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Episode 25: Canning in 8 Projects: 1 – Pickles

On today’s show, I will walk you through a specific recipe you can try at home with produce purchased at the store for your first canning project. This is in advance of our soon to be produced youtube series: Learn Canning with 8 Home Preservation Projects. Also cued up for the show is another segment from Samantha the Savings Ninja! She will give us her top picks for phone apps that can save you money.

Also, Holler Roast coffee is officially for sale online at livingfreeintennessee.com. It is $14 a pound plus shipping, and of course the best shipping rate is for 5 pounds, but two pounds ship for a fairly reasonable price too!

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Food Growing Resource: The Survival Podcast Episode

One of my favorite podcasters decided that this would be a great time to go back to the basics on how to grow food!

Food Growing Resource: The Survival Podcast Episode is a link to his podcast site.

Episode 24: Preserving Potatoes, Dances With Ducks, and Garden Economics Project

Do you ever give some advice to people, then realize the person who needs it the most is you? That’s basically how last week went here at the Holler Homestead. The ducks discovered the creek resulting in a cascading series of projects that were of top priority, and not originally on my list.

Today, I will cover something promised from last week: potato preservation, go over questions to ask as a result of reading chapter 6 of Gaia’s Garden, there will be the first in a series of gardening economics discussions, and, last but not least, Dances with Ducks – a view into how keeping animals means you can’t depend on any plan you ever make.

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Episode 23: Four Strategies to Manage a Busy Spring on the Homestead

Today we will take some time to review four strategies for managing a busy spring on the homestead without losing your mind. Spring has begun early this year and with it, a dangerous situation is in the works: The potential for an early April deep freeze.

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But what if it doesn’t?  What if we just go straight into a spring that no longer gets below 26 degrees and ends in a super hot May that kills all the peas and  lettuce? Our daffodils are blooming. Our trees are budding out. Our bees are madly bringing pollen to the nest. We might have swarms soon – they are already starting in Texas. And I am just one person on a homestead with a job, starting a new business, with limited time. Read more

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Episode 22: Holler Homestead Progress Report

Today we will talk about progress we are making here at the Holler Homestead, and along our own pathway toward more independence in Tennessee. I’ll give you an Independence Fund update, tell you how the newspaper is doing, share some of the progress we’ve made on or new farm concepts – and how they have already changed, and tell you some exciting things about the cookbook.

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