Today we give you an update on the homestead after we have spring into FIRST SPRING in Tennessee, operation eyesore, keeping up with meals on the homestead, egg issues and more.
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Transitioning to Feeding twice a day in the pasture
Duck Egg Response to Different Feed - the lights
Radish germination and second round of seeding this weekend
How do you track your seedings, seedlings and progress?
Rolling Leftovers: Roundroast and Lamb goulash
Not Dry Round Roast
Prepper Pantry Update - Getting Excited for the finish!
Water descaler and Culligan water softener for sale: $300
Move the Ram
Housekeeping Test
Deadnettle, chickweed, wild garlic
First Spring - and First Tornado
Operation Eyesore
Truck Repairs
Duplex Fix
More raised beds incoming
Tomato wall completion
Holler Neighbors/Community
Finances Idea - ways to grow a homestead into your primary income
Make it a great week!
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Today, we update you on the new lambs on the Holler Homestead, the new feed source we found, importance of community and more!
Featured event: 9 am. Tomorrow (Saturday). Workshop Tickets go on sale!
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Celebrate! Got first round of seedlings ready (Yesterdayâs episode)
Bottle Lamb Updates
Awesome Kitchen Vent Hood
Pasture Brat Pack
Normalized Paddock Rotation again
Operation Eyesore
New Feed Source for TN
Processor connections
Update on managing while Nicole was away
Forage: Time to be on the lookout for wild garlic and early spring greens
Concrete project sound fun this weekend?
Invoicing the lambs we sold this weekend - and why I waited so long.
Make it a great week!
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Join me for a discussion on starting your seeds and out usual âMonday Segments.â
Spring Workshop, April 24-26:P https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/spring-workshop-2025/
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LFTN Spring Workshop Tickets go on Sale Saturday at 9am Central.
Updated Links for Equipment:
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Frugality Tip - send one in
Operation Independence
Picked up the processed lambs today, Lambs for sale!
Main Topic: Seed Starting
4 Keys to Successful Seedlings
Soil Mix
Trays & Containers
Choosing Seeds: Heirloom vs. Hybrid
First Year: Choose 1-2 things, experiment, and donât stress if you buy starts. Keep going!
Troubleshooting Germination: The Paper Towel Trick
Keeping Costs Down (While Buying Quality Equipment)
Make it a great week!
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Today I am joined by the Tactical Redneck and perhaps Knighthawk for the latest news from the Holler Homestead. Babies, extreme cold, planning the gardens and more
Featured event: LFTN Spring Workshop
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Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com
Forage
Livestock
Grow
Holler Neighbors/Community
Infrastructure
Finances
Membership Plug
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Donât 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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Make it a great week!
GUYS! Donât 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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Today, we talk about how to plan your kitchen garden, especially from the perspective of replacing dependence on the grocery store. I also cover our usual segments: Tales from the Prepper Pantry, Frugality Tip, Operation Independence and more.
Featured Event: LFTN Spring Workshop
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Resources
Mad River Seeds on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/market/mad_river_seeds
Baker Creek: https://www.rareseeds.com/
Seed Savers Exchange: https://seedsavers.org/
Homegrown Cooking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbCr4DQ3KI0
SCHEDULE THIS WEEK AND NEXT
Listener feedback - I want to move to TN, where do I go?
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Shopping Report
Based on some videos from a few prepping channels (eg. Poplar Report, Pinball Preparedness), Iâm trying to be more attentive to shortages, but fortunately havenât seen anything remarkable other than the limit of 2 on Aldi eggs.
Dollar Tree was first. Stock is always changing there, but there were no vacant areas and I did not see duplication being used to hide low stock. The drink selection remains good. The food coolers are mostly full.
We did not go in to Home Depot, but the online price of a 2x4x8 remains at $3.85.
Aldi was last. We found what we wanted. Staple prices were: bread (20 oz. white): $1.39; eggs: $4.17 (+, limit 2); whole milk: $2.87 (-); heavy cream: $5.39; OJ: $3.69; butter: $3.79 (-); bacon: $3.99; potatoes: no tag; sugar: $2.99 (+); flour: $2.35 (+); and 80% lean ground beef: $3.79.
Untainted regular unleaded at Weigels was still $3.59 per gallon, but the 87 octane (regular) corrupted with ethanol is only $2.79.
Frugality Tip from Margo
Today is a short and sweet simple tip. Whenever we are out shopping or whatnot I pack a small cooler with drinks and a reusable ice block. I also keep an extra insulated tumbler full of water in the car at all times. Stopping to grab a drink adds up quickly, especially with someone that drinks soda. So stop yourself from grabbing that convenience store overpriced drink and just pack a small cooler. Happy saving y'all.
~Margo
Operation Independence
Value of four rams on homestead income: $1200
Main Topic of todayâs Show: Planning Your Kitchen Garden
Two ways to plan: Replacing fresh veg in season then buying shipped in âfreshâ veg the rest of the year VSr eating seasonally.
Garden Layout: Talk about zoning, herbs, and succession planting.
INTERPLANTING, COVER CROPS and SUCCESSION PLANTING
Have fun with this! Especially if it is your first year. The first rule of homesteading is BE FEARLESS
Make it a great week!
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Today, we talk about more lambing fun, dog kefir, cold swimming and more.
Resources: Solar Webinar: LivingFreeinTennessee.com
Homegrown Cooking with Dawn Gorham: https://www.youtube.com/@lftn
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Failed chicken dinner
Prepper Pantry Progress
Avoiding pasture damage when ice turns to mud
Loading rams for the processor
Fun at the processors
Hairy balls
Dog kefir
How are we going to split the flock?
Cold swimming - polar plunge light
You finally finished the stew
Bone broth on cold days
Seed order is in for the gardens (The challenge)
REALLY MUST process rabbits
Basecamp showing to a community member today
Make it a great week!
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I am joined by The Tactical Redneck, Tracy and Knighthawk to talk about the latest on the homestead: New births (oops), the snowmageddon that didn't, actual snow and more.
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Lambs born
Lamb died
The parts car sale and roadblocks
4 wheeler rebuild
Watercress is under water for the winter
Processing Rabbits this weekend
The Pantry Challenge
Planning what to grow
Rabbit Water cant go empty on any of them because of the cold
Finishing our raised beds - smaller gardens in 2025 to facilitate the move
Ducks are not laying eggs
Time to start chard and brassicas
Screening ashes
Thinking about compost
The pool house green house idea
Basecamp will be available to rent mid-February
Rams headed to the processor next week
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Today is our last Homestead Happenings show for 2024 and I am flying solo. Join me for a discussion of manning the homestead by myself and other late year homestead topics.
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Sponsor 2: EMP Shield, EMPShieldcom, Coupon Code LFTN
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Donât 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 is Tacticalâs last day on the show for 2024 â well live on the show anyway. He will read the Redneck Night Before Christmas in about a week.
LFTN Christmas Reception Reminder
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Sponsor 2: EMP Shield, Coupon Code LFTN
Rabbit Tractor - On the Christmas Break To Do List
Almost a record month for Holler Roast Coffee!!
Great American Preparedness Tour Reminder
Foraging Jerusalem Artichokes for Christmas Dinner
Found Tamahawk Steaks â we'll also get some cut
A Tale of my swiss chard, the wind, and a cold night when I was not here
Planning spring seedlings in the next few weeks
Does anyone have a fun chicken idea for thighs?
Wood stove dries clothing the best
Presetting 3 paddocks so T can leave for 4 days
Raised bed is about ready for garlic
Need to source cover that has active local biology in it for both raised beds
Incoming cow
Took down locust trees for posts
Heating with wood
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Today, we talk about the polar plunge in the Holler, Christmas busy season, shoring up the livestock to do well through winter, and more
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Hard to work outside because the cold came on suddenly.
Heat battery worked for one day â now we need a heater
Goat fencing
Chickens are gone
Feed staging
Preparing to be gone â location of sheep
Augmenting with creep to give sheep a boost because of the sudden change in temperature
Chestnutâs sweater
Garlic still not in â need the bed finished
Donât low and slow a round roast - it gets dry
AP didnt freeze even though I didnt winterize the wicking beds
Chard is still producing under plastic
Duck eggs are slow
How do you like the rabbit waterers?
Time to breed the rabbits again
Rabbit tractor is still not done and I am the bottle neck
Checking the microclimate near the post for the last of the fall herbs
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Donât 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 have our annual brainstorm on gifts we can make from the home or homestead. If things are tight, or even if they arenât, handmade gifts with lots of love and thought are awesome.
Featured Event: Webinar Announcement For December, Christmas Gathering RSVP DEC 21
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Sponsor 2: TheWealthsteadingPodast
Livestream Schedule
First Tuesday Coffee Chat, 9:30am Tomorrow
Friday Homestead Happenings, 9:30am
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Shopping Report from Joe
We took our usual trip on Friday, deciding to risk possible Black Friday traffic, but it wasn't too bad. As we approached Dollar Tree, we could see that the China-mart lot was packed, but it did not extend as far as the Dollar Tree parking area.
Next we split, Sonia going into Hobby Lobby and I into Lowe's. Both were very busy, but she said she had little wait. Although we did not go into Home Depot, the online price of a 2x4x8 is still $3.85.
Aldi was next. Wet cat food has returned, so I got a couple of 12-can boxes. Eggs are no longer marked limit 2. There was very little of even the type of chocolate I normally get, not just the variety I prefer; the shelf area was vacant, although still marked for it. Staple prices were: bread (20 oz. white): $1.39; eggs: $3.96 (+); whole milk: $3.03; heavy cream: $5.39; OJ: $3.69 (+); butter: $3.99; bacon: $3.99; potatoes: $3.69 (+); sugar: $2.69; flour: $1.79; and 80% lean ground beef: $3.99 (-). They also had no cantaloupes.
A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.599.
Frugality Tip
When you have a gathering and you put things out for drinks like sliced lemons, limes and oranges there are usually leftovers. What I do is put them in the freezer and when I'm going to make tea I'll take out a slice or two in the morning for a hot cup of tea in the afternoon or evening. Alternatively I'll freeze them in ice cube trays and use in iced tea in warmer weather.
So save the citrus and enjoy it later
Operation Independence
Setting a schedule for classes to be hosted at the Holler Homestead next year. Cheese, for example.
Main topic of the Show: Handmade Homestead Gift Ideas
MeWe reminder
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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! Donât 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 the first REAL cold in the holler, new life, and fencing.
Featured Event: Black Friday Sale at Holler Roast! https://hollerroast.com/
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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
Itâs cold
Perimeter fence is almost complete
Second rotation of the rams - faster than weâd 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! Donât 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 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
Itâs cold
Perimeter fence is almost complete
Second rotation of the rams - faster than weâd 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! Donât forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!
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Today I 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.
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Sponsor 2: The Wealthsteading Podcast
CONFLICT
Tree class
Rams working
The Election
Rams leaving
Perimeter fence
Changes afoot at the Sheep pasture land
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Today we talk about five things that most homesteaders deprioritize in their preps as well as out usual Monday segments.
Featured Events - an update
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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
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 âtwoâ options that are the âonlyâ 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
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 âprepareâ for it.
FIVE OVERLOOKED PREPS
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!
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Today we have an update on the Holler Homestead: Ram processing incoming, rain, duck compost and more
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Green Tomato Update: Harvest Shrimp
Chickens getting in the raised bed đ
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
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Advisory Board
The Booze Whisperer
The Tactical Redneck
Chef Brett
Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Membership Sign Up
Holler Roast Coffee
Harvest Right Affiliate Link
Join us for the update on moving the ram in with the girls, a dry October, molting ducks and more.
Featured event: Developing Off Grid Water On your Homestead, Webinar Wednesday! 6pm with Ryan Steva, The Homestead Consultant
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Rams clearing the outer ring of my homestead - found old fencing
Eversole GSD Weekend
Sheep Out
Getting the bananas ready for winter
Separating the girls and adding the ram - is he doing his job??
Drone in the Holler to see things far away from the house
Ducks molting and no eggs
Fall garden update
Swim spa is up to temperature (finally)
Breaking records dry in October
Discussing the process for finishing the prepper pantry - linear versus multiple fronts
Bred the rabbits
Rabbit tractor concept
Tracy helping to purge the Holler and the impromptu dinner
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Join me today as we dive into how to come up with your homestead design plan that works as you age. We will also talk about our usual Monday segments and the Shopping Report is BACK!
Featured Event: Partner with Trees on the Permaculture Homestead with Strong Roots Resources, November 2, $90
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Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com, Coupon code LFTN
Livestream Schedule
Tuesday, 9:30 AM: Coffee with Kiri Torgler os Thunderhill Farms and Shawn Mills from Hack My Homestead
Friday, 9:30 AM: Homestead Happenings with the Tactical Redneck
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Counterintuitively, we are doing our best to use up things in the pantry (WHY)
Pizza party and cake with the neighbors
Planning the finishing of the prepper pantry
Time to âreallyâ can the rest of the frozen tomato
Picking up the Harvest Right repair project again
Weekly Shopping Report
Dollar Tree: Stock is good in all areas, including plastics. They also have TP and paper towels.
Home Depot: A 2x4x8 was unchanged from last week, at $3.85. Quickly looking at some tools, they have reduced the quantities of a lot of other brands like Klein in favor of Milwaukee, but pegboards were full.
Aldi: Once again, they had almost no wet cat food, just individual small "peel" cups. There were actually some price decreases this week. Staple prices were: eggs: $2.15 (-); whole milk: $2.88; heavy cream: $5.39; OJ: $3.45; butter: $3.99; bacon: $3.99; potatoes: $3.99 (-); sugar: $2.99; flour: $2.35; and 80% lean ground beef: $4.49. They again have a small amount of TP in stock
A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.599.
Frugality Tip from Margo
Have you ever had a bird peck your window non-stop. Like wake you up and then you have a constant headache for weeks or months because it's trying to kill it's reflection?!
Don't waste your money on all the gadgets to keep birds away like plastic owls, window clings and spinners. Go to the store and buy a $5 cloth shower curtain and hang it on the outside of your window with a couple of cup hooks. It lets light in and can get rained on and most important, it works.
So save your money on all the things that say they deter birds and just block their reflection.
I did this two years ago and still have the same shower curtain up on the bedroom window and we sleep peacefully.
Operation Independence
The sheep are split and ready for a visit from the ram. Lamb futures we hope!
Main topic of the Show: Plan Your Homestead For Old Age
Assess Your Homestead
What works well for mobility matters
Are things far away that should be close (Zones)
How is the house for injuries or illness, prolonged versus
What happens if you have to be suddenly gone for a few days (Watering, livestock care, self care, pipes freezing, etc)
Community needed? (On site helpers, etc). SOPS? Succession housing
List manual processes
What does it cost to maintain with you doing the work? With outsources help (lawncare, firewood, etc)
What happens with land, pets and livestock when you die?
Har far are medical services and how ready are you to wait? (Yellowstone)
Brainstorm Solutions and Changes
Automations
Relocations
Renovations
Relationships
Permaculture
Timeline and Budget
Prioritize projects (Spa - what?)
Assess before you begin
1 step at a time - enjoy the journey - that is the point of a homestead.
Be ready to just let some things go (sheep, housing, trade skills for food in your community, homestead and off-grid purists, etc)
Connect with the community!
Make it a great week!
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Today we talk about the sheep breeding strategy, helping plants through the first frost, GSD Projects in East Tn and more.
Featured Event: Off Grid Water Webinar with Ryan Steva, Oct 30 at 6pm
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Baby Rabbit Update
Setting up ALL the rotations vs just letting nature take its course
Frost on the gardens and jury rigged protection
We may make it through the entire month of October with no rain (HAY HAY HAY)
Roaster Rebuild
Partnering with Trees in the Permaculture Homestead
Minerals for Ducks and lack of eggs without them
Idea for getting them minerals more easily
First FIRE
Chimney cleaning this weekâ
The broken fence
Shawarma beef in the crock pot
Ram aprons
Make it a great week!
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Advisory Board
The Booze Whisperer
The Tactical Redneck
Chef Brett
Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Membership Sign Up
Holler Roast Coffee
Harvest Right Affiliate Link
IF YOU WANT TO HELP FLOOD VICTIMS: Join our Telegram group.
Today we talk about preparations for cold, livestock husbandry season, a cool tree class and more!
Featured Event: Nov 2, Partner with Trees on the Permaculture Homestead with Kerry Brown of Strong Roots Resources
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Sponsor 2: The Wealthsteading Podcast: Investablewealth.com
Separating ewes and moving them to the ram
Dyslexic weather
Way station for Hurricane relief
Some permanent fencing
New rabbit update
9 baby rabbits doing well
Raised bed update - need to build the waterer
Pool: digging a ditch and getting power
Last round of mint harvest this weekend before the first frost
Moving firewood and chimney preparation
Hay update
Why are we adding trees
Tomato wall coming down
SRF recovery projects
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Donât 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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IF YOU WANT TO HELP FLOOD VICTIMS: Join our Telegram group.
Today we will discuss rain, getting ready to be gone, and much more on our weekly Homestead Happenings live streamed show.
Featured Event: SRF Digital Passes are only $50!
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Join us for a discussion on the movening of the rams, the rabbits, a possible permaculture class, and more.
Featured Event: Advanced Closure Class By Chuck Peoples, Oct 3 in Camden, TN.
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Yesterday, there was an error at Libsyn, my ausio host and it looks like only half the file made it through their processing. This is the same file uploaded a second time in case you got a version that cut off around minute 38.
Enjoy!
Today, we discuss all the things I learned the hard way through my first two winters with a well system in Tennessee. We will also cover our usual Monday segments!
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Back to the Land Festival the weekend of Oct 18-20: https://www.backtothelandfestival.com/
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Listener Feedback from Brian
I wanted to let you know your episode resonated with me since I never know what to say on this subject of death either. Whenever we pass around a condolences card at work most people will write "Sorry for your loss." I prefer "Let the good memories get you through this tough time." I remember feeling exhausted after my mom's time on hospice. I hope you are getting some time to relax and reflect especially with the traveling you were having to do to support your family.
On the subject of heart, I used one of my pig hearts in chili last year. I called it "Heartburn" the meat never got soft it was firm even after simmering overnight. Most of the kidneys I eat are from smaller animals which turn out awesome when cooked in a roasting pan. Pig kidneys deep fried while you are rendering lard is pretty good. Cubed up and lightly floured is good too.
Take care and keep up the great shows.
Livestream Schedule
Tuesday Live at 9:30AM Central
Friday 9:30AM Homestead Happenings with the Tactical Redneck
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Shopping Report
We skipped Home Depot this week, but the online price of a 2x4x8 has gone up 20c to $3.85.
Aldi had neither the old nor the new varieties of wet cat food. We'll just dip into our stock a little this week. We found everything else we wanted. Staple prices were: bread (20 oz. white): $1.39; eggs: $3.76 (-); whole milk: $2.92; heavy cream: $5.39; OJ: $3.45; butter: $3.99; bacon: $3.99; potatoes: $4.59; sugar: $2.99; flour: $2.35; and 80% lean ground beef: $4.39 (+).
A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.599.
Frugality Tip
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Maintaining Your Well Through Winter
Someone asked how important a whole house generator is now that they live in the country on a well and power goes out.
Define your goal - is it having water or having running water because storage is practically free
Simple and cheap options
Generator thoughts
Winter Well Maintenance Considerations
All in all what you do in year one depends on budget and priorities - but I find the problem isn't usually that power went out and I have no water. It is more that something happens in the system and when I did not understand the system, it could take days to remedy even with the help of a professional because a plumber/ electrician mix cant always drop everything and come to a place way out in the country. And all plumbers are not created equal.
So time to man up and learn about well systems this year while you also cover things you know can go wrong.
Welcome to country living!
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