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Chicken Processing Workshop, June 14 at 9am

They’re not eggs anymore!

Join us at the Holler Homestead to learn about processing chickens…

When: June 14, 2021

Start Time: 9 am

End time: (around 2 pm)

Location: Lancaster, TN (1 hour east of Nashville off I-40)

Price: $95 for nonmembers, $75 for members.

Includes:

  • Instruction by Chef Brett Corrieri
  • Hands-on processing
  • Chicken processing guide
  • Lunch
  • and you get to take home a chicken you processed, so bring your cooler

Background

We are raising about 40 birds for meat, and so many people have asked about how to process poultry that we decided to offer a class.

The course is outside, rain or shine, but don’t worry: we have a tent and some covered areas.

There’s great food for lunch (not chicken)

We serve Holler Roast all day long!

This is a great way to get to know fellow homesteaders with shared interests.

Skills covered:

  • Food safety
  • Methods of dispatching
  • Scalding
  • Hand plucking
  • Barrel plucking
  • Evisceration
  • Parting the bird
  • Packing and storing

Are you interested in checking out our solar hot water heater and other regenerative things we do here? We will gladly show you while you are on site!

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Episode 431: Your Best Life with Patrick Roehrman


Patrick Roehrman of MTKnives joins me today to talk about creating your best life. We recorded this right after the LFTN Spring Workshop.

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Thought of the Walk Series

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Went Full Tazmanian Devil on the Prepper Pantry
  • Quarterly Freezer defrost had to be done monthly
  • Holler Neighbor Project – Meals in bags (livestream this week)
  • Transition from using to filling – canning supply migration 

Featured Forrage: Potentialla Recta (Eurasian but growing here)

Operation Independence

  • Our HipCamp is Open! All $$ goes to my last little amount of debt

Main topic of the Show: Your Best Life with Patrick Roehrman

Bio: Patrick Roehrman is a knife maker and bladesmith from Missouri whose handmade knives include highly collectible  neck knives, custom hunting knives, custom survival knives, bushcraft knives and other hand-forged knives.

Why Patrick is cool

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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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Episode 430: What’s Up in the Holler


It has been a long time since we did an episode on the Holler Homestead and what we are all doing here — and yet this is one of the reason’s y’all tune in. Today is an update. An update on the Holler Homestead, and update on the Holler Neighbors, and an update on the progress toward living our lives on our terms and balance.

If you have been wondering what country life is all about, today is your day.

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Episode 429 – Cicada Invasion


The invasion of BroodX is coming. No! It is here. Will your trees die? Will you get hurt? Do you need to protect your animals and children? We will talk about Cicadas and what to expect from the hatch.

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Saturday Webinar with Sue Zoldak: Personal and Business Branding — login to your membership area to register, or buy the webinar at LivingFreeinTennessee.com if you are not a member.

Chicken Processing Workshop – 5 seats left!

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Finalizing the rest of 2021 ordering and organizing (Will see how I did by the end of the year)
  • Holler Neighbor Project
  • Mama Sauce did the spring Canned Goods Organizing — almost time to start canning again
  • Incoming Freeze Dryer

Featured Forage

  • What to harvest: Wild Rose petals, red clover

Operation Independence

  • What this is
  • Simplification

Main topic of the Show: Cicada Invasion

  • The hysterical headlines in the news
  • Cicadas — their lifecycle – egg, nymph, metamorphosis, adult
  • 17 year brood – what to expect: music, lots of bugs
  • Why the swarm? (Thought to be protection)
  • Will they kill my trees?
  • Are they harmful to my children/self/animals?
  • Cool things that happen in a cicada swarm year
    • There is a tangible homeschooling science project that can expand beyond the bug to learning tons about insects
    • The deafening sound is quite beautiful
    • Your chickens/poultry will get fat
    • Fishing Lures timed with the die off

Membership Plug

MeWe reminder

Make it a great week!

Song: The Flood by Sauce

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

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Episode 428 – Get Recognized with John Pugliano


John Pugliano of Investable Wealth and the Wealthsteading Podcast joins me to discuss how to get recognized and build personal success – weather you run your own business or work in a career.

Chicken Processing Workshop June 14
May 22 at 4pm Central: Sue Zoldak on Personal and Business Branding

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Episode 427 – Find Your Reset


Today we talk about finding your reset in times of high productivity, overwhelming task lists and ever-changing requirements that come from living the life you want to live.

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Episode 426 – Become a Food Ninja at Rogue Food


Today we talk with John Moody, author of Winning the War on Weeds, family and farm guy, facilitator of Abby’s Elderberry, permaculturist extraordinaire and founder of The Rogue Food Conference. We talk about food freedom, why go rogue and much more.

Chicken Processing Workshop June 14

Rogue Food Conference

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Episode 425 – Focus on Nutrition with Niti Bali


Today I am excited to talk food, nutrition and freedom with Niti Bali, author of Farm to Fork Meat Riot and outspoken supporter of empowering people to take control of their health via taking control of what they put in their bodies. 

Chicken Processing Workshop, June 14 starting at 9am here in Lancaster, TN.

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Episode 424 – Invest in Doers at LFTN 2021


It’s that time again – time to debrief the LFTN 2021 Workshop. Each year, we have a different experience. Each year, a different set of people. And each year, an unexpected lesson emerges when folks get together to share best practices, fun, and deep conversations.

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EPISODE 423 – REPLAY SOWING SEEDS WITH SUPERB PEOPLE


Today is the day you have been waiting for – the day that we do the LFTN workshop rundown. But unlike other years, instead of a blow-by-blow I thought I would center this on the community that we have at LFTN. So today’s run through will be of the superb people who attended the event and what they brought to the community. I think you are going to like this approach.

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