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Now displaying: November, 2024
Nov 29, 2024

 

Post Thanksgiving Homestead Happenings. Enjoy!

Featured Event: Black Friday Sale at Holler Roast! https://hollerroast.com/

Sponsor 1: TheWealthsteadingPocast.com

Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

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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Nov 26, 2024

Getting ready for the BIG DAY this week?? Amy Dingmann and I talked a bunch about recipe ideas and other country girl things. I think you'll love listening while you get ready for your fun day! 

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A Farmish Kind of Life

Living Free in Tennessee

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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Nov 25, 2024

Today I talk about the word of the year, how HONE is going for me, and how to find YOUR word for next year. I also cover all our usual Monday segments.

Featured Event: Save the date for the LFTN Christmas Gathering on December 21, 12pm-3pm

Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com

Sponsor 2: HollerRoast.com

Livestream Schedule

9:30am Friday, Homestead Happenings with the Tactical Redneck

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Slow Going on the repairs in there so all “stuff” is going in bins for the winter
  • Still harvesting herbs for drying because the fall has been very mild
  • Holiday Recipe Guide

Weekly Shopping Report from Joe

We made our usual Friday trip this week.

I'm still getting energy drinks at Dollar Tree, so that was first; only a few mind you, as I don't consume nearly as much caffeine now that I am retired.  They seemed pretty busy, with two checkout lines open instead of the usual one.

Aldi was next and last.  They had some wet cat food this week, so we grabbed a case (24 cans).  Eggs are still marked limit 2.  There were a couple of price drops.  Staple prices were: bread (20 oz. white): $1.39; eggs: $2.97 (+); whole milk: $3.03; heavy cream: $5.39; OJ: $3.45; butter: $3.99; bacon: $3.99; potatoes: $3.29; sugar: $2.69 (-); flour: $1.79 (-); and 80% lean ground beef: $4.29.

I did check the online price of a 2x4x8 at Home Depot, and it is still $3.85.

A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.599.

Frugality Tip

Operation Independence

Lamb for sale: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/product/whole-or-half-lamb-deposit/

Main topic of the Show: Word of th year

  • What is is
  • Why do we do it? (Jenni, Nancy, etc)
    • The only person you can change is you
  • How does it fit with my3things
  • What do you do to find your word?
  • How has Hone gone for 2025
  • 2025 ideas, Jack’s Workshop and that word

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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Nov 22, 2024

 

Today, we talk about the first REAL cold in the holler, new life, and fencing. 

Featured Event: Black Friday Sale at Holler Roast! https://hollerroast.com/

Sponsor 1: TheWealthsteadingPocast.com

Sponsor 2: DiscountMylarBags.com

Lamb Product Live: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/product/whole-or-half-lamb-deposit/

How the goat fence failed while Nicole was away

Baby Rabbits

It’s cold

Perimeter fence is almost complete

Second rotation of the rams - faster than we’d like

Eggs are returning

Jerusalem Artichoke season

Inside tomato update

Chard patch is doing great

Last Pepper Harvest

Live shooter in Smithville and the Holler Neighbors

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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Nov 22, 2024

Today, we talk about the first REAL cold in the holler, new life, and fencing. 

Featured Event: Black Friday Sale at Holler Roast! https://hollerroast.com/

Sponsor 1: TheWealthsteadingPocast.com

Sponsor 2: DiscountMylarBags.com

Lamb Product Live: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/product/whole-or-half-lamb-deposit/

How the goat fence failed while Nicole was away

Baby Rabbits

It’s cold

Perimeter fence is almost complete

Second rotation of the rams - faster than we’d like

Eggs are returning

Jerusalem Artichoke season

Inside tomato update

Chard patch is doing great

Last Pepper Harvest

Live shooter in Smithville and the Holler Neighbors

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!

Community

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Nov 21, 2024

Join me for a group discussion with members of our community and beyond about building the life you choose, current events, building a durable life, community development, business, getting started, health and more. 

Each Tuesday, we welcome a different guest to tell their story, as well as take your questions live. 

Featured Event: #my3Things Webinar on January 9, 2024, https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2024/11/15/jan-9-my3things-webinar/

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CrossfitGarage.com

Living Free in Tennessee

NicoleSauce.com

HollerRoast.com 

 

Main content of the show

 

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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Nov 19, 2024

Today is a livestream of my presentation on #My3Things from this weekend at the TSP 2024 Fall Workshop. It is a slightly different approach than I have typically done. Our usual Monday segments are not part of this podcast.

FREE Webinar, January 9, 2024: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2024/11/15/jan-9-my3things-webinar/

Sponsor 1: EMPShield.com, Code LFTN

Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

Livestream Schedule

Tuesday, 9:30am: Fix Your Zone -0 with Andy McCann

Friday, 9:30am: Homestead Happenings with the Tactical Redneck

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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Nov 11, 2024

Enjoy this talk with Kiri Torgler of Thunderhill Farms and Shawn Mills from Hack My Homestead!

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HackMyHomestead.com

ThunderHillFarms.com

SOEParty.com

Nov 8, 2024

Today I am joined by the Tactical Redneck to talk about all the changes at the Holler Homestead as well as to share how we work through conflict here when our priorities do not align.

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

Sponsor 2: The Wealthsteading Podcast

CONFLICT

Tree class

Rams working 

The Election

Rams leaving

Perimeter fence

Changes afoot at the Sheep pasture land

 

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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Nov 6, 2024

 

Join me for a group discussion with John Willis of Special Operations Equipment and Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast.

Featured Event: The Self Reliance Festival, SelfRelianceFestival.com

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Show Resources

Special Operations Equipment

TheSurvivalPodcast.com

Living Free in Tennessee

NicoleSauce.com

HollerRoast.com 

Main content of the show

Make it a great week!

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

Community

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Nov 4, 2024

Today we talk about five things that most homesteaders deprioritize in their preps as well as out usual Monday segments.

Featured Events - an update

Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com

Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com, Coupon code for $50 off - LFTN

Livestream Schedule

Tuesday, 9:30am: Coffee Chat with John Willis and Jack Spirko

Friday, 9:30am: Homestead Happenings for November 8, 2024

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Best year ever for meat organization - what worked 
  • Harvest chili

Weekly Shopping Report

Aldi was our only stop this week.  They still have not restocked wet cat food, in fact I'm not even sure I saw the individual cups.  They did have a normal amount of toilet paper.  The chocolate I like was back in stock after being gone last week, but there wasn't much of it.  Staple prices were: bread (20 oz. white): $1.39 (the tag was back); eggs: $2.15 (-); whole milk: $2.88; heavy cream: $5.39; OJ: $3.45; butter: $3.99; bacon: $3.99; potatoes: $3.59 (-); sugar: $2.99; flour: $2.35; and 80% lean ground beef: $4.49.

I did check the online price of a 2x4x8 at Home Depot, and it is still $3.85.

A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.599.

Frugality Tip

Halloween is my favorite holiday. We have a big Halloween party every year. I try to pick the theme in advance and then start gathering decorations when Halloween items go on clearance. For Halloween clearance shopping this year (so far) we got $300 retail value of items for less than $100. So hit the stores after the holiday and get more bang for your buck. 

Happy savings y'all

Operation Independence

Cheese Class and Other Events

Main topic of the Show: Five Oft-Overlooked Preps For The Homesteader

With all the unrest in the economy, looming worldwide war, accelerating technology and the push from the ruling class (for lack of a better term) to keep we peons unhealthy, just in debt enough that we are too scared to go our own way, and obsessed with the “two” options that are the “only” options so that we fight with ourselves instead of see the true enemy, is it any wonder that, more and more, people want to get out of the cities and homestead?

In a disaster a homestead is where you want to be, right? When you homestead, you go all in on Bugging In.

2 is 1

  1. Appalachia and resilience - it’s not just that it is rural. It is forgotten, abused, walked on, and easily cut off so people there rely on one another already

Typical homestead journey: chickens, garden, canning, wood heat, bigger livestock, hobbies like spinning or woodworking or whatnot.

Homesteaders have food covered - sort of. When was the last time you went to the feed store?

Mindset shift: prepare for the most likely problems, not wwIII and you will weather wwIII better than if you “prepare” for it.

FIVE OVERLOOKED PREPS

  • Medical: Supplies for humans and livestock TRAINING, EDC - what do you have on you, Organization
  • Bugging Out: Your plan is to bug in. Heck, my plan is to bug in. What is your plan if you have to leave quickly? Where are you going? How are you getting there? What will you use to travel? What about your livestock?
  • Security: Beyond carrying a gun. TRAINING. What is the plan (who does what) if there is a two legged threat. What about four legged problems? How hard is it to get to your place? (Thorny hedges, security fencing, etc) Do you know when someone is coming? Can you fight if you have to? Like can you really?
  • Food for livestock: Be honest. What is the plan? What is it if you can’t just fall back on TSC? How do you regenerate the food? And be honest? How much do you rely on the grocery store for humans. (Community Connections/Underground Network)
  • Fitness: Can you do everything needed by hand? Are you healthy? What is your plan to get healthy? Is everyone in your family fit? (Dedicated space, nutrition, living apothecary,)
  • Communication (Bonus item): Does everyone KNOW what the plans are, know where things are, also get training, know how to communicate if you bug in vs bug out?

As a homesteader you are likely more prepared in many ways than preppers in the city with lots of stuff and no skills, but how do we weather things for real? By getting better one day at a time and by eating the frog that we are avoiding so that we dont end up in a situation where we need a skill we could have built and we just didnt because it was distasteful.

Make it a great week!

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

 

Community

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Nov 1, 2024

Today we have an update on the Holler Homestead: Ram processing incoming, rain, duck compost and more

Sponsors

DiscountMylarBags.com

KangenWaterCollective.org

Green Tomato Update: Harvest Shrimp
Chickens getting in the raised bed 🙁
Dealing with rotting varmints on the homestead
Partner With Trees
Ducks haven't figured out what the swim spa is and we hope it stays that way
Processing Date in January for the rams - but on the cancellation list
Strategy for rotating in the yard
Prepper Pantry Update
RAIN!
Need to move Khaki
Duck Coop Reset
Makeshift Rabbit Tractor
Garlic Goal Fail
Talk about the tree class again
Water System and Pool Filters
Pepper harvest time
Ram for sale

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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