovirus swept through my house over Thanksgiving. Today, I will share the updated approach in a post THE THING world.
Spring Workshop Tickets are on sale. Get them here.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
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Main topic of the Show: How We Address Illness in the Holler
The Holler Neighbors are what I call an unintentional intentional community. (What that means and a bit about how we came to be).
Story of Thanksgiving.
What we are doing for the covid outbreak and how the neighbors are doing - a word on media hype.
How this is different from other contagious illnesses.
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Freedom of speech is important because if we do not discuss all of our ideas and learn from one another, we never progress. Further, it is immoral to force silence on another person simply because they say things you do not like. Over the past decade, the social media giants have slowly shown that they have no regard for individual rights and have used their large reach to control the social narrative. They silence, bully and erase people after those people have invested time and resources to build followings and businesses using the tools that the big social media giants provide.
Erin and Kinglsey Edwards have been fed up with this for a long time. Rather than sit around and complain about it, they launched flote.app, a social network platform that is moving toward decentralized system and encourages freedom of speech. If you set up an account there and say something that Kinglsey does not agree with, you will not be “cancelled’. Instead, people who do not agree with you will discuss it with you. Or not. Their choice.
And it is all about choice.This is a previously recorded interview with Erin Edwards and Alex Martin of flote about the importance of free speech, decentralized technology and so much more.
Find the video on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@livingfree:b/furthering-liberty-through-social-media:d
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Welcome to Living Free in Tennessee.
Today, I discuss what to do when you have an enemy. What an enemy is. And wether or not you can be successful if you do NOT have an an enemy.
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Main topic of the Show: What to do when you have an enemy?
What is an enemy?
What do you do when you get one?
What if they simply will not go away?
e run across people who are envious of what we can do or of what we have. They want to control things that are none of their business. There are people who think that in order to get ahead, they must destroy those who they perceive as ahead of them. We encounter people with low self esteem. And yes, some people are simply evil.
The best revenge is to cut their balls off. Remove their power over you. Rarely is this not possible, and when it isnt, it is time to fight. But when it is, there is satisfaction for years and you end up on the moral high ground.
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Logan Hyde
7 days ago
The definition of enemy is a person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something. So I guess the only enemy I have is the state. As far as individuals I think it might be possible to have no enemies. Because in the definition it says "actively oppossed or hostile". This is a very hard question though. I'm going to say it might be impossible to not have enemies because there will always be someone or some group of people that oppose you or your beliefs.
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Heather Eisele
7 days ago
I have one enemy. My own assumptions. Everyone else, I try very hard to meet where they are or avoid them so they don't become enemies. I think back to all I used to believe and how much energy I threw into the various abysses we're told are important and wonder what else I'm throwing energy into that serves nothing.
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Katie Nicole
7 days ago
About 5 years ago my grandfather and I were having a rare talk about his life and the choices he'd made. His life advice to me was a rally cry. With a fist raised in the air and a sly grin he shouted, "MAKE SOME ENEMIES!" 😄 My grandfather is fairly stoic so this was pretty memorable.
I've been thinking more about that lately. He and I are on different sides of the political spectrum so I know he didn't mean people who think the opposite of me are my enemies. Or people who disagree with me.
My understanding of his advice as it relates to me was more, "Stand up and make noise sometimes. It's not a bad thing to have people oppose you." Opposition can refine one's stance and clarify one's beliefs. In that sense, I find "making enemies" useful.
I'm still actively ruminating on the concept.
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Seed starting season is upon on and today I will talk you through how we plan for and start seeds at the Holler Homestead while also providing guidance for how to do this when you do not have a bad-assed kratky seed-starting setup. Don’t let the lack of infrastructure stop you from getting your seedlings going.
LFTN Spring Workshop, April 28-30
Dr. Ken Berry, MD: Proper Human Diet
Nicole Sauce, your hostess: Underground Networking
Amy Dingmann: This Homestead Life
Harry Albright: Saving Seeds (He will also host a seed exchange)
John Pugliano: Making Money Through Connections
Toolman Tim: No Excuses – Get your Business Going!
Niti Bali: Regenerative Food Communities
John Willis: Community
David Oswalt: Processing Rabbit
Kerry Brown: Choose and Maintain Homestead Tools
Chris Spees: Real Life Rental Investment
The Tactical Redneck: Assessing Your Property for Defense
Wild Forage Walk
Aquaponics Installation
How to make Sofrito, cheese and other things
Property walk and tour of our aquaponics system, front-of-house growing operation, off-grid energy savers, and other infrastructure
Food, Fun, Networking. Treats from local farmers, keto-friendly
Additional demos will be announced.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Starting Seeds Budget and Better
Why start seeds?
Is it Hard?
What do you start inside from seed?
How do I do it if I do not have anything?
The Kratky System at the Holler Homestead
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Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday.
Today’s Thoughts Include:
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They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist.
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