Join us this Sunday, May 22, at 4pm CT for a special webinar with the Tactical Redneck. He will walk us through how to assess your property for defense!
Today is a homestead update and we cover pig relocation hijinks, how the gardens are faring, handling things alone, money matters, food problems, and more.
Forage
- Lambsquarter
- Poison Hemlock
- Daylily flowers
- Radishes, greens, lettuce, basil and herbs, mint
- Tactical forged through my freezer while I was gone
Livestock
- Pig Moving Hijinks
- Chickens are on pasture (Processing class June ??)
- Pod sealing with swines (Corn over holes)
- Broody duck
- Goat on tether
- Begin harvesting fodder
- Cycy is better
Grow
- Bean germination problem
- Cukes and squash up
- Tomato wall looks good
- Hops need trellis
- Foliar spray cycle needed, plants look sad everywhere but the ap and hydro system
- Potatoes look great, need to be hilled
- Sweet potato slips
Holler Neighbors/Community
- T held down the fort
- LB and playing dead
- Jenni feeding pigs
Infrastructure
- Pond, three sections with electric for sheep
- IIBCs for the ap are cut and prepped for the AP
- Perimeter fence is underway
- Hydro is about done
- Need to install trellis everywhere
- Automated pig water and garden water
Finances
- The last 2 weeks cost us money
Membership Plug
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/$/invite/@livingfree:b
Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Today we talk about rotational grazing, crazy people, being the counter economy and food shortages on a Tuesday Live episode with Billy Bond and John Willis.
Show Resources
https://www.permapasturesfarm.com/
Main content of the show
Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXi3b79U5eo
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
Community
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Today we talk about community, problems of our own making, or the game “What’s that smell?”, and more on Afternoon Tea with the Spicy Sisters.
Show Resources
Main content of the show
Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhxswOGTRc
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
Community
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Today is a live stream from the volunteer room at Exit and build! Go do something good this weekend guys.
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
Community
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Today we talk about prepping, knives, getting things done, planting trees and more with Patrick Roehrman and John Willis.
Show Resources
Main content of the show
Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJU9kAZ01uw
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
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 dive deeper into a concept that came out at the LFTN Spring Workshop: Finding and embracing your Special Sauce.
May Webinar: Assessing Your Land For Security, May 22 at 4pm CT
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
- The last two jars of 2019 and some discolored beets from 2020
- Swimming in lettuce and greens
- Onion Flowers in salad
- Road food: fd cheese, cold cuts, left overs
- Chicken Recipe: Tuscan Chicken with Ginger and ham
Frugal Tip
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-to-make-foaming-hand-soap/
Operation Independence
- Launched the chicken processing workshop
- Using pigs to hopefully seal a pond
Main topic of the Show: Find Your Special Sauce
Why?
What do I mean by Special Sauce
I started out as a food blogger – ended up a podcaster and facilitator.
How to find it:
- What do you love?
- What do you hate?
- What are your naturally great at?
- What are you naturally bad at?
- What do other people tell you you are good at?
- What have you tried?
- Why did it succeed or fail?
- When you are happiest, what are you doing? Why does this make you happy?
- Wait 2 weeks and review
- Tear this down to its base elements
Ex – happy at the farmers market (great at talking to people, tells good stories, quickly establishes trust, etc)
Happy in the Garden (comfortable being alone, excellent observation skills, etc)
>>>Go out and try, learn, refine, analyze until you find your Special Sauce or Sauces
I started out as a food blogger – ended up a podcaster and facilitator.
- Used to sing rock n roll
- Started a food blog (could NOT motivate)
- Became a facilitator and story expert
- Tried podcasting for the heck of it
- Realized some things: Performer, facilitator, teacher and storytelling with a heavy musical/verbal focus = podcasting and teaching, not blogging and WRITING.
My special sauce is Story Telling, Connecting People/networking (from others), Reading People/Facilitating.
Membership Plug
MeWe reminder
Make it a great week!
Song:
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
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
They’re not eggs anymore!
Join us at the Holler Homestead to learn about processing chickens…
When: July 2, 2022
Start Time: 9 am
End time: (around 2 pm)
Location: Lancaster, TN (1 hour east of Nashville off I-40)
Price: $95
Includes:
- Instruction by Nicole Sauce
- Hands-on processing
- Chicken processing guide
- Lunch
- and you get to take home a chicken you processed, so bring your cooler
We are currently sold out - if you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please email nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com
Background
We are raising about 40 birds for meat, and so many people have asked about how to process poultry that we decided to offer a class.
The course is outside, rain or shine, but don’t worry: we have TAJMAHOLLER for shelter!
There’s great food for lunch (not chicken)
We serve Holler Roast all day long!
This is a great way to get to know fellow homesteaders with shared interests.
Skills covered:
- Food safety
- Methods of dispatching
- Scalding
- Hand plucking
- Barrel plucking
- Evisceration
- Parting the bird
- Packing and storing
Are you interested in checking out our solar hot water heater and other regenerative things we do here? We will gladly show you while you are on site!
Today, I talk about the Spring Sprint, caring for yourself and your homestead, adding a Daily Dose of garden care, No Kill List, and the new heartbeats that are arriving this morning.
Forage
- Last call for watercress
- Wild rose petals
- Hairy vetch
- Radish greens, lettuce, malabar spinach
- Sage, young dill, young basil, parsley, cilantro
Livestock
- The chicks are arriving and I still did not find the chick feed I want (sans soy, sans fish protein)
- Not sure of the sheep schedule
- Pigs will soon move to Jenni’s
- Goats need hoof trimming, mineral refills
- Ducks are about to go broody
- Dog integration update
Grow
- Spring Sprint: LFTN22 happened exactly when we needed to be transplanting
- Tomatoes are in the ground, as are herbs
- Peppers are being hardened off this week
- Daily Dose: 1 row per day approach
- No Kill List – Tomato Wall
- Hopps update
Holler Neighbors/Community
- Jenni served Dinner much to our relief on Tuesday – we are all tired
- Post event cleanup continues and is taking forever
- Holler Neighbor Livestream coming soon
Infrastructure
- Hillside AP update
Finances
- Lost a little money on the workshop itself (reality check)
- Chicken Class will be limited to 10
Membership Plug
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 is the audio version of a First Tuesday show with Jack Spirko and John Willis. We talked about Flote Fest, LFTN 22, Exit and Build Land Summit, Self Reliance Festival and what one finds at such events. We also covered growing trees, mowing grass, preserving food and many more topics.
Show Resources
Main content of the show
Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwqCSC3obqs
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
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