Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Food waste is a major issue in many households and just because you live on a homestead does not mean you magically end up in a place where food waste is no longer a problem. So today in my second in the series of handling waste on the homestead, we will discuss food waste strategies. #HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with? No podcast Monday due to the processing workshop. Stump the Sauce Dori - What about dessicants? What’s Up in the Garden Fall flowers are in -- time to add fall bulbs Unearthing the sweet potatoes and cushaw needs to happen Ive dropped the ball on lettuce already - may buy plants Episode 347 - Handling Food Waste on the Homestead Use It All (Covid shutdowns, Holler Stew, Processing and Preservation) Compost (Meat and bones too) Chickens & Ducks The PIG Wild Animals 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.  Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up LFTN Gift Registry Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce  

A few people have reached out to ask for help on crowdfunding projects and so I thought today would be a great time to talk about why Kickstart Holler Roast has not so well, so quickly. Some of the things that came into place for this project look intention and were not and I think we can all learn from this about not only crowdfunding things, but marketing ourselves and our businesses. Reach out if you want one of the 2 open chicken seats. Green Chili Weekend Registration KickstartHollerRoast.com Tales from the Prepper Pantry Very tardy on the fall stock up order Mama Sauce has helped process so many veggies that we may make this an annual event Working through freezer meat at a much faster clip of late Still in a “put it up” phase but about to enter into a “use it up” phase Holler Stew this week Featured Forage: Rosemary - https://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/r/rosema17.html Herbal Uses:  Tonic, astringent, diaphoretic, stimulant. Oil of Rosemary has the carminative properties of other volatile oils and is an excellent stomachic and nervine, curing many cases of headache. Historical uses Hairwash Reverse nerve damage and regain feeling in limbs. It was prepared by putting 1 1/2 lb. of fresh Rosemary tops in full flower into 1 gallon of spirits of wine, this was allowed to stand for four days and then distilled. Hungary water Headache, colds, colic, tummy complaints It is antibacterial Culinary: Tastes good in almost anything, really. Rosemary cheesecake? Yes please. Rosemary, garlic and lamb? Yum, Mixed with sage in a chestnut dressing, absolutely. Its strong flavor will replace the more subtle ones so if you have rosemary, lemon cod, you are tasting more the spices than the fish. Rosemary ice cream is very tasty. Garlic rosemary bread. Growing it: recommended to grow it along a wall in a sheltered spot -- and I have killed about 1900 of these plants since living in TN Operation Independence Today's show is all about this Main topic of the Show: Episode 346 - Why My Crowdfunding Project Is Working Some folks have reached out not only to congratulate me on the successful crowdfunding campaign, but to ask which plugin we used, and how they could set a foundation for similar success. Lessons Learned   You Own Your Message Anticipation Provide Value Don’t Be Afraid To Ask (The Pep Talk) Beta Launch Communicate Dig Your Well Before You Are Thirsty TEAM - (brainstorm, graphical design, web development, additional gifts)   Have Stretch Goals that fit with the project. In the end, if you have a great idea and the right message and a solid offering for a crowdfunding project, you have a good foundation. But as with all our small business efforts, if you have not developed your strategy for marketing and communicating about the project, it is a much tougher, uphill row to hoe. So I guess it boil down to network, communication, and value in the end. Make it a great week! Song: Burned 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 Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja   Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee  

It was supposed to be a thought of the walk episode, but I am too stunned to thing straight. So today, we talk through why! KickstartHollerRoast.com is now live if you are interested in supporting the crowdfunding campaign. 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! Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce

Today, begins a series of talks about how to handle waste on the homestead, starting with the easiest waste to work with: Livestock waste. #HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with? Holler Neighbor Livestream, 7pm Tomorrow: https://youtu.be/KYbcFJ_ypsw Unloose the Goose: 7:30pm today: https://unloosethegoose.com/livestream Stump the Sauce None Tales from the Booze Whisperette Whisky Ginger Drinks for the Non-Whisky Lovers What’s Up in the Garden Resetting everything Preparing Garlic Bed Preparing Spring Planting Beds Hail Mary Seeds Handling Waste on the Homestead Homesteading gives you the opportunity to greatly reduce the waste impact off your property for a number of reason: Land absorbs and processes waste naturally - when you are not crammed in densely, you can build waste systems that not only help process waste, but use it in a way that becomes a natural cycle rather than a smelly landfill The more you produce onsite, then less waste is created through packaging, etc Genuine Environmentalism vs Political Action Environmentalism Concept 1: Animal Waste Humanur vs septic vs catholes Poultry Waste Rabbit Waste Goat Waste Pig Waste A word on Density Waste is a part of living and something that becomes politically charged when it need not be. Most sane people would prefer to live in a word that functions with natural cycles and how we handle our waste is part of that. Packaging can easily be used in a way that reduces environmental impact, so we need not go on a big packaging crusade, but rather can look around at what we and our families do for waste and be our best stewards. That is how you get lasting change. Person by person and voluntarily. As I think through this series, I get excited. There are so many examples of people turning what was once garbage into both a new resource AND a wealthy lifestyle. I look forward to sharing these with you. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.  Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up LFTN Gift Registry Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce

Today we have an interview show with a very sassy homesteader who also knows a thing or two about homesteading with both her boys taking college courses this year. None other than Amy Dingmann. We will talk about homeschool from a getting started perspective today. Kickstart HollerRoast.com update The Isaac Morehouse Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/isaacmorehouse/i-escaped-the-libertarian-movement-nicole-sauce-on-living-free-in-tennessee Website: https://isaacmorehouse.com/podcast/ Show Resources Homesteading website: https://afarmishkindoflife.com Homeschooling Website: https://thehmmmschoolingmom.com Homeschool Life Coaching Information: https://thehmmmschoolingmom.com/homeschool-life-coaching/ The Homeschool Highway: How to Navigate Your Way Without Getting Carsick on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Homeschool-Highway-Navigate-Without-Getting-ebook/dp/B00AAJNL3E Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Homeschool-Highway-Navigate-Without-Getting/dp/1481142305/ Main content of the show Who is Amy Dingmann? You might know Amy Dingmann from her Farmish Kind of Life podcast (and website of the same name) but she’s also a mom of two sons that she homeschooled until college. She runs the website The Hmmmschooling Mom, and has recently started a homeschool life coaching business where she helps potential, new, and experienced homeschool parents through the ups and downs of the homeschooling journey. Make it a great week GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.  Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce Holler Roast Coffee  

Today is usually a how-to day, but I got up to lots of reactions to censorship this morning and wanted to have a fireside chat with yall about censorship. Personality after personality is being deplatformed and we need to talk about that.  #HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and what is she getting ready for?? Stump the Sauce A canning question from Mark abour alternative jars https://www.bormiolirocco.com/en/product/673/bottle-6-3-4-oz-with-lid-quattro-stagioni What’s Up in the Garden The squash, beans and cucumbers are dying out and the reseeding I did in mid August is a total wash. Pulling a hail mary September planting So many cushaw squash Prepping the ap for fall lettuces and greens Kratky pepper transplants and tomato wall shut down Censorship - it is enough to get your eyre up when someone censors you isn’t it? We have been debating for years if it is OK for the behemoth social platforms like Facebook and Youtube have the right to set standard of what is and is not ok to talk about. And we’ve seen some people deplatformed - usually someone with an extreme position. And we have mostly looked the other way, because it did not impact us. But with the advent of covid, and the rioting and a scary political agenda rising up behind those crisis, censorship has moved past the so-called crazies and into a propaganda moving machine. Anyone who challenges the expected narrative is shut down and shut down fast. Ok. Not anyone, but a surprising number of people. Dare to suggest that we go to a free speech platform and people get mad about it. Dare to question the settled science of covid (how can it even be settled when the disease has only been known for maybe a year), and you get the squeltch. Tha dfamous facebook warning that your statement that vitamin d is a supplement you should add to improve your chances of fighting off covid gets marked as fake news.  Yes. this happened to me. Then 2 months later a new research paper came out confirming that d deficiencies may be a big factor in how sever you get covid. MAY BE You see it is science and there has not been enough time to confirm the hypothesis, but people are working on it.That post did not get shut down btw. But back to censorship. Why do we continue to give our dollars to the corporations that want to silence all but a very narrow narrative? And if you think I mean a left one you are wrong. Sure, more righties are being banned right not, but that will change and blowback on moderate left opinions as soon as they know they can get away with it.Sound paranoid? Maybe I am a little - maybe that is my confirmation bias. But when JB Spears does a spoof comedy video on covid and gets a video booted from youtube for making a covid joke, then when he works with his rep to address it is told that it is what it is, and the next one may see his entire channel pulled down, you know that all common sense has left the building on this issue. And we are talking about private companies. Some really misguided people are calling for government intervention on this matter. Why? How will that improve the situation?  These large corporations are entrenched in  the government - there is not much of a separation between them. They are both furthering agendas. This is how government works -- it is subject to special interest pressure. We sometimes fool ourselves into thinking that a grassroots uprising on an issue will force the government to change things - but until it is linked with lobbying, it is really hard to get any change at all. And this is the crux of calling on the very machine that is part of the problem to fix the problem. Why would they bother? I am sorry that I am going to hark back to Nazi Germany for my next thought. We are not currently exterminating people in concentration camps and that is not my point with this. But much of my understanding of how controlling a population through propaganda works is from looking to that time, so bear with me here. Not calling the Zuck Hitler here...He is an engineer and this is probably at the core of the problem in his choice to push censorship. Back to nazi Germany. The price you would pay for providing a counter narrative during this time was much higher than the price we are paying now. You could be imprisoned, or executed. But that was not the nest way for them to further the narrative they wanted was it? No. Using propaganda to show most of the population the story they wanted them to see was how they controlled the population. Establishing a foundation of tattling and enforcement and bullying was how they controlled the population. And these methods of control were much less expensive to implement that cracking down violently on the the people. Not that violence did not happen. It did. And it happened in some cases neighbor to neighbor ir child to parent. Think about that. When people online virtually pile on someone for having a dissenting opinion, when they publish their home address, pictures of their kids, when they call their boss and demand they be fired, is this any different than a child reporting her parents for speaking against the Nazi regime and opening them up to consequesces? Yes, They had a different opinion of what is right, but should your opinion be the foundation for imprisonment? Our founders did not seem to think so and neither I even if your opinion is that I am a poopy headed jerk, even if your opinion is that race does equal the merit of a person, even if your opinion is that communism is a viable economic system, even if your opinion is that hydrochloroquin paired with zink does work to reduce the severity of covid. You should be able to talk about your perspective without being bullied, imprisoned, beaten up or deplatformed. Bit these companies do own their platform and can do what they want right? Sure they can. So why not put your effort, your advertising dollars, and your time into something better? Something that values free speech and open discussion, something that may jjust help us get to the core of what is really going on here? Because continuing to let the propaganda narrative move forward as is, and to react to it is merely making you a pawn in the game rather than the creator of a better one. Just a thought. Make it a great week! GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.  Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up LFTN Gift Registry Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce  

This weekend, I had some pretty cool bartering opportunities and with everything changing so quickly, it occurred to me that we have not talked much about barter around here and how you can build it into your lifestyle, as well as why you should consider doing so… LFTN Highlights this week Holler Roast Kickstarter Green Chili Weekend Sign Up Mama Sauce is coming to town! Tales from the Prepper Pantry Shopping in the neighbor’s freezer Shared Neighborhood Pantry concept Putting up tomatoes and beans this week Increasing efforts on forage  Ball Jar and Lid shortage - will put the word out when they can be ordered again Featured Forrage: Wild Sumac The waving red berry tops reminded me of this wonderful wild forage - wild sumac. This is definitely a plant you want to cultivate in your food forest. Edible uses: Young chutes and fall roots Berries to eat and for tea Nutritional Source of tanic acid, iodine (What if you could not get iodized salt?), calcium and lots of other important minerals that your body needs Medicinals >>A word on poison sumac

Today, I am joined by a visitor to the Holler Homestead to do a thought of the walk on the concept of filling your cup. You can't pour from an empty cup, so the saying goes and lately I have been burning the candle at both ends - to use way too many cliche sayings in one sentence. So as I navigate a busy fall, I wanted to talk about ways to fill the cup and find balance. Fair warning: If you visit the Holler on podcast day, sometimes you end up on the podcast, right Ken Eash? Direct Download Chicken Processing Workshop is Sold Out Main topic of the Show: TOTW on Filling Your Cup with Ken Eash 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! Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce

Pressure canning really freaks some people out. We have all heard stories of the famous exploding pressure canner. But to safely process green beans, aside from making dilly beans, you need to use a pressure canner or freeze them. Today, I will walk you through the pressure canning process, using green beans as the example. #HollerHatWednesday: What is she up to now? Unloose the Goose tonight at 7:30pm Stump the Sauce From Ken: Maintaining the Blackstone Tales from Another Booze Whisperer Four Summer Mocktails What’s Up in the Garden Time to take out the tomatoes -- looking to transplant something in their stead Doing a hail Mary round of seeds in the garden Garlic bed preparations in the next 2 weeks Lots of cucumbers, squash, sweet potato greens The truth about my fall garden: Beets, greens, garlic, and brassicas and that is likely it Episode 339: Canning Green Beans When to pressure can Equipment needed Annual Safety Check  Gage vs weighted canners Canning Resources: National Center for Home Food Preservation Push pull of commercial vs useful food safety The Process Sterilizing Jars Choosing beans Hot Pack vs Raw pack Headspace Time (20/25) Link to actual article on this: https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_04/beans_snap_italian.html Stovetop canner method Chicken Processing Workshop Green Chili Weekend Make it a great week! GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.  Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up LFTN Gift Registry Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce  

Today is a variety show where I take questions and share thoughts about: Podcasting, wholesale pricing in your business, the coin shortage, what is up with our food supply outages, strawberries and getting ready for what may happen. Holler Neighbor Livestream: https://youtu.be/69ISRhuVluw Poultry Processing Workshop: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2020/08/17/chicken-processing-workshop-september-21-2020/ Tales from the Prepper Pantry Adding more to the pantry -- shared pantry idea Eating as much fresh as possible while we can Soon will add chickens to the freezer Time to start indoor growing again Green Chili Weekend announcement: $20/10 -- registration is up: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2020/08/24/green-chili-weekend-2020/ Featured Forrage: Paw Paw Operation Independence Evening journaling and making time for myself Main topic of the Show: A Variety Show Podcasting questions Melissa: How to record Interviews Wholesale pricing in your business The coin shortage Debi on shortages The chicken story FROM MARK: We are trying to get 2 strawberry wicking beds constructed per month. At the moment we have 3 different varieties of plants to spread out the harvest window. Does it make sense for each bed to be dedicated to a single type of berry or should we plant 2-3 varieties in each bed? Getting ready for what may happen: Talk with my sister Make it a great week! Song: Feed My Hunger 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 Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee