I have a special one for you today. Remember the lady who bought the acreage in the Ozarks with multiple dilapidated cabins and a cave with a restaurant built into it? That’s right, I had a chance to catch up with Dori a few weeks ago and find out how her winter went, where she has made progress and what her past 9 months or so have been like. Yes, today you get to hear about her walk toward independence, one year later.
Resources
What Mother Nature is providing
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Advice from the Cocktail Whisperer
(See more from David over at Biltong for Breakfast)
Operation Independence
Homestead Design One Year Later - An interview with Dori
Make it a great week.
Song: Wolf by Sauce (At Dori's request)
Photos from 40 Acres and a Cave
I had an inspiration, a breakthrough. It was really just a simple thought, but that doesn't sound as cool as a breakthrough. And it came to me at the oddest time. It came at a time when all was quiet, I wasn’t thinking about grey water, or canning, or growing Holler Roast Coffee, or the paper or anything else. It came to me in a moment of silence, when I was kicking back observing the world around me, just walking along the road with my dogs. And it got me to thinking. What do we need to have in place to have breakthroughs? What can we do to help ourselves grow and change? We will talk about that later in the show.
Two Year anniversary: Membership sale for one week!
Membership Sign Up
Five Elements of Homemade Salad Dressing
What Mother Nature is providing
Elderflowers are still going strong
Wineberries
Basil
Cabbage
Raspberries for about another week
Green Garlic: Cream of garlic soup
Green tomatoes
First Jalapeno pepper from the Aquaponics system
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Drying last year’s garlic - yes is stored that long with no problems
Honey Harvest: 8 mediums (!!!) Borrowing a centrifuge from our friend Ricky
Learning Aquaponics
Trellising in 15 minutes - a story
Rooting things in the ebb and flow bed
Operation Independence
Hit the paper hard and it yielded two big clients!
Breakthroughs Come when you least expect them.....some thoughts.
Make it a great week!
Song: The Flood by Sauce
Today we will talk to Vin Armani about declaring independence. What struck me about his talk at Liberty Forum was that it was not a tired lecture on the the historical relevance of our Declaration of Independence here, it was an evaluation of what sparks people to choose to be free, and what character elements one needs to have to do it. We also have a crypto tip from our friend Kurt.
Show Resources
What Mother Nature is providing
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Harvest Bounty
Questions from Listeners
From Amy on FB: "I've been enjoying your podcasts for quite a while. I enjoy them bc I'm homesteading not far in N. Alabama and our climates are very similar. I'm wondering if you or your TN audience would like to share what counties in TN you think are great for finding good homesteading land for a good price. I'm planning to look for some land on the other side of the state line. Also any reasons TN is so awesome in general to homestead in?"
Operation Independence
Declaring Independence with Vin Armani
Make it a great week! Song:
Today we talk about animals on the homestead, and more particularly training animals on the homestead. This is not the all-successful animal trainer’s view of getting your animals in line telling you how to achieve impossible results with just one week of practice when they have spent a lifetime learning. This will be a discussion of the benefits of training your livestock and some ideas on how to do that, as well as stories and examples of things I have done well here at the Holler Homestead === and not so well.
Direct Download
Independence
Topic of the day: Training Animals on the Homestead
And with that, go out and Make it a great week!
Song: Mr. Clammy by Sauce