Episode 71: Focus is So Simple It’s Hard
How are you doing moving toward your goals? These past few weeks have had me thinking pretty hard about how simple it is to set a set of priorities in...
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INSIGHTS, LESSONS, AND PRACTICAL WISDOM
Dig deeper into homesteading life, business insights, and the journey to real freedom. From lessons learned the hard way to practical tips that actually work, these posts share the real stories behind building a self-reliant life on your own terms.
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Episode 70: Live in the Now, Plan for the Future
We are going to talk about life and more importantly life today, not yesterday, and not tomorrow. You hear people say all the time to live in the now but...
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Episode 69: How to Dry Cure Ham With Brett Corrieri
Today we have a great interview with Chef Brett Corrieri, the instructor from Cider Hollow Farm's pork processing class. Brett walks us through the process to dry cure a ham,...
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Episode 68: Goats for Weed Control on the Homestead
Today, we’ve got a good one with an exploration of how well goats work for weed control, as well as some tactics we have learned about over the past “almost...
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Episode 67: Planning a Big Relocation
Today, we are going to talk about something that several of you have brought up recently: How to navigate a big move. I have moved across the country several times,...
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Episode 66: Create Opportunity Through Simplification
Today, I am going to talk with you about opportunity and simplification. Simplification is the top of people's minds for so many right now as they declutter their closets, re-examine...
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Episode 65: How to Wet Cure a Ham
Today, I am going to talk with you about how to cure ham. This topic is robust enough that we could do several shows on it in fact. I even...
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Episode 64: Homestead Budgeting, Squaring a Pole Barn
Today, I’ve got a whole bunch of stuff lined up for you, some of which I meant to tell you last week, but ran out of time. We are going...
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Registration is Open for the Spring 2018 Workshop!
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' av-medium-font-size='' av-small-font-size='' av-mini-font-size='' admin_preview_bg=''] Hello all, I am excited to announce that the Spring Workshop is open for registration and there are still seats available! Here...
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Episode 63: Launching a Coffee Business with Brian Norton
Today I am joined by Brian Norton of Food Forest Farms as he talks about his trials and tribulations along the road toward starting a micro roasting business, breaking out...