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Today is a homestead happenings show and I have NO IDEA what will happen because the Tactical Redneck is hijacking my show.
Enjoy!
Featured Event: Wild Edible Walk with Kerry Brown in Lenoir City, TN
Saturday, May 20th 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, rsvp to strongrootsresources@gmail.com
Sponsor 1: TheHomesteadConsultant.com
Sponsor 2: SelfRelianceFestival.com
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Today, Niti Bali and I catch up with a nice, afternoon chat. It has been some months since we last had a conversation and this one was great!
Featured Event: Chicken Processing Workshop at LFTN, June 24, 2023 in Lancaster, TN
https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/event/chicken-processing-workshop/
Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com
Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com, Coupon Code: LFTN
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Niti Bali is the Founder and CEO of Farm to Fork Meat Riot, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization serving as a catalyst for reestablishing the regenerative small family farm food system. Her strategically designed CSA program educates eaters to harness the power of life giving force through regenerative foods. Niti’s Farm to Fork Meat Riot CSA simultaneously supports regenerative livestock production based on consumption that results in a zero-waste system.
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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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What happens when you get John Willis, Joel Salatin and Nicole Sauce together? We have a conversation about heritage skills, the economic fragility of the US, developing community, knowing your neighbors, and growing clean food.
Featured Event: Mike Shelby’s Surveillance Event in Nashville, TN, June 2-4, 2023, $500
https://grayzonestore.com/store/p/isr-nashville-2-4-june-2023
Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com
Sponsor 2: HollerRoast.com
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Get Tickets for The Self Reliance Festival
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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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How has my homegrown cooking world been with an on site freeze dryer? Join me today as I talk about that and all our usual Monday topics!
Featured Event: Exit and Build Land Summit, https://livefree.academy/op/exit-and-build-land-summit-iii-registration/?ref=183
Sponsor 1: Strong Roots Resources, StrongRootsResources.com
Sponsor 2: Freesteading.com
Harvet Right Affiliate Link: https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1095.html
Livestream Schedule
Tuesday
Join John Willis and I as we talk with Joel Salatin about the state of the world, building resilience into your lives, permaculture and more.
12:30 Central:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g
Friday
Hijacked by a redneck! Tactical Redneck grabs my channel for our weekly Homestead Happenings update at 10:30 Central.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhk2HWA-byY
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Weekly Shopping Report, May 13
Dollar Tree was first. They’ve added a couple of cases of Monster to the rear drink coolers. In addition to my usual caffeine-delivery mechanism, I noted a decent stock of plastics while picking up a few other items. The food aisles seemed a little less haphazard, and there were a couple of people in there stocking shelves. The health aisle had a lot more stuff on it.
Next was Home Depot. There was no tag on the stacks of 2x4x8 studs, so I looked online and found the price still at $3.35.
Last on this trip was Aldi. We found everything we wanted. Eggs are down another dime, to $1.87. Whole milk was $3.50/gallon
I did notice that people were friendly with no one seeming tense or worried. I think I only saw one muzzled sheep, during the second trip. Untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.999/gallon.
Frugality Tip from Margot
Hey all. I’m going to tell you to spend some money. But this is a frugality tip….yes it is. Sometimes you need to spend money to get something of value. We just got back from our first LFTN workshop and the ticket price was well worth the value we received. The price of the ticket can not buy the connections we made. The bonus was all of the things we learned. If you feel like you can’t afford a ticket to a workshop, grab a can, and everytime you break, let’s say a $20, put the change in a jar. Before you know it you will be able to “afford” things you didn’t think you could. I can not stress how important community is, and without going to workshops that follow your interests, you will not find your most important community members. (You have almost a year to save up for the next LFTN)
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Homegrown Cooking with a Freeze Dryer
Why I got a freeze dryer (originally)
What I learned getting started
Frequency of using the machine year one versus now
Is it worth it?
There is a webinar on getting started in the membership portal for those who decide to get one this year. A word on Harvest Right and customer support. (Keep calling)
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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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Join me for a discussion of what to do to catch up on your spring gardening, exciting spring forage, update on the incubation project.
Featured Event: June 24 Poultry Processing Workshop at the Holler Homestead
https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/product/poultry-processing-workshop-ticket/
Sponsor number 1: Permies.com – PTJ, https://wheaton-labs.com/permaculture-tech/?f=496 BOGO
Sponsor number 2: EMP Shield, https://www.empshield.com/ Use coupon code LFTN for 25% off
Forage
Livestock
Harvest meals
Grow
Holler Neighbors/Community
Infrastructure
Finances
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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 get real about handling existential crisis, homesteading, proofing yeast, and more. Amy Dingmann and Nicole Sauce do not hold back the spice when we get together.
Featured Event: TheAgoraFest.com, May 13 in Chattanooga Area
Today’s Sponsor 1: TheHomesteadConsultant.com
Today’s Sponsor 2: FreeSteading.com
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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, I share some lessons learned after one week of the #75Hard challenge.
Featured Event: May 27 & 28 Fighting Pistol Class at Tactical Response in Camden, TN
https://www.tacticalresponse.com/collections/training/products/fighting-pistol
Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com
Sponsor 2: LFTN Chicken Processing Workshop, June 24, 2023
Main topic of the Show:
ZERO COMPROMISE
ZERO SUBSTITUTION
You have until you go to sleep to complete the day.
If you fail, you MUST start over on Day 1.
Join me? #LFTNChallenge
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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 military fitness test degradation, solar and resilience, greenhouse heating ideas, and methane producing digesters Jack Spirko and John Willis.
Featured Event: Paul Wheaton’s Permaculture Technology Jamboree, July 3-14
https://wheaton-labs.com/permaculture-tech/?f=496
Sponsor 1: Strong Roots Resources (StrongRootsResources.com)
Sponsor 2: Radio Made Easy, Zero to Hero with Ham Radio
https://selfreliancefestival.com/product/zero-to-hero-radio-operator-course/?aff=nicolesauce
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Exit and Build Land Summit
https://livefree.academy/op/exit-and-build-land-summit-iii-registration/?ref=183
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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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Every Year, we host the LFTN Spring Workshop and folks wonder why should they invest three days of their time in something that souls like one big camping party? And each year, I watch people’s lives change. I watch the lights turn on. The decisions get made. I see super shy people stand up in front of a group and speak into a microphone. And each year, there is a different “spirit” at the event.
Today, we will talk about the cool things that happened at #LFTN23, the breakthroughs and lessons learned and I post a question – What Are You Doing Next.
Featured Event: Exit and Build Land Summit
https://livefree.academy/op/exit-and-build-land-summit-iii-registration/?ref=183
Content includes, exiting the healthcare system, exiting the cities, how to raise money for land when you think you can’t, seed saving and food preservation, PMAs and more.
Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN
Sponsor 2: HollerRoast.com
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Frugality Tip from Janet
Save slivers of soap and make my own hand soap every couple of months. I add the slivers to a grated bar of Dr Bronners.
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: What Are You Doing Next?
The LFTN Spring Workshop always ends with exhaustion of a kind that is difficult to describe because I always feel both empowered, motivated and ready for a long nap. Each year, I am not quite sure what the BIG THING is that came from the workshop and yet, each year something does.
In 2020, we realized that grow is a state of mind, not state of the economy. It is your choice.
In 2021, we realized that our connections are already the foundation for a parallel society – as in we already have one.
In 2022, we realized that we are the people with normal relationships and the unhealthy anchors in the “real world” must be tossed off
So what is next?
The phrase that is beating through my head today as I prepare the show notes is What Are You Doing Next?
It reminds me of the day my roaster caught on fire… <John Willis Story>
How does this relate to #LFTN23
Get off your ass
BreakTHROUGH
“I dont want to leave – also I CANT WAIT to get home and start some things.
And the whole time I was kicking around doing 75hard, and talked to a participant about it – turns out she has tried twice,
The shift was to How Can I
It wasnt the fellowship, the hijinks, the rum tasting, the torrential rains help at bay by Tajmaholler.
We didn’t care – we asked what next?
It wasn’t the fabulous food from right here, or the build your niche business presentation, or dog bite demo – we asked what can we do?
It wasn’t the quiet morning coffee because we had late sleeps, or the roasted pig, or the wild edible walk, we asked what do I want to build – then we turned to someone close to us and talked about it.
New connections
Better ideas
A fire lit under our butts
So, in the words of John Willis, I ask: What Are You Doing Next? I am doing 75Hard to increase my mental discipline – and whatever else it brings.
What are you doing today, tomorrow, next week? What thing are you ready to tackle? What do you want to build?
Really, I ask you – What are you doing next?
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 homestead happening episode, including a discussion about how some folks in Chattanooga have set up a PMA to BE THE AGORA! What does that have to do with homesteading? You will find out.
Featured Event: theAgorafest.com
Today’s Sponsor: AgoristTaxAdvice.com
Forage
Livestock
Grow
Harvest Eating
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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