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Mar 15, 2023

Today we have John Pugliano from the Wealthsteading Podcast and Investable Wealth and John Willis from Special Operations Equipment to talk about what is up with bank closures, navigating the recession, building wealth no matter what and more.

Featured Event: Exit and Build Land Summit in Bastrop, Texas

Brave Botanicals

You all know John Bush from our time together in the Unloose the Goose podcast and also the webinars we do with Live Free Academy. But did you know that John has another company that provides organic herbal products? 

Brave Botanicals offers top-quality, organic CBD and Kratom products along with other herbal resources. 

This month, we are highlighting the kratom, an herbal supplement that comes from the coffee family, minus the caffeine. It grows in Southeast Asia and is traditionally used for medicinal purposes. Its leaves contain compounds that can have psychotropic and it has gained popularity in the Western world for its potential to help with the management of chronic pain, stress, and anxiety, and some people use it to try to overcome addiction to opioids or to reduce the severity of opioid withdrawal symptoms.

If you want to learn more about kratom, head on over to BraveBotanicals.com to learn about its many uses and dig into the different varieties and dosage.

Interested in trying it out? John Bush also offers a free ounce of kratom, plus 50% off your first order through his site, FreeOunceofKratom.com.

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

The Wealthsteading Podcast

Investable Wealth

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Make it a great week!

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

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Mar 13, 2023

Today we talk about what homesteading IS, trying new things and so much more in a return episode of THE SPICY SISTERS with Amy Dingmann.

 

Featured Event: SRF Digital Passes

 

Paul Wheaton is about to launch a new Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday March 14, 2023.  If you're new around here, you may not be aware that Paul's kickstarters always give away a massive amount of amazing stuff for just a buck.  The caveat - you have to back the kickstarter in the first 48 hours of the campaign to get all the earlybird rewards.  The only way to make sure you don't miss out is by clicking "notify me on launch" on the kickstarter page.

 

Click "notify me on launch" here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/low-tech?ref=5xwwb3&token=23631798

 

The kickstarter is for the Low Tech Laboratory Movie, featuring innovations in homesteading, woodland craft, hot tubs, kilns, forges, textiles, bees, foraged clay pottery, mycelium, solar power, off-grid solutions, and more.

 

The earlybirds alone are worth well over $100 bucks.  They gave me an exclusive sneak peak of what's included:

-Videos about heating Greenhouses with Rocket Mass Heaters, and Truly Passive Greenhouse Design

-The fourth issue of Living Woods Magazine

-The Hidden Half of Nature, a microbial presentation by Anne Bikle and David Montgomery

- Toby Hemenway's excellent Permaculture Voices keynote, " Backing Off an Energy Cliff"

- An issue of Modern Homesteading Magazine

- An ebook about practical homesteading

- Tiny house magazine issue 121

- And issue of Permaculture Design Magazine

- A Kelly Hart film about natural building

 

Don't miss out on this ridiculous offer.  Everything you need to up your homesteading and self-reliance knowledge, for as little as $1.  But you have to click the "notify button" to get it . . .

 

click "notify me on launch" here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/low-tech?ref=5xwwb3&token=23631798



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Living Free in Tennessee

A Farmish Kind Of Life

 

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Discussions guided in part by our notes and in part by viewer questions

 

Make it a great week!

 

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

 

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Mar 10, 2023

Today we celebrate new life on the homestead, discuss seedlings, talk about managing overwhelm and depression and more.

Featured Event: Exit and Build Land Summit in Bastrop, Texas

Today’s Sponsor: Agorist Tax Advice

AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn 

Agorist Tax Advice. Do you want to give Uncle Sam fewer of your hard-earned dollars? Do you wonder if the time has come to set up your LLC? Are you confused about what kind of business to establish? Are you wanting to pass along wealth you have built to your kids, but not sure the best way to do that?

Matthew Sercely of Agorist Tax Advice can help you make sense of all the options, understand how to stay on top of tracking write-offs, and see new ways of organizing your finances so that you keep more of the money you earn in your pockets. 

Matthew has a broad knowledge of business finance, real estate and rentals, end of life planning and more which means that he can help you find legal tax loopholes and understand risks. 

Head on over to AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn to sign up for a free consultation.

Forage

  • Dandelions
  • Comfrey is up
  • Blackberry and raspberry leaves
  • Wild mustard
  • Morels
  • Dead nettle is past its prime

Livestock

  • Rabbit ear mites
  • Baby rabbits
  • Duck setting eggs
  • Baby is healthy (Name: cloudy)
  • Reuniting girls with the boys
  • Dogs stayed put when the fence was grounding out

Grow

  • Three kinds of broccoli
  • Peas are up
  • Spring greens and radishes
  • Caught up on seedlings and the most important things have germinated
  • Still need to plant potatoes, but onions are in
  • Garlic looks great
  • 15 rosemary plants have been put in the food forest
  • Oregano and Thyme overwintered

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Weekend kitchen demolition push while I was singing a concert
  • Electrician came by
  • SRF Helpers

Infrastructure

  • Chicken coop ready to move but the rain is in the way
  • Pump house story
  • Kitchen update
  • Rewiring for solar is underway

Finances

  • Sold half of the lamb that just got processed

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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Mar 8, 2023

Today is an interview show with Louise MIlleman of Forgotten Ways PMA. Learn about the what and why of private ministery associations as well as her off grid living experiences.

Featured Event: Self Reliance Festival Digital Pass: https://selfreliancefestival.com/product/digital-pass-march-25-26/?aff=nicolesauce

Today’s Sponsor: TheHomesteadConsultant.com

LFTN listeners get a special offer of a free 20 minute initial phone consultation. Just send an email with the subject LFTN Consult to TheHomesteadConsultant@gmail.com with a brief description of the homesteading topic you would like to discuss and we will respond to you with available time slots.  

 

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Email Louise: info@forgottenwayspma.com

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Louise Milleman is an earth-loving, tree-hugging, un-schooling, freedom-fighting, world-traveling citizen of the entire world who has went from being a full-time digital nomad, traveling this big beautiful globe with her family for the last 5 years to building a regenerative off grid homestead with her husband and her 2 little girls. She is the founder of Forgotten Ways PMA as she believes that the best way for us to protect our future is to take a step back into the forgotten ways of the past. They spend their time connecting with the land while they connect with each other. She believes that life IS learning and that learning IS life. There is no distinction. By living a slower-paced life and stopping to provide guidance along the way, they are “teaching” their kids real life skills by living out their real life dreams!

Make it a great week

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

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Mar 7, 2023

Today we talk about USDA and FDA being called upon to fix the processed food epidemic, life skills, woke stuff and more with Jack Spirko and John Willis.

Featured Event: Zero to Hero with Ham Radio at Tactical Response

Today’s Sponsor: Paul Wheaton's doing it again - He's giving away more than $100 worth of resources for as little as a buck when you back the Low Tech Laboratory Movie Kickstarter in the first 48 hours.  But you have to click "notify me on launch" to get in on these early bird rewards.

click "notify me on launch" here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/low-tech?ref=5xwwb3&token=23631798

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

The Survival Podcast

Main content of the show

https://www.youtube.com/live/gwnQ7O8sRiM?feature=share

Make it a great week!

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

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Mar 3, 2023

The key to survivalism is survival first so we recorded this show later in the day. Why? I wanted to drive home from Chattanooga before the crazy March 3 weather passed through. So I did.

Today, we talk about early spring herbal tea ingredients a growing in the yard, the importance of community, my kitchen tear apart, the financial aspect of the ram we processed and more.

Featured Event: Refuge Medical training March 24

Today's Sponsor: Brave Bontanicals: BraveBotanicals.com, FreeOunceOfKratom.com

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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Mar 1, 2023

Today we talk about the ways of local politics, how to start an area study and more with Mike Shelby and John Willis.

Featured Event: Self Reliance Festival (SelfRelianceFestival.com)

Today’s Sponsor: The Homestead Consultant (TheHomesteadConsultant.com)

In today's chaotic world there is a major disconnect between our land, our food and our community. At The Homestead Consultant, we believe that the solution to bridging these gaps starts in the individual home. By taking practical steps toward food production, land restoration, independent education and rational preparedness we can begin to restore these disconnects. That is where The Homestead Consultant comes in. We will work closely with you to evaluate your property with your unique goals, vision and resources in mind. Using a restorative,  permaculture lens we will help you design a holistic and actionable gameplan to help make your homesteading dreams a reality. Our sincere desire is to see all of our clients become more connected and resilient! Find out more about our services by visiting our website at TheHomesteadConsultant.com 

LFTN listeners get a special offer of a free 20 minute initial phone consultation. Just send an email with the subject LFTN Consult to TheHomesteadConsultant@gmail.com with a brief description of the homesteading topic you would like to discuss and we will respond to you with available time slots.  

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

Forward Observer

Main content of the show

https://youtube.com/live/K3R-jPtFRNQ

Make it a great week!

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

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Feb 27, 2023

What do you do if you find yourself in the middle of a media shit storm? Or if something goes horribly wrong on your watch? Or if you are wrongly accused of doing something? Today, we will discuss a few things about communications during a crisis that can help you weather the waves. 

Featured Event: Responder1 Medical Training at Self Reliance Festival, March 24, 2023

https://selfreliancefestival.com/product/rm-responder-1-1/?aff=nicolesauce

Today’s Sponsor

Paul Wheaton wants to show you how to build a shed quickly, out of materials right off your own land. The coolest part? Nobody will even know it's there... Check out The Berm Shed Movie at

https://permies.com/w/berm-shed?f=495

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Found boxes at Uline for canning jars and redid the jar storage system
  • Spring reset for canned goods is done - and we have a  TON of broth to use up
  • This week of no kitchen: focusing on crock pot meals, roasts, and maybe a few steaks on Friday if all goes well
  • Starting to see early spring medicinals so it is time to get rid of dandelion flowers that are dry  and replace them with a new round (Annual rotation of medicinals)

Livestream Schedule

Tuesday Live

Mike Shelby from Forward Observer and a whiz at  helping people create area studies and implement better situational awareness will join John Willis and Nicole Sauce Tuesday at 12:#0 PM Central. Join is for this live discussion.

SOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8px_NkECKQ

LFTN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3R-jPtFRNQ

SRF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HngRQyVmWd8

Wednesday Interview

Ever hear the term Direct Primary Care? Today, we will discussion what int he heck that is and why it is so important in these times of federal overreach in medicine. I am joined by Dr. William B Burkhart, founder of Beacon Primary Care.

9:30 AM Central

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0CFY69WUNc

Thursday Live

Join me for updates and questions about the March Self Reliance Festival at 7pm Central.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CiknS_HqgA

Friday Homestead Happenings

Join me for a homestead happenings update: seedlings, processing, firewood and more. 9:30AM Central.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OBrAwE00RY

Friday Night Live with Tag

I get to be a special guest on Tag’s show this Friday at 7pm Central! I can’t wait to see what we cook up.

https://www.youtube.com/@LifeDoneFree

Weekly Shopping Report from Joe

First stop was Dollar Tree. Stock in the frozen food coolers has notably increased; they're probably at least half full, with a decent variety. The drink aisle and coolers also were a lot more full, with good variety. There were more vitamins in the health area too.

Home Depot was next. Sonia stayed in the car, so I just ran in and out. A 2x4x8 remains at $3.35. I also picked up a long Diablo reciprocating saw blade for use on some saplings in the yard.

Aldi was third. I thought the shelves looked more stuffed than usual; there was plenty of product. We found everything we wanted. Eggs have come down, perhaps to $2.7x? We also found heavy cream, and there were multiple boxes of it. We got a case of their canned cat food, leaving at least two more.

Weigel's was last. My usual station is running on a backup pump, and the flow rate is so low that I aborted a fillup on Thursday evening after just five gallons. The other station is running just fine. The price is the same, with a gallon of untainted regular still $3.999.

Frugality Tip

Home repairs can be overwhelming. Some times you need to "hire a guy". You have to be ok with knowing your limits.  I know I can't (yet) do framing and stucco, but I can paint. I saved us $300 by buying a gallon of stucco waterproofing and a gallon of paint. It will take me longer than if I paid a guy, but any time I can shave a few bucks off a project I will. 

P.S. I watched the stuccoing process, and feel pretty confident that I can do a small project or repair next time. 

Make it a great week

~Margo

Operation Independence

  • Ram for sale versus processing - an update
  • Processing workshop launches in one week

Main topic of the Show: Crisis Communications

What is crisis communications

Why did I think of it? (Dentist)

What should you do if you find yourself in a tense situation? (Photoshopped head on a campaign photo, Al Gore)

  • Acknowledge that providing facts as soon as possible is key and communicate that you are gathering facts so that you can explain the situation
  • Do NOT make up answers to anything. Not ever. Not even if you think you know
  • Clarify who is qualified to speak on this matter (Is it you, someone in your organization or family, etc). Ensure everyone KNOWS who to send inquiries to
  • Release the facts to the media, on your communications platforms etc. (Media statement vs press release)
  • Never repeat the accusation - we do not need out of context audio clips of you saying you did something that you did not say
  • Handle interview requests as you usually should, by first researching the media outlet before agreeing to an interview
  • Schedule down time
  • Rely on the facts in every communication and get good at being called a liar, a poopy head, etc
  • Set a communications schedule moving through the crisis and STICK to it

Why should this matter to a homesteader? (Pig picture)

What about the people who lie all the time? They don’t rely on facts

Pre-writing crisis content

Security

Make it a great week!

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

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Feb 25, 2023

Jack Spirko and CJ Kilmer sat down this week and discussed what it would look like if the nation split up into different countries and how could this happen in an amicable way. I this this episode is so important that I asked Jack if I could replay it to my audience.

Let me know what you think after you listen.

 

Replay of EP 3255 from The Survival Podcast

Feb 25, 2023

Today we talk about spring springing forth, community connections, taking a capital loss on purpose and more.

 

Soy poisoning

 

Featured Event: Kerry Brown’s Swap on March 5th - 

Please RSVP to Kerry: strongrootsresources@gmail.com so we can keep a head count

Brave Botanicals

You all know John Bush from our time together in the Unloose the Goose podcast and also the webinars we do with Live Free Academy. 

Interested in trying it out? John Bush also offers a free ounce of kratom, plus 50% off your first order through his site, FreeOunceofKratom.com.

Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com

 

Forage

  • Dandelion Flowers

  • Dead Nettle

  • EB are growing leaves

  • Green onions and garlic up

 

Livestock

  • Early Spring forage for sheep has reduced need for hay

  • Sheep to the top of the 16 acre lot

  • Ducks are in full egg laying throes, but not the muscovies yet

  • Hesitant to bring baby back over to the others because of LGD things

  • Weaning rabbits today

 

Grow

  • Planting onion bulbs

  • Seed potato prep

  • More seedlings

 

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • The great coop build of 2023

  • Kitchen repair project

  • Fat Tuesday was fun

  • Lowes: Drug deal (4 wheeler parts)

 

Infrastructure

  • Mobile sheep shelter in progress

  • Workshop repair

 

Finances

  • Processing another lamb - will have some for sale

  • Liquidating a land holding in Colorado and applying the funds in the best places here (Capital loss)

 

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

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Feb 22, 2023

Today we talk about building your life, preparing, entrepreneurial advice, sheep and more with Bear Independent and John Willis

Featured Event: SelfRelianceFestival.com

Direct Link to Bear’s medical training class the Friday before SRF

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

Refuge Medical

Today’s Sponsor: Agorist Tax Advice

AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn 

Agorist Tax Advice. Do you want to give Uncle Sam fewer of your hard-earned dollars? Do you wonder if the time has come to set up your LLC? Are you confused about what kind of business to establish? Are you wanting to pass along wealth you have built to your kids, but not sure the best way to do that?

Matthew Sercely of Agorist Tax Advice can help you make sense of all the options, understand how to stay on top of tracking write-offs, and see new ways of organizing your finances so that you keep more of the money you earn in your pockets. 

Matthew has a broad knowledge of business finance, real estate and rentals, end of life planning and more which means that he can help you find legal tax loopholes and understand risks. 

Head on over to AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn to sign up for a free consultation.

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

Resources

 

Feb 17, 2023

Today we talk about the transition time on the homestead, solar and community, animal losses, eggs and more.

Featured event: SelfRelianceFestival.com

Featured Sponsor: Paul Wheaton of Permies.com

Paul Wheaton over at permies.com and Wheaton Labs wants you to see how easy permaculture can be! This week he's released his Garden Master course trailer check out the YouTube video at https://youtu.be/FQz_BbaNfTU

If you want to get really deep into gardening for market, community, or your own homestead, you'll wanna see the whole Garden Master Course. Here's 35 hours of quality instruction on better-than-organic garden practices PLUS the 150 page Garden Master Guide 

https://permies.com/s/nsgmc?f=495

NOTE: In the recorded version of this episode I stated that it was episode 670, but this is really episode 700!

Radio Show This Sunday with Toolman Tim, tune in at the LFTN Youtube channel!

Forage

  • Grass
  • Mullein looks good
  • Comfrey s starting to grow - comfrey mouthwash
  • Wild garlic
  • Likely stinging nettle is up but I have not seen any

Livestock

  • Rabbit babies died
  • Rabbits are bred again
  • Baking soda/minerals to sheep
  • Have not posted animals for sale but will this week
  • Duck eggs are back - 3/day from old ducks (Muscovys not laying yet)
  • Baby chicks on the way and a processing class in June

Harvest meals

  • Sausage from the Eashes
  • Blended foods :D - lesson about ailments

Grow

  • Peas, carrots, broccoli and radishes are in the ground (seed roulette)
  • Seedlings STILL are not started - yikes

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Shawn and the solar panels
  • The solar build plan (spending less than $400 more for better long term results)
  • Animal care rotation - we got to give back

Infrastructure

  • Getting ready for the coop build
  • Diving into the plucker to make sure it is tip top for the class

Finances

  • No major expenses the last two weeks, no major sales either
  • The only food i “need” to buy is milk

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

Advisory Board

Resources

Feb 15, 2023

Today we talk about preserving food, chemical spills, self defense, fitness, and more with Joel Ryals of FortressK9, Ed Hubbell of the Iridium Group, Stephen Boone of SHTF Fitness, and Angela Allard of Grumpy Acres Farm.

Today’s Sponsor: The Homestead Consultant

TheHomesteadConsultant.com

In today's chaotic world there is a major disconnect between our land, our food and our community. At The Homestead Consultant, we believe that the solution to bridging these gaps starts in the individual home. By taking practical steps toward food production, land restoration, independent education and rational preparedness we can begin to restore these disconnects. That is where The Homestead Consultant comes in. We will work closely with you to evaluate your property with your unique goals, vision and resources in mind. Using a restorative,  permaculture lens we will help you design a holistic and actionable gameplan to help make your homesteading dreams a reality. Our sincere desire is to see all of our clients become more connected and resilient! Find out more about our services by visiting our website at TheHomesteadConsultant.com 

LFTN listeners get a special offer of a free 20 minute initial phone consultation. 

Featured Event: The Self Reliance Festival, March 25 & 26

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

FortressK9

The Iridium Group

SHTF Fitness

Grumpy Acres Farm

Main content of the show

Original Video was recorded here:

https://youtube.com/live/mIFh-hVnjto

Make it a great week!

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

Community

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Feb 13, 2023

Today we discuss how to apply the SWOT method to your own life plan, cover our usual Monday segments on pantry management and financial progress, and cover a question from a listener about erosion.

 

Livestream Schedule

  • Tuesday Live with Many Awesome Folks, 12:30 Central

  • Wednesday Live Interview with Thecia Ellis, 1pm Central

  • Thursday Evening Live for SRF, 7pm Central

  • Friday Homestead Happenings, 9:30am Central

 

A word on schedule.

 

Today’s Sponsor: Agorist Tax Advice

AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn 

 

Agorist Tax Advice. Do you want to give Uncle Sam fewer of your hard-earned dollars? Do you wonder if the time has come to set up your LLC? Are you confused about what kind of business to establish? Are you wanting to pass along wealth you have built to your kids, but not sure the best way to do that?

 

Matthew Sercely of Agorist Tax Advice can help you make sense of all the options, understand how to stay on top of tracking write-offs, and see new ways of organizing your finances so that you keep more of the money you earn in your pockets. 

 

Matthew has a broad knowledge of business finance, real estate and rentals, end of life planning and more which means that he can help you find legal tax loopholes and understand risks. 

 

Head on over to AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn to sign up for a free consultation.

 

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Redoing the storage system with bins due to putting off the prepper pantry roof replacement

  • Venison Story

  • Spotted the first dandelion bloom

  • Comfrey tea

  • Canned good update

  • About to pack up the whole kitchen

 

Weekly Shopping Report: 02/11/2023

 

Dollar Tree was first. I'm beginning to see some thinning in the main food aisle, although there are more products in the drink aisle, and the drink coolers are a little better stocked than last week. The frozen-food coolers in the back remain mostly empty. The store was pretty busy today, with two cashiers open, both with lines.

 

Next was Home Depot. A 2x4x8 remains at $3.35. They were rather busy around the contractor entrance, but I did not look around the rest of the store, as Sonia was waiting outside while I checked.

 

Our final stop was Aldi. We found what we wanted. There were at least two cases of heavy cream. I noticed that flour had gone up, and is now $2.18. Our careful buying habits caught up to us this week in a good way, and we escaped the store for less than $50.

 

Untainted regular at $3.999/gallon. Sonia commented that she saw more people with fuller carts.

 

Frugality Tip: Keto Friendly Cheese Snack from Dylan

Cheese squares baked at 350F for 10 minutes makes darn good cheese crackers. Perfect keto snacks and salad toppers!

Dylan

Steady Presence

 

Operation Independence

  • Repairing the joists in the kitchen in advance of a countertop redo and bar build - keeping the existing cabinets

  • Book larnin’

 

Main topic of the Show: Choose Your Focus with #My3Things

 

Let’s review what we have already done: 

  1. Defined your Vision
    https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2023/01/02/establishing-your-vision-my3things-step-one/

  2. Defined you Purpose
    https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2023/01/30/develop-your-purpose-with-my3things/

  3. Updated and adjusted both with feedback

 

Today, we use the SWOT method to prioritize three areas of focus.

 

What is SWOT?

 

Internal:

Strengths 

  • What are you good at?

  • What do you have of value in your household?

  • What would your mom say are your best talents?

 

Weaknesses

  • What are you bad at?

  • What are your weaknesses?

  • Where are you vulnerable if things go wrong (like a job loss, etc)

  • What limitations do you have?

 

External

Opportunities

  • What trends do you see in the big wide world that can create opportunity?

  • What external factors provide opportunities for you/your family?

 

Threats

  • What trends in the big wide world do you see that are threats?

  • What external factors limit your opportunities?

 

Choosing 3 priorities - 

  • Clump and Bump

  • Finding Connections

  • Identifying 3 in each category

  • Reduce to three total areas to address with goals

 

Creating goals from your SWOT

BHAG - bigger picture - timeline 3-5 years or even evergreen

 

Example: Create enough local, ongoing revenue that we are able to support the vision of the Holler Homestead.

 

Annual SMART goals: LFTN Podcast Monetization

  • Book 6 paid speaking engagements in 2023 in networks that are new to LFTN resulting in 150 leads each entering our sales funnel for the podcast.

    • Specific: increase funnel entrants 

    • Measurable: by 900

    • Achievable: <yes)

    • Relevant: when more people join our network, their lives improve and our revenue improves

    • Time constrained: 2023

  • Create a sales funnel by Feb 26, 2023 that guides participants through the process of developing a life strategic plan, and nets $5 per lead generated for LFTN.

 

Conclusion

 

Membership Plug

 

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Feb 8, 2023

Today we talk about the balloon, fnords, CBDCs and more with Jack Spirko and John Willis.

Featured Event: FREE Workshop - the Opt out of CBDC Challenge

Today’s Sponsor: Paul Wheaton of Wheaton Labs

Paul Wheaton over at permies.com/?f=495 and Wheaton Labs wants you to see how easy permaculture can be! This week he's released his Garden Master course trailer check out the YouTube video at https://youtu.be/FQz_BbaNfTU

If you want to get really deep into gardening for market, community, or your own homestead, you'll wanna see the whole Garden Master Course. Here's 35 hours of quality instruction on better-than-organic garden practices PLUS the 150 page Garden Master Guide 

LINK TO COURSE https://permies.com/s/nsgmc?f=495

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Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

The Survival Podcast

Main content of the show

Video on YT

https://www.youtube.com/live/GwgIdW0Y8yI?feature=share

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Feb 6, 2023

Today we have an interview with Leigh Murphy about art and prepping and her journey from a poverty mindset to prepared.

Livestream Schedule This Week

  • Tuesday Live with Jack Spirko, John Willis
  • Wednesday Live with Louise Milleman
  • Thursday, SRF Live with Tag from Life Done Free
  • Friday Homestead Happenings will be rescheduled to Saturday

Today’s Sponsor: Brave Botanicals

FreeOunceofKratom.com

Featured Event: CBDC Opt Out Challenge FREE Five Day Workshop

Show Resources

www.artbyeighmurphy.com

Main content of the show

www.artbyleighmurphy.com has an abbreviated but much longer bio. Long time fine artist with over 100 awards for her art, over 20 museum shows of her work, art in collections on three continents, Who's Who of American Women for accomplishments in art, signature member of the American Watercolor Society and Florida Watercolor Society (not that it means much outside that world), published writer in the art periodical genre. Etc.

6-8 Questions for Nicole to Ask

  • •Why I think more artists/creatives should be preppers, they probably are but would not admit it.
  • •What is a "Veblen good" and what that means for those who create them in this economic climate
  • •selling art changed drastically (for me anyway) when the Great Recession happened and it really has not come back since then.
  • •What it's like to be an artist who is a prepper/survivalist and how isolating that can be.
  • •going it alone, and so many of the pitfalls of being single and the importance of setting boundaries. Being seen as an expendable resource and/or your priorities are not important.
  • •along that same thing, dealing with the perception of being a prepper/survivalist and handling the usual contempt of others - until they are in a bind and come to you to save them. This and the previous bullet point tends to be far more of a problem with women.
  • •TSP has been my "safe space" for years and I can say stuff there that I could never talk about to other artists and creatives.

Interview

Membership and Coffee Pitch

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Feb 4, 2023

Today I talk about a homestead loss, improving myself and my business as a “successful” solopreneur, THE BALLOON, and more in a freestyling podcast!

 

Featured Event: SelfRelianceFestival.com

 

Today’s Sponsor

Agorist Tax Advice

AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn 

 

Agorist Tax Advice. Do you want to give Uncle Sam fewer of your hard-earned dollars? Do you wonder if the time has come to set up your LLC? Are you confused about what kind of business to establish? Are you wanting to pass along wealth you have built to your kids, but not sure the best way to do that?

 

Matthew Sercely of Agorist Tax Advice can help you make sense of all the options, understand how to stay on top of tracking write-offs, and see new ways of organizing your finances so that you keep more of the money you earn in your pockets. 

 

Matthew has a broad knowledge of business finance, real estate and rentals, end of life planning and more which means that he can help you find legal tax loopholes and understand risks. 

 

Show Outline

  1. Building when you are already successful
    1. TSP This Week
    2. Next steps
      1. Mentors, goals, employees, focused work, content planning)
  2. Baby Rabbits Died
  3. From Scratch House
    1. Organizing
    2. Time savers
    3. Clutter
  4. The Balloon

 

Make it a great week!

 

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Feb 3, 2023

Today we talk about new life on the homestead, eggs, spring planting, old stuff, and more.

 

Featured Event: Feb 22-24 - Lanier Island, GA (Near Atlanta) Next-Steps.info, use coupon code Sauce10

 

Today’s Sponsor: TheHomesteadConsultant.com

 

LFTN listeners get a special offer of a free 20 minute initial phone consultation. Just send an email with the subject LFTN Consult to TheHomesteadConsultant@gmail.com with a brief description of the homesteading topic you would like to discuss and we will respond to you with available time slots.  

 

Forage

  • Grass again
  • Baby chick weed

 

Livestock

  • Baby Rabbits
  • Eggs are back! (Old ducks)
  • New paddock for the sheep
  • Getting ready to order chickens

 

Grow

  • One final garden bed to be prepared
  • Weekend planting in the bed we set up in the fall
  • Early spring flowers are poking up
  • Still have not started seedlings

 

Holler Neighbors/Community

 

Infrastructure

  • Map of paddocks for the future
  • Top wire is complete
  • Setting up semi-permanent fencing next door (video forthcoming)

 

Finances

  • Fixing old vehicles vs difficult to repair new vehicles (Planned obsolescence)

 

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!

 

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Feb 1, 2023

Today we talk about permaculture, how to decide what is next on your homestead, rabbits, getting out of a J-o-b and more with Nick Ferguson and John Willis.

Featured Event: 

Canine Trainers Collaboration Workshop

Date: April 19-21

Location: Oviedo, FL (near Orlando)

Website is fortressk9.com/workshop

Today’s Sponsor

https://wheaton-labs.com/permaculture-design-course/?f-495 

Paul Wheaton of Wheaton Labs

Paul has a permaculture design course coming in June along side some other pretty cool In Person trainings over at https://wheaton-labs.com/permaculture-design-course/?f-495 If you have  been thinking about taking a course of this nature, consider heading to Montana to learn from a host of great instructors, Like Alan Booker, at Wheaton Labs!

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

HomegrownLiberty.com

Main content of the show

Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

Tuesday Live with Nick Ferguson

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Jan 30, 2023

Today is another #my3things episode with the primary focus being to develop your purpose. We will also include the usual Monday segments.

Featured Event: Opt Out of CBDC, a free 5 day webinar series that covers

Sign up here: https://livefree.academy/op/cbdcoptoutchallenge/?ref=52

Speakers: Derrick Brose, Sal the Agorist, Jack Spirko, Rebecca Bush, James Corbett, Richard Grove 

  1. The TRUTH about CBDCs and what must be done to survive the financial transition
  2. Set up a cryptocurrency wallet, acquire crypto anonymously, and trade with others (Bitcoin & Monero)
  3. Join the Freedom Cell Network and find like-minded people to connect with in your area
  4. Buy and sell goods and services in underground markets with alternative currencies,
  5. Put everything you learned into an actionable plan to break free from CBDCs

Today’s Sponsor: FreeSteading.com

Live this week:

Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Spring is coming: Eating Only Stuff from here (I may have over canned last year)
  • Freeze Drying the rest of our 2022 herbs that are stored in the freezer (why this schedule)

Weekly Shopping Report from Joe

Dollar Tree. The store has changed for the better. Maybe they added r borrowed some staff, but the store has been neatened up considerably. The drink coolers are probably at least 50% stocked, with (imho) a better product mix, including Venom energy drinks. The shelves are a lot neater too, and the Health aisle has had a lot of products added, and nicely organized. The place no longer looks "picked and sad," which is good.

Home Depot was #3, just to check the price of a 2x4x8. It is unchanged from last week, at $3.35. The store was normal-busy.

Aldi was last. They still had heavy cream. We found everything we wanted, and my debit card was warm but not smoking. 

Untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.999/gallon.

Frugality Tip from Charles

Test the limits of the TONER LOW notifications that you get on your printers. The HP Color printer that I have has been warning of impending doom for over 2 weeks now...probably 100+ pages have been printed with the existing cartridge.

At ~$100 per cartridge...well worth running it until the print quality gets bad.

On some older printers, when you get the low toner warning, you can remove the cartridge, shake it gently, and reinstall it, getting a another day or so of light printing...

Operation Independence

  • The Rat Infestation and Simplifying Life

Main topic of the Show: Develop Your Purpose with #my3things

Develop Your Purpose

In the early years of developing the #my3things method, we would go out to corporations to help them create strategic plans and marketing foundations so that they could establish a way to grow their impact, grow their sales, and improve the quality of their products or services. Before each engagement, my cofacilitator and I would create the coursework for the group, customized to what we thought they most needed. 

Sometimes, we would run the groups through activities that would result in a Vision Statement and other times, we would run them through developing their purpose first. In the end, after trying both ways multiple time and with different actives, we realized that developing the Vision first, followed my the purpose helped our customers come to consensus faster. Often, they would revisit their vision statement after developing the purpose statement, but time spent crafting both was reduced over time.

Why bring this up? Because as you develop your purpose statement, you may decide that adjustments are needed to your Vision statement and that is part of the interactive process to come up with your life strategic plan. Sometimes it takes seeing the same thing through multiple lenses to fully refine your direction.

Your purpose takes the vision you have developed and boils it down to the SO WHAT? Why do you exist in this world? How is the word better because you are in it. If you are wildly successful and disappear for ten years, how do things look different in a good way when you return?

To get to this, you first deconstruct your vision statement by analyzing the key elements present in this statement that MUST be there. Basically, you *start with your narrow Visions statement and pull out elements or characteristics that are important to its success and list them. 

The short cut would be to go back to the list that you made before you crafted the sentence, but this would be limiting. Instead, pull out a new list of characteristics or elements. You will find that they have subtly changed with the crafting of your visions statement.

In the case of the Holler/LFTN Community, this is how that list looks:

The Holler/LFTN COMMUNITY provides an inviting supportive place where aspiring agorists and homesteaders can connect, rejuvenate, share best practices and prosper together in freedom.

Key Elements:

*Inviting, safe place

*supportive community

*Connect aspiring homesteaders

*Connect aspiring agorists

*Healing and rejuvenation

*best practices

*Mutual aid/ helping one another

*True freedom is a choice

With this list craft your purpose statement in terms of what you or your family or your project is. Start by getting the concept crafted, then refine the language so that it is direct, clear and concise.

Some things to keep in mind while you craft your purpose statement: 

  1. Remember to include high-level information on how you are achieving your vision within the purpose statement
  2. Make sure that your purpose statement explains the “what” of your life plan or project
  3. This statement should also cover your why - why are you focused in these ways 

Living Free in Tennessee (Holler Neighbors) is a community that supports healing and mutual prosperity by connecting agorists and homesteaders with knowledge and resources so they can build an alternative to the violent systems currently used to support modern society.

Once you have a draft purpose statement, refine the language to be clear enough that a 6th grader can read and understand it, with as many tangible and visual words as possible. As with your vision statement, seek to reduce and remove unnecessary words through grammatical and vocabulary refinement without making it esoteric and jargon.

Once you have your final statement, take a week or so to shop it around to people and ask them to say back to you what the statement means to them. Listen carefully to the words they say and choose which new words make your statement clearer.

With both statements in hand, type them into a single document for future reference and prepare to develop your first most important areas of FOCUS that will move you forward in your journey.

SWOT

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Jan 29, 2023

Today, we have an interview with Paul Wheaton about integrating permaculture ideas into your business and a bunch of other cool things.

Featured Event: SelfRelianceFestival.com March 24-25

Agorist Tax Advice

AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn 

Show Resources

Permies.com

Main content of the show

Make it a great week

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Jan 27, 2023

Today we talk about getting seeds started, big news from the duck coop, dealing with a sick duck and more.

Today’s Sponsor: Paul Wheaton

Ready to preserve your harvest for the months to come? Build a solar dehydrator! Check out this movie detailing the development of 2 models of solar dehydrator at Wheaton Labs:

https://permies.com/w/free-heat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVwyahpzl08

Featured Event: SelfRelianceFestival.com

Forage

  • Watercress got beat back
  • Grass is coming in slowly
  • Garlic is poking up

Livestock

  • No baby rabbits yet
  • The egg
  • The sick duck
  • Listing animals
  • Sheep rebellion
  • Baby is getting into toddler trouble

Grow

  • Still getting beds ready
  • Beginning to AP relocation project
  • Starting peppers and herbs this weekend

Harvest Meals

  • Pork Rib Roast

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Dinner was HUGE for Tactical at the Eversoles
  • Came home to firewood moved and a rainstorm
  • Helping a friend set up electrical fencing for new animals

Infrastructure

  • Electrical fencing update (permanent, zoned)
  • Solar install preparation

Finances

  • Catching up on warranty claims - an important part of finance
  • Clerical Friday

 

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!

 

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Jan 24, 2023

Hijacked by the Tactical Redneck. Join Tactical as he covers what it is like to be HOMESTEAD ALONE in the Holler.

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

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Jan 23, 2023

Today we have an interview show with Jake Weinhagen, author of the Primal Primer, a book about integrating primal self care into your life. What is primal self care? Stay tuned to find out!

Featured Event: Next Steps on Lanier Island, Georgia - Next-Steps.info Use coupon code: SAUCE10

Today’s Sponsor: The Homestead Consultant

Promotional blurb: In today's chaotic world there is a major disconnect between our land, our food and our community. At The Homestead Consultant, we believe that the solution to bridging these gaps starts in the individual home. By taking practical steps toward food production, land restoration, independent education and rational preparedness we can begin to restore these disconnects. That is where The Homestead Consultant comes in. We will work closely with you to evaluate your property with your unique goals, vision and resources in mind. Using a restorative,  permaculture lens we will help you design a holistic and actionable gameplan to help make your homesteading dreams a reality. Our sincere desire is to see all of our clients become more connected and resilient! Find out more about our services by visiting our website at TheHomesteadConsultant.com 

LFTN listeners get a special offer of a free 20 minute initial phone consultation. Just send an email with the subject LFTN Consult to TheHomesteadConsultant@gmail.com with a brief description of the homesteading topic you would like to discuss and we will respond to you with available time slots.  

Show Resources

Website: https://corehumancompetence.com/

Book: https://amzn.to/3go8jqg

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LukeWeinhagen

Main content of the show

Luke Weinhagen is a Certified Situational Awareness Instructor, former United States Marine, Founder of Core Human Competence LLC, and the creator of Dangerously Competent, a self-defense and self-sufficiency training program.

For over fifteen years, Luke has taught individuals, families, and organizations to assess risk, respond swiftly, and win. He is the author of The Primal Primer and an Applied Theory Fellow at the Natural Law Institute.

Make it a great week!

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Jan 20, 2023

Today we talk about sheep care vs the STUN method, managing expectations when 2 people work on one homestead, early spring growth and more.

Agorist Tax Advice

AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn 

Agorist Tax Advice. Do you want to give Uncle Sam fewer of your hard-earned dollars? Do you wonder if the time has come to set up your LLC? Are you confused about what kind of business to establish? Are you wanting to pass along wealth you have built to your kids, but not sure the best way to do that?

Matthew Sercely of Agorist Tax Advice can help you make sense of all the options, understand how to stay on top of tracking write-offs, and see new ways of organizing your finances so that you keep more of the money you earn in your pockets. 

Matthew has a broad knowledge of business finance, real estate and rentals, end of life planning and more which means that he can help you find legal tax loopholes and understand risks. 

Head on over to AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn to sign up for a free consultation.

Event Feature: LFTN Spring Workshop - released 10 more tickets when I realized what we are doing for the build! Get the word out. LivingFreeinTennesse.com

Forage

  • Dandelion leaves are here (and what this means)
  • Same root things as last round
  • Lemonbalm has baby leaves
  • No chickweed or dead nettle yet but they will closely follow
  • Regrassing of the ripped up land is in process

Livestock

  • Caring for sleep vs the STUN method (The tail story)
  • Putting girls together so we have “two” herds and can control birthing timing
  • Hoping some baby bunnies arrive in the next 2 weeks
  • Still no eggs and T is investigating if they are being stolen from the coop (A word on the Dumore nutrition rumors on Youtube)
  • LGD update
  • Still needing to list pigs and the St Croix with West Coast genetics

Grow

  • Trees are budding out (and what this means)
  • Seedlings, an update
  • Final garnered bed preparation while it is warmer in January

Holler Neighbors/Community

Infrastructure

  • Preparing for the solar installation
  • Finally was able to order more step in posts (30% time savings no paddock shifts)
  • Trailer care needed to maintain the livestock trailer (There is always something)

Finances

  • No update

Membership Plug

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