Episode 788 – Homestead Happenings for Sept 1, 2023
Winter is coming even though it is not fall. T is stressed out right now. Time to audit infrastructure, water, firewood, feed hay for the sheep and goats, wood chips and more.
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Forage
- Shake the Paw Paw Tree
- Watercress is back
- Mullein Seeds
- Oyster mushrooms
- MInt and other herbs are still with us but the time is soon that a frost will come
Livestock
- Pregnant Ewe
- Male sheep are settled here – trying to eat bark of fodder trees
- Baby Ducks going outside of the chicken tractor for the first time today
- Chicken Eggs should start soon
- Max fd around and found out
- About time to breed rabbits
Harvest Meals
- Saute with wild mushrooms
- Holler Stew
- The Pork Tenderloin thing
Grow
- Lettuce has germinated
- Fall beets look sad
- Still getting beans and tomatoes off the garden but they are slowing down
- First brussels sprouts harvest ever
- Time to start prepping the garlic patch for the year
- Peppers are very slow, unlike former years
- Tomato horn works and other caterpillars have arrived (WHy and what we are doing about it)
- Planning to just maintain the lettuce patch into the fall as things get super busy here
Holler Neighbors/Community
- Tested a prepper game: WROL
- Traded coffee for eggs
Infrastructure
- Getting ready to work in Nashville on drywall next week we could not find anyone to do work there so it is up to us
- Staining tajmaholler
- Rabbit redo starting
Finances
- Started the new tracking system: meeting post errand run as a policy, spreadsheet, immediate reimbursements.
Make it a great week!
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- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
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