Untested (by me) poke remedy to poison ivy: http://duplin.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/cookingcorner/pokeweedcure.htm

Wild things we are eating this week:

1. Blackberries
2. Daylilies
3. Gathering lots of leaves for teas: sasafrass, mint, bee balm, blackberry leaves

What we are preserving this week:

1. Corn
2. Jams
3. Beans

A word on managing canned goods: Audit your stock and organize it.

Fermenting Garden Excess

• Book Recommendation: Sandor Katz, The art of fermentation: http://amzn.to/29x4vOs
• Handy (FREE) video reference! Sandor Katz: http://www.wildfermentation.com/sandorkraut-the-video/
• Fermentation Lids I like and use: http://amzn.to/29wfESJ
• Brine website I like: http://www.probioticjar.com/brine.html

What you need

1. Vegetables
2. Salt
3. Vessel: Jar, crock, anything really just no metal or plastic
4. Wood spoon or other tool to help you push it down
5. A way to weigh the veggies below the liquid (NWEdibleLife)
6. Cool dark place

Troubleshooting

• White scum
• Black scum
• Off smells - fermentation smell or baby poo?

Song of the Episode: Suicide by Sauce

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Also covered on this episode:

1. Quick shortbread recipe
2. What is seasonal this week in Tennessee

Several of our friends have passed away in the last week and it reminds me that you need to live for the now as much as you can, while laying the foundation for a good future for yourself -- or for your loved ones. While thinking about this, I found a nice tribute to our friend who passed away on Monday from Garth Brooks: https://www.facebook.com/GarthBrooks/videos/1078676248878474/

What we are eating and preserving this week:

• From that garden and local markets: beets, spinach, yellow squash, cabbage, potatoes, peppers and a surprise kale plant, wild raspberries and blackberries, peaches
• From the larder: sweet potatoes, frozen blueberries, venison, bacon
• Preserving: A do-over on pickled beets (when in doubt throw it out), It’s time to make pickles but we will talk about that next week with our special guest...

Three time-saving ideas for the homesteader who also works a full time job

Listen to Remy's Reaction to the Florida Shooting: How to react to tragedy:

What we are eating this week

• Berries!
• Elderflower Fritters: a recipe - do not use olive oil
• Items from the root cellar: Spaghetti squash and sweet potatoes
• Still getting lettuce galore but that is about to change

What we are preserving this week - and how

• Peppermint
• Bee balm - finally about to bloom
• Sour Cherry Jam
• Blackberry leaves
• Pickled Beets - Recipe coming soon!

Garden/pest update

• The flea beetle
• Squash bugs
• Does the duct tape trick really work on squash bug eggs?
• Neem oil or Dawn

About the Root Cellar and Canned Food Storage

Final song: Every Way written by Nicole Sauce, performed by Sauce

What we are eating this week

• Coleslaw recipe & freshness strategy
  • 2 TBSP mayonnaise, 2 TBSP vinegar, 1/3 cup milk, 1 TBSP honey, 1 tsp freshly ground pepper, 1 tsp salt. Shake like mad! Pour over your cut up cabbage, carrots and onions.
• Chard, radishes, spinach, lettuces, canned corn (must. finish. last. year's. corn.), strawberries, sweet potatoes
• Poke weed w/ video on how to prepare it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EnGpPUWhs
• Sassafras root - video on how to harvest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1scAAetl7EE

What we are preserving this week - and how

• Peppermint
• Bee balm
• Strawberries
• Blackberry leaves

Time to test your pressure canner gauge - a not from the entension office --https://extension.tennessee.edu/WebPacket/Pages/NYCU-2016-05-Canning.aspx

How the Holler Homestead started

An interview with Michelle Shelley of Full Circle Heritage Farms
From Michelle: "You might want to change the title to "woman running a farm into the ground, into a wall, through a gate (farm truck with no brakes), or just a woman breaking stuff- that's what I'm really running!

The mineral feeder she made:

The manure spreader:

Holler Update

• The ducks got a pool!
• Tomatoes looking great and a shout out to Nick Ferguson of Homegrown Liberty
• The importance of relationships: Truck in the shop

Outro: Grandpa's Song, by Sauce