Today I talk about the warnings of coming shortages, and explore the questions that we are asking – the wrong ones as it turns out.

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Livestream Schedule This Week:

• Tuesday Live with Billy Bond and John Willis, 12:30pm; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-agoPXBJNI
• Afternoon Tea With the Spicy Sisters, Thursday at 2pm CT
• A Word on Next Week’s Schedule

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Reorganized the prepper pantry for spring and summer
• FD Bone broth
• Raspberry and blackberry leaves have popped
• Violets if you make jelly
• Transitioning to refilling (Season change)

Operation Independence

• Underground Network: Informal GSD Weekend – electrical to Tajmaholler, Outdoor shower for LFTN22 
• Taking time to assess

Main topic of the Show: The Wrong Question

What is your objective?

Food and supply shortages – what I see

• Get your shoes, winter coats, food, etc etc etc
• But why?
  • International shipping is jacked up
  • Crop failures to the south
  • Other countries building up stores
  • Sure, the war in ukraine
  • Initial Covid shutdown cycle
• Who is to blame?
• Timeline for shortages
• The wrong questions…..(what can I grow that my kids will eat)
• The right questions
  • Local production
  • What do you truly need to thrive 
  • How can you own your health (Nutrition and excersize)
  • What bad habits need to get thrown out and how can you attack them one day at a time
  • How are you spending your time? Watching the world burn or DOING things?
  • How can you change your provider now or provide it yourself?
  • Winter is coming! But is is spring right now

(Do Hard Things)

In the end, what will be will be – but it is up to you to set up the best success by asking the RIGHT  questions.

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MeWe reminder

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

Community

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee

• Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today we talk about rabbits (it’s easter!), slow springs, rain events, water systems and more. 

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#Allthethings. 

Bigger is harder. 

Video Tours.

Forage

• Watercress, mustard flower, dead nettle
• Hairy vetch, plantain
• Green onions
• Strawberries have unripe fruit (the red rock trick)

Livestock

• Hoof trimming
• Failed rabbit pregnancy and rebreeding
• ALL THE EGGS (The irony of this)
• Conflicted over pigs

Grow

• Seedling update on youtube (Jacks and saving seed)
• Peppers are just not germinating
• Failed old pea seeds
• Lettuce in the AP 
• Ground nuts
• Seed Roullette
• Winter wheat

Holler Neighbors/Community

• All hands on deck for the spring workshop
• Mama Sauce is in town
• Mini GSD Weekend

Infrastructure

• RAIN and rerouting
• Outdoor shower almost complete
• Fencing Demo prepared
• A word on growing grass

Finances

• No progress made on selling pork because we have been focused on the workshop

Membership Plug

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

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee
• Harvest Right Affiliate Link

 

Today is a complement to last Monday’s episode on developing a deep pantry. We will discuss lessons learned from two folks who navigated the inflationary period of the 70s, when jobs became scarce, people saw the value of their retirements cut in half, and a savings account was the worst way to preserve wealth.

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Announcements:

• Going Live with Billy Bond Sunday at 6 Central: https://www.youtube.com/c/PermaPasturesFarm21
• Tuesday Live with John Willis, Mat and Gabby from the Sovereign Village Project: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g
• Sunday episodes all month – check out this interview with Janet Szabo

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Madly preparing workshop food
• Freeze Drying Left Overs for travel food
• Time to assess vinegar stores for the year
• Using up old seeds

Frugality Tip

• Reusing ziploc
• Reusable ziplock tip from a listener! https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Storage-Ziplock-Sandwich-Freezer/dp/B091CRGNMX/ref=sr_1_7?crid=TNH3SHOUUNGC&keywords=reusable+ziplock&qid=1649690426&sprefix=reusable+ziplock%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-7

Operation Independence

• All focus is on the Spring Workshop

Main topic of the Show: Navigating Inflationary Periods

Why we are talking about this

How I gleaned this information. 

A tale of two families: Just Starting Out vs Time to Retire

Set the context: in 1969, gas was 19 cents a gallon … and rose to 29 cents (50% increase), then kept rising. Policy steps taken – price fixing and rationing.

Dad focused on big picture, Mom on the details

• Preserving wealth (Food and agriculture, government job | HAD to have a side hustle to get ahead. 2 jobs)
  • Interest rates were much higher (Like 11% on a mortgage was a good rate)
  • Unemployment high
  • Realestate investment/rentals
  • Buying low, selling high (trellising wire example, barrels 15-100 (Dowie joke)
  • Kept household expenses down, squeezed pennies from stones (Buying $69/yard fabric for clothing, not $99/yard fabric. Multiple stores to get the cheapest thing because gas was cheaper than food.
  • Always were “fully mortgaged” – robbing peter to pay paul some months on the bills
• Value From Home
  • Garden
  • Canned foods
  • Buying wholesale eggs
  • Learning to do things from scratch to save 
    • “Milk” shake
    • “Cool” whip
    • Spicing up the same old ingredients to add variety
    • Home sewed clothes (we looked funny)
    • Canned beans vs dried beans
    • Dad DIYd everything so we lived better than many
• Family/Relationships giving a leg up
  • Initial downpayment (Dad’s regret)
  • Cobought a cat with his brother then resold
  • Sunday Dinner with the Middlesworths
  • Family would help on large projects
• Hellmans Mayo – $.43 cents a quart – not is $5 and lost 2 ounces
• Retired perspective
  • Grandparents sold the farm and had money in the bank – lost 50% of their retirement value because it was in cash
  • Lived quite frugally – RV, from scratch cooking, growing and preserving
  • Did odd jobs (picking fruit, roofing, etc)
  • Bought and sold real estate in Arizona to make up some of the difference
  • Short term bond at 20% story
• Sum it up – your saving dont mean crap – biggest worry right now is the dollar no longer is the world basis currency:
  • Produce food
  • Trade and barter/DIY when it makes sense
  • Material things hold value better than savings (as long as they are useful) gold vs building materials example
  • Look at different investment vehicles (Check out the wealth steading podcast)
  • Mindset (Buying used vs new)
  • Assets that are not assets – 1 job loss from losing a home example

Membership Plug

MeWe reminder

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

Community

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee

• Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today is a homestead update that covers germination challenges, losing heartbeats on the farm, early spring salad mix, and more.

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Freeze Drying Webinar is Sunday!

Forage

• Wild mustard flower (and how I came to permaculture)
• Hairy vetch
• Dead nettle and watercress
• Green onions, brassica greens
• Red veined sorrel – The tale of the 4 year chard plant RIP

Livestock

• Lost 2 heartbeats this week
• Goats need more rotation
• 2 year land agreement for the sheep
• Fencing for sheep
• Pig decisions are hard (Lady got out!)

Grow

• Slow to wake – trees are flowering just in time for the last freeze
• Seedling update: Lettuce/peppers not yet germinated
• Last round of seeds are here: Tarragon
• Potatoes are in, seeds planted last week still have not germinated – the waiting is the hardest part
• Swimming in duck eggs

Holler Neighbors/Community

• Resumed holler dinners this week – holler family meeting
• Had the property blessed this week
• All the car trades
• Milk
• A word on homesteading solo

Infrastructure

• Outdoor shower is coming along
• Need to for real plant the living fence seeds

Finances

• Only purchasing bratwurst and cold cuts for the spring workshop this year – the rest was grown here
• Thanks to Ryan and Myles

Membership Plug

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

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee
• Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today we address an issue: How to quickly develop a deep pantry vs panic prepping. Day after day as the rumors of food shortages abound, I see lists distributed by people who do not appear to have prepped a day in their lives. Usually wheat, beans and rice are heavily featured. Instead of panic buying these items, consider taking an afternoon to develop your deep pantry plan. You will be much happier with the end results if you do.

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