- 4 TBS balsamic vinegar
- 4 TBS shagbark hickory syrup
- 3 TBSP sour cream
- 1 TSP salt
- 3 TBSP olive oil
Place ingredients in a pint-sized mason jar and securely tighten the lid. Shake well to mix the ingredients. Store in the fridge when not in use.
Place ingredients in a pint-sized mason jar and securely tighten the lid. Shake well to mix the ingredients. Store in the fridge when not in use.
Today we talk about fencing decisions, the training center, a seed exchange next week and more with the Tactical Redneck.
Featured Event: March 16 seed exchange and potluck: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/event/seed-exchange-and-potluck/
Sponsor 1: https://bit.ly/3MBBELx, Coupon Code LFTN
Sponsor 2: Harvest Right Freeze Dryers: https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1095.html
Forage
Livestock
Grow
Holler Neighbors/Community
Infrastructure
Finances
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!
Community
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Join me for a group discussion with John Willis of Special Operations Equipment and Jack Spirko about building the life you choose, current events, building a durable life, community development, business, getting started, health and more.
Each Tuesday, we welcome a different guest to tell their story, as well as take your questions live.
Featured Event: The Self Reliance Festival, SelfRelianceFestival.com
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GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
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Today we talk about how to prepare for, plant and cultivate garlic because a listener sent a note in saying that she had struggled with this. We will also cover our usual Monday segments. And I have something to say about disappointing people and the word no.
Featured Event: March 16 Seed Exchange and Potluck, 1pm-3pm, FREE, https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/event/seed-exchange-and-potluck/
Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/webinar
Sponsor 2: DiscountMylarBags.com
LFTN Live on YT: https://www.youtube.com/@lftn/streams
🎙️ Monday, 2pm, How to Plant and Cultivate Garlic
🎙️ Tuesday, 9:30am, First Tuesday Coffee Chat with Jack Spirko, The Survival Podcast, and John Willis, Special Operations Equipment
🎙️ Wednesday, 2:00pm, Interview with Jessica Kraft
🎙️ Thursday, 7:00pm, SRF Live
🎙️ Friday, 9:30am CT: Homestead Happenings with the Tactical Redneck
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Shopping Report 2/26
We took our usual trip on Saturday, skipping Home Depot again. We really need our Santa Fe back from the shop to carry large or long loads, like 8′ wood, 10′ PVC, or a half dozen bags of garden soil in addition to our groceries.
The Dollar Tree drink coolers were in much better shape. Will they stay that way? Cue the theme from Jeopardy; they have not been consistent. Other aisles looked good; Sonia found a couple of minor things in there, the typical craft stuff or organizing accessories.
Although we did not go in, the online price of a 2x4x8 at Home Depot is still $3.38.
Aldi has larger crowds than previously, but still not too bad. There was plenty of Masaca, and more of the chocolate I like than I’ve been seeing. Staple prices were: eggs: $2.78; whole milk: $2.93; heavy cream: $5.19 (+50c); OJ: $3.29; butter: $3.69; bacon: $4.25; potatoes: $3.99; sugar: $3.09; flour: $2.29; and 80% lean ground beef: $3.99. The egg price is correct; same as last week, a full dollar higher than the week before.
Untainted regular gasoline is still $3.699/gallon.
Frugality Tip from Justin
I don’t normally think of it in saving money, more about using it all up. Which ends up being very similar in the end.
This tip is for the bars of soap some people use for the shower or at the sink. When the little piece is getting so slim it is getting hard to hold on to it, I don’t throw them away.
I use the technique of scoring from pottery to attach the little piece to a new bar of soap. It will stay there and wear down completely without breaking off and being wasted if done properly.
I get both the new bar and the small sliver nice and wet and soapy (perhaps use them in the shower). Then I use a comb to put scratch marks in both pieces where they will press together. Anything hard and pointy enough to make marks in the soap will probably work for this.
Next I press them together very firmly. I try to use my palms to press them together with no gaps. I also try to not let them slide around at this point, I want them to start welding together. After they have bonded a bit, I will add some more score marks around the seams of the two pieces.
Once the pieces have been scored and pressed together I set them down on the soap dish to dry. The next day they are bonded as if they were made that way at the factory and the different colored piece of the last bar will simply wear down until nothing remains but the new bar. And the new bar will be welded onto the next ad infinitum.
Community Highlight:
What to do when you disappoint people.
Sunshine Prepper
https://www.youtube.com/@SunshinePrepperTN
Operation Independence: Let things go when you need to
Rams and goats oh my.
Main topic of the Show: Planting and Cultivating Garlic
Why we are doing this
How to choose your garlic: Hardneck vs soft neck
Sourcing Seed Garlic: Baker’s Creek, Seed Savers, RareSeeds
Example: https://www.rareseeds.com/garlic-music-1-2-lb
Preparing your planting area
When to plant
Mulching practices
Watering needs
When Are they Ready to harvest?
Processing Garlic After Harvest
Storing fresh garlic
Other ways to store garlic
Choosing garlic for replanting
A garlic business idea
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
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Today we talk about changing our approach to sheep, mindset in assessing homestead finances, egg influx, the power of community and more.
Featured event: Last change for early bird pricing: https://selfreliancefestival.com/?aff=nicolesauce
Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com
: 400;”>Sponsor 2: Mastersingers of Cookeville Unity in the Community Concert Sunday at 3pm, https://mastersingersinc.com/product/unity-in-the-community-viii/
Forage
Livestock
Grow
Holler Neighbors/Community
Infrastructure
Finances
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!
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Today, we help Ken Eash find ways to accelerate his coaching business. This is a flash mob of the best kind and YOU may be the key to it all.
Featured Event: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/event/self-reliance-through-permaculture/ March 2 in Crossville, TN $25
Sponsor 1: The Wealthsteading Podcast: https://bit.ly/3oPLTmr
Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com code LFTN
About the Accelerator Program: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2024/01/30/accelerator/
Apply to be accelerated: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2024/01/29/accelerator-application/
The Experts
Shawn Mills, Hack My Homestead https://hackmyhomestead.com/
Toolman Tim Cook: https://www.toolmantim.co/
Nicole Sauce: https://www.nicolesauce.com/
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Find Ken Eash: https://www.empoweringforwardmomentum.com/membership-8916
A brainstorm discussion with Ken as he developes the next phase of his business
Make it a great week
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
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Join me for a group discussion with John Willis of Special Operations Equipment and members of our community and beyond about building the life you choose, current events, building a durable life, community development, business, getting started, health and more.
Each Tuesday, we welcome a different guest to tell their story, as well as take your questions live.
Featured Event: The Self Reliance Festival, SelfRelianceFestival.com
Sponsors:
Show Resources
Main content of the sho
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
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Today we talk about what you can do now to get your garden beds ready for spring planting, even though you procrastinated til late winter on setting them up. We will also cover Tales From The Prepper Pantry, The Weekly Shopping Report, A Frugality Tip, Operation Independence.
From the Weekly Mail. Livestream Schedule https://www.youtube.com/@lftn/streams
🎙️ Monday, 2pm, Late Winter Garden Preparation
🎙️ Tuesday, 12:30pm, Tuesday Live with Wazoo Gear Company, and John Willis, Special Operations Equipment
🎙️ Wednesday, 2:00pm, Accelerator for Ken Eash!
🎙️ Thursday, 7:00pm, Three Sisters Live
🎙️ Friday, 9:30am CT: Homestead Happenings with the Tactical Redneck
Featured Event: Early Bird Is Almost Over for The Self Reliance Festival! SelfRelianceFestival.com
Sponsor 1: HollerRoast.com
Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/Webinar
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Shopping Report from Joe
Dollar Tree was first. Some of the drink coolers are again completely empty. I think they may still just be trying to assemble their defecation in there, because there are plenty of drinks on shelves. The food coolers are well-stocked, and other aisles look to be in good shape too. Don’t overlook Dollar Tree for cleaning supplies; that area has always been well-stocked. They have a lot of the Awesome branded products, which we really like. Lysol, Ajax, and other name brands are all represented in this section. A buck and a quarter (plus extortion) beats the tar out of typical grocery store prices on these products.
Although we did not go into Home Depot, the online price of a 2x4x8 has gone up, to $3.38, a 13-cent increase.Aldi has had slightly larger crowds the past few weeks. Other than the hiatus with the Masa, they have not had difficulty maintaining stock, and we found everything we wanted. Staple prices were: eggs: $2.78 (+); whole milk: $2.93; heavy cream: $4.69; OJ: $3.29; butter: $3.69; bacon: $4.25; potatoes: $3.99; sugar: $3.09; flour: $2.29; and 80% lean ground beef: $3.99 (+). That egg price is a full dollar higher; if not hand-written, I’d think it was a typo. We didn’t buy eggs this week, so I can’t confirm on our receipt. Although I had heard egg prices might be going higher again, I’ll keep an eye on this one, as that’s a huge jump.
Untainted regular gasoline was $3.699/gallon last week. That’s slightly higher, but could also be a station difference.
Frugality Tip from Margo with an oCool weather, means outside projects. For me one was a painting project. I did some house touch up, and I painted the driveway. My frugality tip is NEVER buy the Cheapest paint roller. Save yourself paint and energy expended by buying a good roller!!! Ask me how I know.
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Late Winter Garden bed Preparation
Intentions can help us move toward our best goals and build the life we want to live, rather than continuing to live a life that was developed for us, by someone else. We talk about this a bunch here because the systems in our society increasingly lead toward a life lived in service to the system rather than to ourselves and our chosen communities.
It can be so hard to get people who have been programmed by the system to see the system as the only option on how to break out. Yet when the system fails people, they get scared and start looking for options. And when they start looking for options, if we can be mentors and connectors, a small percentage of those looking for a better life will start to make the changes it takes to get here.
Many of you have heard my story of transitioning from a socialist leaning toward communist to libertarian overnight. <Tell the story>
And that change seems like it just happened and I became the Nicole Sauce you know today, but that is not at all how it happened. I still had habits and programming to bust through. Heck, despite being a thought leader in the world of agorism, I still find programming that I MUST deprogram.
But the Intention to move myself toward true freedom and opt out of the system as much as I can is how I have moved from an urban chick completely unprepared to take care of myself through anything, to a prepared, badd-assed homesteader not afraid to share failures alongside successes because the INSTAGRAM homesteading community often only shows the good side of homesteading and, gorsdurnit, homesteading is heartbreaking, hard, messy, gross and one fo the most rewarding parts of the life I have built for myself.
What does all this have to do with garden prep you ask?
Well, I HAD intentions to get my garden beds put away for the fall, but what really happened is I spoke at a bunch of events and handled a major repair to my home. And it is time for spring planting in Tennessee though we are not in spring for another 3 weeks.
So today I talk about getting your garden ready for spring planting.
Never had a garden there before:
Existing garden
Stephen Raisner: https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/naturalframing-ai
All in all it is not too late to get your beds ready but you will not do as well as you would have done. However, you can make a HUGE difference this year by simply making some IMF, which you still have time to do, for example. And if you do a bit each weekend between now and planting, you should be in good shape anyway.
So get out there and grow some food guys!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
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Do you love Ranch dressing on lots of things: pizza crust, carrot sticks, French fries, bacon, and even salad?
Here’s a recipe from scratch.
At the Holler, we make the mayonnaise with olive oil and duck eggs. Decades ago, we used MSG to bring out the flavor in this dressing, but now we think Worcestershire sauce is a healthier idea. Read more