Today I talk with Sue Zoldak about how she has built the life she wants, her transition into Manhattan Living, and her new project counteracting big tech censorship.

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Every Friday, we record our Homestead Happenings update, followed by a questions and answers session. Today’s podcast is the questions and answers session from yesterday’s podcast.  Read more

Today we talk about new winter lives on the homestead, pregnant sheep, MUD SEASON, the portable sheep shelter and more.

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Today we talk about food shortages, inflation, aquaponics and aquaculture, panic prepping, and more with Jack Spirko and John Willis.

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Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube.

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Today we talk about some homemade holiday gift ideas put together by the Holler Neighbors for this year.

Today’s Sponsor, Paul Wheaton of Wheaton Labs and Permies.com

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Cow is safely in the freezer
  • Meal plan by broken vacuum seal
  • VakPakIt brand Vacuum Sealer Update (No longer recommend and why)
  • Cruisin’ through the canned goods (Almost out of stewed tomatoes, using green beans)
  • Still need to do the year end resupply and the Cozi Tool I use

 

Weekly Shopping Report from Joe

 

There’s likely to be yucky weather off and on all weekend, so we went during a pause in precipitation this afternoon (Saturday). Friday evening, however, a lot of the pumps at the Weigel’s I use most often were bagged. I went to my secondary choice, and it was fine. A gallon of untainted regular had dropped to $3.999; this was at both stations.

 

Today’s first stop was Dollar Tree. The drink coolers were in better shape, but still had a lot of empty spaces. They had lots of canned goods, but we didn’t see any of the lentils we’ve previously seen there, and the only beans were Northern White. We hadn’t bought any lentils in a while, so I don’t know if they’ve been missing for longer. The store was otherwise normally stocked. It was also busier than we’ve often seen it, especially for a poor-weather day.

 

Home Depot was next. Every open area had islands with a lot of smaller items. The prices looked reasonable. We found the couple of items we wanted without difficulty. A 2x4x8 remains at $3.75.

 

Aldi was last. We found everything on our list, including heavy cream (at least two boxes in the cooler). Stock everywhere looked good. They have more of that generically-packed chicken.

 

Frugality Tip from Christina

I find myself traveling quite a bit. Recently, I found myself on the road without good coffee (gasp!!!). Long story short – and leaving out the scary days of gas station coffee – I went to the store and bought a pack of coffee filters for $1.50 and a cheap coffee grinder. Someone could do this without the coffee grinder by also buying pre-ground coffee but I had a couple pounds of whole bean bouncing around the truck. I took out my trusty Coleman thermos, put a coffee filter in the top so it was hanging over an inch or so then filled it with coffee. I heated water and poured it through the filter. Voila! Redneck pour-over coffee. Hope this helps someone! I’ve learned so much from you and this community. I’m grateful to have a chance to give back.

 

Operation Independence

  • Turned a corner from panic minimums to progress

 

Main topic of the Show: Homemade Holiday Gift Ideas

 

Past episodes on this topic:

 

Why homemade?

Thoughts on the expectations surrounding gifts 

Declare independence from debt, but have fun gifting people

Toxicity and gifts

 

Ideas

  • Pine shaving ornaments (Reference)
  • Preserved lemons and decorated jar (10 lemons, ½ cup salt, water or lemon juice to pack) Clean lemons, put 2 tbsp salt in quart jar, cut lemons into a blooming onion in quarters, sprinkle with salt, pack, press, fill with liquid, seal and refrigerate)
  • Juniper berries (Or other spices)
  • Handmade walking stick
  • Homemade granola (reference)
  • Homemade tea blend in mason jar, or in a decorative bag with a tea infuser

 

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Today’s Sponsor: FreeSteading.com

LFTN on Free Steading: https://freesteading.com/groups/living-free-in-tennessee/

 

Forage

  • Watercress 
  • Creek Mint
  • Garden lettuce and chard
  • Roots
  • Must plan garlic this week

 

Livestock

  • Still no baby sheep but we have udders
  • Set up Brownie with Brunie – no romance to date
  • Rabbits due next week
  • Ducks appear to be through the molt but still no eggs
  • LGDs getting more training

 

Harvest Meals

  • Holler Stew
  • The Dry Roast
  • Black garlic
  • Sauerkraut pork roast

 

Winter on the Homestead

  • Musical plants – still alive but not looking very good
  • Collecting leaves and mulching
  • Rains finally came and there is some green
  • Kinds of wood and temperature in the house

 

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Fun Holler Neighbor Dinners
  • Christmas is coming – let’s buy from each other

 

Infrastructure

  • Outlet covers on water tank redo project, making it done and powering the fence
  • Pulling perimeter fence one section at a time

 

Finances

  • Local, grass fed beef for $4-5 a pound
  • Buying a roll of fence

 

Assessing progress

 

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Today we talk about homesteading, community, using your mind to set yourself up for success, hard work, and more with Tag from Life Done Free and John Willis of Special Operations Equipment

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https://youtu.be/DrMihhskstA

 

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What are you waiting for? The New Year? Monday morning? Your next physical exam? The end of a particularly stressful time? Today is the day to start. 

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Paul Wheaton over at permies.com and Wheaton Labs wants you to see how easy permaculture can be! That’s why he wants to share Michael Judd’s webinar on water harvesting and soil building, so you can plan out your permaculture paradise!

 

For just 10 bucks, you can learn all about how to design water-harvesting swales and berms for your orchard and garden designs. You’ll learn how to plan them out, how to create them, and all the reasons why it will make your gardens go nuts.

 

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Learn how to harvest water and build your soil with simple landscape design principles derived from permaculture! Check out the webinar here:

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Thanksgiving was so easy with a deep pantry – no fighting the crowds at the grocery store
  • Cow arriving this week, had a closeout holler neighbor sale and deep cleaned one freezer
  • Venisons are processed: 4 ham roasts (to be cured), ground, breakfast sausage, steaks
  • The tinfoil story

 

Weekly Shopping Report

No report this week

 

Frugality Tip from Margo

So we just had a little Halloween party. I put out a veggie and dip tray. So I buy a celery and a bag of carrots and the like.  I cut up veggies for the tray and then make two bags to put in the freezer. One with the tops and such for stock and then dice up some veggies in another bag to add to soups and stews. 

 

Use all the parts of the vegetables and save yourself some money in the long run. 

 

Operation Independence

  • Loading up on meat
  • Thoughts on sheep and winter timing
  • Christmas Gift Workshop Tickets, Dec 17 at 9 am

 

Main topic of the Show: The End is Near – What Are You Waiting For?

 

What are you waiting for? The new moon? The New Year? Monday?

<thoughts on this>

 

Reasons to fail are many: <List them>

 

Reason to succeed are there too, but we often refuse to see them

<story: not practicing classical voice>

 

The bigger question is this: why do we choose to fail?

  • Lazy
  • Easy
  • Fear of failure – as in real failure
  • Fear of success
  • I don’t really want to do it

 

The big reason: Change=losing a piece of yourself

 

As we sit in a very significant week: Tactical’s first year

 

I got to thinking about all the excuses we make to delay starting – yet starting is often the only thing we need to do to succeed – as in start every day. Without fail. And when you do fail, start again. And again. And again.

 

This is the time of year when LFTN starts discussing the word of the year.

 

 

So questions come up: 

  1. Are you done with this year’s word of goals?

 

 If yes, why not start early on next year? What is stopping you? What are you waiting for? You can do so much in the next 4 or 5 weeks.

 

If no, what do you need to do to focus on the most important things so that you DO finish your goals.

 

We often fail at new years resolutions precisely because we make a bigger deal out of the timing, rather than succeeding at the goal.

 

Back to T – We will be having a delicious steak meal on Thursday to celebrate one year of sobriety. And that celebration is a good thing.

 

But he didnt succeed by saying “Monday I will start”, or “Screw it, Christmas is around the corner, I will quit after that.”

 

He did it through making the hard decision every day, multiple times a day. He did it through addressing core underlying stressors. He did it by grieving a part of himself that will no longer be in his life – a part he sort of liked, I suspect.

 

And he started the last day of November when he realized NOW I will really make this improvement.

 

What about you? Are you ready to make your move? To Lose that weight? To cut those cigarettes? To add that side hustle? To plant that garden? To organize that house? 

 

To let go of whatever you hang onto as part of your personality that keeps you delaying the start? To embrace that change is good – and also sometimes sad?

 

What are you waiting for? Today is your day.

 

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Join LFTN listener, permaculturist, and Still Side Hustling Sam Billings as he tells the story of how he realized that a JOB is part of what he needs in place to build the life he wants. Read more


Every Friday, we record our Homestead Happenings update, followed by a questions and answers session. Today’s podcast is the questions and answers session from yesterday’s podcast. We cover: Livestock Guardian Dogs, cooking roasts, livestock and more.

Don’t forget to grab your Small Business Saturday Gift Upgrade at Holler Roast!  Read more