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Small Change, Big Results: Tales From the Flooded Barn

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Join me for a discussion of how the heavy rains created minor flooding in the barn one day before we needed to give the sheep access and what we did to dry it out. We will also cover all our usual Monday Segments.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Processing 2 Ewes with Prolapses, lots of ground meat
  • Homemade Roast Beef Sandwich Meat
  • Prepper Pantry Update

Frugality Tip From Margo

Stopping in the middle of a project when you run out of something and having to go get more can be annoying. What’s more annoying to me is wasting time to go save a dollar or two. While I am probably one of the most frugal people I know with money, I value my time a lot as well. So save some time and run to the closest store and spend an extra $2 and finish the task. 

Happy Savings y’all 

~Margo

Operation Independence

$10 Ultrasound

Seedlings

Main topic of the Show: Small Changes, Big Results – Tales From A Barn Underwater

  • Biggest local flood since 2010
  • Back Story
  • What We found
  • How we divided work
  • What T did
  • End Result

In the end, a small change every day makes the biggest difference in your world.

Just ask Angry Prepper about walking for 15 minutes after each meal.

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Holistic Technology and Freedom With Joshua Hale – EP 1009

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Today, Joshua Hale shares his journey from a programmed life in the matrix to moving to a homestead, then building value by tapping into the opportunities surrounding AI.

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Homestead Happenings for February 21, 2025 – EP 1008

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Tactical Redneck Hijacked my show while I was out of town – Enjoy his update.

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Home Alone Update from tactical

1) Frozen pipes
2) Keeping 2 fires going
3) The stuck truck
4) Impressions of premade meals
5) Keeping up with bacon curing

Seed Roullette Update – it dropped to 8 so Nicole seeded the peas and will check in on the radishes when she gets home. Garden bed is covered

Incoming nomad hands this coming week so we will focus on the garden spaces.

Sheep dont care that it is cold

Bottl;e Baby update

Rabbits can get it done through the cage mesh

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Build Your Life On Your Terms With Sue Zoldak – EP 1006

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Today is an interview show with Sue Zoldak from The Zoldak Agency all about creating your life to be the way you want it to be.

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Choosing Homesteading with Dawn Gorham – EP 1005

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Today I had a surprise visit from Dawn Gorham, here to pick up her half lamb, so we decided to replace the Monday show with a fin interview show.

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Homestead Happenings for February 14, 2025 – EP 1004

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Join me for our weekly homestead update solo this week because Tactical is picking up feed from BooneTop Farm in Centerville!

Featured Event: Seed Exchange and Potluck Saturday 12-3pm

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Listener Feedback

 I’ve been telling my wife about you swim spa. We think it might be a good thing for her to get. She has a couple of questions:

  1. “Having been used to lap pool swimming, in 25-yard pools, is it difficult to get used to a swim spa?”
  2. “How do you track distance?” (I’m used to counting laps to know how far I’ve gone)

Boone Top Farm Feed Source

Bracing for another single digit time

Duck Egg Feed Update – tucker milling

Tiny house community concept

Seed Roulette Next Week

Seedling update

Prepper pantry Just In Time

Stinging Nettle, chickweed and deadnettle

Operation Email Zero

More rabbit breeding

Better rabbit rotation needed

Eversoles Departing

Tomatoes are finally all canned

 

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Cooking Great Food Easily

Instead of a recipe, please allow me to introduce you to Easy Way Gourmet, a bountiful food column for people who love to eat and often don’t want to spend a year or so at Le Cordon Bleu or even four hours to turn out a delicious gourmet meal.

Barb Ford has spent the time learning and the years practicing haute cuisine, so you might say she’s handy around the kitchen. Any invitation to visit Barb’s house becomes a red-letter day on my calendar!

For years now, Barb has written a food column for The Murfreesboro Voice. Her message is that you can make utterly delicious food without devoting the whole day to preparation or taking out a second mortgage for ingredients.

A recent column offers soul-satisfying dishes that capitalize on the abundance and economy of eggs.

Rather than tout Barb further, I invite you to visit Easy Way Gourmet.

We’re having Easy Cheese Soufflés for dinner tonight!

Take Your Pick: Hot or Cold

During the depths of winter, I sometimes feel as if I’m scraping the dregs out of the “boring stuff” barrel and serving it up lukewarm. Well, take your pick: hot or cold, and the result certainly won’t be either tepid or humdrum. Read more

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Entrepreneurship and Freedom with Isaac Morehouse- Ep 1003

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How does entrepreneurship empower free living – or does it? Today, I am joined by Isaac Morehouse to discuss his journey from founding Praxis, through taking on a project that was NOT his passion (but not NOT his passion) and landing in Florida. He openly shares his struggles and successes.

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How To Opt Out Of Fear – Ep 1002

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Join me for a discussion about opting out of fear. You are easier to control when you make your decisions from a fear-based place and that is why it is so profitable too keep our population divided and frantic. But you don’t have to participate. You can mindfully move yourself to a place of awareness without the constant fear and build a better place for yourself and your family – and that it what homesteading is all about! We will also cover our usual Monday Segments.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Concrete Pour on Wednesday do clearing the freezers out and needing to turn them off at night when it is cold
  • Holler Stew, Carnivore style – lamb and chicken
  • Idea for using up chicken breasts
  • Excellent roast leg of lamb recipe

Frugality Tip

  • Making left overs sexy – frugality tip – – pair it with eating before you leave and Bone broth packets

Operation Independence

  • New car this weekend

Main topic of the Show: How to Opt Out Of Fear

Watching my more left friends freak out about DT

  • Constant barrage of fear communications
  • Homesteaders should market to leftys
  • Reminds me of when Obama got elected and the response from the right

Making decisions from a fear based place is almost never good for you in the long run – WHY

>>Michelle’s Car Story

Mistake – fast decision under pressure and while still impacted by fear of the accident

This is no different than the fear caused by terminal diagnosis, the news cycle, a tight budget, and more.

So what do you do?

>>Nicole’s Car Story

  1. Slow your roll
  2. Cut off access to you of anything causing fear – people, news, even obsessing about your bank account. Go on a fear diet! 1-5 days, weeks if necessary.
  3. Focus on success stories from people in a similar situation.
  4. Collect the facts, not the opinions
    1. Elon Musk has access to your SSN!!!! We are all gonna DIE
    2. The reality of the situation is that you are no more at risk now than you were 2 weeks ago when some unnamed person with very little oversight had access to your information
    3. Look at what has historically happened in a similar fear cycle. Who did well and how/why. Who did poorly and how/why.
  5. Fitness and Food
  6. Think LONG TERM SUCCESS not short term fix – unless you need a tourniquet

Back to your bank account fear: Poverty mindset IS making decisions out of fear. But the reality. Long term value over short term happiness is one thing.

>>Selling the tahoe for parts story – its time has passed, time to scrap it for long term payoff of my time

And when the sky is falling in the news? The same approach applies. If you are a more right leaning person, you are probably noting that articles are better reported all of the sudden by major news organizations. Or are they?

What if you are just an anxious person? (Get help)

Opting out of the fear cycle means going on a fear diet – AND a fake news diet – so that you can develop perspective for what truly matters and can make the best decisions for you in the long run rather than constantly control for the next thing.

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