Episode 630: Homestead Happenings for Oct 7, 2022

Oct 7, 2022

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Today’s homestead update covers two weeks since we were at the Self Reliance Festival last weekend and not around to livestream on Friday. Fall is really taking hold here, we have stayed unusually dry so do not have much grass, will be processing sheep next week, and more.

Forage

80 + chestnuts from one tree
Watercress looks sad
Last round today for any sensitive herbs like mint
New mullein plants are popping up
Timothy is starting to finally grow
Too dry for oysters, alas!

Livestock

No baby sheep yet
Need a livestock trailer to move 5 sheep to slaughter on Oct 11-12 (Barn splitting project)
Ducks are laying in the yard and going back in jail
Muscovies and Khakis have intermingled
8 sheep, 16 acres, 3 months – and not enough rain to regrow enough to go back over it
Pigs will be leaving - hard decision because we got SO MUCH meat - at about $2.35 direct cost (Not including labor)
LGD update - Max doesn't respect the fence - but now he does again
Feeding dogs dogfood without feeding sheep dogfood (Thanks Steve)

Grow

Tromboncino as long as T’s leg (and how we grew it)
Harvesting timothy seed heads to save on seed money
Have not set up indoor lettuce yet
Ripping out the whole garden
Cauliflower update

Holler Neighbors/Community

We left and no one died - thanks to the network housesitter, Steve and Tracy, KH, and the other Tracy who kennels dogs for us
Had a delightful dinner at the Eversoles - will start one here next week (This week got nuked by surgery)
SRF was a screaming success thanks to many hands pitching in

Infrastructure

Decommissioning the solar water heater and cleaning chimneys
AP heat
Burying the water line for the gravity fed water project at the coming Food Forest Workshop
Need to move the bees

Finances

Sheep meat for sale (3 in halves or full size - deposit at (LivingFreeinTennessee.com)

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