Merry Christmas everyone! Enjoy the Intellectual Night Before Christmas read by Leos from TSP Zello and a finisher from Mastersingers of Cookeville singing the original poem.
Today we are running a replay from 2018 of a reading of the Night Before Christmas by our Australian Friend, Aussie Ro.
Tactical Redneck reads a special version of the Night Before Christmas in this replay from 2018.
Enjoy!
Please enjoy the 2019 Replay of the Scottish Night Before Christmas!
XOXO
AMY
Today, I thought what better thing to discuss than why building resilience into your life matters, no matter where you are, a review of how 2019 went, what 2020 will bring and the big reveal: my word for 2020.
Main topic of the Show: Strength and Love
THE WORD for 2020 at LFTN!
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Merry Christmas!
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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Today we have an interview with one of our community members who has a strong background in marketing and communications. Sue Zoldak from Zoldak Agency, Zoldak Research and Zoldak Victory joins us to discuss how to develop your brand, along with some fun stories!
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People think it is new agey to talk about the healing power of music. People are wrong. Those of you who have listened to this podcast know what sparked my change from being trapped in the system to taking responsibility for designing the life I want to live, regardless of what other people think: I went back to singing in a choir. So today, we talk about the healing power of music.
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
What’s in Season
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: The Healing Power of Music
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Song: Regine Coeli by Mozart - performed by Cookeville Mastersingers on Dec 15 at 3pm in Cookeville, TN
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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Today I have a great interview with Jami Saunders from the Culinary Arts Center in Columbia, Tennessee. But Jami is much more than a savvy promoter of local businesses. She is a Mom of SEVEN who homeschools and is popping with new ideas. YOU guys are going to LOVE this interview!
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Websites: https://www.columbiacac.com/
https://www.facebook.com/jami.saunders
Bio
Jami Saunders is not originally from Columbia, TN, but she has made it her home. Originally from Atwood, IL, she moved her family here in 2010 and established herself in the homeschooling community as a leader while teaching health, science, entrepreneurial economics, and more.
Jami was previously known for her award-winning photography and her involvement in raising service dogs for the handicapped for Canine Companions for Independence.
In 2017 the needs of the community and her love of bringing education on nutrition inspired her to create what is now the Culinary Arts Center in Columbia, TN. Most days you will find her hosting an event for the community; serving as vice president for the Muletowner (an initiative by Grow Columbia that promotes Columbia, TN and its businesses by acting as a practical everyday resource for residents and visitors); hosting a local radio; and serving as a proud Rotarian.
This mother of 7 beautiful children still finds the time and energy to pour herself out into small businesses, community organizations, and into the heart and culture of Columbia.
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Happy Wednesday! Today is a homesteading day. We just got a whole cow in the freezer that we share among several families each year. The cow comes with bones. The bones become stock. And we end up with beef tallow.
The other day, someone asked me if beef tallow can be eaten, so I thought why now do a show sharing five recipe ideas for beef tallow. We will cover that, as well as what the heck tallow even is later in the show.
#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with?
Stump the Sauce
What’s Up on the homestead
Main topic of the Show: 5 Beef Tallow Recipes
Check out this roundtable discussion of random stuff I had with Jack Spirko today!
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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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Today I want to talk to you about thinking ahead and why it is important to do so, but not at the expense of taking care of and living in the now. You see, we have been running at maximum capacity at Holler Roast Coffee and so have the letter carriers. Some packages are taking forever to arrive, others are there in a moment, and some might be lost forever. But as we navigate this busy time, we’ve been building in time to think ahead, create plan bs while handling plan as every day. So I will talk about how we are approaching that later in the show.
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Reminder - hors d'oeuvre gathering at my place on December 21, 2019 at 1:30pm. RSVP Here.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
What’s in Season
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Thinking Ahead
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Song: Special by Sauce
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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Today, we have a thought of the walk on what to do with bad behavior in communities - especially tight communities like the Living Free in Tennessee one.
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Main topic of the Show: TOTW on Bad Behavior in Communities
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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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Today, we discuss four great venison recipes -- and I *might* have talked for a bit about how frustrating it is to be a small, startup food manufacturer...
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What’s Up in the Garden
Main topic of the Show: Five Venison Recipes
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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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Today, we will talk about how we processed the meat of three deer safely, while handling coffee orders, AND having a fantastic Thanksgiving. Because it is raining deer!
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
What’s in Season
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: It’s Raining Deer
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Song: Suicide by Sauce
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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There is still time - still time to make something by hand and give it to someone you care about. I know that Christmas is coming fast, and tomorrow many of us will feast on turkey and pie, but you can still do it! Today, I will share four handmade gift ideas that you can still do in time for gift-giving season.
#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and what is she guarding?
Stump the Sauce
What’s In Season for Thanksgiving
Thankful
Main topic of the Show: Four last-minute gift ideas
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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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For years, I have struggled with organizing my house while also keeping things going on the business and animal care side of things. This year, I finally turned an organizing corner. It wasn’t asking myself if something brings me joy - though that is a good question. It was a decision followed by some founding concepts to keep the momentum going and I will share those foundations with you today.
Gift Registry - added TWO more people to it - check it out this week - let’s keep our dollars supporting one another.
Save the dates: Spring Workshop Save the Date: April 23-25, 2020
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
What’s Up on The Homestead
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: 5 Foundations to Organize Your Home
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Song: The Flood by Sauce
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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Today we are pleased to invite the founders of Angie's Gardens to share their small business development journey. Josh and Angie Reynolds started with permaculture, discovered herbal remedies, developed tasty and healthy teas, then added high quality CBD products to their growing business. They got started in one farmers market and now visit 6-7 per week, as well as supporting online orders. Find out more on today's show.
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Angie’s Gardens, headquartered in Texas, was born from the founder’s love of helping others. She first learned the power of herbs when her husband suggested their daughter drink some lemon balm tea with honey to feel better from a possible oncoming cold. She drank the tea and felt better.
Angela was astonished that something so simple could work so effectively and quickly that she began looking up other herbs. After reading the list of benefits of fennel, which took almost 10 minutes, she was hooked and began her studies of herbal medicine.
Angie has always felt a calling to healing and this is her way of doing just that!
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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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Thanksgiving is only a week away and I just grabbed a turkey out of the freezer. This year, I thought it would be fun to share some experimental recipes we plan to have at the Holler Homestead. These are a little outside the norm this year because, well, I thought it would be fun to get outside the box and save the more traditional chestnut dressing and other sides for Christmas.
#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with?
Stump the Sauce
What’s Up in the AP
Main topic of the Show: 5 Thanksgiving Recipes
Sweet Potato Perogi
Spicy Dill Pickle Cranberry Sauce
Dead Easy Salad Dressing
Fermented Veggies
Hot Chocolate and Rumpleminz With Cream
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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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Today is 6 weeks until Christmas, six weeks to get your annual goals completed. It is time for the Final Countdown list. But all work and no play is not healthy, so we talk about what should be on your countdown list.
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Nicole's Choir Concert: Cookeville on Sunday, December 15m, 3pm- Mastersingersinc.com
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
No Kill List
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: The Final Countdown
So what does your final countdown look like? Can you get it down to 6 things in 6 weeks?
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Song: Calling My Name, by Sauce
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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Today we have a thought of the walk. What is a thought of the walk? It is something short and sweet that comes clear to me when I take a walk with my dogs. And this week, I realized something interesting about true friends. But we will dive into that after two reminders
Brownie plus Coffee of the Month
Main topic of the Show: Transferring Seedlings Into Your Garden
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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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Today, after a week of caring for my goat, I will review the 9 lessons that Mama Sauce learned from Clover, our goat.
#HollerHatWednesday: What is she on and where is she going?
Mewe Reminder: 730-8
Stump the Sauce
What’s Up in the AP
Main topic of the Show: 8 Lessons the Gat Taught Mom
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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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Today I will share with you my two biggest take aways from Jack Spirko's Workshop - then I want to walk through how to find your why - and as an example, I will use one of our very own community members: BBQ Homesteader, Daniel, founder of Off Kilter Brownies and someone that you have all heard from if you run in the LFTN digital communities.
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Mewe Live Chat Time Change: Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:30-8am
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No Kill List
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Find your Why
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Song: Tripped Out By Sauce
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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John Moody, author of the weed book (Winning the War on Weeds), producer of Abby’s Elderberry, food policy geek and all around great guy is here to talk with us about going rogue with food production, as well as a really cool conference he’s got for us in late January. I for one plan to be there and serve some coffee!
But first
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I am not your typical farmer. Most people probably don’t consider me typical anything. Farming and homesteading were not something I ever planned to do. But I am now glad I get to do them.
Growing up, I enjoyed a varied diet of video games, cartons, and processed foods. Dental decay, seasonal allergies, and constant sickness were the inevitable result – a result that doctors and other denied was connected with my family’s food and lifestyle choices.
In my early 20s, I was waylaid by duodenal ulcers, my body’s final warning that some things were dreadfully awry. Thankfully, I listened. Over the course of a year, my fiancee (now wife) Jessica and I completely changed our understanding of food – what is food? How should it be raised? How should it be prepared?
This lead to thinking long and deep about farming, and eventually, moving out to a farm of our own.
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I had a request over on the Mewe chat group to talk about what to have in your car for winter. And since this is a topic that every homesteader should have a handle on, since most of us live far from help, I thought - perfect topic. Better yet, it applies to everyone as we start seeing snowstorms and freezing temperatures.
#HollerHatWednesday: Who is wearing her and why does she look so sad?
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Stump the Sauce
Tales from the Booze Whisperer - mention Justin
What’s Up in the Garden
Main topic of the Show: Winter Car Preparation
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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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Today, we cover using the concept of "Selfish Sundays" to further your self interest - and why this is not a bad thing.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
What’s up on the homestead
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Selfish Sunday
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Song: Feed My Hunger, by Sauce
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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Today, we explore the idea of how to choose what to eat from your pantry in a thought of the walk episode. What is a thought of the walk episode? A short podcast about something that has been on my mind during one of my walks - usually taken with my doggies in the Holler.
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Update on Ashley’s Campaign for Prom Princess
LFTN Community Tip
TOTW on What To Eat from your pantry
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