Today, we talk about the definition of Homesteading and cover some principles that will help you build it into your life.
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Frugality Tip from Margot
Don't you hate it when you reach for that tube of glue and it all hardened and you can't squeeze any out, then you pop it with a pin and glue your fingers together. Yeah me too!!
I now buy multi packs of small tubes of crazy glue (cheapest is the 4 pack at the dollar tree) or e6000 for ceramics and glass (cheapest I've seen this 4 pack is on Amazon, unless you got to JoAnn or Michaels with a coupon). The multi packs are usually the same price and you don't really cry when one of the little ones is hardened up, because you you have extra tubes.
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Defining Homesteading
You know what is outrageous? People telling other people that they are not “real” homesteaders for stupid reasons. Reasons like they do not have enough land. Or their barn is not cool enough. Or they don’t raise ALL their food from their land. Or they outsource butchering. Or they use electricity and are not off grid.
There are many reasons WHY people attack fellow homesteaders for not being PURE.
And it bleeds. It bleeds into the psyche.
I have heard from some of the baddest assedest homesteaders that they “feel” like they are not really homesteading. I mean, we are talking people from whom I have learned to make sourdough, or a better way to compost. People who have GIFTED me seeds they saved.
People you probably follow.
THEY are starting to doubt if they are homesteady enough.
What is behind all this, anyway? I started digging through some comments that I found online about “real” homesteading and, not surprisingly, I found a bunch of accounts with few to no followers, no content, and probably run by the same person or small group of people.
Guys, some people are just better and the best thing you can do for your future is learn to step around bitter people. And this means NOT taking on any emotional baggage from some rando on the internet telling you how you must define “real” homesteading.
It’s hard enough to keep all these heartbeats going without worrying about wether or not what we are doing is real.
So what is REAL homesteading - some things that have tapped into the homesteader’s spirit in the last 150 ish years?
The question is NOT are you or are you not a “REAL homesteader, but rather how are you tapping into the homesteading spirit?
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Being gone every single day, forward momentum, jerky roosters, preparing the homestead for being gone, and last round of harvest.
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Today, I talk with David Hughes about how he built a successful nut tree empire!
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My name is David Hughes, AKA Farmer Dave. I have been a market grower for 25 plus years and nurseryman for 14 plus years. I own and operate Rock Bridge Trees on 8 1/2 acres in Bethpage, TN, selling to customers all over the country. We specialize in Pecans, Hazelnuts, Hickories and other nut producing trees and would love to teach the small-space homesteader how to make their property self-sustaining through the power of nut trees and growing slow food.
Why grow nut trees on the homestead?
What kinds can be grown?
Where and how can they be grown?
Do I grow for myself or for a market?
How much work is involved in growing nut trees?
How do nut trees work with livestock?
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Lamb husbandry, new life, getting ready for fall, fire ants!
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Leaves are starting to turn on the trees that turn the earliest. It is the time to pay attention to cherry leaf drop. Indeed, fall is not here, but the weather has turned a corner in Tennessee to cooler nights and mornings. AC is off more than on. Fresh air in the house makes everything fee better. Animals are friskier and garden plants are doing a last push.
Strategically, we are reducing time needed on the homestead to care for things so that one person can more easily manage it.
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Today we talk about Managing the homestead while down one person, new infrastructure for the animals, impending birth and more!
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Winter is coming even though it is not fall. T is stressed out right now. Time to audit infrastructure, water, firewood, feed hay for the sheep and goats, wood chips and more.
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Today Nicole Sauce and John Willis welcome Joel Ryals to talk about building on your passion, the rumors of coming shut downs, and more.
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AC is my friend this week. We finally had a set of days above 100 and Autofab reminded me that this happens every year between mid August and Mid September.
Winter is coming.
Featured Event: Girl Gun Weekend: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/event/girl-gun-weekend-2023/
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Today, we will talk about the content creating homesteaders that are kicking butt and taking names, and what that feels like.
Featured Event: August 24 at 6pm: Spokane Washington Meetup: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/event/spokane-washington-meetup-2/
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Shopping Report from Joe
Our main shopping trip was Sunday rather than Saturday, as on Saturday one of the trips included a gun show at the Knoxville Expo Center. There, I found a few items, including a tourniquet, some small freedom seeds, and a garden implement for planting them.
Dollar Tree was a usual stop. The cooler containing the Venom I prefer is still down, so my drink was room temperature; oh well. Stock levels in the other coolers are still mostly good, with all at least half full, and some full. There were a lot of drinks on the shelves as well.
Home Depot had at least two visits. The price of a 2x4x8 has taken a pretty big jump, back up to $3.68.
As usual we got our groceries at Aldi. They do not have any of the 70% chocolate I prefer, nor the 85% alternative. Staple prices were:
Eggs: $1.06; whole milk: $2.86; heavy cream: $4.69; butter: $3.19; bacon (1 lb. low sodium): $3.99; OJ: $3.19; sugar: $3.69; flour: $2.19.
A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.899.
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Main topic of the Show: Failing Homesteaders From The Internet
The world of content creation has been rapidly growing in the homesteader and hobby farm sectors. You notice that?
Over the past few weeks, I noticed something interesting about fellow homesteaders on the Internet who are kicking butt. Most of the don’t realize it.
You see, there is this constant feeling that things are undone on a homestead and that is amplified when you are also working a job, or doing content creation which is like a whole other job.
That said, there are lots of homesteaders who are just plain showing the world that they are kicking ass. But when you get to know them, they are worried about the same things.
Then there are the homesteaders who are making great films but not actually doing the work. We’ve seen a few scandals in that regard of “Off Grid” folks living in the city but filing on their off grid locations.
So why am I bringing this up? It is because someone embarrassed me the other day. They said nice things about my homestead and what we are able together done here, while also making this podcast and shooting some video. All I could think of what hose cluttered my living room is right now, how behind I am on the remodel, and how crappy the quality of my videos is. I aspire to make these cool tutorials, then end up just shooting something as fast as I can and getting it out there so that SOMETHING is done.
Then I spoke with another friend who is newer to homesteading who was feeling like he hadn’t reached his stride yet because after a year, he had only done the following things <Insert an impressive list of stuff here>. He could not see how much he HAD DONE.
I started reaching out to other content creators who I know who seem to be doing awesome things and started hearing similar perspectives. They see what other homesteaders are doing, race to take care of everything while creating content that they feel is not good enough, constantly behind, etc.
<CHEESE STORY>
Guys, what gives? What if we are the problem? What if we are undermining ourselves with these perspectives?
* You are the story you tell yourself, so make it a good one
* Maybe people like to see real content that may to be top quality editing
* Let’s face it, You don’t make much money as a content creator - Youtube is definitely NOT paying the bills so we all have to get creative on that front
* Every time we waste a thought on feeling inadequate, we miss an opportunity to show someone how to do something they did not now how to do. Homesteading is a never-ending learning experience, you know more than you think you know
* Most homesteaders are in fact bad asses. Bas asses who will jump in to save a hurt chicken or lamb. Bad asses who will hand pick cabbage worms off their plants to avoid insecticide. Bad asses who have figured out how to look at a pile of produce from the garden and pit it together into a tasty meal. Bad asses who can make 14000 egg dished because there is always a time when you have too mane. Bad asses who have had to look at remorse and feel the guilt when an animal in your care died because of you either not knowing what to do, or accidentally creating a situation that was unsafe for the animal, or it just died and you somehow think it is your fault.
* We are fearless.
* We are not afraid to start something we know nothing about
* We are relentless and don’t give up
* We jump into things that other folks would never do and are more resilient because of it
But most of all, we have something most of the world does not: a true connection to nature, the cycles of life, and to God - however you define God. We are living in a way that is more grounded in the world and nature than most in modern society and because of this, we feel humble.
And I think this is why, when folks say something nice about what we do, we stammer, look around guiltily, and feel like they should be talking to someone else.
But what will change if we instead do this - say Thank you! I’ve worked hard to get where I am and often feel like I have not done enough and it is really nice to hear someone say that to me.
And what if we start telling each other more proactively when we see some homesteading kickassery?
What would that feel like? How could that change our worlds?
Just food for thought as we go into this hot week in August.
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Today, we will talk about the content creating homesteaders that are kicking butt and taking names, and what that feels like.
Featured Event: August 24 at 6pm: Spokane Washington Meetup: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/event/spokane-washington-meetup-2/
Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com: https://bit.ly/43r4dkx
Sponsor 2: Freesteading.com: https://bit.ly/3o2BcMR
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Shopping Report from Joe
Our main shopping trip was Sunday rather than Saturday, as on Saturday one of the trips included a gun show at the Knoxville Expo Center. There, I found a few items, including a tourniquet, some small freedom seeds, and a garden implement for planting them.
Dollar Tree was a usual stop. The cooler containing the Venom I prefer is still down, so my drink was room temperature; oh well. Stock levels in the other coolers are still mostly good, with all at least half full, and some full. There were a lot of drinks on the shelves as well.
Home Depot had at least two visits. The price of a 2x4x8 has taken a pretty big jump, back up to $3.68.
As usual we got our groceries at Aldi. They do not have any of the 70% chocolate I prefer, nor the 85% alternative. Staple prices were:
Eggs: $1.06; whole milk: $2.86; heavy cream: $4.69; butter: $3.19; bacon (1 lb. low sodium): $3.99; OJ: $3.19; sugar: $3.69; flour: $2.19.
A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.899.
Frugality Tip: Send yours in
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Failing Homesteaders From The Internet
The world of content creation has been rapidly growing in the homesteader and hobby farm sectors. You notice that?
Over the past few weeks, I noticed something interesting about fellow homesteaders on the Internet who are kicking butt. Most of the don’t realize it.
You see, there is this constant feeling that things are undone on a homestead and that is amplified when you are also working a job, or doing content creation which is like a whole other job.
That said, there are lots of homesteaders who are just plain showing the world that they are kicking ass. But when you get to know them, they are worried about the same things.
Then there are the homesteaders who are making great films but not actually doing the work. We’ve seen a few scandals in that regard of “Off Grid” folks living in the city but filing on their off grid locations.
So why am I bringing this up? It is because someone embarrassed me the other day. They said nice things about my homestead and what we are able together done here, while also making this podcast and shooting some video. All I could think of what hose cluttered my living room is right now, how behind I am on the remodel, and how crappy the quality of my videos is. I aspire to make these cool tutorials, then end up just shooting something as fast as I can and getting it out there so that SOMETHING is done.
Then I spoke with another friend who is newer to homesteading who was feeling like he hadn’t reached his stride yet because after a year, he had only done the following things <Insert an impressive list of stuff here>. He could not see how much he HAD DONE.
I started reaching out to other content creators who I know who seem to be doing awesome things and started hearing similar perspectives. They see what other homesteaders are doing, race to take care of everything while creating content that they feel is not good enough, constantly behind, etc.
<CHEESE STORY>
Guys, what gives? What if we are the problem? What if we are undermining ourselves with these perspectives?
* You are the story you tell yourself, so make it a good one
* Maybe people like to see real content that may to be top quality editing
* Let’s face it, You don’t make much money as a content creator - Youtube is definitely NOT paying the bills so we all have to get creative on that front
* Every time we waste a thought on feeling inadequate, we miss an opportunity to show someone how to do something they did not now how to do. Homesteading is a never-ending learning experience, you know more than you think you know
* Most homesteaders are in fact bad asses. Bas asses who will jump in to save a hurt chicken or lamb. Bad asses who will hand pick cabbage worms off their plants to avoid insecticide. Bad asses who have figured out how to look at a pile of produce from the garden and pit it together into a tasty meal. Bad asses who can make 14000 egg dished because there is always a time when you have too mane. Bad asses who have had to look at remorse and feel the guilt when an animal in your care died because of you either not knowing what to do, or accidentally creating a situation that was unsafe for the animal, or it just died and you somehow think it is your fault.
* We are fearless.
* We are not afraid to start something we know nothing about
* We are relentless and don’t give up
* We jump into things that other folks would never do and are more resilient because of it
But most of all, we have something most of the world does not: a true connection to nature, the cycles of life, and to God - however you define God. We are living in a way that is more grounded in the world and nature than most in modern society and because of this, we feel humble.
And I think this is why, when folks say something nice about what we do, we stammer, look around guiltily, and feel like they should be talking to someone else.
But what will change if we instead do this - say Thank you! I’ve worked hard to get where I am and often feel like I have not done enough and it is really nice to hear someone say that to me.
And what if we start telling each other more proactively when we see some homesteading kickassery?
What would that feel like? How could that change our worlds?
Just food for thought as we go into this hot week in August.
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Today, we return to our interview show series with a chat with the Renegade Butcher. Josh joins us from his overly hot studio, in the heat of summer, in Texas to talk about what he has been working on, AI, Nostr, Butchering meat and more.
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Josh grew up in the midwest with an ever-growing passion for cooking and food in general. Making his way to Texas nearly a decade ago, he added craft butchery and charcuterie as well as Texas style barbecue to his list of culinary obsessions. Eventually starting his own series of small businesses in an effort to help ease the pressure on small processors caused by the events in 2020. Not only has he been working to teach small ranchers and homesteaders how to process their own livestock in person, he runs a video/audio podcast, has built an active online community and has launched a much anticipated line of seasoning blends based on his own personal recipes. His blends have been well received by his wild game customers, and his sausage products are in demand every fall with local hunters.
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Today we talk about the great duck reset of 2023, a new way to do green curry, community fun and more.
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Weather has been awesome - nice and cool relatively speaking.
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Best baked wings recipe, funny new "found" livestock and more.
Featured Event: Midwest Preparedness Festival
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Today we talk about public policy in the US, what motivates police from an arresting and ticketing standpoint, why girls should do gun training, and more with Dana McLendon and John Willis.
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Today we talk about real estate, AI, community gardens and more with Davian McKnight and John Willis.
Featured Event: Wednesday, August 9 - Meetup in Medford, Oregon at 6 pm. RSVP Online to let me know you will be there. We will meet at 6pm at Bricktown Brewery!
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Today, we talk about surprise baby rabbits, baby ducks in training, garden abundance, food preservation, ruining cheese, and more.
Featured Event: Girl Gun Weekend, Last Chance: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/event/girl-gun-weekend-2023/
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Today we talk about proper tire selection, the oven turning on, getting ready for fall, and the race to make salsa.
Event: Chicken Processing with Joel Salatin
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Homesteader Alliance and Freedom Cell Meetup Aug 5 at 4:30 in the Holler
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Today, I am going to talk about being ready for first aid needs on the homestead.
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Shopping Report
Our trip was a little abbreviated this week. Not needing anything there, we skipped Home Depot; I figured to check the price of a 2x4x8 online, but it's not clear which product I've been viewing; it might be $3.67, but it may have dropped a lot, to $2.98. I'll have to actually go inside next time.
The first stop, as usual, was Dollar Tree. No big changes were evident. The shelves all look pretty well stocked, although there is some duplication.
Aldi was next and last. We found everything we wanted, which for some reason was a short list this week; perhaps because the garden is producing.
Some staple prices are:
Eggs, $1.12; milk: $2.92; heavy cream: $4.69; butter: $3.19; bacon: $3.99; flour: $2.19; sugar (jumped): $3.09.
Hearing of shortages, I expected to see the 70% chocolate I like going up, but it is still $1.99 (I don't think it has ever changed that I remember); and OJ is $3.19 (that's at least a quart, but I need to recheck to be sure; it's a large glass bottle).
Untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.899/gallon.
Frugality Tip: Nothing in this week
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: First Aid on the Homestead
Why it is important: Often the hospital is far away, things go wrong on the homestead quickly. It becomes up to you to handle things.
Butterfly, steri strips, etc, Good quality clippers
Turns out the animal first aid kit was more together for today’s incident than my generalist human one so that got used.
What to do to prepare
Homesteading can look like all baby goats and garden abundance, but it is a very physical lifestyle. This means that you are exposed to getting hurt, and responsible one it does happen.
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Today we talk about the overall gardening season
Featured event: Foraging Walk by Kerry Brown
On Saturday August 12th, around 10 am at Solomon Park in Wartburg, TN I'll be holding a foraging walk as a guest of the Morgan County, TN Homesteaders Group. They have a group on Facebook if you search that particular title. Location: Wartburg Civic Center- Solomon Park 132 Carter Street Wartburg, TN 37887
Sponsor 1: John Pugliano of The Wealthsteading Podcast
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Wine berries
Watercress is coming back
Mint is all over the place
Yarrow
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Trapped!
Baby ducks got free
Compost area is built for chickens
Rabbits are moving to grass next week - took us a long time to get that set up because of sheep being added (talk about adding too much at once)
Separating the boys from the girls (why)
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Overall season update
Last seeding of summer things and rotation into fall
Processing garlic
More on the onion harvest
Green beans and shade cloth
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Meat curing class
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Rain assists with analyzing hydrology of the land
Solar and power outages
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$15 for 16 jars of homemade relish
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Today, we talk about learning new things and how that fits in with a happy and productive life. I also highlight a new side hustle that one of our community has launched, and review the results of a recent survey that came from the weekly mail.
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Featured Event: Early Bird Prices are about to be a thing of the past for Self Reliance Festival
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Side Hustle Feature: BovineBits
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Learn New Things or Die
Evocative headline, no?
They say if you are not growing, you are failing in business - the same goes for building your life. If you are not learning something new, you are dying.
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Social connection: Medford Oregon Meetup on August 9 - RSVP Here.
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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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Today we give a midsummer update on the homestead, talk about community, and celebrate some things that have made life a little easier this year.
Featured event: Pressure Canning Class Wednesday at 5pm Central
DiscountMylarBags.com: https://bit.ly/43r4dkx
StrongRootsReources.com: https://bit.ly/42UPCgJ
LAST CALL: Paul Wheaton’s Permaculture Adventure Bundle, $35
Rainy year is good
Schedule based on weather: Early morning, midday break, later afternoon (Lots of breaks)
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Livestock
Grow
Holler Neighbors/Community
Infrastructure
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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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Join me as we explore what seven years of podcasting has taught me about getting started, gear, monetizing and more.
Featured Event: Self Reliance Festival: https://selfreliancefestival.com/?aff=nicolesauce
Sponsor 1: The Wealthsteading Podcast: https://bit.ly/3oPLTmr
Sponsor 2: Senior Chief Electric: https://bit.ly/3MKKbuu
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Frugality Tip: Cherry Pitter
DIY Quick, inexpensive, easy way to pit cherries!
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Lessons from 7 Years of Podcasting
From Micah
How about podcasting?
Equipment, guest form, interview tips, how it fits in with a business, how it incorporates with other areas of life, etc.
Software, workflow
Podcast lessons:
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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Today we talk about the heat of summer, interesting new forge things I have discovered here, chicken nuggets, baby ducklings, and processing garlic.
Featured Event: Sunday at 4pm Central, A live Auction for Jenni
Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QisNMJGOETA
Come tell your Jenni Story: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2023/06/28/share-your-jenni-story-live-this-sunday/
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Heat and livestock on the homestead: A brainstorm.
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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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Today we talk about we talk about one of the most important things you can do to opt out of having your life lived for you, and beginning to build the life you choose yon your terms: Decide.
Livestream Schedule
Featured Event: Permaculture Technology Jambouree starts next week and you can still BOGO! https://wheaton-labs.com/permaculture-tech/?f=495
(Spokane Meetup July 6)
Sponsor 1: The Wealthsteading Podcast: https://bit.ly/3oPLTmr
Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com: https://bit.ly/3MBBELx
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Shopping Report from Joe
We made our usual three stops this Saturday, however I have added some more useful information I hope to continue.
Dollar Tree was first. They are well-stocked, although the coolers are filled with mostly name-brand drinks, not the ones I prefer. Oh well. I think they may have hired another person, as the lone woman at the registers was able to call for assistance when her line got long.
Home Depot was next. A 2x4x8 remains at $3.35. It's rather a shame we didn't need any lumber, as the cull cart had a lot of good long pieces on it. The battery carrels up front remain mostly full, although there's very little lithium AA or AAA; I think just some 2-packs.
Aldi was last. Here, I've added some staple prices, and will try to update them:
Milk: $3.06
Eggs: $1.23 (up a little)
Heavy cream (32 oz): $4.69
All-purpose flour: $2.19
Sugar (4 lbs): $2.68
Butter (1 lb): $3.18
We found everything we wanted except pepitas (hulled pumpkin seeds, which I've been having as a snack at work). I did find out that the one muzzled clerk is not waiting for bite training, but is the primary caregiver for her Mom, a cancer survivor; she would therefor likely be muzzled anyway.
A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.899.
Frugality Tip
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Decide
I’ve got a newsflash for you: Not deciding is deciding. Usually this doest get you where you want to be.
What does it mean to decide
Shiny object syndrome and deciding
You stand at a crossroad each day where your first decision is this: Do you want to be better, or do you want to keep your unhealthy identity? (the Alcoholic example) Will you put on your oxygen mask first then help others, or will you bury yourself in indecision to mute the pain of knowing you did not decide, and therefore things were decided for you.
Living the life that others chose for you - vs living your life starts each morning (Job story) - boils down to one thing: Decide. Decide to do something. Decide you will never do something. Decide to let go of the crap. Decide you want to be crap. Decide to grow. Decide no. J
Just go out and decide - because when you decide, you change the metric by which your minutes, hours and days are measured. You bring it back to the things you can control. And you stop stagnating in apathy.
Decide
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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Today we talk about the busy season of the homestead, canning update, garden abundance, weeds, chicken graduation weekend and more.
Featured event: October Chicken Processing with Joel Salatin, Oct 16
Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com: https://bit.ly/43r4dkx
Sponsor 2: Freesteading.com: https://bit.ly/3o2BcMR
Forage
Livestock
Grow
Holler Neighbors/Community
Infrastructure
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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!
Community
Advisory Board
Resources