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Mar 11, 2022

Today we talk about the past week on the homestead. Projects, livestock, stories and more in order to serve as an inside look at what homesteading is really like.

 

Webinar reminder: Assessing your property for microclimates

 

Email homesteading questions to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com

 

Forage

  • Friday Foraging Frenzy: dead nettle, watercress, dandelion greens
  • Spreading seed foraged from last year

 

Food Storage/Pantry

  • Milk Story
  • Freeze Dryer cycle reboot

 

Livestock

  • Decided Sheep
  • Winter bedding problem

 

Grow

  • Garden meeting
  • Finished pollarding
  • Eggs are increasing with the light

 

Infrastructure

  • Pond fencing progress
  • Weed control set up for living fence
  • AP Plan for hillside garden
  • Weedcloth

 

Better Living

  • Post construction cleanup
  • Dog training.Cycy update

 

Finances

  • More is going out than coming in (feed/grain, infrastructure, and bedding)

 

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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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Mar 9, 2022

Today I am joined by Charles the Humble Mechanic and John Willis of Special Operations Equipment to discuss getting your business house in order no matter what the current environment.

Reminder:

  • Member Webinar this coming Sunday: Assessing Your Property for Microclimates with Kerry Brown, Sign Up

The show is growing as a resource for improving your life, homesteading, and self reliance.

Language happens

New Wednesday format

Extra Show this week

Stump the Sauce

This isn't really a stump the Sauce question but can you talk more about vacuum bagging your dressed chickens? Pros, cons, and maybe what to look for like the size for whole birds, and what else you've found it useful for.

I know these machines are expensive and you are the only person I have ever heard even mention them on any show I listen to.

Love the show and your coffee made great Christmas gifts. Keep up the good work. (Eric)

Main topic of the Show:  Fireside Chat with Charles the Humble Mechanic and John Willis

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Mar 7, 2022
Today, we discuss getting ahead of the urgent by doing your homework, as well as communicating when schedules slip.

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Road food fail
  • STILL SEEKING to reorganize the freezers
  • Reconfiguring the above chest freezer storage this coming weekend
  • Lots of green beans to eat - not sad about this
  • Scored a beautiful Bok Choy from the Stoltzfuss farm at Rogue - so nice to have something fresh to cook

Forage this Week - not much has changed

  • Watercress (but flooding)
  • Dead nettle
  • Chickweed
  • Dandelion greens

Operation Independence

  • Post Rogue Assessment - lost money - next steps (Profit was -$455)

Main topic of the Show: Do your Homework

We haven’t had a hard conversation in a long time. You know the one I mean - the one I mean. The one where we are honest with ourselves.

Just got back from Rogue - got me to thinking about doing my homework (explain the coffee situation there and what we did)

Then starting thinking about SRF 1 and 2 and ways we could have better equipped sponsors, vendors and attendees with information in advance of the festival and realized we had more homework to do as well as a 9 hour drive.

I am very good at handling changing demands of an event with grace, but if I do my homework, there are fewer of these issues.

What do I mean by doing your homework?

  • Post meeting follow ups the same day
  • Preparing a thank you note in advance of an event where one will be needed gets that small but important task done
  • Thinking through big projects and identifying production needs, then doing them BEFORE deadline
  • Looking into the background of people and things that you must know about to be successful (SRF Speakers)
  • Establishing project goals and planning how to achieve them
  • Setting up systems so that post event items get cleaned and stowed efficiently

The list is endless. And therein lies the rub. The key to finding success and easing your life by doing your homework is knowing which homework you truly must do.

If you don;t change your hvac filters, you end up with a huge mess.

Likewise, if you do not thank your sponsors or other supporters, you damage the relationship.  And usually these kinds of problems stem from not doing your homework in advance.

Usually these things keep us from doing our homework:

  • Fear of failure
  • Overcommittment or overwhelmedness
  • Disorganization
  • Distraction
  • Depression

All are excuses when you embrace who is in control of your life and schedule.

So how then, do we hold ourselves accountable while maintaining that all important health-relationship-work-fun balance?

  • Separate the important form the busywork (Example - coaching call transcript vs coaching call summary. Speaker confirmation and communication vs internet sleuthing for more on the speaker)
  • Establish your baseline: what must always be done (Example - coaching call must always have a post call write up the same day)
  • Set up the system that empowers the homework: (Example - schedule coaching calls with an additional hour or two for the post call write up)
  • Make the promise to yourself (I WILL do or die this thing)
  • The hard step: follow through. 
  • Communicate better - underpromise and overdeliver rather than over promise and underdeliver. Eg - someone wants something now

From planning events, to executing things well on your homestead, to interacting with people better - homework is something that is easy to put off. Part of this is because we are expected to do things that are busy work - like filing our tax reports. And because things like taxes come with a heavy consequence if you do not do the busywork, we have become trained to not separate the true homework that is important from the busywork that it is easy to assign ourselves because we feel good when we do it. You know - that endorphin rush you get when you click things off your list? 

But imagine what it is like when you DO set yourself up for doing your homework? Think of how SRF check in will be when we have everyone with parking passes in advance. When vendor spaces are on a map and assigned?

Or think of how easy it is to add people to your table when you have a plan for dinner and a deep pantry?

Or how about when you have a template email ready to go to confirm things?

All of these sorts of structures happen when you do your homework.

But you have to do it or it will never get done.

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Mar 2, 2022

Today we have something new: a monthly chat with Jack Spirko and John Willis. These First Tuesday talks are at 12:30 CT and we stream them live on various video channels. Be prepared for the f bomb in these episodes.

Headed to rogue Food Conference this weekend.

Get your tickets for the June 11-12 Self-Reliance Festival

Stump the Sauce

Feedback from Jon in West Virginia on Siloing.

Main topic of the Show:  Fireside Chat with Jack Spirko and John Willis

Connect with us!

Why we are doing this new show series and what do you think?

Covered on this episode:

  • Proper prepping
  • Unkraine
  • Coffee
  • Building a Business
  • Finding Employees

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Feb 28, 2022

We have had two permaculturists out to help review what we are installing at the Holler Homestead. Kerry Brown and Nick ferguson. Today, I run through the list of things that we have to do and will describe how we move on when the list is bigger than the pocketbook.

Show Resources:

Kerry Brown: Strong Roots Resources

Nick Ferguson: Homegrown Liberty

Weekend things in March:

  1. Planting Ausage for the living fence this coming Sat, 1pm
  2. Processing Pigs (no class) March 19 - come and help if you want
  3. GSD Weekend: March 25 - Sat and Sunday (Bonfire, operation eyesore, outdoor shower, installing power, hanging lights.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Chicken tastes good again
  • Illness in the Holler
  • Roemertopf Beef Roast Recipe of the week
  • Freeze Dryer Update (busy times)
  • Re-upping milk subscription
  • Missing fresh veggies from the garden and need to start seeds now

Spring Forage

  • Chick weed
  • Dead nettle
  • Watercress
  • Dandelion greens

Operation Independence

  • Taxes

Main topic of the Show: Permaculture Debrief

Process: Goals discussion, walk about, the rain event

  • Hillside Garden/Aquaponics/Water Feature
  • French Drain Outlet Erosion Issue
  • Fodder Trees - Camping Area
  • Fodder Trees Elsewhere
  • Food Forrest 
  • Pond Area and Sheep/Goats
  • Fig Hedge

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Feb 25, 2022

Russia invaded the Ukraine - that is what the headlines say. For days, I have watched people hyper focus on this international event. Then the joke memes started. Then the prepper facebook group got amped up about getting prepared via purchasing all the things. Then more humorous memes happened.

Then it was Friday - and I had extra time to spend on something. And I had a decision to make. 

Today, I will share with you how I am moving beyond the crisis reporting drama of this world event to do my best to focus on the things that will move my life forward despite the fight with Russia, or the Ukraine, depending on which side is the side du jour.

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Main Topic: Living with War

War sucks - and what happens next from our country’s leaders to this altercation could have a pretty dramatic impact on our lives. Or very little. And the hell of the matter is that it is entirely out of our control.

So, then, how do we live with war?

  • Situational awareness vs obsession (Time is investment)
  • What does war mean if it happens?
    • Profit opportunities (John’s email)
    • Terrible loss of life - military activation
    • We are not as tough as we once were and this is a problem
    • If it goes on: supply chain issues for things that are not easily available/made here
    • Violence against us citizens abroad and possibly on us soil 
  • What if it doesn’t happen?
    • We know something will happen - just not how far the US admin will go
    • If you go all in on “we are going to war” and it does not happen - you lose
    • If you make decisions motivated by fear, they are usually the wrong ones
  • So what do you do?
    • What can you do? Time is an investment. Investing time in learning resilience is something that pays off forever, no matter what happens. Learning new skills will help you if we seriously go to a wwIII scale war. Investing is personal and community stability is worthwhile. Invest in relationships
    • Keep moving your life and your community forward 
  • Situational Awareness is key - obsessing on wargames will only undermine your success (Jack Spirko’s video)

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Feb 23, 2022

Join Mama Sauce, Tactical Redneck and me as we talk through how we decide to do events, how we get ready for events, and what happens from there.

 

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Feb 16, 2022

Today, we welcome Jenni Hill back on the show to talk about how she designs her medical kit and some steps you may want to take to tailor yours to the needs of your household.

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Jenni on Facebook

 

Main content of the show

Jenni is a massage therapist with a strong background in the healthcare field. While navigating auto-immune disorders in her own household, she put a big focus on health, healing and preventative care.

 

  1. How do you know where to get started?
  2. Okay, so tell us what's in your stores.
  3. How do you know when to use what?

4.How do you rotate and resupply?

  1. When deciding a course of treatment, what factors do you look at?
  2. Let's talk about preventative care and how your preps help
  3. How about some of those natural alternatives



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Feb 14, 2022

Today we will talk through several things that you need to learn not to be squamish about on the homestead.

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Urgently need to do the freezer audit and inventory
  • Reorganizing wire shelving with dollar tree bins to keep stuff from tipping
  • Restocking 1X per month for the next 6 months in light of shortages
  • Planning garden based on canned good usage (How this works) (2 bushels beans, 200lbs tomatoes, 150 beets, etc
  • Book to read soon: Winning the War on Weeds by John Moody

Weekly Forage

  • Dead Nettle 
  • Watercress

Operation Independence

Main topic of the Show: Squeamishness and Homesteading

Why this topic and the reality of homesteading

Assumptions: livestock, very rural

Squamishnesses

  • Blood and guts/ injuries/ first aid
  • Blood and guts processing
  • Insects and rodents
  • Poop/manur
  • Sitting in the dirt
  • Cold food that should be hot

In the end, you do what you have to do.

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Feb 11, 2022

Today we have a fun interview show with John Willis and Jack Spirko that was recorded a few weeks ago when I still have the covaids. We talk about current events and self reliance;

 

Members! Log into your account or check email for the link to this month’s webina: Makin’ Bacon with Mike Leonido. Saturday at 12pm CT.

 

SelfRelianceFestival.com has the final lineup for the Feb 19 & 20 event. Get your tickets in advance before the price goes up!

 

Show Resources

Jack Spirko from The Survival Podcast.

John Willis from Special Operations Equipment

 

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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Feb 9, 2022

Today, we continue the pantry management series with a discussion about how to keep your Today’s show was inspired by Krystal when she asked how do you balance “Have tos” and “Get tos”. Great question and worth putting thought into!

Stump the Sauce

  • Where should I move to in Tennessee?

Main topic of the Show:  Have to vs Get tot

  1. Reframe
  2. Let Perfection Go
  3. Add Rest as a To Do Item
  4. Learn to Silo
  5. Ask for Help
  6. The Reality Planner Approach

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Feb 7, 2022

Homestead living is often romanticized by those outside the lifestyle. Homesteading takes work and choices to live differently than the “norm”. Today I will talk you through the Holler Homestead’s spring 2022 plans. Because the clock is ticking on getting things planted, built and preserved for another year of abundance.

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • $400 restock
  • Beef investment ($1600)
  • Freezer Audit
  • Bone broth and Cycy’s recovery

Forage in Winter

  • Jerusalem artichokes
  • Ground nuts
  • Dandelion root
  • Day Lily Root

Operation Independence

  • Tajmaholler Update

Network Opportunities

  • 1 Spring Workshop ticket left!
  • Self-Reliance Festival
  • Rogue Food Conference

Main topic of the Show: Spring Plans at the Holler Homestead

  • Hydro Systems
  • Hillside Gardens
  • Regular Garden
  • Living Fence Project
  • Fodder Trees
  • Livestock Update: Pigs, bees, goats, rabbits, sheep
  • Classes: Canning, Cheese making, Pig processing, chicken processing, turkey day, open houses

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Feb 3, 2022

Fodder Trees with Nick Ferguson

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Feb 1, 2022

Today, I share with you some best practices on getting your podcasts and events promoted by others. Ever reach out to a personality and them get frustrated when they either did not respond or cross promote your stuff, or they shared the wrong information? This episode will increase your close rate for these sorts of communications.

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Freezers are full
  • Setting foundation for meat birds this year
  • Cooking during illness
  • Getting set to weather trucker strike shortages

Operation Independence

  • Pdc in April
  • Bacon webinar update

Main topic of the Show: Underground Networking and Promotion

What is underground networking?

Why this topic? (Moody)

Rogue Food Conference

“If I can help let me know”

Frustrations and communication

If we are going to make an underground network WORK, we need to learn to communicate the important information.

Problems

  • Put me in the universe
  • Does not communicate basic information succinctly
  • Where to find more information
  • No clear call to action
  • Graphics are missing or hard to find or use
  • Long tet, not social blurbs

Why this is a  missed opportunity (IF we all share eachothers podcasts, books, events, and the like we end up with a better ecosystem in which to operate)

Solution: Channel your inner Gabby

  • Asks what she wants up front
  • Includes “the skinny” on what she is talking about - in this a case an event with day, location, summary, schedule,price, website)
  • Adds social blurbs for wonder use that can be cut and pasted
  • Adds shareable graphics
  • Offers help for additional needs and interviews, etc.
  • List of blurbs needed in such a post
    • 1 sentence twitter length
    • Facebook or Mewe post length
    • Email blurb

Underground networking is more than secret handshakes and selling eachother beef. It is about building our ecosystem and we can do this by cross promoting eachother’s work.

Our community is ripe for rabid growth 

John is not wrong. 

But It doesnt work to expect that someone will just know you are doing a thing. Sending a link to your website is a non starter and most websites are hard to go through to find the skinny.

We can all do better and make this happen - start by

  • Making a list of people to reach out to to ask or cross promotion
  • Framing your project in simple terms with all the information in one place
  • Think of it as if you are doing the other person’s job to promote it and make it cut and pasteable for them
  • Tailor to the person you are reaching

See what happens next. I think you will be surprised

Make it a great week!

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Jan 28, 2022

Nicole Sauce Unplugged - Resilience

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Jan 27, 2022

Main topic of the Show: Military Lessons, Homestead Applications

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Jan 24, 2022

The thing has landed in the holler. Years ago I did a show on how we handle illness in the Holler when Norovirus swept through my house over Thanksgiving. Today, I will share the updated approach in a post THE THING world.

Spring Workshop Tickets are on sale. Get them here.

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Ran out of beef
  • The Empty Jar Problem
  • Still have not restocked - not in a hurry
  • Lamb Rib Recipe

Operation Independence

  • Tajmaholler Update

Main topic of the Show: How We Address Illness in the Holler

The Holler Neighbors are what I call an unintentional intentional community. (What that means and a bit about how we came to be).

Story of Thanksgiving.

  • Identify that someone is sick
  • Communicate to all
  • Learn about what they have and what care
  • Make a plan to cover chores (Nick Ferguson’s dead tree story)
  • Communicate
  • Establish the isolation or quarantine place (bathroom sharing, etc)
  • Communications
  • Jenni’s Care Packages
  • Med kit lessons learned: number of thermometers, pain killers, nebulizer
  • Keeping everyone else strong/community/nutrition

 

What we are doing for the covid outbreak and how the neighbors are doing - a word on media hype.

How this is different from other contagious illnesses.

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Jan 21, 2022
Today, we talk with Erin Edwards and Alex Martin from Flote.app about the importance of decentralized social media and freedom of speech. They will also share some up and coming things about Flote.  Reminder: Show Resources

Flote Social Network: Flote.app

Main content of the show

Freedom of speech is important because if we do not discuss all of our ideas and  learn from one another, we never progress. Further, it is immoral to force silence on another person simply because they say things you do not like. Over the past decade, the social media giants have slowly shown that they have no regard for individual rights and have used their large reach to control the social narrative. They silence, bully and erase people after those people have invested time and resources to build followings and businesses using the tools that the big social media giants provide.

Erin and Kinglsey Edwards have been fed up with this for a long time. Rather than sit around and complain about it, they launched flote.app, a social network platform that is moving toward decentralized system and encourages freedom of speech. If you set up an account there and say something that Kinglsey does not agree with, you will not be “cancelled’. Instead, people who do not agree with you will discuss it with you. Or not. Their choice.

And it is all about choice.This is a previously recorded interview with Erin Edwards and Alex Martin of flote about the importance of free speech, decentralized technology and so much more.

Find the video on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@livingfree:b/furthering-liberty-through-social-media:d

Make it a great week!

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

Flote.biz (for news and updates about the company)
FloteToken.com (for info about our token)
FloteFest.com (information about Flote Fest 2022 in April)

 

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Jan 19, 2022

Welcome to Living Free in Tennessee.

Today, I discuss what to do when you have an enemy. What an enemy is. And wether or not you can be successful if you do NOT have an an enemy.

Live this week!

Stump the Sauce
From John: Is it wise to start a business that depends on supply chains?

Main topic of the Show:  What to do when you have an enemy?

What is an enemy?

  • eResources example
  • Food Forest Farms example 
  • Liberty Movement Infighting Example
  • Sour grapes online/death threats, etc

What do you do when you get one?

  • Verify that they are the enemy 
  • Who is actually the problem?
  • Is their criticism valid?
  • Demolish vs Denature vs Ignore vs Coexist
  • Community protection

What if they simply will not go away?

  • Decide which sandbox you wish to be in
  • Sometimes you just gotta punch them in the face

e run across people who are envious of what we can do or of what we have. They want to control things that are none of their business. There are people who think that in order to get ahead, they must destroy those who they perceive as ahead of them. We encounter people with low self esteem. And yes, some people are simply evil.

The best revenge is to cut their balls off. Remove their power over you. Rarely is this not possible, and when it isnt, it is time to fight. But when it is, there is satisfaction for years and you end up on the moral high ground.

 

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Logan Hyde

7 days ago

The definition of enemy is a person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something. So I guess the only enemy I have is the state. As far as individuals I think it might be possible to have no enemies. Because in the definition it says "actively oppossed or hostile". This is a very hard question though. I'm going to say it might be impossible to not have enemies because there will always be someone or some group of people that oppose you or your beliefs.

 

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Heather Eisele

7 days ago

I have one enemy. My own assumptions. Everyone else, I try very hard to meet where they are or avoid them so they don't become enemies. I think back to all I used to believe and how much energy I threw into the various abysses we're told are important and wonder what else I'm throwing energy into that serves nothing.

 

 

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Katie Nicole

7 days ago

 

About 5 years ago my grandfather and I were having a rare talk about his life and the choices he'd made. His life advice to me was a rally cry. With a fist raised in the air and a sly grin he shouted, "MAKE SOME ENEMIES!" 😄 My grandfather is fairly stoic so this was pretty memorable.

I've been thinking more about that lately. He and I are on different sides of the political spectrum so I know he didn't mean people who think the opposite of me are my enemies. Or people who disagree with me.

My understanding of his advice as it relates to me was more, "Stand up and make noise sometimes. It's not a bad thing to have people oppose you." Opposition can refine one's stance and clarify one's beliefs. In that sense, I find "making enemies" useful.

I'm still actively ruminating on the concept.

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Jan 17, 2022

Seed starting season is upon on and today I will talk you through how we plan for and start seeds at the Holler Homestead while also providing guidance for how to do this when you do not have a bad-assed kratky seed-starting setup. Don’t let the lack of infrastructure stop you from getting your seedlings going.

LFTN Spring Workshop, April 28-30

Dr. Ken Berry, MD: Proper Human Diet

Nicole Sauce, your hostess: Underground Networking

Amy Dingmann: This Homestead Life 

Harry Albright: Saving Seeds (He will also host a seed exchange)

John Pugliano: Making Money Through Connections 

Toolman Tim: No Excuses – Get your Business Going!

Niti Bali: Regenerative Food Communities

John Willis: Community

David Oswalt: Processing Rabbit

Kerry Brown: Choose and Maintain Homestead Tools

Chris Spees: Real Life Rental Investment

The Tactical Redneck: Assessing Your Property for Defense

Wild Forage Walk

Aquaponics Installation

How to make Sofrito, cheese and other things

Property walk and tour of our aquaponics system, front-of-house growing operation, off-grid energy savers, and other infrastructure

Food, Fun, Networking. Treats from local farmers, keto-friendly

Additional demos will be announced.

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Poultry and Pork Problem (Retraining)
  • Restock Isnt Happening - and I feel fine
  • Lettuce system yielding about 2 lbs a week
  • The Carrot Story

Operation Independence

  • Tajmaholler and events
  • New Workshop With Niti
  • Making Bacon Member Webinar

Pete Quinones Show

Main topic of the Show: Starting Seeds Budget and Better

Why start seeds?

Is it Hard?

What do you start inside from seed?

How do I do it if I do not have anything?

  • Trays or solo cups
  • Soil
  • Light
  • Heat
  • Seeds
  • Timeline

The Kratky System at the Holler Homestead

  • Explain kratky
  • Tubs (Budget)
  • Rock wool or pete plugs (Budget)
  • Net cups (budget)
  • Nutrient/ec meter
  • Timer
  • Heat
  • Seeds/Germination
  • Timelinee

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Jan 14, 2022

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday.

Today’s Thoughts Include:

  • Bending Trees and Strength
  • What is. Thermal Battery
  • Preparing Aquaponics for Sub Zero Weather
  • Does fascism lead to communism?

To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist.

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Jan 10, 2022

Today, I share a day in the life on a homestead, working for yourself. The ups, the downs. The reality. The schedule. The life I choose on my terms. Why? SO you can decide which pieces fit for you and which do not.

  • Live with John Willis Thursday at 12:30PM
  • Unloose the Goose is Back this week at 4pm Wednesday (How to Make Cities Work?)

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Restock is on hold but needed (why)
  • Spicing up simple meals with summer pickles
  • Working through quarterly freezer audit 
  • Rediscovery of the roemertopf
  • Loving Lamb/hating poultry

Operation Independence

  • Nothing Broke

Main topic of the Show: A Day In The Life 

Morning Routine (With Animals)

  • 6am up/coffee/mugshot/reflect/clean house
  • 7am walk the dogs/record TOTW
  • 7:45: Feed cycle (outside and inside)
  • 8:00-8:15: Begin work tasks (Coffee/podcast)
  • 10-11: email response and scheduling 
  • 11-12: Work 
  • 12-1: Cook Brunch, eat, catch up with Tactical on homestead projects (A word on what happened all morning with Homestead projects)
  • 1-2: Firewood, household, homestead
  • 2-4: Work
  • 4-5: Homestead/home
  • 5-6: Cook, bath, household, etc
  • 6: eat/catch up with people
  • 7-9: read, personal priorities (Learning, lettuce, taxes, watch a movie, etc)
  • 9-10: ready for bed
  • 10-1ish: Sleep
  • 1-1:15: Log on the fire
  • 1:15-4:30: Sleep
  • 4:30-445: Log the fire
  • 4:45-6ish: sleep

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Jan 7, 2022

I am Joined by the Tactical Redneck to discuss the advent of the “Hillside Project”, what we have found along the way, and how keeping the big picture in mind has made the project much better, though slow to develop.

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Tactical Redneck Equipment - Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCalzjZDSlKx6Famy1A_NLCg

Main content of the show

After a career in the military, The Tactical Redneck Moved to the Holler Homestead and has concentrated on developing water gardening designs, livestock systems, and more. 

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Jan 5, 2022

Winter is here. That means SPRING Is coming! Today we will talk about winter projects underway at the Holler Homestead, as well as preparing for the BIG FREEZE of 2022.

Stump the Sauce

  • How to store egg noodles

Main topic of the Show:  Winter Homestead Projects

Thursday Weather (Tennessee Perspective)

  • What is covering the pipes?
  • Historical low
  • Freeze vs Sub zero lists (Drain the house, move livestock, kerosene heaters, sleep in livingroom, heat lamps, livestock bedding, LOTS of FEED

Winter Projects

  • Lettuce Grow Operation (Thought of the Walk Weekly Video, spring plans)
  • Fencing while the weeds are low
  • Firewood Rotation
  • Preservation Catch Up
  • Organizing Inside (and out)
  • Mechanical maintenance
  • Improved Rabitery
  • Spring gardens and livestock
  • Big Changes: HIllside Project and Tajmaholler
  • Quietude: Writing, taxes, etc

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Jan 4, 2022

Today is the first episode of 2022 and we will talk about building habits - because habits will get you where you want to go much faster than the fits and starts approach of resolutions.

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Resupply month (Not much needed)
  • CO2 shortage strikes!
  • Leg of Lamb
  • Venison Roast
  • Kratky Lettuce
  • Starting sprouts
  • Spring Garden Planning time

Operation Independence

Main topic of the Show: Habits Not Resolutions

It is early January, that time when gyms are most full.

  • Resolutions fail
  • Habits endure

Now is a great time to establish new habits.

What I mean by habit 

How to get started

  1. Big picture goals (Health, wealth, relationships, etc)
  2. Processes and systems really work (Habits support this)
  3. Identify the habits that must change
    1. Weightloss (Diet as a habit, activity as a habit)
    2. Have more money (Earning as a habit, saving as a habit, frugality as a habit)
    3. Stronger Network (Fostering relationships as a habit, fostering responsiveness as a habit )
  4. Choose ONE.
  5. Make real change for a month
  6. Assess

Things that you make space for will happen. Today is the first work day of the new year. 

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