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Jun 2, 2023

Join me for an early summer update about what is happening on the Homestead. Chicken processing class is coming soon, more babies than we know what to do with, garden update, dry weather and more.

Featured Event: John Willis’ Chainsaw Event, June 17 in Camden, TN

Sponsor 1: TheHomesteadConsultant.com

Sponsor 2:  AgoristTaxAdvice.comm

Forage

  • Honeysuckle
  • Last wild rose harvest (until there are rosehips in the fall)
  • Day lilies
  • Harvesting seed heads from pasture grasses
  • Perilla
  • About time for wild raspberries but I haven't seen any

Livestock

  • Breeding one rabbit
  • 28 babies so far this year, starting raw diet
  • Baby chicken and duck update - looks like all female ducks but we are waiting before I claim that
  • Meat birds are about ready to process - Join our 6th annual Chicken Class, June 24
  • New dogfood for lgd’s, costs less and better quality - pairing with rabbits

Grow

  • It has been dry
  • 1st fodder tree harvest
  • Strawberries are slowing down
  • Chard, scapes, peas, broccoli, nasturtium
  • Last round of lettuce
  • Tomato wall update (1st flowers)
  • Slowly managing the food forest from a pioneering species standpoint
  • Harvested: peppermint, tarragon
  • Garlic almost ready to harvest
  • Time to thin out strawberries

Harvest Meals

  • Sautes, salads, and time management
  • Bone broth

Holler Neighbors/Community

 

Infrastructure

  • Kitchen forward momentum
  • Solar water is a thing now - grounding and breakers were addressed
  • Runoff adjustments - keeping water on property even though it is dry
  • Final push on perimeter fence

Finances

  • 100% eating off the homestead

Thoughts on the busy season and keeping sanity.

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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May 30, 2023

Today we talk about making money, starting your business, the debt ceiling and more with John Pugliano of the Wealthsteading Podcast and John Willis of Special Operations Equipment.

Featured Event: The Self Reliance Festival, October 14-15 in Camden, TN

Today’s Sponsors:

Discount Mylar Bags

Freesteading.com

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

InvestableWealth.com

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. 

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May 26, 2023

Today we talk about how the dual bird incubation project went, our first dry spell of spring, and getting ready for food preservation season at the Holler Homestead.

Featured Event: The LFTN 7th Annual Chicken Processing Class

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com, Coupon code: LFTN

Forage

  • Mullein
  • Wild rose petals
  • Oyster Mushrooms
  • Day lilies should come in shortly
  • Faux strawberries

Livestock

  • Update on the egg hatching
  • Baby ducklings and chicks are growing fast
  • Put feeders in pots to cut down waste - much less waste
  • Moving the tractor a bunch with the chickens: 
  • May process all but the class chickens early
  • Wing clipping
  • Strawberry experiment - fail
  • Sheep are well, Bruny is on pregnancy watch

Grow

  • Broccoli looks great, getting cabbage worms though
  • Squash, peas, onions, chard, herbs beginning to take off
  • Tomato wall is up and we are working on balancing nutrient
  • Time to rotate the late spring plants where the early spring plants go
  • Beets look terrible
  • 30 minutes a day on the food forest is required due to weed growth: thoughts on leaf mulch
  • Strawberries are slowing, may water the patch and see if the rejuvenate (A word on “june bearing”

Harvest meals

  • Garden salad season - how they change
  • Quick meal: steaks
  • Shoulder roast in the crockpot

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Pew Pew Class

Infrastructure

  • Nothing new or big to report

Finances

  • Cashflow low this month

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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May 23, 2023

Today we talk about building from a small side hustle to a full time business with Kerry Brown of Strong Roots Resources and John Willis of Special Operations Equipment.

Featured Event: The SMART Homesteading Webinar, $45

Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com

Sponsor 2: HollerRoast.com

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

NicoleSauce.com

Strong Roots Resources

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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May 22, 2023

Today we have an interview with a former colleague of mine, Mark Johnson. Mark has just purchased land to develop into a retreat for veterans in Sparta, Tennessee. Where there is a will there is a way!

Featured Event: SelfRelianceFestival.com

Sponsor 1: Strong Roots Resources, StrongRootsResources.com

Sponsor 2: Freesteading.com

Show Resources

LibertyOakOasis.com

Facebook.com/LibertyOakOasis

@LibertyOakOasis -- Insta

libertyoakoasis@gmail.com

Main content of the show

Former interwebs political consultant. Photographer. Historian at heart. Nine year Army National Guard Veteran. Former Blog Talk Radio host covering Illinois Politics. Married to Vicki who is a nurse of 33 years. Proud West Highland White Terrier Owner: Named Willow. Relocating to TN to escape Illinois and create a retreat space for Veterans and Ministry leaders struggling with life issues.

Make it a great week

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May 18, 2023

Today is a homestead happenings show and I have NO IDEA what will happen because the Tactical Redneck is hijacking my show.

Enjoy!

Featured Event: Wild Edible Walk with Kerry Brown in Lenoir City, TN

Saturday, May 20th 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, rsvp to strongrootsresources@gmail.com

Sponsor 1: TheHomesteadConsultant.com

Sponsor 2: SelfRelianceFestival.com

Make it a Great Week!

May 18, 2023

Today, Niti Bali and I catch up with a nice, afternoon chat. It has been some months since we last had a conversation and this one was great!

Featured Event: Chicken Processing Workshop at LFTN, June 24, 2023 in Lancaster, TN

https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/event/chicken-processing-workshop/

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com, Coupon Code: LFTN

Show Resources

Farm To Fork Meat Riot

Main content of the show

Niti Bali is the Founder and CEO of Farm to Fork Meat Riot, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization serving as a catalyst for reestablishing the regenerative small family farm food system. Her strategically designed CSA program educates eaters to harness the power of life giving force through regenerative foods. Niti’s Farm to Fork Meat Riot CSA simultaneously supports regenerative livestock production based on consumption that results in a zero-waste system.

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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May 16, 2023

What happens when you get John Willis, Joel Salatin and Nicole Sauce together? We have a conversation about heritage skills, the economic fragility of the US, developing community, knowing your neighbors, and growing clean food.

Featured Event: Mike Shelby’s Surveillance Event in Nashville, TN, June 2-4, 2023, $500

https://grayzonestore.com/store/p/isr-nashville-2-4-june-2023

Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com

Sponsor 2: HollerRoast.com

Show Resources

Get Tickets for The Self Reliance Festival

The Lunatic Farmer Website

Polyface Farms

Joel’s Books & DVDs

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

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

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May 15, 2023

How has my homegrown cooking world been with an on site freeze dryer? Join me today as I talk about that and all our usual Monday topics! 

Featured Event: Exit and Build Land Summit, https://livefree.academy/op/exit-and-build-land-summit-iii-registration/?ref=183

Sponsor 1: Strong Roots Resources, StrongRootsResources.com

Sponsor 2: Freesteading.com

Harvet Right Affiliate Link: https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1095.html

Livestream Schedule

Tuesday

Join John Willis and I as we talk with Joel Salatin about the state of the world, building resilience into your lives, permaculture and more.

12:30 Central:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g

Friday

Hijacked by a redneck! Tactical Redneck grabs my channel for our weekly Homestead Happenings update at 10:30 Central.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhk2HWA-byY

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Drying herbs and flowers this week, particularly rose petals and red clover (explain why)
  • Packaging up dried morels
  • Meal planning from the freezer
  • Getting ready to be gone for five days - meals here and on the road
  • Have not restocked since the spring workshop and probably will not for a bit if at all
  • Next week is home canned good audit week

Weekly Shopping Report, May 13

Dollar Tree was first. They've added a couple of cases of Monster to the rear drink coolers. In addition to my usual caffeine-delivery mechanism, I noted a decent stock of plastics while picking up a few other items. The food aisles seemed a little less haphazard, and there were a couple of people in there stocking shelves. The health aisle had a lot more stuff on it.

Next was Home Depot. There was no tag on the stacks of 2x4x8 studs, so I looked online and found the price still at $3.35.

Last on this trip was Aldi. We found everything we wanted. Eggs are down another dime, to $1.87. Whole milk was $3.50/gallon

I did notice that people were friendly with no one seeming tense or worried. I think I only saw one muzzled sheep, during the second trip. Untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.999/gallon.

Frugality Tip from Margot

Hey all. I'm going to tell you to spend some money. But this is a frugality tip....yes it is. Sometimes you need to spend money to get something of value. We just got back from our first LFTN workshop and the ticket price was well worth the value we received. The price of the ticket can not buy the connections we made. The bonus was all of the things we learned. If you feel like you can't afford a ticket to a workshop, grab a can, and everytime you break, let's say a $20, put the change in a jar. Before you know it you will be able to "afford" things you didn't think you could. I can not stress how important community is, and without going to workshops that follow your interests, you will not find your most important community members. (You have almost a year to save up for the next LFTN)

Operation Independence

  • Nothing to report

Main topic of the Show: Homegrown Cooking with a Freeze Dryer

Why I got a freeze dryer (originally)

What I learned getting started

Frequency of using the machine year one versus now

  • Every time I could run it, I did
    • Left overs
    • Surplus garden things
    • Surplus milk and eggs
    • Candy experiments
  • How I use it now
    • Goal to use the food within 2 years (why, resilience = regeneration)
    • Keto travel snacks (cold cuts, etc)
    • Targeted surplus
    • Herbs, herbs, herbs, garlic, onion
    • Frequency of use: Once a week when not pressed for time

Is it worth it?

  • Quality
  • Convenience
  • Longevity
  • Business ideas: candy, whole meals, load rental

There is a webinar on getting started in the membership portal for those who decide to get one this year. A word on Harvest Right and customer support. (Keep calling)

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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May 12, 2023

Join me for a discussion of what to do to catch up on your spring gardening, exciting spring forage, update on the incubation project. 

Featured Event: June 24 Poultry Processing Workshop at the Holler Homestead

https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/product/poultry-processing-workshop-ticket/

Sponsor number 1: Permies.com - PTJ, https://wheaton-labs.com/permaculture-tech/?f=496 BOGO

Sponsor number 2: EMP Shield, https://www.empshield.com/ Use coupon code LFTN for 25% off

Forage

  • Red clover (Harvesting recommendation game)
  • Vetch
  • Wild rose petals
  • Dandelion flower
  • Last chance on watercress for awhile (Flavor is quite peppery)

Livestock

  • Keeping an eye on the sheep with the spring rains
  • More baby rabbits due - and our space challenge
  • Incubator project update
  • Goats and garden weeds
  • Still no bresse babies…

Harvest meals

  • Spring greens and mouth feel
  • Holler Stew goulasch style

Grow

  • These 3 peas!
  • Strawberries are off the charts, too many to eat
  • Brassicas look good (finger’s crossed)
  • Catching up on the garden when you are behind
  • Worm castings
  • Comfrey Harvest 1.0
  • Planting more fodder trees propagated from the first round

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Quiet week

Infrastructure

Finances

  • Auctioned off things to buy a zero turn mower - not sure how that went yet

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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May 11, 2023

Today, we get real about handling existential crisis, homesteading, proofing yeast, and more. Amy Dingmann and Nicole Sauce do not hold back the spice when we get together.

Featured Event: TheAgoraFest.com, May 13 in Chattanooga Area

Today’s Sponsor 1: TheHomesteadConsultant.com

Today’s Sponsor 2: FreeSteading.com

Show Resources

A Farmish Kind of Life

Living Free in Tennessee

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. 

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May 10, 2023

Today, I share some lessons learned after one week of the #75Hard challenge. 

Featured Event: May 27 & 28 Fighting Pistol Class at Tactical Response in Camden, TN

https://www.tacticalresponse.com/collections/training/products/fighting-pistol

Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com

Sponsor 2: LFTN Chicken Processing Workshop, June 24, 2023

Main topic of the Show: 

  1. Follow a diet.  This can be the diet of your choice, but it must be a structured plan designed with a physical improvement in mind.
  2. You must complete two 45-minute workouts. One of those workouts MUST be outdoors.
  3. Absolutely NO alcohol or cheat meals.
  4. Take a progress picture every day.
  5. Drink 1 gallon of water.
  6. Read 10 pages of a book.  **Audiobooks DO NOT COUNT.

ZERO COMPROMISE

ZERO SUBSTITUTION

You have until you go to sleep to complete the day.

If you fail, you MUST start over on Day 1.

  • What I thought about the few weeks before starting
  • Why I started when I did
  • Observations
    • Quiet during workout (E&B Outline)
    • Building time for yourself - prioritizing yourself
    • Boundaries are not just for other people
    • Sometimes it is hard
    • Everyone has different demons and the pop up
    • Success will depend on if I choose to succeed

Join me? #LFTNChallenge 

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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May 9, 2023

Today we talk about military fitness test degradation, solar and resilience, greenhouse heating ideas, and methane producing digesters Jack Spirko and John Willis.

Featured Event: Paul Wheaton’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree, July 3-14

https://wheaton-labs.com/permaculture-tech/?f=496

Sponsor 1: Strong Roots Resources (StrongRootsResources.com)

Sponsor 2: Radio Made Easy, Zero to Hero with Ham Radio

https://selfreliancefestival.com/product/zero-to-hero-radio-operator-course/?aff=nicolesauce

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

The Survival Podcast

Main content of the show

Exit and Build Land Summit

https://livefree.academy/op/exit-and-build-land-summit-iii-registration/?ref=183

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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May 8, 2023

Every Year, we host the LFTN Spring Workshop and folks wonder why should they invest three days of their time in something that souls like one big camping party? And each year, I watch people’s lives change. I watch the lights turn on. The decisions get made. I see super shy people stand up in front of a group and speak into a microphone. And each year, there is a different “spirit” at the event. 

Today, we will talk about the cool things that happened at #LFTN23, the breakthroughs and lessons learned and I post a question - What Are You Doing Next.

Featured Event: Exit and Build Land Summit

https://livefree.academy/op/exit-and-build-land-summit-iii-registration/?ref=183

Content includes, exiting the healthcare system, exiting the cities, how to raise money for land when you think you can’t, seed saving and food preservation, PMAs and more.

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

Sponsor 2: HollerRoast.com

Livestream Schedule

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Workshop Leftovers
  • Redoing the shelving strategy in the mudroom and prepper pantry - plans are underway
  • Time for a full round of freezer audit
  • Smoked pork from the homestead this week
  • Transitioning to filling the pantry from emptying it - the time is now
  • Death of a Farmer’s Market

Frugality Tip from Janet

Save slivers of soap and make my own hand soap every couple of months. I add the slivers to a grated bar of Dr Bronners.

Operation Independence

  • We will start finding out how much the new solar system saves on power compared with last year, and deduct that from the capital investment of $5000
  • Considering adding a farm stand and targeting the nearby marina

Main topic of the Show: What Are You Doing Next?

The LFTN Spring Workshop always ends with exhaustion of a kind that is difficult to describe because I always feel both empowered, motivated and ready for a long nap. Each year, I am not quite sure what the BIG THING is that came from the workshop and yet, each year something does.

In 2020, we realized that grow is a state of mind, not state of the economy. It is your choice.

In 2021, we realized that our connections are already the foundation for a parallel society - as in we already have one.

In 2022, we realized that we are the people with normal relationships and the unhealthy anchors in the “real world” must be tossed off

So what is next?

The phrase that is beating through my head today as I prepare the show notes is What Are You Doing Next?

It reminds me of the day my roaster caught on fire… <John Willis Story>

How does this relate to #LFTN23

  • Poverty mindset
  • Make money despite the recession
  • Business q and a with John Willis
  • Sewing best practices and demos
  • Cheese making demo
  • Fencing tour
  • Holler Roost
  • Solar Build
  • Impromptu rabbit processing
  • …melding of the minds

Get off your ass

BreakTHROUGH

“I dont want to leave - also I CANT WAIT to get home and start some things.

And the whole time I was kicking around doing 75hard, and talked to a participant about it - turns out she has tried twice,

The shift was to How Can I

It wasnt the fellowship, the hijinks, the rum tasting, the torrential rains help at bay by Tajmaholler. 

We didn’t care - we asked what next?

It wasn’t the fabulous food from right here, or the build your niche business presentation, or dog bite demo – we asked what can we do?

It wasn’t the quiet morning coffee because we had late sleeps, or the roasted pig, or the wild edible walk, we asked what do I want to build – then we turned to someone close to us and talked about it.

New connections

Better ideas

A fire lit under our butts

So, in the words of John Willis, I ask: What Are You Doing Next? I am doing 75Hard to increase my mental discipline – and whatever else it brings.

What are you doing today, tomorrow, next week? What thing are you ready to tackle? What do you want to build?

Really, I ask you – What are you doing next?

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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May 6, 2023

Today, I share the story of WHY I moved from Oregon to Tennessee and talk about a few other things on this short form variety show. 

Featured Event: The Self Reliance Festival in Camden, TN - SelfRelianceFestival.comToday’s Sponsor: StrongRootsResources.com

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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May 5, 2023

Join me for a homestead happening episode, including a discussion about how some folks in Chattanooga have set up a PMA to BE THE AGORA! What does that have to do with homesteading? You will find out.

Featured Event: theAgorafest.com

Today’s Sponsor: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

Forage

  • Hairy Vetch
  • Strawberries
  • Mints
  • Watercress
  • Wild Rose petal
  • Fodder tree trimming
  • Found the first poke

Livestock

  • Baby Sheep arrived - twin girls
  • Rabbit explosion
  • Incubator update
  • Duck Jail
  • Hoof trimming getting scheduled

Grow

  • Enjoying: Lettuce, chard, pea chutes, radishes
  • Got potatoes in
  • Beets are planted, half the spring plants transplanted
  • Cardboard soil update
  • Removing ill placed filbert trees
  • Need to chop and drop things on the swales 
  • Cloning desired plants for the food forest
  • Need a creative mulching solution

Harvest Eating

  • Daily saute season is here (How that works)

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • #LFTN23 was a HUGE success and would not have been without community
  • The electricity story

Infrastructure

  • Connecting the fence to Holler Roost - May have plans for sale soon
  • The grounding issue - hole, poop, burm - water is starting to infiltrate the ground

Finances

  • Hip Camp will open soon
  • Collecting ALL metal scrap to bring in cash for a zero turn mower

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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May 2, 2023

Today John Willis and I welcome Porterhouse of Porterhouse and Teal to talk about his struggles with Youtube monetization, forest fires, trolls and homesteading.

Featured Event: Oct 12-13 Zero to Hero Ham Radio Training by Radio Made Easy

https://selfreliancefestival.com/product/zero-to-hero-radio-operator-course/

Today’s Sponsor: The Homestead Consultant

TheHomesteadConsultant.com

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

PorterhouseandTeal.com

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

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May 2, 2023

Today I am joined by Rebecca and John Bush to talk about their journey from poverty to prosperity and how they have used their experiences to create a vast network of people ready to exit the cities and build homestead communities in the country.

 

Featured Event: Exit and Build Land Summit, May 18-21 in Bastrop, Texas
https://livefree.academy/op/exit-and-build-land-summit-iii-registration/?ref=183

 

Today’s Sponsor: DiscountMylarBags.com

 

Show Resources

Live Free Academy

 

Main content of the show

Rebecca and John Bush built their life from tiny home, city living to a 10 acre homestead in Bastrop Texas with grit, determination, work and love of community. They founded and run the Exit and Build Land Summit in Bastrop, Texas and connect thousands of people with practical skills through The Live Free Academy.

 

Interview

 

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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Apr 28, 2023

Today we have a collection of questions from you, the listeners, mainly on early spring topics and the Holler Roost project completed by Steve Eversole. This is a combination of two questions and answers sessions with Holler Neighbors.Featured Event: 

Wild Edible Walk

Lenoir City, TN

Saturday, May 20th

10:00 am to 2:00 pm

RSVP to: strongrootsresources@gmail.com

Today’s Sponsor: FreeSteading.com

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

Advisory Board

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Apr 27, 2023

Today, I am joined by Thecia Ellis to discuss how persistence has taken her from the brink of bankruptcy to a developing homestead.

Featured Event: The 2023 Health Expo hosted by Barron County Patriots on May 6 in Chetek, WIToday’s Sponsor: The Homestead Consultant

Show Resources

https://www.grandmashomestead.farm/

This Grandma's Life Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ywkimBphxuAqn7rwx9hQg

Farm Animal Life

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSkUUHdXKN8OUGiODPXEupg

Etsy Shop

https://www.etsy.com/shop/KinziesCandleShop

Main content of the show

Thecia Ellis is a grandmother of three that has settled in NE Oklahoma after a lifetime of moving around Oklahoma, Alaska, Texas and Southern California with a very short move to Venezuela as a toddler.

She and her husband own 26 acres of the 40 acre plot of a reclaimed coal pit. After her husband became severely depressed that morphed into bi-polar depression, their lives slid backward for several years nearly losing everything.

Through sheer stubbornness and persistence, Thecia is slowly clawing their way forward again and even has begun to enjoy the journey.

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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Apr 26, 2023

Today, I am joined by Ryan Steve of TheHomesteadConsultant.com to discuss how critical thinking is done and why it is important to sharpen this skill.

Featured Event: Paul Wheaton’s PTJ Event in Missoula, MT

Today’s Sponsor: DiscountMylarBags.com

Show Resources

TheHomesteadConsultant.com

ClarityHomeInspection.com

www.instagram.com/inspectionsbyclarity

www.facebook.com/inspectionsbyclarity

youtube.com/@lovefarm9862

Main content of the show

I grew up in rural Wisconsin with lots of room to roam, experiment and explore. I was home schooled before it was cool. After a departure from the corporate world, I now make my living as a home inspector and homesteading consultant. I love to innovate solutions and I am passionate about building soil, building community and building better, more resilient food systems.

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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Apr 25, 2023

Today I talk with Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast about - well - everything!

Featured Event: The Exit and Build Land Summit, May 18-21 in Bastrop, TX

Today’s Sponsor: Agorist Tax Advice: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

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Living Free in Tennessee

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Jack Spirko and I hopped on a two hour livestream to field a bunch of questions from gardening, to ammo, to storing fuel. Enjoy

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Apr 24, 2023

Today we talk about spring not coming on the homestead, cats, and life priorities with Amy Dingmann from A Farmish Kind of Life on our monthly Spicy Sisters show.

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Featured Event: The Midwest Preparedness Project, April 26-28

Today’s Sponsor: Strong Roots Resources

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Living Free in Tennessee

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Apr 21, 2023

Today we talk about the duck egg incubation experiment, another coming frost risk as predicted, pre planning for healthy meals, rabbit procrastination.

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Wild Edible Walk

Lenoir City, TN

Saturday, May 20th

10:00 am to 2:00 pm

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Today’s Sponsor: TheHomesteadConsultant.com

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Chicken Processing class

Forage

  • Hairy vetch is blooming
  • New mullein is popping up
  • Dead nettle and chick weed is still around but getting old
  • Bee balm is popping up, as is lemon balm

Livestock

  • Epic Muscovey Battles
  • Rabbit procrastination
  • Time to rotate goats but we are waiting til after the Spring Workshop
  • Meat chicken update - whey and milk, class
  • Sheep escaping the fence - weird electrical fencing problems
  • LGDs need to go to the vet

Grow

  • Tomato update
  • Hardening off seedlings, why it is important (Sunburned leaves)
  • Spring garden salads

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Steve and the outhouse trim
  • Holler Roost T Shirt
  • Share what you are accomplishing on TG
  • A word on Nostr

Infrastructure

  • Holler Roost is finished
  • Focusing on food forest maintenance (Trying to get the ground cover I want over ground cover mother nature wants
  • Garden planting time

Finances

  • No update

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Apr 19, 2023

Join me for a discussion with Toby Truman of Discount Mylar Bags about how he grew his business on Amazon, ran into roadblocks, and ultimately shifted focus beyond the Amazon community. Lots of lessons learned in this show today!

Featured Event: The Midwest Preparedness Project, April 26-28

Today's Sponsor: Discount Mylar Bags

We are pleased to welcome a new sponsor today! I thought it would be fitting to announce this sponsor the same day we speak with its founder. Discount Mylar Bags has been providing quality mylar solutions and other packaging for over a decade, as well as linking folks up with food preservation systems such as the Harvest Right Freeze Dryer and more! A family run business, DMB loves its customers and they operate out of Tennessee. in fact, early on in Holler Roast's live, Toby from DMB reached out to me to offer to connect me with coffee packaging at a high volume rate, but without having to store 50,000 bags in the Holler. For five years, we have exclusively sourced the Holler Roast bags from DMB.

It is without hesitation that I welcome Discount Mylar Bags to our sponsorship rolls! Find out more at DiscountMylarBags.com.

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What makes someone want to sell Mylar bags for a living? What were you doing before that?
What were your goals for the business starting out?
How much did it cost to start your business?
Have you had any other side hustles?
Now that you’re ‘retired’ at 52, what does your life look like?
What do you attribute your success to?
What do you want us to know about your products or company?

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