Try one of Nicole Sauce’s signature dishes, as enjoyed in recent weeks at Hatch Chili Weekend. Read more
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.
1 Million Download Celebration Reminder: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2023/08/14/one-million-downloads-celebration/
Featured Event: Girl Gun Weekend, Last Call!
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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.
Make it a great week
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
Community
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Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
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.
Forage
- Elderberries are ripe
Livestock
- New baby ducks
- The hatches are all meat birds
- Teenagers are integrated with old flock and the other babies are learning to
- Need to check sheep for work pressure – flokie’s ears are hanging down
- Sheep love box elder
Harvest meals
- Green curry turkey – roasted the leg quarter first and it tasted good
- Tomato, cucumber, basil mozzarella salad
Grow
- Ts peppers are coming on
- Swimming in tomatoes
- Green beans, harvest 3 this week
- Reseeding beets, top watering each day
- Swiss chard looks sad
- Malabar spinach and forever spinach doing very well
- Deciding if I feel like direct seeding lettuces, etc before my secret trip next week
Holler Neighbors/Community
- Island Mt Pat is back in town, bonfire with the whole neighborhood this weekend
Infrastructure
- Shocking gutter
- Seconds away from all cabin wiring being complete
- Getting ready to fix the rest of my home joist problem
Finances
- Sending another round to the auction
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
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Today we take your questions on trombincino squash, songs, society, building your business, and more.
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Mona
What is the change you made coming up to this SRF that you think will make the biggest improvement?
ANOTHER QUESTION
Curious if either of you have a reaction (good, bad, or indifferent) to that song “Rich Men North of Richmond.” I just heard it for the first time this morning.
From Lettie = What is one topic that has not been done at SRF that you would like to see?
- Scything
- Assassination
John: Have you always been the kind of person who goes your own way without really caring what other people think?
John: If you could not sew anymore, what would you do?
Nicole
From andrea
- How do you store the tromboncino squash? And do I harvest it when it turns yellow? What are ways that you use it in your food?
- You talked about harvesting chocolate mint on Monday’s show. How much of it do you use to make tea? I have some growing and figured that it would make a great Christmas present but I am not sure how to use it in tea. I am just used to buying the already put together tea.
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
Community
- FreeSteading Group: https://freesteading.com/groups/living-free-in-tennessee/
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
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- IG: @nicolesauce
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingFreeInTN
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It’s time to celebrate! We have had our first million downloads at LFTN. Today we reflect on how we got here and how we want to celebrate!
Featured Event: Oct 28 & 29, Kentucky Sustainable Living Festival
Sponsor 1: Holler Roast Coffee: https://bit.ly/3oq04OO
Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com: https://bit.ly/3MBBELx, COUPON CODE LFTN
Livestream Schedule
🎙️ Tuesday at 12:30 pm – Don’t miss the Tuesday Live with Skypirate. Due to the nature of Skypirate’s job, this may get rescheduled. He does important things and they can be unpredictable. This week, we are only streaming to LFTN and SRF on YT due to SOE having gotten a STRIKE! You can also see this stream on Odysee, here: YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g
https://odysee.com/@livingfree:b
🎙️Interview shows are BACK! I am interviewing Josh the Renegade Butcher this Wednesday at 4pm.
YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@livingfree:b
FB: https://www.facebook.com/LivingFreeInTN
🎙️Backwoods Butcher and Renegade Butcher are going HEAD TO HEAD! Join us for an SRF live as we talk about their coming contest!
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🎙️ Friday at 10:30 am – Tune in to the Homestead Happenings Show for all things homesteading.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
- Taught a canning class this weekend and ended up just 2 quarts shy of our 60 quart goal
- Added 7.5 quarts of tomato sauce, thanks rick
- Added 5 pints of salsa from the Holler Tomatoes and peppers
- Greatly reducing the stored commercial foods (like spaghetti sauce), but still keeping some on hand (why)
- Green Curry Turkey this week
Weekly Shopping Report. 8/7/23
Our first trip on Saturday started with Dollar Tree as usual. The cooler with the Venom I like has been dead long enough that the drinks there are now room temperature. Oh well, I’m not interested in Coke or Pepsi products for caffeine.
Next we went to Hobby Lobby so Sonia could pick up some art supplies. We had not been there in a while, but I didn’t notice any significant changes. The parking lot was mostly full as usual, and Sonia found what she wanted.
We skipped Home Depot today (I figured I’d check online for the 2x4x8 price), so the next and last stop was Aldi. The pad I was keeping in the car to record prices is still in the car; we’ve got a rental due to the car dying. I looked at the same things, and don’t recall any significant changes. I’ll grab another pad for next week.
Back home, we realized we forgot the fruit. We also discovered that some ladder supports we had ordered were eunuchs (both missing their nuts), and Sonia also decided she wanted some more of a particular product she bought at Hobby Lobby. Hobby Lobby isn’t open on Sunday, so we took our second trip today. Hobby Lobby was just as busy, and Sonia got what she wanted.
The second stop of the weekend at Home Depot also allowed me to check the price of a 2x4x8. It is back up to $3.25 after being just $2.98 last week. That’s still lower than it has been; they’re probably still adjusting.
Aldi had the cherries, bananas, and cantaloupe we had forgotten.
A gallon of untainted regular remains at $3.899, but I suspect it is wishful thinking to believe it will stay there.
Frugality Tip
None submitted this week
Operation Independence
- Seven Series Homestead Starter Pack Product Build Out!
Main topic of the Show: One Million Downloads
I never even gave a thought to having a million downloads when I first started Living Free in Tennessee, especially with only 14 downloads of my second episode. Yet we passed that number a little while ago.
So the question came up, how do we celebrate?
1,000,000 Downloads Give Away:
Entering is super easy
- share you favorite episode (You can just use the link at my website for that episode)
- tag me in it
- use #LFTN
- fill out the form below to tell me you did it
We started as a creative outlet, became a show, transitioned into a community of doers.
Some People To Talk About
- Dori
- Janet Szabo
- Shawn and Dawn Mills
- Bryan
- Autofab
- Jenni
- Mark Alexander
- Jack Spirko
- Jack’s Friend David, aka the Booze Whisperer
- Patrick from MT Knives
- John Willis
- Knighthawk
- Ford
- Dawn Ghoram
- Paul Wheaton and Crew
- Tactical Redneck
- Oxy the Savings Ninja
- Tag and all the MWPP guys
- Margot
- Lettie
- Jessica Dixie Mills
- PA Prepper
- Ken and Carmel Eash
- Leos
- Chef Brett
- Matt and Gabby from Homesteading for a living
- Matt and Ashley
- Scott from the LIberty Lab
- Mama Sauce
- Kerry Brown
- Billy Bond
- Rebecca Cunningham
- Eric Meyers
- Ryan Steva
- Renegade Homesteaders
- John Pugliano
- Dr. Ken Berry
- Brent from BBC Inc
- John Bush
- Joe shopping report
- Melissa of honeybees
- Toolman Tim
- Brian from Food Forest Farms
- Porterhouse and Teal
- John A
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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We did it! We surpassed a million downloads a little while ago. This week, we are launching a one-month celebration of this milestone at LFTN.
How will we celebrate? Well, I put a million satoshis aside and will give them away to someone.
Entering is super easy
- share you favorite episode (You can just use the link at my website for that episode)
- tag me in it
- use #LFTN
- fill out the form below to tell me you did it
The search function on this site should unite you with your favorite episodes from years past, including episode 8, the squash episode, the episode that brought in both Janet and the Redneck… That must have been a really good episode because they are still hanging around.
Much like a walking taco salad or 7-layer dip, this is a party-worthy main dish salad with innumerable variation possibilities.
Best baked wings recipe, funny new “found” livestock and more.
Featured Event: Midwest Preparedness Festival
Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com
Sponsor 2: Harvest Right: https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1095.html
Forage
- Watercress is back
- Pawpaws are about three weeks out
- Creek mint
- Yard mint
- Echinacea seed
Livestock
- Found Pet Rabbit
- Strays I have found: cats, dogs, a pig, and this rabbit
- Moved the boys from the girls (tell the story)
- Girls are more outgoing without the rams around
- Feed needs through the seasons
Grow
- Did not get the beet seeds in before I left, hope to today
- Tomatoes are coming on fast
- Time to harvest the brussels sprouts – no really this time
- Fall garden transition
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.
Featured Event: Girl Gun Weekend: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/event/girl-gun-weekend-2023/
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Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com: https://bit.ly/3MBBELx coupon code LFTN
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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.
Community
- FreeSteading Group: https://freesteading.com/groups/living-free-in-tennessee/
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
- Twitter: @nicolesauce
- IG: @nicolesauce
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingFreeInTN
Resources
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!
Sponsor 1: John Pugliano and the Wealthsteading Podcast
Sponsor 2: DiscountMylarBags.com
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Davian McKnight’s Tiktok: @weightsandrealestate
Main content of the show
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
Community
- FreeSteading Group: https://freesteading.com/groups/living-free-in-tennessee/
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
- Twitter: @nicolesauce
- IG: @nicolesauce
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingFreeInTN
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