Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: Where the damage lies The Important Seal, Extra Trays and Gloves for your Harvest Right Journey Winter is Coming Leg Of Lamb Don't Fight With People on the Internet To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Today, we share some ideas on how to work through an abundance of apples for the home canner, home dryer and really anyone who stumbles on apples at this time of year in volume. Turkey Day Announcement Stump the Sauce From Frank: What do I do with all these black walnuts? https://black-walnuts.com/discover-harvesting-and-hulling/hulling-and-buying-locations/ Main topic of the Show: Processing an Abundance of Apples Apples and apple season Getting cheap apples Storage Canning Cider Apple Sauce Apple Butter (pectin) Drying Apple Molasses: https://farmandforagekitchen.com/blog/apple-molasses Apple Pie Filling Freezing 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. 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 I will share four things about marketing that are important for success, and that are boring to do. We will also cover the Green Chili event, talk about a coming trip and review habits that bring us more stability. Self Reliance Festival, 1st Round of Demos are Set! Tales from the Prepper Pantry What happens to the pantry for an event: Usage, Tracking, Storage GC Rain Making GC Powder this week and just 12 jars of salsa Get your goldenrod tootsweet! Apple season Operation Independence Listing my Nissan XTerra for sale Headed to Kansas later this week to get the upgraded roaster Live with Sue Zoldak! This Wednesday - Homeschool Transition Main topic of the Show: 4 Boring But Important Things About Marketing What is marketing and why is it important? Brute Force Foreshadowing Is Your Friend (TV show Story) Repetition Works Clever is Not Always Better Data is King (Clean Data) Make it a great week! Song: 9-1-1 by Sauce GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

Today we have a live Q and A discussion on Hatch Green Chilies. What are Hatch Green Chilies Why do you have green chili weekend every year What has been the biggest challenge this year in getting set for the event What are your favorite recipes How do you preserve them? 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

Today, I will talk about a few interesting things: Lessons learned from working with an overseas assistant; and some thoughts on developing personal self-reliance when life feels too busy to get anything done. Stump the Sauce From Jenni: How do I deal with self-reliance overwhelm? How do you deal with self-reliance overwhelm? I'm making a list of skills I want to learn, but I get overwhelmed every time I visit it. What's the most important? What's something I actually want to learn? How much should I invest when I don't know if it suits my long term goals? The evaluation process just leaves me with more questions, but the biggest is in becoming self reliant on my own... How do I find the time to do it all by myself? I understand time management and prioritizing but I'm also a single parent with other responsibilities and challenges. Thanks for any input Definition: Self Reliant Self Sufficient Thoughts on Resilient Lifestyle Design Resources TSP Episode on Self Reliance and Self Sufficiency http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/1666-self-reliance-and-sufficiency Self-Reliance Festival in Camden, TN on October 23, 2021 Main topic of the Show: 4 Things I Have Learned in Working With an Overseas Assistant The background: Why I chose an overseas assistant The Four Things: Choose the right one (You may go through several) - my shortcut Most challenges are my fault (culture, poor planning, time management) Improve Email Skills (All the things in one email) Upfront Time Investment in Process Yields Long-Term Time Savings 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. 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

Today we talk about what to do in circular discussions. Episode 500 Submissions GC Announcement Self-Reliance Festival Tickets - Get them while you can Save the date: November 20 - process (or buy) your own Thanksgiving Turkey at the Holler Homestead Tales from the Prepper Pantry Last round: Salsa and sauce The Fall Regeneration Period and a tomato experiment Starting Fall Ferments (Why Now) Rabbit Recipe Herbal Tea Collecting: Goldenrod, mints, lemon balm, sumac berries, mullein flower and leaves Creeping Charlie or Gotu Kola? Need to consult an expert Getting set for animal processing season Operation Independence Green Chili Event Set Up Main topic of the Show: Opt Out of Nonsensical Discussions Nonsense. It is all nonsense all the time. The most obvious nonsense is around covid. We look at the mandate proclamation that has no teeth and freak out. We hear that non vaxed are the ones spreading the disease. Then we hear the vaccine does not stop the spread of the disease and that is why you need to be vaxed. I literally heard someone say in the same diatribe that everything with covid is the fault of the unvaxed and then go on to explain that vaccines are not intended to stop the spread, but rather to protect the person who gets the disease from getting a harder case. But then say that vaccinated are not contributing to the pressure being put on the virus to make it mutate. Wait what? The words coming out of your mouth do not make any sense. If nothing else has become clear it is this: we have not found a cure for the common cold. There is a reason we haven't. But I do not want today to be about the illness. We talk waaaay too much about this. Today, I want to explore the increase in nonsensical discussions that are polluting reasoned discourse in our society. You see, as we have become more prosperous, it has become acceptable to spew bullshit. Black is white, up is down and so forth. We have become so comfortable that rocking the boat is scary. What if someone pushes back? What if I look stupid? Maybe they know more than I do. No. Stop. Just stop. Your bullshit meter is working just fine. The things people tell you that make no sense and seem to illustrate the opposite of the original assertion are, in fact, circular logic. You are being gaslighted. Ever hear the theory that people need to hear something 8 times to accept it as fact? This is a, oft cited marketing foundation. It is why marketing gets a bad name. The number 8 can be changed to 15, or 6, but the foundational idea is if you are exposed to a lie long enough, you begin to accept it. And we have been using this to great advantage. Maxwell house is better than folgers. Colombian beans are the best in the world. Masks work, or they don't work (depending on what you are exposed to). States with low vac rates are having larger outbreaks than, say, Oregon. Home ownership is the best way to handle your housing because renting is just throwing your money away. The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success. Also it was Trump's fault. But it is a success. But anyone who got hurt is Trump's fault. Fake mandates! We are in a constantly rolling set of angenda -based crisis and the fearmomenter has been turned up again, as it always is, when they have something to hide. The think to ask yourself as you become terrified of losing your job, of angry hoardes attacking peaceful people in reaction to mandates, is this: What are they hiding with their manipulative spin? Who are they dividing? How can I opt out? The sad thing about this cycle is that it has set into motion the habit to buy into taglines and spin so heavily that people use it in discussions with one another. And when you point out the illogic, personal attacks follow because, anymore, the goal of discourse is to win, not to learn. And THAT brings us to the point. What should we, as critical thinkers do when we come into nonsensical discussions with circular logic? Do we stay and fight? Do we leave with a "whatever dude?" Or do we do something else. In the big picture, a nonsensical discussion is not really worth my time and if I have it, especially on the internet, all I do is feed the nonsense that I am trying to counter. Dont believe me? Go find one and look at the back and forth. People get increasingly divided and angry. They end having not changed. The "lgoical" arguer often comes across looking like a dick. Mean people are not appreciated. Therefore the wrong narrative often "wins" in the eyes of an outsider. So what can we do? Turn off the news Acknowledge your own circular or faith-based biases In a discussion establish a big picture goal: Are we talking to "win" or to learn? What are we discussing? (Ivermective example) Are both sides willig to be wrong? Who is your target for discussion? Find ways to find good information (read studies, confirm things with sources) Keep the long term, big picture in mind It can be hard when faced with a circular argument to not engage to correct the problem.

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: Refugees, Meleagris gallopavo domesticus, have arrived TN GSD Crew No One Actually Cares Why The cheapest life skill to learn Take the Long Term View Homestead Habits To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Ever think about going back to the land? Well today, I am joined by Matt Hundley, musician, youtuber, and founder of the Back to the Land Festival happening right here in Tennessee in October! Upcoming Events:Sept 18 Green Chili Day Oct 14-16 Back to the Land Festival But first: From a Covid Nurse This is reality for me, I'm not debating vaccination vs non vaccination here at all so just don't . I see both vaccinated and unvaccinated on the vents and dying so the whole you think your safe just because your vaccinated is a farce. It may help keep you in the lower severity category but once on the vent it all ends pretty much the same. I wish I had answers to make this horrific nightmare stop. Eventually this will be endemic and not a pandemic , eventually we will be back in the drivers seat and not at the mercy of a .3% mortality rate virus. We still have 400,000 to die in this country before we have met our .3% . I think Delta is going to get us to that number a little faster. There isn't room for anything else in the hospital it's pretty much all covid , or clot and strokes due to covid and vaccinated patients . It's getting everyone folks this causes blood clots so act accordingly. We are back to cancelling elective surgeries . We need our health care providers elsewhere right now. I won't go into how tired we are and how much demand is being placed on us to fill gaps. I harp on that enough. When people call about their loved ones on the phone they don't get it , they don't understand why their wife isn't answering her phone anymore. Or their college aged son isn't texting his best friend anymore. They can't . They are sedated , paralyzed and intubated . That means they can't talk, they can't move on their own , they can't do anything without our assistance and they hopefully feel no pain and aren't aware of what's going on around them too much because it's quiet. No real human interaction , we don't know what they hear so we talk to them when we give them a bath and turn them. I play music for them. I wish families were allowed to see them and sit with them . My humanity side says maybe more would make it if they weren't alone in isolation. Maybe it would help them cope seeing the progression instead of the phone call from a doc saying it's time to make a decision right now. Most families think they have time while they are on the vent , you don't . They are so fragile a good turn and fluid shift could change everything going well to tanking in a New York minute. Then when they need ECMO sorry only taking patients under 40 yrs old and there is a waiting list. Most by this time can not wait so they die. They in some cases will not put a vent on anyone over 80 , bad outcomes and young people need that vent so they are HAVING to prioritize care on those that have the most ability to survive. My god. I never thought this could happen here . It tears the docs up because they have to call or tell the family we have no vent for grandma. Chronic conditions are prioritized to down the list . It's all about survivability and who is in front of you. Don't get sick , it's a terrible time to be sick , get your check ups , get your labs done , talk to your GP like you should and eat well. Drink water , start an exercise regimen , stop smoking or drinking alcohol. Do this now. That way if you get a sniffle you can self treat before you need an ER for sepsis or pneumonia. Help us help you please ! There is no more room . Show Resources www.BackToTheLandFestival.com www.TennesseeHomesteadDesign.com Main content of the show Matt Hundley is a permaculture farmer, homestead designer, and musician in Middle Tennessee. He is launching the Back To The Land Festival with Gabby Reed and a host of homesteading, foraging, farming, and teaching experts to create a unique gathering space to connect like-minded homesteaders regionally who are ready to build self-sufficient, independent, and regenerative homesteads and communities. Interview Membership and Coffee Pitch 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 I am joined by Jim Gale of Food Forest Abundance to discuss self-reliance, spiritual and physical independence, and the lofty goal of getting a food forest into every suburban yard. AnnouncementsGreen Chili Day - Join us for canning demos, tours, food and fun on Sept 18. $25 for a day pass, $50 for overnight. Food and non-alcoholic beverages provided. BYO (alcoholic) B. Show ResourcesFood Forest Abundance: foodforestabundance.com Main content of the show Jim Gale is a regenerative entrepreneur and father of 4 daughters who has proven - "If you can conceive it and believe, then you can achieve it". For the past 16 years Jim has been obsessed with finding the answer to the question "What is the IDEA whose time has come" that Victor Huge wrote about? What is the "Embarrassingly simple" solution that Bill Mollison was speaking about? He found it, he and millions more demonstrate it and his mission in life is to share it. What about vibrations and energy in developing self reliance? Why food forests and permaculture? Why is this so important? What can someone do to get started? What is the Government's role in the solution? Is it hard? How can I participate? Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/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 Freeze Dryers (Affiliate Link)

Today is the third in the series on how to start a small coffee roasting enterprise - either home scale or micro roasting business. We will discuss how to find the people to buy your coffee, as well as how to persuade them to do so. Episode 500 Celebration - send me an email to read or email me your audio clip! Tomorrow is Mozarella Day! Green Chilies shipped yesterday for Green Chili Day! Stump the Sauce Hey Nicole, My wife and I are nearing retirement age, and are in the process of planning for it. I was wondering what your retirement plan is to run your homestead when you are older? - and maybe not so physically able to keep up with all the daily chores that you accomplish now? P.S. love to listen to you talk about stuff… Thanks! Episode 471: Finding People to Buy Your Coffee, Home Roasting Business Part 3 Your coffee business will never make it off the ground if you do not have this one piece in place: People who want to buy your coffee. Establishing Customer Base - Most important use of your time. Brand Promise Brand Story (Frame in terms of why the people who buy your coffee want it -- not why you think they should buy it) Example: Tastes Great vs how the beans are lovingly roasted by your 6 year old daughter, Farm stories of your source beans vs what green coffee beans are or "fair trade" etc certifications Local versus beyond local sales Local: farmers markets, outreach to businesses, local radio shows, column in the local newspaper, cafe or food cart, presence in craft fairs, stores, coffee for events, schools, etc. Beyond local (First few fit for local too): Social media development, network care and feeding, demonstrations and value add for other people, podcasts and radio/tv with expanded reach, the website question, personality marketing, audience will be in a niche that is not bound by geography. Food Law Choice (cottage vs renting production space vs just do it) Marketing budget, putting things on sale, tracking results Customer referrals The most important piece of the puzzle: Customer service, ongoing care of relationships, constant attention to expand if that is your goal, new ways to fill the funnel. What questions do you have? 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. 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

Today we will talk about focusing on doing what you can as the world falls apart around you and why that is more important now, in times of duress, than it ever was before. We will also talk about what the CAC team is up to this week with Hurricane Ida's arrival in Louisiana, and we will talk a little about why real community happens. Announcements: Mozzarella Webinar Reminder, This Thursday Green Chili Day - Tickets are getting scarce CAC Activation - https://www.cacteam.com/ Volunteers get pre-approved or update your information Seeking donations Tales from the Prepper Pantry Beets and Tomatoes Green Chilies Incoming Venison Stew Freeze Dryer is back in business with the cooling weather: Eggs, milk, watermelon New Recipe: Cube steak. S & P, 3 mins per side, Worcestershire sauce. Reduce the resulting sauce as gravy Operation Independence Selling everything we can to offset the replacement car (Xtera straight piped, tractor, electric range, collectible ww2 air tanks, and various small stuff) -- added benefit is simplicity. (Sometimes independence means making choices) Putting finishing touches on an event at SOE in mid October and a workshop with Niti the first Saturday of October -- more on this soon GSD Update Main topic of the Show: Building While The World Falls Apart In the last 2 weeks, no fewer than 20 people have reached out to me with questions about relocating to Tennessee. Many of them are facing job loss due to vaccination requirements, financial problems from draconian shut downs, and the emotional wounds from having marriages, friendships and family relationships torn apart in light of what some like to just refer to as "All this bullshit." They are scared to stay where they are. They are scared to move somewhere new. It is hard to feel secure with capital gains tax laws being retroactively changed under the guise of taxing the rich -- you know who I mean -- the rich people who will never pay more tax, and landing on the shoulders of small business owners and grandma's retirement rental. Every time a new story comes out about the virus you fall over from being dizzy from the spin put out by "both" sides of the discussion. Ivermectin is cow medicine and has no valid human use (except it does). Unvaccinated are spreading the virus (except vaccinated are too and they are less likely to know they are infected). Meat is killing you and low fat is the only way to go, except the part where sugar is definitely linked to diabetes, which is also killing us. Then there are the calls for mandates, the framing of people who are conservative as less than human. The violence increasing all over the country but in particular in the cities. There is the economic damage of the last few years, made worse by decades of shitty public policy, made worse by the political power mongers using this current state of discomfort to take more control, dictate how poor people will live from now on under the guise of saving the planet from climate change. What I see among those who have awoken to the current evil that has been building for a long time is that they discuss it unendingly. Pundits have this topic covered. We need to be better than that. We need to give our energy to creating, not tearing down. To forward momentum not backward thinking policies in fancy new marketing packaging. That is why we talk about building here rather than obsess on the shit going on. It doesn't mean we ignore the shit though. I mean if a wrecking ball is coming your way, you definitely want to see it and to move. I moved from public policy to podcasting and building our LFTN community because I realized that trying to change the system that is failing everyone from inside the system is a fool's errand. I mean, God bless those who are willing to stay and try. But the system itself has core design flaws. It is designed into the system to create dependence. We don't need dependence. WE NEED INDEPENDENCE in order to create and thrive. Is this time different for you or the same. Are you looking at those gas cans you have that are empty, or are they full? Did you start a pantry rotation, or are you thinking about what you ought to stock up on now that prices are climbing? Is your side hustle generating some income, or are you stuck deciding between your long term health and keeping a job that is requiring you to do things you disagree with? So you can either be part of the problem by playing the game, or you can be part of the solution by building now, when the time is ripe to build but the will to build it weak. Make it a great week! Song: Burned, performed by Sauce 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

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: Hidden Treasure Taking Risks Inside Plumbing of the Solar Water Heater I CAN'T SLEEP! Thought of the Walk News Propoganda To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Today, I have a great interview with Mike the Polymath, a guy who is really good at lots of things. A guy who started a neat concept for providing a service lots of people would want. A guy who cares about freedom, food freedom and empowering the individual. Waverly Flood Assistance Anyone wanting to volunteer to help with cleanup and recovery can call 931-888-8011 or 931-888-8012. You can report after 8am to the volunteer staging area in the Dollar Tree Parking Lot at 515 West Main St. Our volunteers at those numbers will match your skills with those who have needs. Thank you for your help! Cheese Webinar Delayed One Week! Show Resources easypeasygardens.com instagram.com/easypeasygardens https://www.easypeasygardens.com/the-easypeasy-podcast Main content of the show Michael is the founder of EasyPeasy Garden Solutions LLC, in Indianapolis, Indiana. His business is geared towards designing, building and maintaining backyard vegetable gardens on a subscription basis. Michael studied Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Human Ecology and has a professional background in environmental education, tourism, organic farming and the nursery trade. After an eccentric series of jobs and internships, Michael integrated various different knowledge bases and skill sets to start EasyPeasy Garden Solutions in 2018. How did you find your way to gardening/sustainability? What is EasyPeasy Garden Solutions? How did the idea for EasyPeasy occur to you? What is the mission? How, specifically does a person start their own personal gardening business? Does it require any certain education, personality-type, background, or skill-set? What kind of investment is required? What are the pros/cons of being a "one-man business" What would you say to someone who has an entrepreneurial dream they have not yet attempted? What are some other ways we could "uber-ize" the food system What is in the future for you and for EasyPeasy? Membership and Coffee Pitch 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

Today we talk more about Holler Dollars, the Flood, and where to move in Tennessee if you are immigrating from another state. These are all questions and comments from listeners. Mozzarella Webinar THIS THURSDAY Oct 15-17 - Back to the Land Festival: https://www.backtothelandfestival.com/ Tales from the Prepper Pantry Tomato Sauce Round of animal feed Venison Shoulder Roast to soup Working on ordering in Green Chilies for Green Chili Day (There will be Green Chili Ice cream!) (Sign up link) Operation Independence Hip Camp Car Fund Main topic of the Show: Listener Feedback Show Holler Dollars From Sue: I had two questions from an academic point of view. 1) in your example about Jenni and the garlic. That is technical not a barter situation. What you described is essentially creating another currency based in garlic. Because you've set a value for garlic that you'll honor no mater what, even if you have elastic demand for garlic. For instance, say she plants an entire lawn of garlic and brings it to the pantry for 10,000 credits. Under the system you described, her garlic is as good as currency even if you can't use her garlic. My second question is more of a philosophical one. If the framework of the holler is not paying the labor the equivalent of at least minimum wage in the Tennessee economy, then is it really independence? Why do you need to come up with a food value for the labor that is nor based on the real market value of the labor absent the neighbors? I guess what I am asking is, how much would it cost to run the holler if your neighbors did not exist. Isn't that the value exactly? My worry is that there are legal cases where work contracts made in sub economies where labor is valued at less than minimum wage can be considered servitude under the law and litigious. I'm not saying either of the above will happen of course. Just playing out your scenarios from a purely argumentative point of view absent the fact that these are your friends and neighbors Leos: Incorporated Approach Where to Move in Tennessee? I found you via Jack Spirko. My family and I are soon to be refugees from California. We are in pursuit of a new location to settle and build community. Tennessee is on our list to explore suitability for us. Can you recommend any areas in Tennessee worth looking into? Thanks so much, Dan What Coffee Maker Should I Buy? From Gary Hey, Nicole! I hear you on multiple shows: Unloose, LFTN, TSP. I can't recall which show it was on (probably not Unloose), but you offered advice on coffee makers I'm having trouble finding that episode, and I'm in hopes you can point me in the right direction (or just send me the makes and models :-). Love listening to you in all those places. Keep up the great work! Link to TSP Episode on coffee makers 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. 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

Today, we go waaaay back to August 2019 and revisit the basics: How to take control of your overwhelming world by using the #my3Things. If you have ever wandererd how I get so much done - this is how. 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

Today, we talk about what to do with your pantry at the end of August, whether you are on a homestead or living in the city. Webinar on Making Mozarella Green Chili Day Registration is Live Stump the Sauce You seem like a really cool lady with a good heart and I like your goals for independance and living free and wish you well on your quest. I do have a question regarding trading and bartering within a small neighborhood of "like-minded people". My father was born in 1937 and pines away at how everyone worked together for a common goal, say threshing wheat/oats and how people used to work together. I ask what happened? Because my point of view is I don't even know these people he would talk about so fondly from childhood memory. He retorts "We all became independent and stopped having to get along, so we don't". So, it seems these barter systems are transient and dependent on most within the group being of either similar socioeconomic status or as the time ethnic decent, and Dad always seems to talk about the riff that severed relationship X or Y . Just thoughts. Love your show. Main topic of the Show: End of Summer Pantry Management This morning, the weather had turned "morning cool" once again and you know what that means, right? Winter is coming and along with it the need to be fully stocked up, have firewood, and have the animals taken care of. One of the reasons that store shortages are not very concerning to us here in the Holler is that we have been maintaining a good pantry for many years. But that doesnt mean we will not have to go without if things do not come back in stock. This week, we have had a cool reprieve amid the hottest days of the year. We have stowed and stashed jars of winter storage. We have "used up" commercial products as part of a busy week of travel. This month, we have dug a giant ditch behind the house, completely taken out everything in the prepper pantry to rerun gas, electrical, and water. Things are a bit stirred up and it is time to do the late summer pantry project. If you are new to pantry management, or an old hand at it, this time of year tends to lead to the same place: it is time to audit, reorganize, and plan the next steps in advance of winter. If you are lucky enough to have AC, this is also an excuse to stay cool during the hottest part of the day while making forward progress. Failure to take this time now leads to that one can of sauerkraut that stays in the back corner of your pantry, getting moved each time you do, until it is so old that you don't even want to feed it to your pigs. How do I know? I moved that can of sauerkraut 8 times before I realized I was never going to eat it. That can of sauerkraut was the first step toward proper pantry management - as in store what you actually eat -- and it started me on a very different path in food management long before I discovered my love of preserving and storing food in abundance. So what does the Summer Project Look like? Review long term and short term storage Make 2 piles for each place: Use up, store it Put everything away with the use up items in front on shelves and the store it items harder to get to (pull things from long term storage that really need to be worked into your meal plans) Freezers if you have them Make a list of what is missing for the winter: flour, sugar, hot coco, paper towels, fire starters, first aid and toiletries, meats, veggies, etc Set a schedule to restock - there is still farm abundance to preserve and things often have early fall sales. Advanced: buying for next summer at the end of this one! Do this same process for livestock and pets The first time I did this: 2 weeks - now it is a 1 day thing. (explain why) Next 2 weeks meal plan Landing: High times and spare - you will be as supply secure as you can be without wasting time and money on things you will never use. 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. 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

Today, I will run you through a typical Saturday on a homestead in the heat of summer as everything needs life support to survive and is getting ripe and ready to eat and process. Reminder: Mozzarella Making Webinar Tales from the Prepper Pantry 34 quarts of green beans 60 lbs of tomatoes Golden rod, mullein, mint Operation Independence Building the podcast and HRC at Rogue Food Conference in Virginia Main topic of the Show: A Homestead In Summer The why The backdrop (Leaving a homestead, summer abundance season, dog days) Preparing for the knows, animals, coffee customers, winter is coming Homestead grown vs locally sources food approach - beans, tomatoes Friday: 60 lbs tomatoes, 2 bushels stringless beans My hopes: Salsa, dilly beans, canned beans Getting real: dilly beans are nice to have not need to have The agenda for Saturday: (Friday night background) Skipped market (picked up produce from the farmers on Friday afternoon) 6am: up, coffee, walk dogs (short walk), assemble laundry 6:30: Start water for green beans to boiling, start laundry, second cup coffee, begin processing tomatoes 6:45: 1st batch beans in the canner 7am: Tomatoes in the freezer, pigs fed scraps 7:15: begin snapping beans, change laundry 7:45: 1st batch beans done Pattern until 1pm: Snap beans, prepare jars for canner, process beans, rotate laundry, check water for plants, make/eat breakfast Meanwhile: T is on animal care and fencing 1-1:30 lunch break 1:30-3pm: "The bean cycle" 3pm: start the cheese, snap beans on "breaks" - come to the realization that I am not going to actually pack anything tonight 5pm: bean only cycle (I am snapping as fast as I can put them in jars) 7pm: T arrives, there is no plan for dinner, animals and plants are cared for, still snapping and canning beans. Initiate the frozen cauliflower pizza crust with fresh made tomato sauce, sausage and cheese 8pm: dinner, tv show, still snapping beans and canning them 9pm: the last of the beans are snapped, too tired to go on, house looks like a bean food fight has happened, (Beanmageddon), jars are cooling on every surface I can find, there are 4 jars left to do. Sunday am 6am: up and start water for the last bean jars, short dog walk, beans in the canner Prepare/eat breakfast, shower, feed dogs, head out the door by 7 with beans finishing up in the canner. Landing: Even when there is an impossible schedule, you will be successful if you stick to the top priority. Make it a great week! Song: Anonymous by Sauce 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

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: Lessons from the Garden Something Has Changed What I Learned After Walking Each Morning for One Month Five Ways to Prepare Green Beans Decide and be Honest with Yourself To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Today, I share thoughts about getting your mindset right after a day of training at Tactical Response (tacticalresponse.com) Main topic of the Show: Mindset 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 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

Today, I talk with Matthew Sercely to discuss using the tax code to your advantage and his new company, Agorist Tax Advice. Show Resources https://www.agoristtaxadvice.com/ Main Content of the Show: Matthew Sercely has been an attorney for over 11 years in the Dallas, Texas area. Last year he decided to go out on his own and help libertarians, anarchists, and agorists to deal with taxes. Interview Why are you the "agorist tax advisor?" What is a "Tax Advisor"? How is it different than a tax attorney or an accountant? Are there any advantages to having a tax advisor who is an attorney instead of an accountant? Any advantages to having an accountant instead? What are the different types of Taxation for companies? What is the best one for a business? What sorts of mistakes to you see people making on their taxes? You've done multiple seminars in the past year, including the Survivial Podcast and Living Free in Tennesse. Why do you like doing seminars so much? 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

Today is the second in a series about how to build and launch your home or craft coffee roasting business. We will cover branding and packaging Sign up for the Mozzarella making webinar, August 26Next Week's ScheduleEpisode 500 Reminder Listener Feedback Nick Main topic of the Show: Branding and Packaging Your Coffee, Home Roasting Business Part 2 What to know about Branding Member Webinar in the Portal, Personal and Business Branding with Sue Zoldak, May 2021 Know your target Visual and "personality" representation of the core essence of your business. Must be: Emotional (Buyer), Differentiated (Competition), Credible (You and the Buyer) Packaged for: Web, print, social. Black and white and color. Visible from afar and look good up close. Industry colors: browns, green, blues (Think about what that means for you and your brand) Developing your brand story Coffee is about people from farm to cup Why it matters to the buyer What made YOU love coffee (that matters to the buyer)? How did you get to where you are today? Sketch it out and practice with friends, have them tell your story back. Learn from that Packaging Label must haves Plastic vs paper Co2 filter Packaging sizes (12 oz vs 16, shape, etc) Label design vs printed bags Color choices Where are you selling your coffee? Does your packaging sell your coffee (farmer's market story) 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. 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

Today, I will talk through how to save seeds from XX kinds of summer plants and why you should do it. Was interviewed on Deborah Gets Red Pilled: https://youtu.be/fGb4nUCtqyY Mozzarella Making Webinar, Thursday August 26, 2021 at 6pm Central - sign up here. Tales from the Prepper Pantry Took the weekend off from canning but it is tomato and green bean canning season Redoing shelves and freezers in the Prepper Pantry Cost comparing homemade dog food vs commercial Groceries are sales tax free so I have some soul searching to do since I have enough for the year, minus cheese. Operation Independence Meat Canning Webinar will be on the Portal Tuesday for those who missed it Main topic of the Show: Episode 459: Saving Seeds in Summer Why save seeds Some seed saving tips: fermenting, stratification, storage, hybrids Methods The plastic bag method (Lettuces, broccoli, beets) The let it reseed itself method (Cilantro, parsley, lettuce, radishes, etc) The fermentation method (tomatoes) The just save them method (Peppers) The Lazy Man Method (Squash example) Membership Plug Make it a great week! Song: 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

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: Self Determination When Should You Give Yourself a Pass That Did Not Go As Planned Selfish Sunday on a Homestead To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Today is a thought experiment on the Holler Neighbor Food Cooperative idea. Problem we solve: How everyone who is working in our community to gain value from the land can benefit from their efforts while also balancing between those who have more capitol inputs and those who have more labor inputs July 31 GSD Weekend at the Darkhorse Lodge - last change to go hang out with awesome people. Stump the Sauce From Jason: coffee shortage Crop Damage timeline Current panic "Shortage" defined Main topic of the Show: Holler Neighbors Food Cooperative Holler Neighbor Livestream/Strategic Plan BackgroundSWOT - Food Production For Ourselves and OthersAttempt 1: Crockpot mealsAttempt 2: Neighbor Pantry vs Individual Pantries Latest Concept - Holler Dollar Tracking System Goal - better manage who gets what share of what things we produce. Capitol Investment vs Labor Investment Ways to earn outside money Initial Set up, $2,000 and incorporation (not sure we need to corporation but will incorporate under under legal advice if needed) $$ used for USD expenditures, feed, infrastructure, veterinarian bills, utilities, etc $$ reinvested either from partners or sales revenue Sales revenue is OBV taxable Holler Neighbors can Buy A Neighbor Membership for $50/year (revenue to the corporation). This earns the right to access membership benefits like food education, they get an annual amount of Holler Dollar Vouchers and may use vouchers to obtain the food we grow together. Holler Dollars: Neighbors can Buy or Earn Holler Dollars and pay for pantry items with Holler Dollars. Earned through food production or preservation labor. Neighbor members can give other neighbor members Holler Dollars in gratitude for random work performed (lawn mowing, etc). Non Neighbor Membership is available for, say $500 dollars and gets a person access to educational days, a certain number of holler dollars, but they cannot "earn" holler dollars by working on food projects. What do you think of this concept? Membership Plug Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

That Belt I love: https://www.originalsoegear.com/collections/1-5-edc-belts-low-profile-plastic-and-no-buckle Tales from the Prepper Pantry 1 bushel this week: 14 Jars canned green beans , 4 jars worth snapped fresh for eating A word on how to manage pickles Midsummer foraging and drying time Extracting Honey This Week, could use an assist on seeing what is still in the hives Operation Independence The Ditch Project Meat Canning Webinar Went Great: "Just wanted to say thanks for all you do. I was on the meat canning webinar and it was great. While I have canned, it's not as consistent as I want. I've been listening to you for years & joined your membership fairly recently. We're honestly not as prepared as we should be but, we've done little things here and there. I'm not very social online at all but, I hope to put myself out there more and meet like minded people. Main topic of the Show: Success and Failure of the Great (personal) Reset Lessons learned Go all in - I did not (The drive to deliver coffee is strong and I flubbed the preparation week) Take responsibility for focus Choose an organizing principle for the time, not 50 I'll just finish this one small thing story - I need to go get a pen You might need to leave Even if you flub the ball, it is the right thing to do Made important business decisions Got much of the tile done (Universe conspiracy) Rested Up Roasted a TON Caught up with friends Quiet time with Sage and research on how to feed her The Ditch/Willis Event, etc… Taking a Great Reset the perfect way may mean leave your home, it may mean take better responsibility than I did a week ago, or it may mean something completely different. And taking Great Reset imperfectly still will bring you benefits when you do it -- so do it. 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

Today is a Friday so we have an interview show and Ken Eash is back to talk with us about tapping into limitless opportunities in the service industry. Sometimes it is better to learn a trade than to become a philosopher. Show Resources kennetheash.comteencatalyst.com mewe.com/i/keneash Podcast series on finding purpose in life: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/3d77210b-38ad-469d-be09-85fb5cd319b8 Podcast episode on entrepreneurship in services: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/e1467eed-2b30-42e9-8160-b5e463fde134 Main content of the show Ken does not like to talk about himself so he gave me bullets. :-) 35 years on earth 30 years construction experience 13 years with a wonderful wife 12 years experience as business owner 4 years attempting homesteading 2 years becoming a life and career coach for teens Interview Why would a socially awkward person like you want to be on a podcast with thousands of listeners? With 30 years in construction, would you say building things is your purpose in life? All this talk of purpose, but how does that tie into what you say are "limitless opportunities in the service industry"? What does a person have to do to get started? How does this talk of the opportunities in services play into your purpose? What would you say to someone who's still on the fence about jumping into the services field? 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

It's TIME! I took your questions over on our Mewe group all about what you want to know about starting a home or craft roasting business. Today will be the first in a series of home roasting podcasts and we will talk about learning to roast. GSD Weekend at the Darkhorse Lodge: Information in a post on mewe in this group: https://mewe.com/join/tngsd Canning Meat Webinar, This Saturday at 2pm central Stump the Sauce Low saliva update from Mark Episode 453 - Learning to Roast, Home Coffee Business Part 1 The more I learn about it, the less I know about coffee. Coffee cherries, processing beans, getting green beans What happens when you roast Can you reroast? Light, medium, dark, etc roasts Mallaird reaction, sugars, flavors, slow vs fast roast Chaff First crack, second crack, FIRE! Cooling "The trace" and software in coffee The role of beans in roasting Drum vs air roasting Ways to roast without specialized equipment Home roasters: Behmore, Gene Cafe, Nesco, Hottop Home roasters, small roasters, commercial roasters Volume matters Low acid/stomach issues 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. 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

Today, some stuff went down in the Holler that made it so the usual time was no longer there that I use to produce this show. So today, I share with you my thoughts on planning, schedules and what to do when it doesn't go right. I also talk about prioritizing relationships and yourself and living up to your promises. This is a freestyle episode that I hope you will enjoy. 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

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: Growing Food The Circle of Life Eating Seasonally To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

The addition of the Harvest Right Freeze Dryer has been a fun adventure here at the Holler Homestead so when John Davis reached out to do a show based on his experience with one, I thought it would be a great fit. Show Resources www.pauldavisautomation.com What's Up in the Garden Tromboncino Eggplant Resetting Sunshine Plot Herbs Tomatoes Peppers Fall garden seedlings need to get started this week! Main Show Content: Freeze Drying for Fun and Maybe...Profit? John Davis is a jack of all trades master of none that lives in rural Ohio along with his awesome wife and kids. He owns a manufacturer's representative business that sells industrial automation solutions throughout a five state region, and over the 14 years he has been in this business, he has built a solid foundation through his lifestyle business on which he can pursue his real passion, skill acquisition. Becoming a better husband and father, farming, flying airplanes, software engineering, electronic hardware design, hunting, being a "contingency enthusiast" (prepper), and furniture making are just a few things that keep him busy. He enjoys mentoring others in similar pursuits. What is freeze drying and what is a freeze dryer? How does the process work and why is it superior to other forms of food preservation? How is it not superior to other forms of food preservation? Can you freeze dry without buying an expensive machine? How has it changed our approach to pantry management? How do we use our freeze dried food? After two years of ownership, what is your "real world" experience with the machine? Tips and tricks? Is it possible to make money with the machine as a side hustle? Tips on buying a freezer drier for listeners Membership and Coffee Pitch 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 will talk about the witchiness of homesteading and why what seems so strange to some is simply living. Meat canning webinar Tales from the Prepper Pantry Freeze dried beets Freeze dried feta Canning beans is the next round of food preservation Chickens for sale Operation Independence Going dark Main topic of the Show: Which Witch is Which Imagine hundreds of years ago if one of your family members was truly ill and some lady who kept to herself mostly gave you some tea for the sick person -- and they got better. Or if you sprained your ankle and the swelling went down quickly. Add to that layers of superstition like which phase of the moon is best for planting, ceremonies involving burnt hair that reveal your true love's face, and that sort of thing. The final twist could be that the lone lady with that tea lives to be quite old and there we have it. A witch. Yesterday, a friend stopped by who I had not seen in a long time and he joked on the way in the door that I reminded him of country women he remembers as a kid growing up who seemed kind of like witches. He did not mean it in a bad way -- he was just pointing out that I live an alternative lifestyle to the norm. And it is true: If there is a natural or herbal remedy to something, I will try it first. If I have a bad headache, I go to bed. I have some odd world views: Natural cycles of the earth and solar system impact climate, weather and, ultimately growing cycles We evolved here, therefore remedies to our ills evolved with us Just because it cannot be proven scientifically does not prove it false Humans are energy and as such, ignoring energy as part of whole health is a mistake Some of these views make me witchy I suppose. In college, I used to make this brew of ginger root, bitter root, peppermint and hot peppers and honey every time I got a cold. Why? Because it helped. The bitter root soothed my throat, the ginger opened the capillaries in my sinuses, capsasis is an immune system boost, and the peppermint and honey make it drinkable -- not taste good -- drinkable. When I did this I just knew it helped, not the why. But over the years I have learned more about the why, down to peppermint helping with breathing and honey being an antibacterial agent. And even back then, people thought me crazy. They wondered why I did not simply pop a decongestant and go on with life? Moving to the homestead has brought my witchiness to a whole new level. I mean, here I am, living in what looks like isolation, growing a ton of herbs, wildcrafting other herbs, with a good collection of sharp knives around, hair down to my rear end, talking to animals and trees, and not a worry about current events. Well maybe that is not entirely true - I sometimes worry about current events. But life on the homestead is not exactly the picture they paint when they talk about the American Dream is it? It may be my American Dream, but it is a bit of a witchy one. After my friend pointed this out, I realized that he was right. I live a rather witchy life. If you look around right now, as in this week, at my homestead, here are some of the witchy things that happened: Drying herbs (Garlic, bundles of sage, etc) Varied nutritional regimes for the neighbors (Bone broth and ferments to cultivate gut health, fruit to reset the metabolism, goats milk to ease my dogs health issues) Mortar and pestle sitting out with a strange concoction (for bee stings as a matter of fact) Wild plants as tall as I growing near the house: goldenrod, echinacea, garlic, plantain, comfrey, bee balm, lemon balm, day lilies, roses, mint, parsley, and unfortunately perilla and burdock Everything is from scratch: We grind wheat when we need it, make stocks and broth by hand, age cheese, can pickled and other pickled treats, make mayonnaise, gravy by hand, cure bacon and other meats, hang biltong and get our winter veggies from jars (resulting in commercial food tasting bad) Mindset=build your own reality Smell of roses and the scent of things in general Smudging does happen when energy is off, as does meditation, seeking to tap into the spirit of the land around us, and connecting with the earth to heal. Yep, as I think about it, look at the browns of jars of dried herbs here for healing, get ready to age our first cheddar of this season, and watch people come through here with shared values, learning to take control of their personal outcomes no matter what happens --- I can see that homesteading looks pretty witchy to the outside world. But to me, it is something different. This lifestyle is not something to be feared or looked askance at - but rather an acknowledgement that nature is at the core of us all. And when we work with nature, we get better outcomes. Now sure, you may not be a person willing to get dirty and buggy on a homestead to tap into natural cycles. You may prefer your city condo - perhaps with a few pots of herbs. And that is fine. You do you as they like to say. And I don't even mind wh

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: One Step at a Time - Thought of the Walk Game Changing Dish Water Tip Of Toxic People and Sewing Scissors Assess for Success Ground Yourself To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Looking to buy land and move to your dream homestead? Hold your horses! Land is a long-term purchase and it is a good idea to think before you leap. Today we will talk about the most important things to consider before you spring for that plot of dirt. Holler Neighbor Livestream Thursday: 6:15/6:30 ish Stump the Sauce From Mark: Ideas for meals with meat that are easy to chew. Sandwich salad Sloppy joes on zoodles Stroganoff Sauerkraut n minced pork Shepherds pie Thick, creamy italian style soup Bisque with meat Curry What's Up In the Garden Tomato blight in system 1 but not in system 2 Tromboncino Squash is going nuts Egg plant looks stressed - might be that the pots are black so we are wrapping them in burlap The Great Reset in Sunshine Plot (Post Garlic Harvest) Garlic Harvest Main topic of the Show: #My3Things Before You Buy Land What is the homestead lifestyle you want to have? (Characteristics not the what) -- decision out of fear of agenda 30) Local zoning, codes, taxes, etc Sun, Water, Rainfall, Soil, Slope, Proximity to Services 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. 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

Today we talk about what it is like to live the homestead life in a year filled with personal challenges and problems. This is a follow up on "what homesteading is really like." Canning Meat, July 24: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2021/06/28/meat-canning-webinar-july-24-at-2pm Tales from the Prepper Pantry Freeze drying beets for future salads Spiralized zucchini Odds and ends month for the freezer Grocery Store Free Month Operation Independence Sad to report no Independence Day Pigs but she is very very close HR Affiliate Program Main topic of the Show: Homesteading in a Hard Year We had an open house and it was an eye-opening experience. My homestead once provided about 80% of my vegetable needs and 100% of my egg and chicken needs. I ate things in season as they became ripe. I preserved, dried and canned. My garden succession planting program was on point. Then troubles crept in. Ones of the financial type, the relationship type, and the health vibrancy type. Reality on a homestead is a far cry from the ambitious plans we have each spring when planting time comes. Even in the best of years, things will fail and the best approach seems to be fanatical variety. You always ask me what living on a homestead is like and I have to admit - it has been pretty rough these past few years at the Holler Homestead. The saving grace has been my wall of tomatoes and aquaponics system. For background: Transition has been in process here for several years. Transition from two people to one, transition from mostly off-site consulting work to building a coffee business, transition into the Holler Neighbor community. And there have been some family and personal health reminders. All these things take time and a homestead is a full time job. Many people manage the homestead demand with one person working and one person doing the homestead chores until enough business is generated from the land to enable the working partner to quit. Sometimes that never happens. The benefit of having a consulting lifestyle with the homestead was that I would be gone for a whole week working my butt off, then home for 2 to 3 weeks with a light enough schedule that I could catch up on things. But transitions are part of life, are they not? Here are a few looks at the real homestead: Dirt, mud, dust and hair (Shoes off story) Growing food in the ground takes time. Lots of time. Preserving food takes time, lots of time. Raising animals for meat takes less time. The pretty homestead with well-maintained, white fences. Old country houses But it is not all bad: So much quiet and peace Relationships with animals Stability Community of doers Membership Plug MeWe reminder Make it a great week! Song: 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

What happens when Joel Salatin hops on the podcast? We discuss entrepreneurship, scaling of regenerative practices, going rogue, failing commercial food, standing up to bullies, and so much more! RogueFoodConference.com Show Resources The Lunatic Farmer Website Polyface Farms Joel's Books & DVDs Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal Pastured Poultry Profit$ Main content of the show From Joel's Website: "Joel Salatin, 62, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. Those who don't like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate." Read More. Interview Membership and Coffee Pitch Make it a great week GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Coming Soon to LFTN Members! Don't Be a Chicken: A Guide to Processing Poultry Colors of Coffee: A Tasting Guide 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

It's beet season! Today I will run you through how to process beets pickled, sauce and pressure canned July Webinar: Canning Meat - July 24 at 2pm. Stump the Sauce Hey, I heard one of your latest podcast about the price of eggs at the store vs. the local farm and had a brain wave... If it's true that farm eggs are more nutritious then wouldn't it be good idea to market your eggs not in "$&¢", but in terms of "nutritional value" similar to purchasing regular gas and premium gas. The premium gas might "appear" more expensive (I.e. farm eggs) however...you get more mileage (nutrition) out your dollars spent. I think if the customer saw two boxes of eggs side-by-side but priced in $/nutrition ratio then they might be more likely to pick the farm raised variety? What's Up in the Garden Harvest time has arrived: squash, eggplant Inattention killed my green beans (And there is still time) Tomatoes are looking great Time to prep the fall garden - I am not kidding Main topic of the Show: Canning Beets Choosing produce The boil peel versus manually peeling Pickling Nicole Sauce's Sugarless Sour Beets Brine: 1/2 cup pickling or kosher salt 5.5 cups 5% vinegar 6 cups water Per quart jar spice mix (add to jar) 2 heads dill weed 2-4 cloves garlic 1-2 hot peppers (cayenne or jalapeno) 6 peppercorns 20/25 mins Aunt Helen's Beets Brine (make enough batched to cover beets) 1 qt vinegar (5% acidity) 6 c sugar 2 TBSP salt (plain, kosher, or pickling: may not be iodized) 2 tsp pickling spice Sauce Beet Ketchup See Janet on Mewe for the recipe! Pressure canning https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_04/beets.html Hot pack 30/35 Uses: Borscht, stews, side dish bake with carrots, garlic and chevre Membership Plug Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Over the weekend, we had all sorts of community happenings at the holler homestead and it got me to thinking about meeting in person and how important that it. I will share some of these thoughts as well as stories of our first ever open house on today's podcast. Feedback I want to thank you for your openness about your debt and perseverance regarding paying things off. In December/January you said something in a podcast that made me think how foolish I'd been the past five years with credit cards, car and motorcycle loans. After buckling done the past six months and accelerating pay downs, I'm paying off CC monthly now, paid off my car, and today made my last motorcycle payment. With all that's going on, I'm now free to focus on mortgage pay down, crypto, and savings. I'm still enjoying your coffee and will look on your site about becoming a member to show my appreciation. Tales from the Prepper Pantry Beets and pickles are done for 2021 Getting low on jars of all things (explain why) Weekly garden meal prep for easier living Freeze Dryer Access Project -- thoughts from listeners? Operation Independence Membership Portal Upgrades Slowly Rolling Out Main topic of the Show: Why Meet In Person? This past 18 months, meetings have increasingly been over computers and phones as folks have sought to avoid air travel and reduce exposure to the virus. As a result, kids know how to virtually attend school, adults who never could get their computers' webcams to work suddenly know zoom and toms meetings are held virtually. It has become a matter of preference in many cases to just avoid getting together in person and handle meetings over web conferencing systems. But is this the best way? How many of you have been to that awkward ZOOM birthday party or wedding? And how many have noticed an uptick in "weird" happenings where people kindo of lose their minds and hurt other people out and about in society? Continued isolation is making us crazy and it is no surprise. We are herd animals. We crave finding people we can relate to, we can be comfortable with. This is why those "loner libertarians" get so excited when they can throw a liberty fest -- like Porcfest in New hampshire each June. It is that feeling of well-being when you bother to get together in person. That is why when people want to come visit the Holler Homestead, I try very hard to make it work. And this year, those requests were up tenfold, so we decided to do a little test this weekend: What if we have an open house day here and just tell folks, here are the hours, stop by. No big agenda. No big personality speakers. Just come hang out and we will likely be doing homesteady stuff. Little did I know that there would be 68 chickens to process that day, derailing other demo concepts we had in mind. And yet people came -- about 20 of you in fact. Including a surprise visit from John and Amanda Willis who can now confirm that my little country road is very very rural. That's ok - it looked like their car could handle it. Things we learned and enjoyed... Someone will always show up an hour early - that's why we started at 10am Many hands make light work of chickens Next time, I will hire someone to do the food and beverage so that Jenni and I are not pulled away from guests There are fun people who bring fun things: Seeds to trade, John's Iced Tea, Angel and Kerry's finger foods A more set Demo Schedule will happen next time so people can time their visit -- it gets hot here in the summer and not everyone wants to bake in the sun for 5 hours But the biggest thing was thing: Y'all talked and talked and talked to each other. And then you talked some more. Even most of the introverts were just happy to be in person and talk about shared interests. But why is meeting in person so important? You build rapport and trust (Willis story) You can end up out of your space an on neutral ground (Barb Story) Words alone do not communications make. 55% nonverbal, 38% vocal, and 7% words only (Rabbit Processing Workshop) So if you know people who have self isolated for the past 18 months who are a little edgy when you talk to them -- remember this: They have not had one of the things that everyone needs - interaction. They have only had 45% communication with their peers when they do interact. And that means that the missing 55% takes you off balance. You start trying to build that into your narrative. You make up stuff in your head. So as you look at your summer and fall plans and start feeling that tiny bit of anxiety that can come when you try to decide -- Do I take a weekend and go to Rogue Food Conference at Polyface in August, or Green Chili Day in September, or to my high school reunion, think of it not in terms of what you wont get done that weekend, or how tired people make you sometimes. Think about how far trust can get you? When you meet a few people with whom you can relate, with shared interests. How great it can be to think- I remember meeting that one lawyer guy

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: !@#$%!! Gas Cans and Government Should There Be an I In Team? Three Newby Tips on the Harvest Right Freeze Dryer Homesteading as the New Normal Poverty Mindset and Fat Mindset To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. 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

Do you have your pressure canner sitting all shiny in your kitchen and are you afraid to use it? I will talk through how to pressure can corn on today's show and hopefully demystify some of the things that are making you wait. Holler Livestream Thursday -- we reached 1,000! Holler Homestead Open House is this Saturday A word on Interview show scheduling Update on health A word on social networks Stump the Sauce What to do about weeds New Member Videos! Pantry Management with Nicole Sauce Introduction to Canning Cybersecurity with Andy Higginbotham Pressure Canning Green Beans Four Methods to Start Your Spring Garden in 2020 Main topic of the Show: Pressure Canning Corn Pressure Canning Safety Food before Botulism Blowing Up The Canner Glass Topped Stoves Hot Water The Process of Corn Packing Headspace Lids and Rings (Cleaning) How most stovetop canners work The vinegar hack Hot pack vs raw pack Processing time 55/85, 1 inch… (Find your altitude) Cooling and storage The Oh Shit List Pressure is getting too high Pressure fell below where I need it to be A jar broke One of my lids did not seal 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. 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

Today, I want to share with you my biggest lesson of the Pandemic and its aftermath as viewed through the perspective of a special friend. Holler Homestead Open House and Canning Demo Last Week's Webinar Video is up on the Member Portal Tales from the Prepper Pantry Failing on meal planning and staying on whole foods: Hard boiled eggs, cheese, celery sticks, bacon and eggs, Mahi, green beans and summer squash, roasted new potatoes, red veined sorrel, pesto on something with green garlic and fresh basil. Cold cuts and cured meats for road food. Freeze Drying Cheesecake (#allthethings) Sun Tea Cucumbers and beets are coming on and it is time to put up quick pickles Operation Independence Focus on health Main topic of the Show: Best Lesson From The 2020 Pandemic This show was supposed to be on Friday last week. But my health got in the way. And yet this may be the most important show topic of 2021. This show is in part about the biggest lesson to be learned from the 2020 pandemic, how officials and our societies reacted to it, and maybe even a little about why what some of us THINK is the biggest lesson learned should be reexamined if it is not this lesson. But more important about today is what got me to thinking of this lesson. It was a friend, fellow farmer/homesteader. A guy by the name of Steve who works really really hard to live life on his terms. Steve is not a young man, and he has even had an organ transplant. His ticker ain't what it used to be either. Steve is the kind of guy who meets lots of people and he somehow manages to bring out the best, to encourage them to just get started on doing what they say they want to do. The longer you talk to Steve, the more you realize how incredible his life has been and the sheer number of things this man has done - and he has done them well. And the best part? He is not a loudmouth like me -- he observes and is sort of quiet. But when he talks, people listen. And when he hears I cant from someone, he asks why. You may wonder what in the world Steve has to do with my pandemic lesson? Well that is the thing. If I ask most people around me what their biggest lesson learned I will get one of the following lessons: Supply Chains Are Unstable (centralization vs decentralization) The Media Controls the Narrative More Than We Thought People Are Anti Science People Do Not Understand How Science Works People Are Selfish And We Must Control Those Jerks Big Tech, Big, Ag, Big Government, New World Order, Growth in Freedom Networks And while all those things may be lessons you can take from the pandemic, which one is the biggest? I must admit, I have spun like a pinball from idea to idea dn lesson to lesson over the past year and a half -- and YES -- we have been doing this for a freaking year and a half now my friends. A year and a half you will never get back. And last week, I started thinking about what you and I and others are never getting back (depending on how far we took things): A year and a half of: Seeing faces Hugs Being together in groups Flying Going to work Income Birthday parties Hand shakes Building rapport Trust New relationships Stability and community People have lost so much: Homes Loved ones Businesses Jobs Confidence Joy All for what? An illness with between a 99%-and 99.5% survival rate according to the sources that so many have come to distrust. I pulled that from the CDC in case you are wondering. Compare it to the flu: 99.5% survival rate. Now we all know that older people have increased risk and I am not discounting that. But look at what we have given up? The hugs, seeing grandma and grandpa, crying over zoom. Guys, we are herd animals. We need each other to be whole. Without community - even if we like being solitary -- without community we suffer. When we suffer, our health goes down hill. There were times in the last 18 months when people were drawing their last breath all alone in a room in a hospital, not allowed to have their children with them, holding their hands. For fear of spreading the disease, even if they were not dying from covid. Which begs the question did that even make sense? Enter Steve. Steve is the kind of guy in an age bracket of the highest risk, with a compromised immune system. Know what Steve gave up for the pandemic? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Steve was in the hospital with surgery complications last fall for about two months. A week or two after he got out, he was at an event in Texas hugging his friends sharing his knowledge, selling his rabbit cages (and the man makes AMAZING rabbit cages), and having a grand time. There was not a mask to be seen at this event. Know what Steve said about that? He said, I'd rather live the days I have left than hide from the virus. Steve knew his risks. And he knew the consequences of getting ill with Covid. And he knew the bigger risk was not living for 18 months of the time he had left. So Steve lived life and mentored the people he came across. And therein is the lesson: The bi

Today is for new and aspiring homesteaders. There are five things I wish I had known before I jumped and we discuss them today. Tomorrow: Canning Webinar, Relocation Roundtable, and Holler Homestead Open House Stump the Sauce Too Many Tomatoes Main topic of the Show: 5 Pieces of Advice for New Homesteaders It will cost more than you think Income Generation and Replacement Paperwork Right vs Legal Messes 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. 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

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: Eating to Thrive or to Survive? Better Reward Systems Eat That Frog! To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

I was going to talk through some things I love about the Harvest Right Freeze Dryer but then I got to talking about food with Tactical this morning. Specifically foods that are very good for you that we sometimes forget to eat. Today, I will share five that come to mind. But first Schedule next week Relocation Roundtable and Water Bath Canning Webinars 2 Seats left for the Chicken Workshop! What's Up in the Garden Uncle Seed saving: Broccoli, cilantro, peas, lettuce Tomatoes look GREAT Putting out peppers and sweet potatoes now Main content of the show: 5 Nutritious Things We Forget About Fruits in season Bone Broth Hard Boiled Eggs Water Ferments Membership and Coffee Pitch 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 will discuss what really matters in the new world order, the great reset, and many other "conspiracies" that are turning out to be based in truth. Canning Demo June 17 at 12pm Central: Waterbath Canning Relocation Roundtable: June 17 at 7pm Central Email feedback to [email protected] Tales from the Prepper Pantry Successful Travel Food Harvest Right has an affiliate program! https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1095.html Learning to store freeze dried foods - advice from Amanda Willis Holler Neighbor Crockpot meals are paying off Operation Independence Rogue Food Summary Main topic of the Show: What Really Matters? What really matters to people? What do we truly care about. If you take this question from a survival standpoint: we need water, oxygen and food to survive. The next layer is shelter and health, family and relationships. Then community, comfort, mental challenges, spiritual pursuits. Creative endeavors. As we are able to cover our basic survival needs, we gain something very important: time. And time is the thing that we can use to become stronger and better. To keep our world beautiful. To create widespread security for ourselves and those around us. Why then are our most basic needs -- those things that we require to survive -- why are they outsourced to a faceless bureaucracy? Have you ever taken a deep look into situations where genocide is inflicted on a people? Where one set of humans decide that it is ok to torture, murder and cause widespread suffering to another set of humans? Have you ever seen what happens right before the boiling point is reached? Usually you will find that the basic survival needs are controlled by a select, powerful few. You will find that there is widespread shortages and that suffering has occurred. That parents cannot feed their children or themselves. And how do we get to this point? We live on a prosperous plant full of oxygen, with lots of water, and able to produce food in the most harsh of environments. As humans have developed, we have figured out how to cover our basic survival needs and we have created time. Time for spiritual pursuits. As humans have developed, we have put our minds to tough problems like how to get more food from less and less land to keep more and more of us alive. And some have developed systems. Systems that provide "food security"' and other such promises for all who participate. And from this, they have realized that people who are unable to provide for their own basic needs, who have forgotten how nature works, who are set up with unrealistic expectations for what they "need" to survive. These people will do almost anything to keep getting what they need. They will work endlessly. They will murder their peers. They will look the other way as the earth is harmed. They will give up their freedom of motion, of thought. They will beat the other humans into compliance. As dependency increases, so does control. And who is in control? To which I ask - why do you care about that?Have you ever stopped to think about how fragile our centralized food system in this country is? We have systems set up to provide more and more food from fewer and fewer sources. The policies here are developed to protect those few sourced from competition from many distributed ones. Have you ever stopped worrying about the med in "big food" sitting in back rooms selling off our health to save a few pennies on production and looked beyond the who and why to focus on what it means? Our centralized food systems create two things: 1) Immense amounts of food for everyone to eat. 2) One of the most obvious targets to control our population. Take down the few places and ways that food is produced and distributed and guess what? Grocery stores are empty in about 48 hours. And most of the population has no idea how to get food without going into a store, taking things off the shelf, and bringing them home. I don't know about you, but I find that alarming. Do you? Do you know how to get food if it isn't on the shelves in the store? You see, all the time and power that we waste on figuring out how to take Monsanto down, or tear apart Walmart---to hold those men in the back rooms of food factories accountable for making us sick. All the time we spend reading up on the dawn of big ag and pharmaceuticals. That is time you will never get back. It is really only useful as a tool to assess the world you live in. And the time you spend in outrage about it is wasted. Or in the words of my frond Jack Spirko -- it doesn't matter why, it matters that. Now, if one of your creative pursuits is digging into history and research on such things -- by all means - enjoy! But if you want to live in a world where your most basic need is covered -- the need to find nourishment for yourself, your family and your community. Stop focusing on the assholes who got us here and start participating on developing a stable alternative to centralized food. Being part of a solution

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: What Successful People Do Is the Harvest Right Freeze Dryer Worth It? The Kids Are Not OK To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Today, I share with you five things about raising meat rabbits that I have learned after having them for only two weeks. Chicken Processing Workshop - Two Seats Left! What's up in garden Main Topic: 5 things about raising rabbits Turns grass and vegetation into meat with very little additional time or effort Mineral lick hack Tractor versus cage Gender challenge Handling and cute factor Wish list: Tractoring system, watering system, cooling/shade set up, rabbit fodder seed blend. Membership and Coffee Pitch 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

The last two weeks have brought big, sad, life-changing things to many in our network. Today, I will talk through some things you can do for your friends and family when there really is nothing you can do to help. Schedule this week (Rogue Food)Chicken Processing Workshop June 14Holler Homestead Open House June 26, 10am-3pm Tales from the Prepper Pantry First Freeze Dryer Lessons: Location, Hot Pump!, Rehydrating, Oil Filtration, Is It Worth the Money? Lettuce has been hanging on Found a last round of things to restock for the rest of the year (old habits die hard) Canning kitchen is almost all set up Featured Forage: Hemlock Operation Independence: $5/bag hiking strawberries Solar Water Heater Update Main topic of the Show: What to Do When There Is Nothing You Can Do #reach out (trite/stilted...dont read into a non response. Send a card or little gift) #avoid discounting the pain or being that person who says turn that frown upside down. It is ok to be sad #avoid sharing your similar sad story or anyone elses (two things, two friends...same day) #Use your unique superpower to make their life a bit easier: (meal prep, childcare, offers of driving places, network, whatever it is) #check in a few days later... ask do you want, not do you need. #check in week/weeks/months later. They may not reach out to you. Life brings hard situations and we can help our friends and family by listening. Asking questions, sharing photos and good stories...and using our superpowers. What we cant do is wave a magic wand, bring someone back to life, or fix a relationship. Membership Plug MeWe reminder Make it a great week! Song: Grandpa's Song by Sauce GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday. Today's Thoughts Include: Resetting Airborne Viruses Hoarding Perception Look a Gift Horse in The Mouth To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee

I have had a bunch of emails come in in the last 2 weeks and rather than answer them in writing, I thought it would be fun to answer them in a listener variety show. Here is what we will cover today: Suggestion from Christopher that I do a podcast on how to start a home roasting business Website and other recommendations requested from Melissa Do you do tours of your homestead from Betsy Getting started on a homestead when you know little about permaculture from Jim How to get started with wild edible plants from Billy What's Up in the Garden Wall of Tomatoes Dill Germinated Beans are up Strawberries ripening each day -- anti chicken defense system Need to replace lettuce with basil Wishing for automated watering Main topic of the Show: Listener Variety Show Suggestion from Christopher that I do a podcast on how to start a home roasting business Add your thoughts on the mewe post about this topic Website and other recommendations requested from Melissa Buddy Press Untimate Membership Pro Coinpayments Do you do tours of your homestead from Betsy June Open House To Be Announced Next Week Getting started on a homestead when you know little about permaculture from Jim Kerry Brown Strong Roots Resources Nick Ferguson Home Grown Liberty How to get started with wild edible plants from Billy Stalking the Wild Asparagus 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

Patrick Roehrman of MTKnives joins me today to talk about creating your best life. We recorded this right after the LFTN Spring Workshop. Thought of the Walk Series Email feedback to [email protected] Resources MtKnives.Net 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) The story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentilla_recta#Medical_research Antibacterial, anti inflammatory and used as a tonic 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 Interview 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. 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