The last two weeks have brought big, sad, life-changing things to many in our network. Today, I will talk through some things you can do for your friends and family when there really is nothing you can do to help. 

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Schedule this week (Rogue Food)
Chicken Processing Workshop June 14
Holler Homestead Open House June 26, 10am-3pm

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • First Freeze Dryer Lessons: Location, Hot Pump!, Rehydrating, Oil Filtration, Is It Worth the Money?
  • Lettuce has been hanging on
  • Found a last round of things to restock for the rest of the year (old habits die hard)
  • Canning kitchen is almost all set up

Featured Forage: Hemlock

Operation Independence:

  • $5/bag hiking strawberries
  • Solar Water Heater Update

Main topic of the Show: What to Do When There Is Nothing You Can Do

#reach out (trite/stilted…dont read into a non response. Send a card or little gift)

#avoid discounting the pain or being that person who says turn that frown upside down. It is ok to be sad

#avoid sharing your similar sad story or anyone elses (two things, two friends…same day)

#Use your unique superpower to make their life a bit easier: (meal prep, childcare, offers of driving places, network,  whatever it is)

#check in a few days later… ask do you want, not do you need.

#check in week/weeks/months later. They may not reach out to you.

Life brings hard situations and we can help our friends and family by listening. Asking questions, sharing photos and good stories…and using our superpowers. What we cant do is wave a magic wand, bring someone back to life, or fix a relationship.

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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.

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Today’s Thoughts Include:

  • Resetting
  • Airborne Viruses
  • Hoarding
  • Perception
  • Look a Gift Horse in The Mouth

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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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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I have had a bunch of emails come in in the last 2 weeks and rather than answer them in writing, I thought it would be fun to answer them in a listener variety show. Here is what we will cover today:

  • Suggestion from Christopher that I do a podcast on how to start a home roasting business
  • Website and other recommendations requested from Melissa
  • Do you do tours of your homestead from Betsy
  • Getting started on a homestead when you know little about permaculture from Jim
  • How to get started with wild edible plants from Billy

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What’s Up in the Garden

  • Wall of Tomatoes
  • Dill Germinated
  • Beans are up
  • Strawberries ripening each day — anti chicken defense system
  • Need to replace lettuce with basil
  • Wishing for automated watering

Main topic of the Show: Listener Variety Show

Suggestion from Christopher that I do a podcast on how to start a home roasting business

  • Add your thoughts on the mewe post about this topic

Website and other recommendations requested from Melissa

  • Buddy Press
  • Untimate Membership Pro
  • Coinpayments

Do you do tours of your homestead from Betsy

  • June Open House To Be Announced Next Week

Getting started on a homestead when you know little about permaculture from Jim

How to get started with wild edible plants from Billy

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They’re not eggs anymore!

Join us at the Holler Homestead to learn about processing chickens…

When: June 14, 2021

Start Time: 9 am

End time: (around 2 pm)

Location: Lancaster, TN (1 hour east of Nashville off I-40)

Price: $95 for nonmembers, $75 for members.

Includes:

  • Instruction by Chef Brett Corrieri
  • 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 a tent and some covered areas.

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!


Patrick Roehrman of MTKnives joins me today to talk about creating your best life. We recorded this right after the LFTN Spring Workshop.

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Thought of the Walk Series

Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Went Full Tazmanian Devil on the Prepper Pantry
  • Quarterly Freezer defrost had to be done monthly
  • Holler Neighbor Project – Meals in bags (livestream this week)
  • Transition from using to filling – canning supply migration 

Featured Forrage: Potentialla Recta (Eurasian but growing here)

Operation Independence

  • Our HipCamp is Open! All $$ goes to my last little amount of debt

Main topic of the Show: Your Best Life with Patrick Roehrman

Bio: Patrick Roehrman is a knife maker and bladesmith from Missouri whose handmade knives include highly collectible  neck knives, custom hunting knives, custom survival knives, bushcraft knives and other hand-forged knives.

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It has been a long time since we did an episode on the Holler Homestead and what we are all doing here — and yet this is one of the reason’s y’all tune in. Today is an update. An update on the Holler Homestead, and update on the Holler Neighbors, and an update on the progress toward living our lives on our terms and balance.

If you have been wondering what country life is all about, today is your day.

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The invasion of BroodX is coming. No! It is here. Will your trees die? Will you get hurt? Do you need to protect your animals and children? We will talk about Cicadas and what to expect from the hatch.

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Saturday Webinar with Sue Zoldak: Personal and Business Branding — login to your membership area to register, or buy the webinar at LivingFreeinTennessee.com if you are not a member.

Chicken Processing Workshop – 5 seats left!

Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Finalizing the rest of 2021 ordering and organizing (Will see how I did by the end of the year)
  • Holler Neighbor Project
  • Mama Sauce did the spring Canned Goods Organizing — almost time to start canning again
  • Incoming Freeze Dryer

Featured Forage

  • What to harvest: Wild Rose petals, red clover

Operation Independence

  • What this is
  • Simplification

Main topic of the Show: Cicada Invasion

  • The hysterical headlines in the news
  • Cicadas — their lifecycle – egg, nymph, metamorphosis, adult
  • 17 year brood – what to expect: music, lots of bugs
  • Why the swarm? (Thought to be protection)
  • Will they kill my trees?
  • Are they harmful to my children/self/animals?
  • Cool things that happen in a cicada swarm year
    • There is a tangible homeschooling science project that can expand beyond the bug to learning tons about insects
    • The deafening sound is quite beautiful
    • Your chickens/poultry will get fat
    • Fishing Lures timed with the die off

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Song: The Flood by Sauce

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John Pugliano of Investable Wealth and the Wealthsteading Podcast joins me to discuss how to get recognized and build personal success – weather you run your own business or work in a career.

Chicken Processing Workshop June 14
May 22 at 4pm Central: Sue Zoldak on Personal and Business Branding

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Today we talk about finding your reset in times of high productivity, overwhelming task lists and ever-changing requirements that come from living the life you want to live.

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Today we talk with John Moody, author of Winning the War on Weeds, family and farm guy, facilitator of Abby’s Elderberry, permaculturist extraordinaire and founder of The Rogue Food Conference. We talk about food freedom, why go rogue and much more.

Chicken Processing Workshop June 14

Rogue Food Conference

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