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May 11, 2020

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.

  • Thursday at 7pm- Livestream with the Holler Neighbors - tear down this wall: https://youtu.be/8x6axBY3w1w
  • Webinar: May 28, 2020 at 3pm Central. Google My Business with Joshua Sloan

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • It worked! I was able to restock something on schedule! 
  • We have a number of spring dried herbs for teas - collecting more this week
  • Finalizing the workshop menu - ground 10 pounds of pasture raised chickens last night for tacos
  • Sous Vide Chicken Thighs - 4 thighs, ¼ lb butter, 1 tsp salt, 2 tsp curry - let it go for 6 hours and sear off. (Solves the tough as nails problem)

Featured Forage: Watercress - http://herbgarden.co.za/mountainherb/article.php?tag=Watercress

  • Nutrition: vitamin rich - High in Vitamin C and Vitamin A, calcium, Potassium, Vitamin E, K, B6
  • Superfood
  • Herbal Remedy: Detoxifying (mold story), Boosts immune system (C), Increases Skin Elasticity (fewer wrinkles), Natural source for calcium (bones), broad spectrum antibiotic and anti tumor, can help expel uric acid (joint pain) - can be eaten or used as a poultice for this -- used to heal skin blemishes and cuts.
  • Recipes: Cream of watercress soup

Operation Independence

  • Side benefit of the wall coming down - workshop space in the house

Main topic of the Show: Homesteading 101 - Five Things To Know

  1. Your family needs to be on board and not just supportive of your idea, but willing to help
  2. You can begin where you are: herbs on the windowsill, raised beds, city-friendly livestock
  3. Spend time on other homesteads, getting to know homesteaders, and learning what they wish they had done differently - especially in land choice - before you buy. Take time finding your homestead. There is no rush. Also, it ain’t all roses.
  4. Habits of frugality are good no matter where you live. Choose them carefully
  5. Learn 1 thing per year, wether or not you have moved to your homestead: Cheesemaking, canning, soap making, pantry management, milking goats, growing vegetables, printing fruit trees, butchering chickens, herbal remedies, wild foraging, during herbs, growing and making tea. (Don't add more than 3 and be really careful about this)

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.

Make it a great week!

Song: Wolf by Sauce

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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May 6, 2020

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.

Stump the Sauce

  • Cow’s tongue

What’s Up in the Garden

  • A FROST IS COMING almost one month past our last frost date - cove your plants, bring things inside!
  • Holding off on the last round of transplanting AND decided to til where we have some compaction
  • Beans are up, tomatoes look OK - mostly, strawberries look GREAT
  • Doing an aqua and hydroponics update in the nest week or so

Main topic of the Show: Animal Chores on the Homestead

  • Easy
  • Efficient
  • Repeatable and Trainable

The typical morning

  1. Tether the goat or feed/water her (weather)
  2. Feed/pet the pig and check her giant waterer
  3. Let Ducks into pen
  4. Feed the fish
  5. Feed the cats and scoop their box
  6. Feed the dogs
  7. Work
  8. Go collect Duck Eggs, let them our/ scatter corn for poultry

Mid day: put feed or whatever where it needs to be and deal with any problems you saw in the morning.

Typical evening

  1. Feed the pig and check her water
  2. Put the goat away
  3. ALL DUCKS GO TO BED with food
  4. Check catfood
  5. Feed dogs

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 4, 2020

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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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • We wasted food this week! FAIL
  • Assessing what I store that is used faster than I anticipated: Frozen breakfast meats
  • Building Workshop Menu From the Pantry due to unpredictable supplies
    • Venison ham
    • Meatloaf
    • Chicken Tacos
    • Smoke Pork Butt
    • Beef Stew
    • Duck Eggs
  • Getting the Canning Kitchen Set up for canning season (and moving jars around to new places

Featured Forage: Dandelion

Operation Independence

  • Relaunched Workshop registration - getting back into a normal

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? 

Make it a great week!

Song: Feed My Hunger - by Sauce

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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May 1, 2020

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

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 29, 2020

I had a request to talk through my tools - as in which tools I have and why. Rather than go through the exhaustive list, I thought I would run you through what is in my tool bag in the house - and then I will heartily complain about what is not because sometimes it happens that I or another visitor grabs something from the bag and does not put it back, which drives me batty when I need the thing.

Last week’s Holler Hat was making cheddar cheese.

Thursday Webinar is a Property Walk of the Holler Homestead. Then we will drop to monthly with Google My Business being the topic in May.

A word on the Spring Workshop, June 11-13

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Stump the Sauce

What’s Up in the Garden

  • Front Hydro system is in
  • Still racing the rain to get plants in
  • Need to fence out the three chickens

Main topic of the Show: Episode 301 - Nicole's Tools

Ladies - yes you can! 

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 27, 2020

It may not be an official interview day, but I thought you’d all be eager to hear this one as soon as possible. I am joined by none other than Ms. Jessica Mills - also known as Dixie of Homemade Wanderlust. We originally were going to talk about how the through hiking lifestyle impacts a person’s ability to be prepared, but we went on a talking adventure - join us!

Webinar this week: Property Walk at the Holler Homestead

Livestream with the Holler Neighbors - Knighthawk Shares His Purpose! https://youtu.be/vbBUitXlR5g

Spring Workshop June 11-13 https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/spring-workshop-2020/

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Rouchetta
  • Getting ready for a dry good resupply
  • A word on food system disruptions - and what to do

Featured Forage - source the Herbal Academy

  • Red clover (Trifolium pratense
    • Skin conditions as a tea with stinging nettler and yellow docl
    • “Purification” properties used in addressing lung conditions and bronchitis
    • Menopausal support (Unverified)
  • If you are going to use this, look over interactions with drugs and other conditions - I know it is hard to think that tea can interfere with pharmaceuticals, but if too much broccoli can negatively impact certain treatments, an herbal remedy can also.  Red clover can increase chances of bleeding so do not pair with blood thinners for example.
  • Harvest when still wet with dew (I had no idea)
  • Tea: 1-3 tsp red clover, steep for 15 minutes

Operation Independence

  • The psychological upgrade of the pergola

Main topic of the Show: Hiking, Preparing and Living Your Best Life with Jessica "Dixie" Mills

Make it a great week!

Song: Special by Sauce

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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Apr 24, 2020

Today is Friday so it is an interview show and we welcome Donald Young, who has spend the last 8 years in grocery store security and five of those in his current location.

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Daniel Young works for a large grocery chain in Chicago as a security manager. His background is 8 years of experience in private security and 5 years in his current position. Recently, Donald transitioned from security to EMT services.

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 22, 2020

Learning to identify wild edibles is a gateway drug to independence, lifelong learning, and healthy walks - so there really is not a downside as long as you take responsibility for properly identifying what you find.

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#HollerHatWednesday: Where did she disappear and what in the world is that?

Tomorrow’s Livestream - finding purpose 

Water Garden Systems at the Holler Homestead

Stump the Sauce

  • Stump the Sauce - PPP

What’s Up in the Garden

  • Beets are up - except where the chickens got in
  • Pushing to get all seeds in this week
  • Pepper plants are ready to go out - but the weather is not

Main topic of the Show: Getting Started in Wild Foraging

  1. Find a local forager - or take a wild edibles class
  2. Go to your local farmers market, or ones in small, rural towns and get to know the farmers
  3. Find a good resource and inspiration
  4. Learn about lookalikes and get to know them too! 
  5. Start with some basics
  6. Add 1-2 plants a year, or month depending on how much time you have

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 20, 2020

Today, we are going back to our roots with an episode about food and how to prepare it: Namely lamb. Apparently spring is lamb processing season and more than one has asked me to share recipes so I will give you five today.

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Register for a side hustle working group

Register for Thursday'd Webinar (If you are not a member. Members, log in and you will find the link on your account home page)

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Share the devilled egg recipe
  • Salad Dressing Theory
  • Troutafish Salad Sandwiches and no celery

What’s in Season

  • Hairy vetch
  • Dryads saddle mushrooms
  • TIme for a spring tea walk

Operation Independence

  • A GSD Friend Stopped by and rewired the pump house
  • Beehive story

Main topic of the Show: Five Yummy Lamb Recipes

Recipe 1) Leg of lamb or lamb roast of any kind.

Sides (any chutney or jelly, horseradish, roasted root veggies, rosemary garlic butter and bread)

Recipe 2) Lamb curry

Sides: chopped fresh onion, cilantro, green onions, lettuce, papadoms, flat bread, rice

Recipe 3) Grilled or pan fried lamb steak or lamb chops

Sides: salad, vegetable saute, baked potato

Recipe 4) Lamb Kabobs

Sides: Salad, bread and garlic butter

Recipe 5) Lamburgers

Sides: potato salad, green salad, coleslaw

Make it a great week!

Song: Anonymous by Sauce

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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Apr 17, 2020

Today is Friday and we have a Thought of the Walk Episode. I was inspired to talk about something no one is really bringing up - getting past this economic disaster and health problem. Governments everywhere are rolling out plans to "restart the economy." WTH?? It is not up to the government to do this - it is up to us.

May your weekend be fruitful and your beacon shine brightly.

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 15, 2020

Today, I hopped over on Mewe to ask what folks would like to hear about and got a laundry list of ideas. Mr. Eash posited one that I thought would be timely today: changes you might want to make to be ready to not leave for 4 weeks in light of our extension through April 30 on stay at home orders. He was asking from the perspective of a homestead, but I will take a bigger lifestyle view of this.

#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with?

Side Hustle Working Group: https://calendly.com/sparkcomm/side-hustle-working-group?month=2020-04

Webinar on Gardening: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/product/ways-to-launch-your-garden-in-2020/

Youtube Livestream - Holler Neighbors Discuss Five Weeks With No Grocery Store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVFBSqiFsPA

Stump the Sauce - side hustle ideas from Farmer Harry

Tales from the Booze Whisperer

  • Violet syrup

What’s Up in the Garden

  • Last round of planting seeds (for round 1) this week
  • Transplanting tomatoes way too early this week- they are 2 feet tall
  • Strawberry round two transplanting Thursday
  • Greens are looking great
  • A word on protecting plants through a late frost (cover, candle, move air)

Main topic of the Show: 6 fundamental changes to make post covid19

  1. Eliminate Debt and Save Money
  2. Learn Proper Pantry Management/Reasonable Food Storage
  3. Take Control of Your Health
  4. Produce Food at Home
  5. Develop community service habits
  6. Push Back on Centralized Government Programs (food stability, healthcare stability, etc)

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 13, 2020

Today at your request, I talk through practical approach to building side hustle income into your life. This is meant to help you get the right frame of mind as you build revenue streams, rather than send you off to try 14,000 new hustles. Because right now, there are opportunities, if just working at Krogers for a month or two, and no need to feel totally hopeless about income if you have lost your job.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • A neighborly Easter Dinner: Fish, Ham, Greens, Devilled Eggs, Mashed Sweet Potatoes and Gravy
  • Bumped Animal Feed up to a 3 months supply
  • Still doing well with our one site stores
  • Have a line on lamb with another friend to restock meat stores
  • A word on whole animal cooking

What’s in Season

  • Another round of dryad’s saddle mushrooms
  • Vetch is ready to bloom soon
  • Dandelion flower
  • Bee swarms

Operation Independence

  • Almost done with 2019 tax prep - ahead of my usual schedule
  • Preparing to run 50 meat chickens

Main topic of the Show: A Side Hustle Approach to Income

  1. Take stock of what you have
  2. Take stock of what you can do
  3. Look at technological opportunities
  4. Look at your market opportunities
  5. Choose the easy/most fun ones first and systematize them
  6. Run the numbers regularly.
  7. Add one thing at a time and leave time for recreation

Make it a great week!

Song: Calling my name, by sauce

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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Apr 10, 2020

Today, I take questions about making the perfect pot of coffee, growing lettuce, inverters and read what y'all have built in your lives that is making you more stable through this halting of our economy.

I hope this gives you a positive perspective as the weekend comes and we have another couple of days to focus on building our lives the way we want them to be.

Make it a Great Week!

Nicole Sauce

Apr 8, 2020

Today, we talk through three ways to kickstart your fresh vegetable pipeline if you are running into grocery store shortages. I have been hearing varied reports of fresh vegetable shortages, or conversely way too many fresh vegetables and thought now would be a good time to talk through some of the faster ways to get something fresh back into your diet in as few as 3-4 days.

#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and what is she doing??

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Thursday Webinar: Introduction to Cheesemaking

Thursday Livestream (Talking about our food production plans)

Stump the Sauce

  • From Christopher: Got a stump the sauce for you.  What to do with coffee grounds that are old and no longer make good coffee

What’s Up on the Homestead

  • A swarm of bees
  • Weed 1.0
  • Adding tons of homestead-produced meat and vegetables 
  • Back into beer brewing 

Three Ways To Kickstart Your Fresh Vegetable Pipeline

  1. Sprouts 

Lids:  https://www.amazon.com/OWAY-Sprouting-Screen-Stainless-Canning/dp/B07H1V6973/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=sprouting+lids&qid=1586373569&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUE5N0Y4MURRVzRIUDAmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA0MTI1NjMxQThVWDdIVEVXM0FLJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAwMTAxNjlQQk05Wk0xMU9GN0kmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl

2. Microgreens

Dowie Farms: https://www.dowiefarm.com/

Trueleaf: https://www.trueleafmarket.com/

Kitazawa: https://www.kitazawaseed.com/

 

3. Seek local growers selling direct

Bonus Webinar next week - Quick starting your spring garden in 2020 with TRN, Thursday at noon.

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 6, 2020

Today we walk through some things to consider as you find or reevaluate your purpose. Because now is a great time to look to the future and find opportunities to get you there.

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Youtube LiveStream Thursday at 7pm: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g/

Introduction to Cheesemaking Webinar - sign up!

Tales From the Prepper Pantry

  • Reorganizing everything
  • Update on 4 weeks with no store
  • Changes in approach for the future

What's Up in The Garden

  • Holler Food Production Plans

Operation Independence

  • Reducing need to buy things through good home economics

Main topic of the Show: Find Your Purpose

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 3, 2020

Today, I get the honor of talking to a fella who I have admired for years, who cares about freedom and who understands that food security throughout the country would be vastly improved if we could get the government regulators out of our business and let folks sell food to one another, from the bottom up rather than further a centralized food system that puts us all at risk when deliveries no longer come for whatever reason.

But first

  1. What can you do this weekend to make you life better either now or in the future?
  2. Cheese Making Webinar Thursday, 12pm Central Time - Sign Up Here
  3. What do you want webinars on? 

Show Resources

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/roy.ramey.94

FB Campaign Page

https://www.facebook.com/RameyforAg/

FB Friends of Roy Ramey for WV FB group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2676899735770937/

FB Minuteman Farmer Page

https://www.facebook.com/MinutemanFarmer/

www.rameyforwv.com (under construction)

Main content of the show

Roy Ramey operates a small family farm in WV. Previous to which, he attended college, worked in construction and engineering, served in the Army, including combat in Iraq. He has served as a college professor, teaching military leadership and currently manages military education. He's married to his wife Fran with an 11-year-old daughter Abby, whom they homeschool. After serving as an Army officer for over 30 years, now in the Army Reserves, after being dissatisfied with government, he has decided to quit complaining and BE the solution, extending his service to run for office as the Commissioner of Agriculture of WV.

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GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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Apr 1, 2020

Today we talk about five ideas for storing your pantry items in a way that is easy to access, or at least easy to manage.

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#HollerHatWednesday, Where is she and what is she doing?

Announcements

Stump the Sauce

  • BLT With Canned Tomatoes

What's Up in the Garden

  • Pig
  • Rabbit
  • Chicken

Main topic of Today's Show: Five Pantry Storage Ideas

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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Mar 30, 2020

This age we live in is so prosperous. We have everything we need if you think about it. And yet, we still complain. So today, I wanted to talk through this golden age we live in and all the opportunities that we have because of it.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

What Reality Looks Like Without Store Augmentation
Solution: Freeze or can veggies for next year
Homemade Lunch Meat Ideas
More cheesemaking, or more advance purchasing (freezing cheese)
Redoing short-term and mind-term storage areas, which means my home look slike a burglar got into it

What’s in Season

Hairy vetch
Wild mustard flower
Pea shoots would be had I actually planted them
Poke

Operation Independence

Spending less on gas, but more on mailed in supplies (Feminine product fail)
Homestead projects are happening quickly, an overall win

Main topic of the Show: The Golden Age

If you look at your situation and let me know what you are lucky to have in your life right now? I would really like to know.

Make it a great week!

Song: Dr. Feeley, Dr. Skinner

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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Mar 27, 2020

Today is a thought of the walk on fear and freedom. We are seeing so many people call for curtailing the freedoms of people all over the country and expansion of the very government systems that have made this situation worse and that just ain't right.

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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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Mar 25, 2020

Today is a how-to day and someone asked me about ways that fermenting from home can be integrated into your lifestyle in a time when store trips are spare. So I decided to share 4 home fermentation projects that are perfect for this moment in time.

#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and why is she so far away from her friend?

Livestream tonight at 7 CT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g

What’s Up in the Garden

  • As expected, spring weeds are here 
  • Getting ready for a round of in-ground planting
  • Supplies for the outdoor hydro system arrive Friday
  • Greens galore 

Main topic of the Show: 4 Home Fermentation Projects

  1. Homemade Sour Cream
    1. Whole milk & sour cream or half and half or cream
    2. Buttermilk Starter
  2. Lacto-fermented Vegetables
    1. 3 tbsp for every 5 lbs
    2. 6 TBSP to 1 gallon water for a light brine (sliding scale)
  3. Kombucha (organic red wine vinegar and red wine, or a commercially produced kombucha)
    1. Ratio: 1 gallon, 1 cup sugar, 8 tea bags, 2 cups “starter” an the mother
  4. Beer
    1. Kits online: carboy, fermentation lock, ingredients, racking cane, bottles, caps
    2. Malt, hops, yeast

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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Mar 23, 2020

Today, we do a check in on Grow, a quarter 1 update. And more importantly how we can all grow through this year, come what may. 

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • We are only eating from the prepper pantry now (What that means: stored goods, frozen goods, grown goods, eggs, foraged food)
  • Doing a series on youtube called cook with what you have

What’s in Season - wild edition

  • Vetch
  • Wild garlic
  • Watercress
  • Wild mustard greens
  • Dryads saddle
  • Chick weed
  • Dandelion
  • Burdock
  • Plantain
  • Deadnettle
  • Stinging Nettle is perfect for harvest this week

Operation Independence

  • Doing our best to sell mail-ordered coffee - a big change happens today! 
  • Basecamp update: Kitchen floor is in

Main topic of the Show: Grow in 2020

Jenni's Interview

Food Growing

  • Originally planned to get an indoor lettuce growing operation growing 
  • Outdoor Hydro 
  • Expanding into seedlings to sell 
  • Planting the old garden plot too
  • Duck eggs
  • Considering bringing in another pig

Personal Growth

  • Have fun by myself
  • Put the phone down
  • Stay focused on one thing at a time
  • Learn to recognize and reframe bad interactions
  • Embrace that I can only control one person and that person is me
  • My Keto Journey

Holler Roast Coffee Growing

  • Had to decide go big or not
  • Black rifle story
  • Will focus on the premium, custom-roasted, mail order business core
  • Big transformation after customer research

LFTN Network Growing

  • The network is growing itself

So tell me - what is your word and how is this year working out for you?

Make it a great week!

Song: Feed My Hunger by Sauce

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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Mar 20, 2020

Today is Friday and we have a great interview with Amy Dingmann of A Farmish Kind of Life certain to get you off your diff and ready to go build something awesome.

Check out my show with Jack Spirko about Finding Side Hustles During Crisis

About Amy Dingmann

Website: https://afarmishkindoflife.com/

Podcast: https://afarmishkindoflife.com/farmish-podcast/

MeWe: https://mewe.com/join/afarmishkindoflifehomesteaders

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/afarmishkindoflife/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farmishkindoflife/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/farmishlife/

Books: https://afarmishkindoflife.com/shop/

When you’re thinking about starting a new adventure, whether it’s starting a business, building a homestead, pulling your kids out of school, or any number of things, it takes bravery to actually step out and do it. But it also takes smarts to know the best way to go about doing it.

Amy Dingmann of A Farmish Kind of Life is a homesteader, homeschooling mom, blogger, author, podcaster, and YouTuber and she is here to help you think through the importance of being both brave and smart when you’re considering your next adventure.

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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Mar 18, 2020

Today, we continue the pantry management series with a discussion about how to keep your pantry stocked once you get things organized in there and have built up a store of supplies. Remember, this is all founded in store what you use, use what you store to tag off of Jack Spirko’s recommendations. And restocking can be a real bugaboo if not everyone in the house is helping with it. I will share with you today how I manage this without laboriously doing inventories and spreadsheets.

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#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with?

Stump the Sauce

  • Brett Chef on Cooking From Your Pantry

Main topic of the Show:  A Pantry Restocking System

>>Why set up a restocking system

>>What characteristics should your restocking system have

>>My process:

How do you keep your pantry restocked?

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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Mar 16, 2020

Today we will explore five ways to overcome high stress by taking care of yourself. There really is no reason to spiral into that place of fear that makes people into beasts, is there? And when you let stress take over, things just do not work right. 

Announcements:

  • Zoldak Webinar Wednesday - FREE to everyone this week
  • Extra content coming your way as we can during our period of being grounded. Let me know if there are topics you are interested, like cooking with what you have…
  • We are livestreaming the recording of the podcast on Youtube now

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Overall assessment of how it is working
  • Reorganizing short and mid-term storage strategy for everything and here is why
  • Getting set up to dry fresh, early spring herbs like blackberry leaves and stinging nettle
  • Stocking up on extra mullein because my dried stock got ruined by a darn cat
  • Time to shift canned goods and inventory as we move back into canning season

What’s in Season

  • People are finding morels! 
  • Watercress is back at a peak
  • Dead nettle
  • Chick weed
  • Stinging Nettle
  • Mullein (almost always in season)
  • Poke greens are popping up (Explain how to cook it)
  • Wild garlic
  • Green Onions
  • Lettuces and greens
  • Cilantro central
  • Indoor dill success

Operation Independence

  • Pantry stores have kept me from the stores
  • Goat milk trade - barter is great!
  • Coaching trade - win win for both of us

Main topic of the Show: Episode 282:Taking Care of You - 5 Ideas to Overcome High Stress

Five Ideas to Overcome High Stress

  1. Create time for yourself to enjoy and encourage your family to do the same - schedule this
  2. Do something for someone who needs help
  3. Regular Exercise - away from news and chatter
  4. Give yourself time to be scared, mourn, etc - then work to let it go
  5. Learn something new

Make it a great week!

Song: 911 - by Sauce (An exploration of the heaviness, news chatter, and societal response to 911.)

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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Mar 15, 2020

Today is #selfishsunday and with all the tension surrounding the coronavirus, I asked Tactical Redneck to reach out to his father to get a better perspective on the scale of what he is seeing in this illness versus the media-fueled, absolute mind-losing panic that we are seeing.

He agreed to send an email with his thoughts, which I heave read in this podcast.

If after listening, you have more questions, send them to me via email - you know my email or use the contact form here.

If we get enough questions, I will see about getting him on the air. If we do not, I will gladly email your question to him for answering.

Looking to get ready to stay home for a month or so? Here are some episodes that cover that:

Thank you and make it a great week!

Nicole Sauce

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