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Now displaying: 2022
Jun 6, 2022

Today we ask a simple question: What are you preparing for? I will share with you what I am preparing for, and what I am NOT preparing for and why I have made these decisions.

Announcements

  • 1 seat left: Cricket Processing Workshop (I miscounted)
  • June Webinar: Starting an Event, June 26 at 5pm Central

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • First round of canning this week: Ant Helen’s Pickled Beets
  • Testing freeze dried beet greens to see if I can reconstitute and saute and have the mouth feel right
  • Defrosting freezer story and a word on freezer alarms
  • 50 lbs bacon
  • Breakfast sausage
  • Canning kitchen is set up!

Frugal Tip

  • Bone Broth Process

Shopping Update from Joe on Mewe

Weekly Shopping Report for 06/04/2022

The weather should be reasonable all weekend, but warmer tomorrow than today, so off we went. We made four stops.

The first stop was Dollar Tree. They have no more mackerel. We saw a few other "second-choice" options, but the only thing I got there was a cold drink.

Second was Home Depot. The price of a 2x4 has dropped further, to $5.48. Ryobi Days is still ongoing, so if you have any interest in their 18V One+ line, now's the time. My wife and I have many of these tools, and none have let us down. The savings on the batteries is great right now. We found the 40 lb. bag of bird seed and 60 lb. bag of blacktop patch we wanted.

Third was Aldi. A few prices had dropped: English muffins $1.29-->$1.15, bacon $4.35-->$4.29, eggs $2.26-->$2.21. Pork prices were unchanged, so I got a couple of loins for the freezer; I will can what was in there tomorrow. We found everything we wanted.

The final stop was Food City for cat food. They had a decent amount of Friskies cans, and a good amount of various bagged kibble.

Overall, stock levels looked good in all of the stores, with no glaring holes.

Untainted regular has jumped though, to $4.699/gallon; that's up 14c from a week ago. 

Operation Independence

  • Chicken workshop is about sold out, which helps
  • Launching sponsorships and new coaching programs in three weeks!

Main topic of the Show: What are you preparing for?

What are you preparing for? Is it rumore of shortages? Normal things that happen to most people? Zombies? Nuclear War? Economic collapse? What is the thing you have in mind?

This weekend, as I say in my garden doing my “Daily Thirty,” which equates to half a row of weeding and cultivation, I say what was doing well, and what was not. It got me to thinking about this question: What are you preparing for?

You see my reaction could have been fear and panic as I saw some plants looking sad, or the blank places in the garden where nothing has germinated. Or I could look at the things that have taken off and ask myself WHY? Why are they doing well and how can I replicate that in this blank spot?

I mean, this year, we are in drought conditions in TN which means the water is NOT wicking as well through the soil into my plants, in part because I did not cultivate the plot for five years and it is a little out of balance. 

Yet other places here have thriving plants completely ignorant of this drought. 

TELLING.

As I sat there, listening to the sheep baaah, to the goats bray, to the bees buss and to the world filled with life, it triggered the next question: What are you preparing for?

As gas prices climb above 4 and 5 dollars, more and more people reach out with questions. SO many questions. Some feel fear. SOme are just feeling lost - like what ELSE can I spend less on in order to still go to my job. They are seeing parts of their garden no longer germinate and fill with plants and they are focused on the problem.

So I ask: What are you preparing for?

What I am preparing for: 

  • A stable life on the homestead, teaching, learning new things, enjoying, caring, eating well, and carving some time for outdoor recreation
  • Normal life events (Job loss, illness, family crisis, tornadoes, ice storms)
  • Ongoing rolling shortages in our supply chain

What I am NOT preparing for

  • WWIII
  • USA’ descent into late stage facism or communism
  • The ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
  • Multi year shortages
  • Nuclear war
  • FEMA Camps

BUT WHY??

  • What really happens when things get that bad?
  • Adjusted expectations
  • A bank account of skills and creative thinking
  • Critical thinking capability
  • You have one life to live - use it well

Something we like to focus on here is lots of homesteading things. Why? Well, because I LIVE on a homestead. But another thing that is important to keep in mind is that not everyone wants to live like I do, but you can still have the kind of life you want. And building various bank accounts helios add stability: food bank accounts, cupply bank accounts, skills bank accounts, relationship and community bank accounts, your actual bank account, crypto bank accounts, regenerative bank accounts, energy bank accounts - the list goes on an on.

But you will never know where  to focus if you are preparing for WWIII. SO I ask again today, what are you preparing for?

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Jun 3, 2022
Today we talk about sad things, clearing land with sheep, incoming ducks, making unusable land usable and more. There will be a live Q & A after the show so get your questions in!

Forage

  • Wheat is ready to harvest
  • Iding herbals/wilds that we do not want the sheep to eat
  • Day Lilies are blooming 
  • Garden: Cover crop sautees, daily salad
  • Inside cherry tomatoes

Livestock

  • Rabbit ear mites
  • No ducklings yet
  • Eating things faster than we thought so we are moving them each day until cleared (overseeding pasture mix)
  • Muscovies incoming tomorrow thanks to Kerry and Lisa
  • 4 eggs a day - summer slump
  • Sheep story

Grow

  • Squash and cukes are looking good
  • Round 2 of green beans germinated
  • Transitioning AP to summer crops
  • Tomato wall has bloom (45 days to ripe tomatoes)
  • Dill and herbs are crankin
  • Squash are popping up from guerilla planted places
  • Weeding video

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Potluck This Weekend
  • Errands made easy with Jenni and Knighhawk
  • Dividing work for Self Reliance Fest (Plus the housesitter)

Infrastructure

  • Annual rye, fescue, and timothy (sowing thin, then letting it go to seed, chop n drop)
  • Trellis is up in Sunshine plot
  • Increasing electrical fencing supplies
  • Need a long term portable sheep shelter solution
  • “That Land Is Unusable” the livestock perspective

Finances

  • Losing that lamb was a big financial hit - thousands of dollars

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Jun 1, 2022
Today we talk about how decentralization empowers you, and whatever else you bring up in the live chat with Xavier Hawk of Phireon.com and John Willis of SPecial Operations Equipment. Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

Phireon.com

Main content of the show

Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/6Bb0FmwTKm4

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 27, 2022

Today is a homestead update about rabbit ears, incoming livestock, emergency room visits, food success, and more.

Forage

  • About to get Elderberry flower
  • Sassafras Leaves
  • Fodder tree harvest round one is in process
  • Red clover - the clover story

Livestock

  • Pig nest and pond sealing update
  • Sheep Arriving
  • Chickens keep getting stuck in the feeder (Class is almost sold out)
  • Goat troubles
  • Rabbit Ear Mites
  • New Ducks coming soon - broody duck 2.0 and what we are doing about it

Grow

  • Arugula and greens have patches established in the garden
  • Squash in pig pasture (Rehab in process, water automated)
  • Nutrient issue in Sunshine plot and location problem
  • Succession planting where the outdoor lettuce was
  • A word on the week of intermittent rain and planting

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Lots of visitors through this week, potluck solution, taking next week off from visits
  • How we found the sheep
  • Preparing SRF - Call for volunteers

Infrastructure

  • Chicken Tractor Fencing
  • Tomato walls are done
  • IBCs ready for the AP
  • Sheep Fencing (Video coming soon on setting a post in solid rock)

Finances

  • $4k invested in sheep

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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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May 26, 2022

Today we talk about upselling, self reliance and more  with Toolman Tim and John Willis.

LAST CHANCE:

Paul Wheaton has a Kickstarter!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/free-heat?ref=1f3rkb

Chicken Processing Workshop, July 2 9am-2pm

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

https://www.youtube.com/c/TOOLMANTIMSWORKSHOP

 

Main content of the show

Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceTD-y9DM8

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 23, 2022

Today is a response to a question from a listener who wanted to know how it is that the LFTN Community is so functional, mostly spam and scam free, and able to talk about hard things in a productive way. Rather than just answer that one person, I thought I would share some thoughts on how to foster a functional community.

Announcements:

  • Chicken Processing will be rescheduled to July 2.
  • Tuesday Live Update

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Post vacation reset
  • Garden producing all vegetables (What that looks like)
  • FD running 24/7 and freezers being used to stage the next batch
  • Canning kitchen almost set up (why we have it outside)
  • Curing and grinding the pork to finish the four pigs
  • Chicken breast recipe - alfredo (Cook With What You Have)

Frugal Tip

  • Gas Buddy
  • Reusable bag update

Operation Independence

  • We are at 90% from Homestead food at this time of year - it feels very good.
  • Considering renting access to our processing setup

Main topic of the Show: 

    1. Decide Purpose (Communicate it)
    2. More is bad (Communicate it)
    3. Be a community of doers not takers (communicate it)
    4. Set and model clear and healthy boundaries (communicate it)
    5. Use technology (communicate it)
    6. Have an inner circle and accept help (Communicate it)
  • Erase toxic people (communicate it)
  1. Mentor people on the edge (communicate it)
  2. Discussion is good - arguments are bad (Take things offline that should be off line)

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May 20, 2022

Today is a homestead update and we cover pig relocation hijinks, how the gardens are faring, handling things alone, money matters, food problems, and more.

Forage

  • Lambsquarter
  • Poison Hemlock
  • Daylily flowers
  • Radishes, greens, lettuce, basil and herbs, mint
  • Tactical forged through my freezer while I was gone

Livestock

  • Pig Moving Hijinks
  • Chickens are on pasture (Processing class June ??)
  • Pod sealing with swines (Corn over holes)
  • Broody duck
  • Goat on tether
  • Begin harvesting fodder
  • Cycy is better

Grow

  • Bean germination problem
  • Cukes and squash up
  • Tomato wall looks good
  • Hops need trellis
  • Foliar spray cycle needed, plants look sad everywhere but the ap and hydro system
  • Potatoes look great, need to be hilled
  • Sweet potato slips

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • T held down the fort
  • LB and playing dead
  • Jenni feeding pigs

Infrastructure

  • Pond, three sections with electric for sheep
  • IIBCs for the ap are cut and prepped for the AP
  • Perimeter fence is underway
  • Hydro is about done
  • Need to install trellis everywhere
  • Automated pig water and garden water

Finances

  • The last 2 weeks cost us money

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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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May 18, 2022

Today we talk about rotational grazing, crazy people, being the counter economy and food shortages on a Tuesday Live episode with Billy Bond and John Willis.

 

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

https://www.permapasturesfarm.com/

 

Main content of the show

Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXi3b79U5eo



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 16, 2022

Today we talk about community, problems of our own making, or the game “What’s that smell?”, and more on Afternoon Tea with the Spicy Sisters.

Show Resources

A Farmish Kind of Life

Main content of the show

Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhxswOGTRc

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 13, 2022

Today is a live stream from the volunteer room at Exit and build! Go do something good this weekend guys.

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 11, 2022

Today we talk about prepping, knives, getting things done, planting trees and more with Patrick Roehrman and John Willis.

Self Reliance Festival

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

MTKnives.Com

Main content of the show

Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJU9kAZ01uw

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 9, 2022

Today, we dive deeper into a concept that came out at the LFTN Spring Workshop: Finding and embracing your Special Sauce.

Exit and Build Land Summit

Self Reliance Festival

May Webinar: Assessing Your Land For Security, May 22 at 4pm CT

Chicken Processing Workshop

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • The last two jars of 2019 and some discolored beets from 2020
  • Swimming in lettuce and greens
  • Onion Flowers in salad
  • Road food: fd cheese, cold cuts, left overs
  • Chicken Recipe: Tuscan Chicken with Ginger and ham

Frugal Tip

https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-to-make-foaming-hand-soap/

Operation Independence

  • Launched the chicken processing workshop
  • Using pigs to hopefully seal a pond

Main topic of the Show: Find Your Special Sauce

Why?

What do I mean by Special Sauce

I started out as a food blogger – ended up a podcaster and facilitator. 

How to find it:

  • What do you love?
  • What do you hate?
  • What are your naturally great at?
  • What are you naturally bad at?
  • What do other people tell you you are good at?
  • What have you tried?
  • Why did it succeed or fail?
  • When you are happiest, what are you doing? Why does this make you happy?
  • Wait 2 weeks and review
  • Tear this down to its base elements

Ex - happy at the farmers market (great at talking to people, tells good stories, quickly establishes trust, etc)

Happy in the Garden (comfortable being alone, excellent observation skills, etc)

>>>Go out and try, learn, refine, analyze until you find your Special Sauce or Sauces

I started out as a food blogger – ended up a podcaster and facilitator. 

  • Used to sing rock n roll
  • Started a food blog (could NOT motivate)
  • Became a facilitator and story expert
  • Tried podcasting for the heck of it
  • Realized some things: Performer, facilitator, teacher and storytelling with a heavy musical/verbal focus = podcasting and teaching, not blogging and WRITING.

My special sauce is Story Telling, Connecting People/networking (from others), Reading People/Facilitating.

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May 6, 2022

Today, I talk about the Spring Sprint, caring for yourself and your homestead, adding a Daily Dose of garden care, No Kill List, and the new heartbeats that are arriving this morning.

Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com

Forage

  • Last call for watercress
  • Wild rose petals
  • Hairy vetch
  • Radish greens, lettuce, malabar spinach
  • Sage, young dill, young basil, parsley, cilantro

Livestock

  • The chicks are arriving and I still did not find the chick feed I want (sans soy, sans fish protein)
  • Not sure of the sheep schedule
  • Pigs will soon move to Jenni’s
  • Goats need hoof trimming, mineral refills
  • Ducks are about to go broody
  • Dog integration update

Grow

  • Spring Sprint: LFTN22 happened exactly when we needed to be transplanting
  • Tomatoes are in the ground, as are herbs
  • Peppers are being hardened off this week
  • Daily Dose: 1 row per day approach
  • No Kill List - Tomato Wall
  • Hopps update

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Jenni served Dinner much to our relief on Tuesday - we are all tired
  • Post event cleanup continues and is taking forever
  • Holler Neighbor Livestream coming soon

Infrastructure

  • Hillside AP update

Finances

  • Lost a little money on the workshop itself (reality check)
  • Chicken Class will be limited to 10

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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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May 4, 2022

Today is the audio version of a First Tuesday show with Jack Spirko and John Willis. We talked about Flote Fest, LFTN 22, Exit and Build Land Summit, Self Reliance Festival and what one finds at such events. We also covered growing trees, mowing grass, preserving food and many more topics

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

The Survival Podcast

 

Main content of the show

Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwqCSC3obqs

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 2, 2022

Every year, we have a new insight from LFTN22 adn this year is no different. This year was the workshop I envisioned when I first had this crazy idea. It took FIVE years, heartache, hardship, injury, recovery and more to make it to this point, but we arrived! 

Tuesday Live with Jack Spirko and John Willis, 12:30CT Youtube

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Used up the green beans- apparently, I should can THREE bushels this summer if possible
  • Fen 74 people for four days - no problems
  • Venison roasts were great, salmon, rabbit, holler chickens, self made bacon, breakfast sausage, and more
  • Assessing the shelving solution

Operation Independence

  • We just passed a major benchmark

Main topic of the Show: Insights from LFTN22 Spring Workshop

Getting ready stories

Cleanup and community

Set up and community

The day of everythings breaks and community

Last minute speaker cancellations and community

Av problems and community

Lesson: ware the workshop word of the year!

Krystal’s Introduction

Main Themes - CONNECT:

  • Things happen - failing is opportunity - community solutions (The Aquaponics build adjustment)
  • It all boils down to you: Let go of doubts and do it - imposter syndrome - the only opinion that matters is yours - beating back the voice of cant - believe - regenerate - community solutions (highlight sessions and contributions)
  • Stop Panicking - how to find out what’s happening/perspectives - community solutions

Connect - community - solutions – success - resilience The YOU in CommYOUnity)

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Apr 29, 2022

Today we have a replay of a recap of what the LFTN community and podcast are all about. Enjoy!

Link to old post

There are so many new listeners that I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about our tagline: Helping you build the life you choose on your terms. Lots of people think this podcast is about homesteading, about cooking good food,  about liberty and freedom – and it is. We do tons on starting and growing your own business, side hustles and more. But when you dig right into things a little deeper, you will discover the LFTN is about choosing the life you want to live, then setting yourself up to go there. The life I choose to live is in the country, but this approach works in the city and all over the world. The hardest part of doing it is accepting that you CAN do it.

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Listener Feedback

  • Coronavirus
    • Thermometer
  • Tornado
    • Finding old radios from Linda

Webinar Coming March 18

Zoldak Webinar: How to run a Facebook Campaign – March 18 at 7 Eastern.

Register here

Main topic of the Show: Live the Life You Want

8 foundations to live the life you choose

  1. Set yourself up to opt out (Debt free)
  2. Decide what you want (Life strategic plan)
  3. Always move the ball forward for YOU (#My3things)
  4. Get your house in order (Be prepared for the most likely)
  5. Lose the deadweight (NETWORK: Surround yourself with doers not takers)
  6. Reframe the things you cannot change – (Mental programming)
  7. Find ways to do what you want to do (Liberty)
  8. Give back (Teach and mentor)

Ideas from Members

  • an expert show — need questions and suggestions if you think this is a good idea.
  • Livestreaming the podcast – would help if I had 1000 youtube subscribers. Subscribe

Make it a great week!

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Apr 27, 2022

Hey everyone, today is Friday, May 31, 2019 and this is episode 138 of LFTN.

Today we talk about building your business, keeping yourself accountable, solar and generators, prepping, and the Exit and Build Land Summit.

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

ToolmanTim.com

ExitandBuildLandSummit.com

 

Main content of the show

Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpahUrccrkA

 

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 25, 2022

This episode was recorded in March 2020 right before lockdowns were enacted. This was the year of the great TP shortage and folks who had never thought about having more than a few days’ worth of food on hand were thrust into keeping several weeks on hand. As we turn the corner into supply chain problems, this topic has again arisen. Please enjoy this replay episode on how to build a deep pantry right away rather than over time - which is the better way.

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Episode 279: Build Your Pantry the Right Way

2 episodes to listen to

  1. Load from the back, take from the front - as in the grocery stores
    1. Avocado Oil Example
    2. Now they are out of it at the store due to service interruptions -- NBD
    1. Never needed to do this but did not have a large family
    2. You will find yourself knowing how much of a thing you use
  2. The food journal (1 month)
    1. Take advantage of sales too!
  3. Doubling

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 24, 2022

Today, Amy Dingmann from A Farmish Kind of Life and I get together over tea – or something stronger – to discuss all the crazy of the last month.The trolls. The panic. The rumors. All the stuff we usually do not discuss in our usual episodes.

This was recorded live - if you want to join a future Spicy Sisters episode live, please keep an eye on my Telegram channel!

Exit and Build Land Summit, May 12-15 in Bastrop Texas

Show Resources

A Farmish Kind of Life

Youtube recording of our episode

Main content of the show

A good, old-fashioned stitch and bitch discussion of the world around us!

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

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Apr 22, 2022

Today I discuss raising rabbits on grass only, popping forage, late gardens, and more.

Exit and Build Land Summit, May 12-15 in Bastrop Texas

Forage

  • Early spring greens are getting long in the tooth
  • Lettuce, radish, etc
  • Pea shoots
  • Plantain
  • Comfrey and bees story

Livestock

  • PIGS
  • Getting ready for baby chickens (Why we time it for now)
  • Adding Muscovies (And Why)
  • Raising Rabbits on grass only - an update

Grow

  • Low germination so far - keeping the beds watered
  • Potatoes are up
  • Garlic
  • Hops
  • Sweet potato slips
  • Tomato system on the to do list
  • Lettuce and brassicas are happy this year
  • Fertility schedule is launched
  • Seeding right after spring workshop: Squash and cukes, beets 2.0, beans

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Focused on the workshop
  • Jenni is growing radish sprouts

Infrastructure

  • Just about “ready” for sheep and what that really means
  • Red rocks and strawberries
  • Anti duck and chicken defense systems

Finances

  • Nothing to report at the moment

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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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Apr 20, 2022
Today we have a monthly chat with Billy Bond of Permpastures Farm, We delve into what kinds of livestock you want to have on a homestead and take questions from the viewers.

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

Perma Pastures Farm

SelfRelianceFestival

Main content of the show

Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-agoPXBJNI

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 18, 2022

Today I talk about the warnings of coming shortages, and explore the questions that we are asking - the wrong ones as it turns out.

Livestream Schedule This Week:

  • Tuesday Live with Billy Bond and John Willis, 12:30pm; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-agoPXBJNI
  • Afternoon Tea With the Spicy Sisters, Thursday at 2pm CT
  • A Word on Next Week’s Schedule

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Reorganized the prepper pantry for spring and summer
  • FD Bone broth
  • Raspberry and blackberry leaves have popped
  • Violets if you make jelly
  • Transitioning to refilling (Season change)

Operation Independence

  • Underground Network: Informal GSD Weekend - electrical to Tajmaholler, Outdoor shower for LFTN22 
  • Taking time to assess

Main topic of the Show: The Wrong Question

What is your objective?

Food and supply shortages - what I see

  • Get your shoes, winter coats, food, etc etc etc
  • But why?
    • International shipping is jacked up
    • Crop failures to the south
    • Other countries building up stores
    • Sure, the war in ukraine
    • Initial Covid shutdown cycle
  • Who is to blame?
  • Timeline for shortages
  • The wrong questions…..(what can I grow that my kids will eat)
  • The right questions
    • Local production
    • What do you truly need to thrive 
    • How can you own your health (Nutrition and excersize)
    • What bad habits need to get thrown out and how can you attack them one day at a time
    • How are you spending your time? Watching the world burn or DOING things?
    • How can you change your provider now or provide it yourself?
    • Winter is coming! But is is spring right now

(Do Hard Things)

In the end, what will be will be - but it is up to you to set up the best success by asking the RIGHT  questions.

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MeWe reminder

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 18, 2022

Today I am joined by Matthew Sercely to talk all about his experiences in the rental world, from an Agorist Tax Advice standpoint!

Show Resources

www.agoristtaxadvice.com/LFTN

https://flote.app/user/Malachirc

https://mewe.com/i/matthewsercely

Main content of the show

Matthew Sercely is many things- he is the Agorist Tax Advisor. He is a Lawyer. He's a bit of a Smartass. But he has also been a real estate investor for over 12 years who now owns multiple rental houses and has also joined groups that own 3 apartment complexes. He believes that for most people, Real Estate is the BEST way to build wealth long term.

What sort of real estate have you invested in yourself?

Is there a way you think is the “best way” to get into real estate?

Don’t you need a lot of money to invest in real estate?

Any horror stories you’ve had with real estate?

Other than collecting rent, how do you make money in real estate?

So, what are the tax advantages of investing in real estate?

Membership and Coffee Pitch

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, 2022

Today we talk about rabbits (it’s easter!), slow springs, rain events, water systems and more. 

 

#Allthethings. 

Bigger is harder. 

Video Tours.

 

Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com

 

Forage

  • Watercress, mustard flower, dead nettle
  • Hairy vetch, plantain
  • Green onions
  • Strawberries have unripe fruit (the red rock trick)

 

Livestock

  • Hoof trimming
  • Failed rabbit pregnancy and rebreeding
  • ALL THE EGGS (The irony of this)
  • Conflicted over pigs

 

Grow

  • Seedling update on youtube (Jacks and saving seed)
  • Peppers are just not germinating
  • Failed old pea seeds
  • Lettuce in the AP 
  • Ground nuts
  • Seed Roullette
  • Winter wheat

 

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • All hands on deck for the spring workshop
  • Mama Sauce is in town
  • Mini GSD Weekend

 

Infrastructure

  • RAIN and rerouting
  • Outdoor shower almost complete
  • Fencing Demo prepared
  • A word on growing grass

 

Finances

  • No progress made on selling pork because we have been focused on the workshop

 

Membership Plug

 

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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Apr 13, 2022

Today we talk about food shortages, inflation, aquaponics and aquaculture, panic prepping, and more with Jack Spirko and John Willis.

Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

Living Free in Tennessee

Homesteading for a Living

BacktoTheLandFestival

 

Main content of the show

Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYP2937u2eY

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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