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Closing out the series, we bring you two versions of The Night Before Christmas. One from an intellectual fellow and one set to music. Enjoy!
Rest, regeneration, rejuvenation and reflection are the topic of today’s show. The season has changed, we are officially in winter - and have been weather-wise for a bit. And the hardest days are likely ahead. But right now, in this moment, if we are following the natural flow of seasons. We finally have time to get some rest. Today, I also wanted to discuss the spirit of the season - no matter your religious leaning, and to think through ways to make the most of the season of regeneration.
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Main topic of the show: Season of Regeneration
Merry Christmas everyone - and make it a great week.
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This year on the podcast, we started hearing more often from a certain redneck. Sometimes as a segment, sometimes on an interview and a time or two on Youtube. So when he offered (ok was voluntold) to read a redneck version of The Night Before Christmas, how could we say no. Don't worry though, there are no bad words if your kids want to listen. :D
A friend from down under recorded this version of the poem for us with a few adjustments made for her local environment. Thank you AussieRo.
NOTE: I TALK ABOUT WHO SANTA IS IN THIS...
Join us in the series in the first in a series for 2018 of poems read from throughout the world. This version of The Night Before Christmas comes from our friend “Jaggy Little Thistle” who listens from Scotland. Thanks for the recording Jaggy!
Today, I want to take on another country kitchen topic but from a bit of a different angle over last week: Modern Cooking in the country kitchen with a sous vide machine. Yup, this year, I got my hands on a sous vide machine and started experimenting with it. At first I was a bit skeptical about if it would really make a difference, but I also knew of other uses for it outside of cooking and thought it would be handy to have around. Then I got the thing and ended up LOVING it - like as in loving it more than my crockpot. So today, we will talk about what sous vide is, why I have started using it here at the Holler Homestead and even talk through some recipes.
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Announce Holler Hat Wednesday
Modern Cooking with Sous Vide
Nicole’s Lessons Learned on Soux vide
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Questions:
Finally, the add-on use: Hand and dish washing stations: heat the water and hold it there
Story: Pig processing at 17 degrees on an off grid farm
Booze Whisperer: Gin and Juice
Make it a great week.
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Samantha the Savings Ninja
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Today, we talk about five areas of first aid that you should think about both on your homestead and, well, pretty much anywhere.
Spring Workshop Session: Developing Your Positive Community in the Modern World, from the Tactical Redneck
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Turkey for the weekend reception
Smoked Leg of Marty
Cushaw Squash, roasted, in soup, with feta as a salad
Retort Pouch Canning: Video
Stump the Sauce
Preparing Eggplant from the Store
Operation Independence
Really Cool Thank You Gifts for our Premium Supporters
Main topic of the show: Learning First Aid for the Homestead
#My3things
Teresa - managed to do a move with a sprained ankle - go girl!
A note on #my3things for the week:
Update from last week: the surprise is ready to ship
Paperwork
Domestic decluttering
Prepare week 1 jan 2019
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I haven’t talked much about homesteading or domestic arts lately. We’ve focused more on building the life you want to live. So today, I thought, why not surprise them with something that goes back to our roots of homesteading?
Cooking has changed
But the country kitchen goes through cycles. One thing feeds another - or gets in the way. So today, I thought I would run you through a not so atypical morning here at the Holler Homestead….
It all starts with coffee and 30 minutes of peaceful reflection…….Then we dive in.
There is something quite satisfying about the levels of production that you can attain if you let one thing feed the next in your kitchen. Next thing you know you have homemade broth in the pantry, lard going in the crockpot, home smoked meat, and easy plan for dinner, and a load of laundry hung out by the fire.
So why not learn a new "old" skill this winter and begin developing your own cycles in the kitchen?
Make it a great week!
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Living on a homestead is like having a variety show in your life: Something unexpected happens almost every day. Just today, I walked out to the roasting camper and saw 2 goats in my yard. If you look at the show’s photo today, you will understand why I was baffled by this. They should have been shut in the barn. And sometimes we get so mad when things go off plan, but when has anything ever really stayed on plan? Today, I will walk through several topics that impact homesteaders and those of you who are starting or have started your own business. From honey bees to healthcare, today is like a fireside chat.
Spring Workshop Session: Chef Brett Corrieri - Charcuterie.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Stump the Sauce
Operation Independence
Main topic of the show: Take Each Day as it is on the Homestead
Make it a great week!
Song: Cilly Song by Sauce
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Easy ways to find ideas for homemade gifts and firing the toxic people in your life, today on LFTN!
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Main Topic of the Day: Handmade Homey Gifts and Firing Toxic People
Song: Burned by Sauce
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Today, I have two topics for you. The first is a simple walk through our simple weekend of doing odd, quaint things. Someone pointed out to me that what I think of as a stress free Thanksgiving is filled with tons of basic homemaking skills that no one does anymore….and we will talk about a deeper idea: Mourning loss as an adult and also mourning loss for the first time, and ways to navigate sadness when you lose someone close to you. I know, I know. This may seem like a depressing topic, but it won’t be, I promise.
Workshop Session Highlight: Dori Mulder - Side Hustle Mentality: Gleaning Value From What You Have.
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Catfood Incident
Early Cold has been good on the root vegetables
Freezer filled with Pork, sorting last year’s beef (and selling some) in preparation for the next cow (Cow story)
A word on stability and cashflow.
What Mother Nature is providing
Oysters have appeared, finally (Turkey mushroom gravy)
Lemon balm is still giving us leaves
Same as last week: things below the ground are ready. Like Sassafrass root and jerusalem artichoke.
Stump the Sauce
Last minute buttercream frosting in an urgent situation
Operation Independence
Lardo for the charcuterie session
Duplex is the prime focus until it is done
Main topic: What is Normal Has Become Odd
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Samantha the Savings Ninja
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Today, we will talk about a basic homesteading activity: Processing Pigs for winter -- and a deeper topic: Processing Life. The last 10 days, many people I know and ones I just recently got to know in the LFTN community have been facing hard life lessons. So we will look at lessons learned from processing pigs next to lessons learned from life. And they are not all that different.
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What Mother Nature is providing
Stump the Sauce
Operation Independence
Processing pigs - processing life.
#My3things
Make it a great week!
Song: Every Way by Sauce
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Samantha the Savings Ninja
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Today, I run through three key lessons from the #TSP18 workshop that happened over the weekend at Jack Spirko's place in Texas. There were many more than three lessons to learn, but when it comes to living your life rather than have someone else live it for you, this event was a great motivator.
Today, we talk about what steps I will take to prepare the aquaponics system for winter, as well as go over what you can do now to get your garden beds ready for a great spring!
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
What Mother Nature is providing
Stump the Sauce
Operation Independence
Main topic of the show: Winterizing the Aquaponics System and garden beds
Four things to to to the ap:
How to prepare your beds for winter
A Final Winter checklist
Make it a great week.
Song: Strange Child by Sauce
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Samantha the Savings Ninja
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Today is that moment you have all been waiting for: A debrief of our visit to see Dori at her place, 40 Acres and a Cave. We will have a short debrief of what happened for the visit and a run down of some things we can all learn from what she is doing out there with that fantastic property.
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
What Mother Nature is providing
Stump the Sauce
Operation Independence
A debrief of 40 Acres and a Cave
Make it a great week!
Song: Anonymous by Sauce
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The Booze Whisperer
The Tactical Redneck
Chef Brett
Samantha the Savings Ninja
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So, this episode will focus on a man I have long admired in our area: Billy Kaufman of Short Mountain Distillery. Billy moved to Tennessee with a vision. What he started doing morphed into where he is today and we had a great talk about his distillery, the Haunted Woods event, and his journey from arrival to where he is today. There is so much to learn from how he has flexed and adjusted as he develops his farm into something beautiful. And while the what of he is doing has changed, his vision remains largely unchanged. It is a great example of how sticking to a vision over a tactic can help you launch the lifestyle you want.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
What Mother Nature is providing
Operation Independence
Main topic of the show: Haunted Woods, Moonshine, and the Power of Vision with Billy Kaufmann
Question: How are you surrounding yourself with doers or takers?
Make it a great week!
Song: Learning What Leaving Is, by Sauce
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The Booze Whisperer
The Tactical Redneck
Chef Brett
Samantha the Savings Ninja
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Today, we will talk about something a bit different: why we end each episode with make it a great week. We will also take a look at what that means for so many, and tell some stories along the way.
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What Mother Nature is providing
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Main Topic: New tagline - Helping you to live the life you choose on your terms
Song: Suicide by Sauce
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The Booze Whisperer
The Tactical Redneck
Chef Brett
Samantha the Savings Ninja
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Today, I want to talk about progress and the fall. Winter is coming, but right now, we get to enjoy the fruits of our labor. More about that in the main show topic.
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What Mother Nature is providing
Stump the Sauce
Tales from the Booze Whisperer
Operation Independence
Main topic of the show: Progress.
Go out, and make it a great week!
Song: Wolf by Sauce (Also referred to as Desire)
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The Booze Whisperer
The Tactical Redneck
Chef Brett
Samantha the Savings Ninja
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Today, we talk through a roundup of questions I have gotten over the past two weeks related to fall homesteading activities. From canning to heating, y’all have been busy trying to figure stuff out. Of course, some of these questions have been addressed over on the LFTN Coffee Break group on Facebook, but I just figured if one of you has a question, many of you have the same question.
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Food for friends: Ad trade, canned foods from the pantry = low expense to be a helpful member of the community.
Main topic of the show: A Fall Roundup on Homesteading
Q1: How do I figure out how many pounds of tomatoes to use to yield a certain number of jars?
Q2: Tattler lids - can you reuse the rubber gasket?
Q3: What is it like to heat with a wood stove only?
Q4: How do you integrate a new rooster to your flock?
Q5: I just got a ton of persimmons that are not completely ripe, what do I do with them? I hate to throw them away…
Q6: What kind of garlic grows well in Tennessee?
Q7: Is it ok to raid my bees for honey now?
Q8: Should I store my canned goods with the ring on or the ring off the jar?
Q9: How do I store my potatoes and squash?
Q10: How much firewood is enough?
Q11: What about garden bed preparation?
Q12: What should I plant now for spring?
Q:13: What else can you do to prepare your home for winter?
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Today, we explore how following the basic concepts put forth through developing your life strategic plan, continually moving your big picture goals forward, and remembering that we are here to live our lives, not have them lived for us. Or something like that...
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Stump the Sauce
What Mother Nature is Providing
Independence Fund Update
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Today, we have a special guest in the house: Shawn Mills. Remember way back when almost a year and a half ago when I had someone come look at my home to help me understand better what it might take to go off grid? Well, that was Shawn. Today we are going to talk about his off-grid lifestyle, as well as focus on things all of us can do to move that direction without committing to a 10k solar panel installation.
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What Mother Nature is providing
Stump the Sauce
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Main topic of the show: Off-Grid Mentality Can Improve Your Homestead with Shawn Mills
Make it a great week!
Song: The Flood by Sauce
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Today, we will take a walk through the benefits of simply living. Simply living - as in simply living your life, not letting others live it for you. Why Simply living and not simple living? You gotta listen to find out!
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
38 jars of salsa are canned
Putting up tomato sauce this week
Need to do an shelving overhaul in there
The mud room is mostly full of jars, but some will go to our chili loving friends who put in on the chillies this year
What Mother Nature is providing
Goldenrod
Beans beans beans and funny beans
Damn the electrical company for spraying on my land
PAW PAWS ARE READY -
Stump the Sauce
Rattle Snake Recipe
Operation Independence
Put up 39 pints of salsa for winter
August was a record month for the airbnb
Sticking to my guns on the weekly finance review
Need to get taxes done
The Bounty of Simply Living .... not having your life lived for you.
Song: Strange Child, by Sauce
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Today we talk about preparing for winter, Christmas gift ideas, decision making with emotions, green chilipalooza and more!
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What Mother Nature is providing
Stump the Sauce
Tales from the Booze Whisperer
Operation Independence
Christmas is coming - gift ideas
The newly adopted family that visited and an update on Airbnb
Making decisions by emotion
Fall on the homestead = prepare for winter
Song: Feed My Hunger by Sauce
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And today, I have a fun interview to share with you. I talked to a friend, John Moody who boasts a background at the Farm to Table legal defense fund, has built a high tunnel on his land, and approaches homesteading with the simple idea that: don’t make it harder than it has to be. He is about to release his book, the frugal homestead, and is an all-around fun guy to talk with!
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What Mother Nature is providing
What we are preserving this week
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Ideas from the Booze Whisperer
Operation Independence
Interview with John Moody, Author of Frugal Homesteading
Song: Learning What Leaving Is, Sauce
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Today, we will take a look at what it means to change your narrative into something that helps move you where you want to go.
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What Mother Nature is providing
Hot weather AND rain - perfect for fall garden if you can keep things going
Tomatoes, beans and okra
Swiss chard is ramping up
Dill weed and other herbs
More elderberries - still seeking 1 gallon
Early season apples
What we are preserving this week
Canning tomatoes
Sauerkraut canning
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Canned jars are stacking up
Garlic is ready to be stored - so it is inside
It’s hot in there - still haven’t defrosted the freezer
Tales from the booze whisperer
What to do with canned peaches
Operation Independence
Change Your Narrative, Change Your Life
Make it a great week.
Song: Feed My Hunger, by Nicole Sauce