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Today is a homestead update that covers germination challenges, losing heartbeats on the farm, early spring salad mix, and more.

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Forage

  • Wild mustard flower (and how I came to permaculture)
  • Hairy vetch
  • Dead nettle and watercress
  • Green onions, brassica greens
  • Red veined sorrel – The tale of the 4 year chard plant RIP

Livestock

  • Lost 2 heartbeats this week
  • Goats need more rotation
  • 2 year land agreement for the sheep
  • Fencing for sheep
  • Pig decisions are hard (Lady got out!)

Grow

  • Slow to wake – trees are flowering just in time for the last freeze
  • Seedling update: Lettuce/peppers not yet germinated
  • Last round of seeds are here: Tarragon
  • Potatoes are in, seeds planted last week still have not germinated – the waiting is the hardest part
  • Swimming in duck eggs

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Resumed holler dinners this week – holler family meeting
  • Had the property blessed this week
  • All the car trades
  • Milk
  • A word on homesteading solo

Infrastructure

  • Outdoor shower is coming along
  • Need to for real plant the living fence seeds

Finances

  • Only purchasing bratwurst and cold cuts for the spring workshop this year – the rest was grown here
  • Thanks to Ryan and Myles

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Today we talk about food shortages, inflation, aquaponics and aquaculture, panic prepping, and more with Jack Spirko and John Willis.

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Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXi3b79U5eo

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Today we address an issue: How to quickly develop a deep pantry vs panic prepping. Day after day as the rumors of food shortages abound, I see lists distributed by people who do not appear to have prepped a day in their lives. Usually wheat, beans and rice are heavily featured. Instead of panic buying these items, consider taking an afternoon to develop your deep pantry plan. You will be much happier with the end results if you do.

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Today is an update on the Holler Homestead for the week including plumbing, Cycy’s healing, in-ground gardens, the GSD weekend and more. 

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Forage

  • Mushrooms
  • Could have radishes but we do not
  • Dead nettle, stinging nettle, chick weed
  • Wild lettuce, lettuce, sage
  • Red sorrel
  • Dandelion flower

Food Storage/Pantry

  • Removing this unless there is something of note that does not fit on Monday’s show

Livestock

  • Pigs?
  • Cycy
  • 8 eggs a day from Ducks
  • Rats in the coop
  • Goat hijinks
  • Baby chicks ordered

What we did instead of grow/homestead

  • Hot water heater turned blow out
  • Pump House repair
  • Fix kitchen sink leak
  • (Plumbing all the time) – seedling starts suffered

Grow

  • Garden beds are in
  • Post pig grasses
  • Beets, radish and carrots seeded
  • Brassicas in the AP
  • Seeding throughout the weekend

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • GSD

Infrastructure

  • Outdoor shower framed

Finances

  • Pork sales

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Today we welcome Joel Ryals of Fortressk9.com to the show to discuss protection animals. This is the audio from a Tuesday Live with John Willis.

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LAST DAY FOR EARLY BIRD PRICING of $35: SelfRelianceFestival.com

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Discussion:

What is a protection dog?

How do you train a protection dog?

Will they get along with other animals I have?

Can I trust a protection dog not to bite my family and friends?

How much is a protection dog?

How do you deploy a protection dog?

Why would I want a protection dog?

Isn’t the dog just going to get killed if I use it?

Can I feed my dog raw food?

….and about a million other topics.

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Intro: Physical injuries and soreness vs emotions, the passing of a soul mate, theories on soulmates. A hard week on the homestead with schedule, emotional things, and spring coming

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Forage

  • Wild mustard flower
  • Watercress
  • Dandelion flowers
  • Green onions
  • Red veined sorrel
  • Searching for morels

Food Storage/Pantry

  • 700 LBS Pork
  • First milk freeze dried
  • Making bacon, sausage
  • Cheese for LFTN 22
  • Reorganizing this weekend with assistance

Livestock

  • 4 pigs, one weekend
  • Sheep Visit from Dawn
  • Rabbits due next week
  • Goat hijinks
  • Duck Eggs

Grow

  • Garden beds forked
  • Early Spring Weeding
  • Hard reset on worm bins
  • Visit from Kerry on Friday

Holler Neighbor/Community

  • GSD Weekend

Infrastructure

  • Fence in the pond for the sheep
  • Assessing neighboring property for fencing
  • Electrical fencing and closing in for protection
  • Front of house hydro plan in place

Finances

  • Pork for sale

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Today I have a bonus episode with an interview with Chef Keith Snow about storing and using food – particularly when you are a low carb/keto eater. This episode includes a coupon code for membership at his site so pay close attention!

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Most recently, Chef Snow served as Director of Food & Beverage at Sundance Mountain Resort in Provo Utah where he oversaw a diverse array of restaurants, banquets, coffee shops, a deli, The legendary Owl Bar, The Foundry Grill, and the venerable Tree Room which holds the Forbes 4-Star designation.

In 2018 the Snow created Food Storage Feast, a website designed to help others learn what foods to store and most importantly, how to cook with otherwise bland foods in an emergency or food shortage situation.

Chef Keith Snow is the author of The Harvest Eating Cookbook-Running Press 2009, and host of Harvest Eating Radio, which has surpassed 442 episodes and continues to grow a substantial audience of devoted listeners, true friends, and fans.

Chef Snow has been featured in many national magazines such as Prevention, Women’s Health, and Western NC Magazine. Chef Snow has been featured in some of the biggest online destinations such as Fox News, Parade Magazine, and Slashfood. In addition, Chef Snow was one of 12 US-based chefs invited to participate in the 4/14 Festival In Dijon France.

Keith has served on the Expert Council for The Survival Podcast since 2011 and fields listener questions for the TSP podcast.

Chef Snow has appeared in hundreds of original culinary videos that are showcased on Youtube and many other video-sharing websites. The videos have been viewed millions of times since 2005.

The Harvest Eating TV Show on RFD TV was available to 55 million homes in the US. Chef Snow and his production team created 20 episodes of Harvest Eating that broadcast starting in May of 2012 each Tuesday at 4pm central.

The Harvest Eating Youtube Channel focuses on teaching people how to make local and seasonal cooking a way of life.

In 2008 Chef Snow was awarded The National Restaurant Association’s Youtube Hot Chef. An all-expense trip to Chicago and a chance to give a live demonstration at the largest restaurant trade show in the US.

Also in 2008 Chef Snow delivered the keynote speech at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte NC. Chef Snow has worked alongside the culinary media’s most well-known and respected talent at events like The Edible Garden and NY Botanical Garden and also as a featured lecturer at Disney’s Epcot International Food and Wine Festival in 2009 and 2010.

In May 2011 Chef Snow was the featured celebrity chef aboard The Holland America Line’s MS Rotterdam cruise ship which sailed from Seattle to Alaska and back.

Chef Snow has a long history of working within the farm-to-table community. In 2007 he was a founding board member of the Slow Food chapter in Greenville SC. In fact, the chef has lived on farms since 2003 and has become an avid horseman, gardener, and survival homesteader….it’s a work in progress.

In the early 2000’s Chef Snow was the Executive Chef at one of Colorado’s premier ski resort destinations where he managed a staff of over 300 strong with 13 outlets and restaurants and 9 million in food and beverage sales. That was before the chef founded Harvest Eating and started in culinary media. He now likes his new boss much better!

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What would happen if John Willis, Amy Dingmann and Nicole Sauce all hopped on a Tuesday live together to discuss the world? Magic. Magic would happen. Join us for a replay of the Tuesday live discussion about trolls, minding your own business, growing food, building a better life and so much more!

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A Farmish Kind of Lilfe

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Amy Dingmann is an author, podcaster, vlogger and manages a homestead in Minnesota. She sits on the Expert Council for The Survival Podcast and knows a thing or two about homeschooling, people, having fun, and building your life on your terms.

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The usual Monday episode will air tomorrow as I am taking a light day after all that work.

Tuesday Live is with Amy Dingmann and John willis

I hope you enjoy this livestream – there are f bombs

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Today I run the audio from a live video shot with Amy Dingmann of a Farmish Kind of Life. We will do these discussions monthly and you get it as a bonus podcast.

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This episode has explicit language.

Sunday at 9pm EASTERN – I will be live here with Toolman Tim! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azaD5Z3VVY4

Shit that really happens on the homestead

  • Cost of feed
  • OMG EVERYTHING BROKE

Entitlement Mentality from Listeners

  •  “Amy, you need to talk about current events more because you have a platform you should be using for ‘good’.”
  • Nicole “Don’t say fuck on your own show because I don’t like it
  • Flouncing
  • “Remove me from your group because I don’t like what you said” (Can you be a bigger victim than this?)

Get off your ass

  • Telling me you don’t have time to do something you “really want to do/start/change”, but spending HOURS online chatting/posting. DUDE. I see your constant posting in the chats all day long when I scroll back through. STAHHHHHP.

Media Sucks

  • Unprecedented
  • Ukraine is not panicking people enough so we have a new, more transmissible combo variant!

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