Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Every Friday, we record our Homestead Happenings update, followed by a questions and answers session. Today’s podcast is the questions and answers session from yesterday’s podcast. We cover: Geothermal cooling, sheep and dogfood, kratky hydroponics, growing sweet potatoes in the Aquaponics system, repairing a foundation, and more.\ Main content of the show Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube. https://youtu.be/4OFWDJ19Gro 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’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 $2.35 direct cost (Not including labor) LGD update - Max doesn't respect the fence - but now he does again Feeding dogs dogfood without feeding sheep dogfood (Thanks Steve) Grow Tromboncino as long as T’s leg (and how we grew it) Harvesting timothy seed heads to save on seed money Have not set up indoor lettuce yet Ripping out the whole garden Cauliflower update Holler Neighbors/Community We left and no one died - thanks to the network housesitter, Steve and Tracy, KH, and the other Tracy who kennels dogs for us Had a delightful dinner at the Eversoles - will start one here next week (This week got nuked by surgery) SRF was a screaming success thanks to many hands pitching in Infrastructure Decommissioning the solar water heater and cleaning chimneys AP heat Burying the water line for the gravity fed water project at the coming Food Forest Workshop Need to move the bees Finances Sheep meat for sale (3 in halves or full size - deposit at (LivingFreeinTennessee.com) Membership Plug Make it a great week! GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today we talk about the Self Reliance Festival, poverty mindset, creating success, Ukraine, natural disasters and more with Jack Spirko and John Willis. Show Resources Special Operations Equipment Living Free in Tennessee The Survival Podcast Main content of the show Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube. First Tuesday Coffee Chat with Nicole, John & Jack 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 have an interview show with Robert Ralston - a man who has approached prepping with a family member with special needs. It changes the equation. Show Resources https://www.prepper-presentations.com/ Main content of the show My Wife and I are in our mid 50's and have been prepping for about six years. We have a 20 year old non verbal autistic child.  I work for the family plumbing business in the warehouse where I build prepper items to sell and inspire others in the wood shop.   Are you worried about people coming to your house after a long term disruption of the power grid or the internet banking grid? Do good and bad people have the resources to come to your house ? What are the five stages of prepper denial ? What positive outcome can prepping bring about? What should parents of special needs children be doing to prepare for local and global events? Should these parents get into gardening? What is at risk to work on your possible immaturity when it comes to your mind, body, spirit and bank account? How can unemotional critical thinking in preparing improve your mind, body, spirit and bank account?   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 take a bit of a dive into finding like-minded people should mean, if it is a good idea, and how to make community work. Livestream Schedule: Joel Ryals Live Tuesday at 2pm on my YT No Wednesday Live this week SRF Final Q & A Session Thursday at 7pm. SRF YT Hogget Tales from the Prepper Pantry FD Food is great for travel Tomato wall is disconnected and we are letting tomatoes ripen on the vines Auditing Pantry for On Site Food for SRF Staff Weekly Shopping Report from Joe We made this week's trip on Sunday, with three stops. Traffic seemed a little heavy, but it must have been church traffic, because the store parking lots seemed relatively empty. The first stop was Dollar Tree. Ginny on Homestead Corner said her Dollar Tree (somewhere in Maine) was running out of things, and holes were being masked by plastic items spread out on shelves, but I did not see that in ours. The Health aisle has still not been restocked, but everything else looks pretty full. Next was Home Depot. A 2x4x8 remains at $3.98. The battery carrels at checkout are only 1/3 full, but I noticed some additional islands with batteries. They may be switching things around, as the carrels are mostly Duracell and Ray-o-Vac, but the islands are Ever-ready (Energizer). The store is otherwise well-stocked. While getting some 3-in-1 oil, I found a 26" RainX wiper blade there for only $11, so snatched that up. If you need wiper blades, they don't have a lot of them, but if your Home Depot has your size, that's an excellent price. Aldi was last. I don't recall any notable price changes, but there seemed a lot less variety in the chips and snacks area. Produce looked good, the meat area had decent stock, and we found a couple of frozen turkey breasts which we had not seen there for a while. At $11 each, I'm glad we'll get at least a few meals from each one. At my last fill, untainted regular was still $4.199/gallon.  Frugality Tip The new freezer probes for $70 https://shop.yosmart.com/products/speakerhub-two-temperature-humidity-sensors Operation Independence SRF Might make a profit this time! 125% focused on the event. (Also tickets go up Wed after 12pm) Today’s Sponsor: Paul Wheaton of Wheaton Labs and Permies.com Paul Wheaton wants to show you how to build a shed quickly, out of materials right off your own land. The coolest part? Nobody will even know it's there... Check out The Berm Shed Movie at https://permies.com/w/berm-shed?f=495 Main topic of the Show:  On Like-Mindedness Back to the Land and Like-Minded People What do we mean when we say like minded? What should we mean when we say like minded? Thoughts about critical thinking skills Trust the Science and asking questions Creating communities of like-minded people Don’t sweat the small stuff Assessing if something is a CRITICAL difference or a small difference None of my business Landing: Like mindedness is very important if we break things down to core values, but our human tendency is to equate strong opinions on a variety of things with core values. However, when we reach further, we often find that the BIG differences of opinion that we have are other people’s talking points, or things grounded in the HOW not the WHY or the WHAT.  We can do better and focus on real goals that make a real difference when we learn to look beyond the spin and work together on core outcomes. Membership Plug MeWe reminder Make it a great week! Song: GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.  Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/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

Today is a Sunday so we have an interview show and today’s guest is someone I have wanted to chat with for a long time: Survival Punk! His is a story of setting personal priorities early on in life and sticking to them - something I did NOT do!    Show Resources www.survivalpunk.com YouTube/survivalpunk   Main content of the show James takes a rational, creative approach to self-reliance, applying a punk DIY ethic to survivalism without any of the fear mongering or “tinfoil hattery” found in some other areas of the survivalist movement.   Why live in a tiny house Who should live in one How can you be a survivalist in one? How can you live in a tiny house with a family How can you afford one? Problems with tiny houses   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

Every Friday, we record our Homestead Happenings update, followed by a questions and answers session. Today’s podcast is the questions and answers session from yesterday’s podcast. We cover: disappearing sheep, the light at the end of the fencing tunnel, why you will lose livestock if you do not check in every day, and the transition to fall. Main content of the show Replay of Friday’s Homestead Happenings from YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO6dKzDqT_o Make it a great week! GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.  Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today we talk about disappearing sheep, the light at the end of the fencing tunnel, why you will lose livestock if you do not check in every day, and the transition to fall. Forage Jerusalem artichoke Persimmons Watercress Mint Livestock Duck Story Sheep Story Shoring up rodent proofness of the coop Rabbit is due if she is pregnant Final “clearing evolution” with Sheep Grow Winding garden down and not doing a fall garden Ramping up indoor lettuce right after SRF Green beans are poppin with watering and late season peppers Pulling out the tomato wall after srf Holler Neighbors/Community Showing Eversoles how to do animals Proposing a weekly Holler Neighbor Dinner after SRF SRF! Infrastructure Can finally see how to set up sheep fencing better Winter shelter strategies initiated Finances Let’s just say, we don’t buy meat: Chicken Tacos from the pterodactyl Membership Plug Make it a great week! GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Join us as we talk to a revolving set of folks who will be coming to Self Reliance Festival in a week and a half! Ask us anything. Billy Bond, Ken Eash, Stephen Boone, Brian Norton. Show Resources Special Operations Equipment Living Free in Tennessee Perma Pastures Farm Main content of the show Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXi3b79U5eo Make it a great week! GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.  Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today, we talk about working against nature and ask an important question: why? Today’s Sponsor: Paul Wheaton of Wheaton Labs and Permies.com Paul Wheaton over at Wheaton Labs just released 16 hours of footage from his Rocket Mass Heater Jamboree innovators event. Using very little fuel, and producing next to no smoke, the folks down at the lab created a rocket sauna, cooktop, dehydrator, kiln, and a bunch of heater options for smaller spaces, and full-size homes.  Check it out here: https://permies.com/wiki/188928f495/Earth-Friendly-Heat-Full-Event This Week’s Livestream Schedule Wednesday at 12:30pm - Live with John Willis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g Thursday at 7pm: Self Reliance Festival live Q and A: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-LthzEw9jFH_tKPhZLs_5Q Friday at 9:30AM CT: Homestead Happeningshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g Headed to Back to the Land Festival this weekend: Backtothelandfestival.com Tales From The Prepper Pantry Precooking for SRF & the Food Forest Event - Lots of MEAT Transitioning out of the canning kitchen and back to winter drying and freeze drying Assessing if there is enough tomato crop to do one more round of salsa Frugality Tip From Margo First tip when traveling, is bring your snacks and road food, sandwiches or whatever you eat.  This will save a lot of money on the road. I use re-usable ziploc bags to pack food up and I bring a half of a sponge and a small bottle of dish soap on the road to make sure I will be able to wash them no matter where we stay. We keep a cooler in the car, I pre-freeze filtered water in 1 liter club soda bottles and use them in the cooler.  All of the places we stayed have a refrigerator with freezer and the water bottles get re-frozen to use in the cooler, and we had filtered water as a back up if we needed to drink it. For two nights I had rented an air bnb way outside of any town (even further out than the holler) lol.  Once we got there the first night, we were not driving back 30 min to a store and then trying to find this place in the dark.  I had packed some shelf stable foods that I did not need any tools to open, just in case.  And I was able to make us dinner, saving time and money that night.  Shopping Report for 9/18/2022 We made five stops on our typical Saturday shopping trip. Traffic was light, and I only saw a few face-diapers. First stop was Dollar Tree. The store has a lot of inventory, but is beginning to look a little unkempt. The food aisles have a lot of viable stuff, but the health aisle has a lot of unusual things in place of some more typical items, that have not been restocked in some time. The drink coolers seem to have a better selection. Next was a Mexican store for a few specialty items like a vanilla flavoring and a few plantains. I've never seen their shelves not full. I've not done any real price comparison, but they have quite the variety. I've also never seen any kind of unpleasantness in there like arguing or rudeness. Hobby Lobby was next. Stock levels seemed good, with a lot of Fall junk in there now, but I did see a couple of empty islands; probably just re-organizing. Home Depot was #4. The price of a 2x4x8 has dropped again, to $3.98. We grabbed some Miracle Gro for next year; they had plenty of it. They also had a lot more sunflower seeds for birds than the last time we were there. They're more expensive, but there were at least three sizes, in big boxes. The quantities of common battery sizes like AA and AAA continue to drop. I'm glad I've switched to mostly rechargeable, but I'm going to order a few more. They have a LOT of solar lights in stock, much nicer than the cheap dollar store versions that are dim and barely make it through a season. They might be $6.xx, and I'm pretty sure they were at least twice if not three times that price earlier in the year. These make good guide lights; leave them outside during the day to charge, and bring them in at night. Aldi was last. I don't recall any notable changes from last week, in fact if anything, they were a little better stocked than they have been (this Aldi has never been bad). I even saw some frozen turkey breast, which has long been absent. They had plenty of flour, sugar, TP, and other staple items. At my last fill on Friday, untainted regular gasoline was still $4.199/gallon. Operation Independence Business Trips Main topic of today’s show: Why Fight Nature? This morning while driving at 3:30am, I got to thinking about circadian rhythms. You see, with a very early flight ahead of me, I had to get up at 3 to be to the airport in time to depart. It is always an interesting thing to rise much earlier than usual - not the end of the world, but for me it leads to several days of recovery. Naturally, the next thought was Daylight Savings time as we are about to go back to normal time in a little while. Did you know that during the transition into and out of DST, there is a measurable increase in heart attacks and car crashes? This is because we are ripping our bodies out of their established circadian rhythm - going against nature if you will.  As I Look around, we are not very successful when we go against nature.  7 layers of a forest in Permaculture Training dogs Raising children Why then, do we think it is a good idea to :darken” the earth to fight climate change? How does trying to force the atmosphere into submission have a hope of being successful? Have we learned nothing? This fight against nature is something that technology-minded leaders come back to over and over. When we do it on a large scale, there are very real, negative impacts. Mao and the sparrows  So WHY go against nature in the environment, or in interactions with people around you. Would it not be better to seek to understand the realities of nature and go with those to impact better outcomes? Which brings me to politics: A big problem in how governments and policy works is that it often goes against human nature. >Humans rebel against being told what to do >Humans will act selfishly (and that is not a bad thing) >Humans are herd animals and flourish in communities (Like real ones) >And, yes, humans are violent - we are - our nature is not al poetry and roses How then would it look if we worked with nature in governing ourselves? >Rather than issue black and white edicts for great area “problems”, we would find ways to incentivize positive outcomes (Tapping into selfish, tapping into the herd mentality)  >>Point out that herd instincts make many of us get a selfish rush from helping our communities. >Set up our culture and educational effort to empower people to find their purpose so that there are more people pouring energy into that and fewer people focused on being dicks >Accept that there are a percentage of humans who are psychopaths and create system where they are disincentivized  to harm.  Accept that there is no perfect. With this mindset, working with nature, what else can we solve? What about environmental concerns? >Leaving the forest alone vs stewarding the forest (We are part of nature, therefore we are part of forests. We evolved together) >Discovering parts of nature that can help us: Ivermectin as an anti parasitic.  Some kid turned algae into some sort of plastic…? Which makes me want to start asking more what if questions. Let’s talk about Chlorophyl. And batteries. What if we figured out how to tap into the energy created in turning the sun into green stuff? What is all the plant around us ARE batteries? I mean in some ways, burning firewood for heat is in fact tapping into an energy store in plants. But what if there is a low-impact, chemical way to harness the forest around us? What would that do to our dependence on fossil fuels? And how would the world change with such a discovery?  Think about it: our dollar is based on petroleum. In some ways, tapping into that energy store is tapping into nature - but is there a better way? Guys, I know this idea sounds crazy and sci fi. But if you think about it - there must be many discoveries of this scale to be made. But we miss them if we focus on how to control nature rather than to work with it. Which brings us full circle: working with nature is the whole foundation of permaculture as a design science. So much effort is put into mono cropping in the form of heavy equipment, and fighting pest pressure, and fungi, and so much more. The earth is poisoned in the interest of fighting the natural way things grow — in plant communities - almost as if diversity is part of nature’s plans. And we accept the notion that we can only feed the world if we abuse the soil and interfere with nature. Yet is that really true? How come no one is challenging that notion? What would happen if we worked with nature to steward diversity of plants and animals, based on what is suited to different regions. And how should we measure success on such an undertaking? By pure number of calories produced, or by the quality of food outputs paired with building healthier soil? We have been programmed to see things that are grey in black and white terms. While this simplification of the world can make it easier to get things organized and rally people around projects and causes, it comes at a cost. And a very damaging one at that: We have developed some pretty big blinders. Why not find a way to see beyond them? Why not work with nature in our homestead designs, business set up, political efforts, environmental projects, cutting edge research, and, yes, in commercial food production? Why fight nature? 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