Today, I share with you the story behind my mysterious fundraising efforts 2.5 years ago, as well as let you know what your funds helped make happen.
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The tale of a woman and dog who needed our help and what happened next.
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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 review five things to consider regarding visitors to your farm or homestead s that you can navigate this slippery slope with grace and humor.
Thursday at 7pm - Live with the Holler Neighbors on Youtube: https://youtu.be/nhm-S4xbDuA
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Main topic of the Show: Managing Visitors to Your Farmstead
In the end, wether you decide to allow visitors or helpers to your homestead or farm or not is your decision and people who become pushy about visiting are probably not the kind of people you want. On the other hand, inviting people in to see what the lifestyle is like, or to learn a bit about what you do can be great for business - both from a tourism profit standpoint and to sell what you produce. But be mindful of the roi on your time for tours, visits and helpers - many time the help that comes is more work than doing the task for yourself would be and at that point you are providing a training service - which can be great because then folks learn how much work all this growing food stuff is and are more understanding of the farm to table price point.
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Today is a Friday so we have an interview show today and I am joined by Joshua Sloan, also known as PA Prepper on the TSP Zello channel to talk about SEO and increasing your online visibility. This is something we could all improve on!
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Joshua started out in political activism and learned along the way that he was suited to digital marketing. After working for a large online website development firm, Joshua launched his own consultancy, Sloantech and provides hosting, website development and online marketing services from his home on Pennsylvania.
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Today I looked around the homestead and wondered what is going on that might be a good topic for a homestead-focused podcast and it occurred to me – I have been planting sweet potatoes all week. Why not talk about how to set yourself up for success with them on the podcast.
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Link to the meat grinder I use: https://www.amazon.com/STX-International-STX-3000-TF-Turboforce-Electric/dp/B0012KJBR0/ref=sr_1_42?dchild=1&keywords=meat+grinder&qid=1589918357&sr=8-42
What’s Up in the Garden
Main topic of the Show: Planting Sweet Potatoes
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Today we explore the concept of silence used as a tool to teach, a tool to reflect, and a tool to manipulate.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Featured Forage: Rose Petals
Herbal: https://commonwealthherbs.com/rose-herb-of-the-week/
SKIN Toner - rosewater -
Food: raw in salads, candies as dessert (petals)
Rose hip jam, jelly, or chutney, add them to muffins for a sweet-tart treat, and you can even dehydrate Rose hip puree to make Rose hip fruit leather!
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Main topic of the Show: The Power and Danger of Silence
Silence is a tool, it is something we need to be mentally healthy. But the cultural silence that occurs when people see a trend that may not be healthy, that people do when being polite - THAT silence is dangerous. It is a result of peer pressure. So look around you? And ask yourself - am I going along to get along right now? And is that the best course of action?
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Song: Anonymous by Sauce
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Today, someone said something about a neighbor tattling on another neighbor and I thought we need to look deeper into tattling, what it is and is not, and why tattling is VIOLENT.
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Main topic of the Show: Thought of the Walk on Tattlers
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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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Last fall, community member Kurt Dugger said: Screw the toolbox fallacy, I am going to try something big - really big. I want to raise awareness of the issues facing combat veterans and raise money for the Darkhorse Lodge - a veterans retreat in Tennessee. And he did.
He set out on a journey across the state in a paramotor which basically looks like a lawn chair with a parachute and a giant fan. This multi-day effort ended prematurely due to weather, but it raised lots of money for the lodge. Fast forward to NOW. Kurt is embarking on this challenge a second time - never give up - May 22-25 ish.
But first: Stump the Sauce
From Mark: Spicing up feeding tube food
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Today, we discuss five things to know about homesteading whether you want to live in the country or simply increase your stability wherever home is. Because creating value from what you have and getting control of your supply chain can only lead to good things.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Featured Forage: Watercress - http://herbgarden.co.za/mountainherb/article.php?tag=Watercress
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Homesteading 101 - Five Things To Know
In our modern day, homesteading has moved beyond getting a free piece of land from the government and living solely from what we produces to a mindset of self reliance, independence, creating value from what we have, and raising and storing good, healthy food. With the commercial food supply chains straining to pivot into a different delivery method - lots of people are interested in grabbing a piece of land and starting to be more independent. This is wonderful. Just know that taking time to find the right fit for you and your family will pay off in spades in the future. And almost anyone can start integrating homesteading practices into their current living situation, be it in an apartment, on a city lot, or on a large piece of land.
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Song: Wolf by Sauce
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Homesteading is work - there is no doubt. I mean, I am looking at mucking out the duck coop soon. But you can do things to make your life easier and one BIG thing to think about is how much your daily animal chores take and what you can do to improve your time spent on this.
A year ago, mine took 45 minutes to an hour - now they can be done as quickly as 15 minutes.
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What’s Up in the Garden
Main topic of the Show: Animal Chores on the Homestead
The typical morning
Mid day: put feed or whatever where it needs to be and deal with any problems you saw in the morning.
Typical evening
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Today, I talk through all the things you, the listener, have done in the last 30 days to get side hustles going or growing. Our community is resilient and this really inspired me to take on a new challenge this week!
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Featured Forage: Dandelion
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Main topic of the Show: Time to Start
Tell me, are you going to be in a better place this time next year, or still trudging along doing the same ol same ol?
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Song: Feed My Hunger - by Sauce
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Today we have a thought of the walk. You see, these past four weeks I have been struggling with time management. While everyone has been home sharing which netflix series they intend to binge watch, complaining about being bored and so forth, I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off getting little bits of lots of things done and nothing finished. So I will share some thoughts on time management later in the show.
Reminder - Workshop tickets are on sale - there are four available right now: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/spring-workshop-2020/
Main topic of the Show: TOTW on Time Management
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Sauce.
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