Today we talk about new life on the homestead, eggs, spring planting, old stuff, and more.

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Forage

  • Grass again
  • Baby chick weed

Livestock

  • Baby Rabbits
  • Eggs are back! (Old ducks)
  • New paddock for the sheep
  • Getting ready to order chickens

Grow

  • One final garden bed to be prepared
  • Weekend planting in the bed we set up in the fall
  • Early spring flowers are poking up
  • Still have not started seedlings

Holler Neighbors/Community

Infrastructure

  • Map of paddocks for the future
  • Top wire is complete
  • Setting up semi-permanent fencing next door (video forthcoming)

Finances

  • Fixing old vehicles vs difficult to repair new vehicles (Planned obsolescence)

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Today we talk about permaculture, how to decide what is next on your homestead, rabbits, getting out of a J-o-b and more with Nick Ferguson and John Willis.

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Paul Wheaton of Wheaton Labs

Paul has a permaculture design course coming in June along side some other pretty cool In Person trainings over at https://wheaton-labs.com/permaculture-design-course/?f-495 If you have  been thinking about taking a course of this nature, consider heading to Montana to learn from a host of great instructors, Like Alan Booker, at Wheaton Labs!

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Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

Tuesday Live with Nick Ferguson

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Today is another #my3things episode with the primary focus being to develop your purpose. We will also include the usual Monday segments.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Spring is coming: Eating Only Stuff from here (I may have over canned last year)
  • Freeze Drying the rest of our 2022 herbs that are stored in the freezer (why this schedule)

Weekly Shopping Report from Joe

Dollar Tree. The store has changed for the better. Maybe they added r borrowed some staff, but the store has been neatened up considerably. The drink coolers are probably at least 50% stocked, with (imho) a better product mix, including Venom energy drinks. The shelves are a lot neater too, and the Health aisle has had a lot of products added, and nicely organized. The place no longer looks “picked and sad,” which is good.

Home Depot was #3, just to check the price of a 2x4x8. It is unchanged from last week, at $3.35. The store was normal-busy.

Aldi was last. They still had heavy cream. We found everything we wanted, and my debit card was warm but not smoking. 

Untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.999/gallon.

Frugality Tip from Charles

Test the limits of the TONER LOW notifications that you get on your printers. The HP Color printer that I have has been warning of impending doom for over 2 weeks now…probably 100+ pages have been printed with the existing cartridge.

At ~$100 per cartridge…well worth running it until the print quality gets bad.

On some older printers, when you get the low toner warning, you can remove the cartridge, shake it gently, and reinstall it, getting a another day or so of light printing…

Operation Independence

  • The Rat Infestation and Simplifying Life

Main topic of the Show: Develop Your Purpose with #my3things

Develop Your Purpose

In the early years of developing the #my3things method, we would go out to corporations to help them create strategic plans and marketing foundations so that they could establish a way to grow their impact, grow their sales, and improve the quality of their products or services. Before each engagement, my cofacilitator and I would create the coursework for the group, customized to what we thought they most needed. 

Sometimes, we would run the groups through activities that would result in a Vision Statement and other times, we would run them through developing their purpose first. In the end, after trying both ways multiple time and with different actives, we realized that developing the Vision first, followed my the purpose helped our customers come to consensus faster. Often, they would revisit their vision statement after developing the purpose statement, but time spent crafting both was reduced over time.

Why bring this up? Because as you develop your purpose statement, you may decide that adjustments are needed to your Vision statement and that is part of the interactive process to come up with your life strategic plan. Sometimes it takes seeing the same thing through multiple lenses to fully refine your direction.

Your purpose takes the vision you have developed and boils it down to the SO WHAT? Why do you exist in this world? How is the word better because you are in it. If you are wildly successful and disappear for ten years, how do things look different in a good way when you return?

To get to this, you first deconstruct your vision statement by analyzing the key elements present in this statement that MUST be there. Basically, you *start with your narrow Visions statement and pull out elements or characteristics that are important to its success and list them. 

The short cut would be to go back to the list that you made before you crafted the sentence, but this would be limiting. Instead, pull out a new list of characteristics or elements. You will find that they have subtly changed with the crafting of your visions statement.

In the case of the Holler/LFTN Community, this is how that list looks:

The Holler/LFTN COMMUNITY provides an inviting supportive place where aspiring agorists and homesteaders can connect, rejuvenate, share best practices and prosper together in freedom.

Key Elements:

*Inviting, safe place

*supportive community

*Connect aspiring homesteaders

*Connect aspiring agorists

*Healing and rejuvenation

*best practices

*Mutual aid/ helping one another

*True freedom is a choice

With this list craft your purpose statement in terms of what you or your family or your project is. Start by getting the concept crafted, then refine the language so that it is direct, clear and concise.

Some things to keep in mind while you craft your purpose statement: 

  1. Remember to include high-level information on how you are achieving your vision within the purpose statement
  2. Make sure that your purpose statement explains the “what” of your life plan or project
  3. This statement should also cover your why – why are you focused in these ways 

Living Free in Tennessee (Holler Neighbors) is a community that supports healing and mutual prosperity by connecting agorists and homesteaders with knowledge and resources so they can build an alternative to the violent systems currently used to support modern society.

Once you have a draft purpose statement, refine the language to be clear enough that a 6th grader can read and understand it, with as many tangible and visual words as possible. As with your vision statement, seek to reduce and remove unnecessary words through grammatical and vocabulary refinement without making it esoteric and jargon.

Once you have your final statement, take a week or so to shop it around to people and ask them to say back to you what the statement means to them. Listen carefully to the words they say and choose which new words make your statement clearer.

With both statements in hand, type them into a single document for future reference and prepare to develop your first most important areas of FOCUS that will move you forward in your journey.

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Today, we have an interview with Paul Wheaton about integrating permaculture ideas into your business and a bunch of other cool things.

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Agorist Tax Advice

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Today we talk about getting seeds started, big news from the duck coop, dealing with a sick duck and more.

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Forage

  • Watercress got beat back
  • Grass is coming in slowly
  • Garlic is poking up

Livestock

  • No baby rabbits yet
  • The egg
  • The sick duck
  • Listing animals
  • Sheep rebellion
  • Baby is getting into toddler trouble

Grow

  • Still getting beds ready
  • Beginning to AP relocation project
  • Starting peppers and herbs this weekend

Harvest Meals

  • Pork Rib Roast

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Dinner was HUGE for Tactical at the Eversoles
  • Came home to firewood moved and a rainstorm
  • Helping a friend set up electrical fencing for new animals

Infrastructure

  • Electrical fencing update (permanent, zoned)
  • Solar install preparation

Finances

  • Catching up on warranty claims – an important part of finance
  • Clerical Friday

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Hijacked by the Tactical Redneck. Join Tactical as he covers what it is like to be HOMESTEAD ALONE in the Holler.

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Today we have an interview show with Jake Weinhagen, author of the Primal Primer, a book about integrating primal self care into your life. What is primal self care? Stay tuned to find out!

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Today’s Sponsor: The Homestead Consultant

Promotional blurb: In today’s chaotic world there is a major disconnect between our land, our food and our community. At The Homestead Consultant, we believe that the solution to bridging these gaps starts in the individual home. By taking practical steps toward food production, land restoration, independent education and rational preparedness we can begin to restore these disconnects. That is where The Homestead Consultant comes in. We will work closely with you to evaluate your property with your unique goals, vision and resources in mind. Using a restorative,  permaculture lens we will help you design a holistic and actionable gameplan to help make your homesteading dreams a reality. Our sincere desire is to see all of our clients become more connected and resilient! Find out more about our services by visiting our website at TheHomesteadConsultant.com 

LFTN listeners get a special offer of a free 20 minute initial phone consultation. Just send an email with the subject LFTN Consult to TheHomesteadConsultant@gmail.com with a brief description of the homesteading topic you would like to discuss and we will respond to you with available time slots.  

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Luke Weinhagen is a Certified Situational Awareness Instructor, former United States Marine, Founder of Core Human Competence LLC, and the creator of Dangerously Competent, a self-defense and self-sufficiency training program.

For over fifteen years, Luke has taught individuals, families, and organizations to assess risk, respond swiftly, and win. He is the author of The Primal Primer and an Applied Theory Fellow at the Natural Law Institute.

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Today we talk about sheep care vs the STUN method, managing expectations when 2 people work on one homestead, early spring growth and more.

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Agorist Tax Advice

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Agorist Tax Advice. Do you want to give Uncle Sam fewer of your hard-earned dollars? Do you wonder if the time has come to set up your LLC? Are you confused about what kind of business to establish? Are you wanting to pass along wealth you have built to your kids, but not sure the best way to do that?

Matthew Sercely of Agorist Tax Advice can help you make sense of all the options, understand how to stay on top of tracking write-offs, and see new ways of organizing your finances so that you keep more of the money you earn in your pockets. 

Matthew has a broad knowledge of business finance, real estate and rentals, end of life planning and more which means that he can help you find legal tax loopholes and understand risks. 

Head on over to AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn to sign up for a free consultation.

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Forage

  • Dandelion leaves are here (and what this means)
  • Same root things as last round
  • Lemonbalm has baby leaves
  • No chickweed or dead nettle yet but they will closely follow
  • Regrassing of the ripped up land is in process

Livestock

  • Caring for sleep vs the STUN method (The tail story)
  • Putting girls together so we have “two” herds and can control birthing timing
  • Hoping some baby bunnies arrive in the next 2 weeks
  • Still no eggs and T is investigating if they are being stolen from the coop (A word on the Dumore nutrition rumors on Youtube)
  • LGD update
  • Still needing to list pigs and the St Croix with West Coast genetics

Grow

  • Trees are budding out (and what this means)
  • Seedlings, an update
  • Final garnered bed preparation while it is warmer in January

Holler Neighbors/Community

Infrastructure

  • Preparing for the solar installation
  • Finally was able to order more step in posts (30% time savings no paddock shifts)
  • Trailer care needed to maintain the livestock trailer (There is always something)

Finances

  • No update

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Today we talk about history and how to use it as a lens for current day decisions, the rise and fall of empires and more with CJ Killmer and John Willis.

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Brave Botanicals offers top-quality, organic CBD and Kratom products along with other herbal resources. 

This month, we are highlighting the kratom, an herbal supplement that comes from the coffee family, minus the caffeine. It grows in Southeast Asia and is traditionally used for medicinal purposes. Its leaves contain compounds that can have psychotropic and it has gained popularity in the Western world for its potential to help with the management of chronic pain, stress, and anxiety, and some people use it to try to overcome addiction to opioids or to reduce the severity of opioid withdrawal symptoms.

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Today we have an interview show with Harold Thornbro of the Urban Homesteading Podcast! This was a great talk about how to use the homesteading mindset to do what you can in just about any living situation.

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I’m a husband to my wife Mary for 30 years, I have 3 adult daughters, and 3 grandkids that I feel as though I would have never met if it wasn’t for the homesteading lifestyle.

In 2012 at the age of 39 I was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer caused by a lifestyle of poor eating of fast food daily for many years while working as a truck driver. I went against doctor’s advice for the treatment and decided to make radical changes to my life with exercise and diet by growing most of my own food.

I have built a productive urban homestead over the last few years that provides an abundance of meat, vegetables, and fruit on less than a quarter acre.

I was inspired to help others have better health and a happier life through homesteading so for a few years I have hosted The Modern Homesteading Podcast and blog at RedemptionPermaculture.com

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