Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today we have an update from the Holler Homestead on how things are progressing here. The first quarter is over and it is a good time to assess how 2019 plan is unraveling, look over the land before things get too overgrown, and make sure our focus is in the right place for long term success. So I will walk through the coffee, the podcast, the consulting and the paper - as well as check in on the progress of our developing homestead. Direct Download Tales from the Prepper Pantry Meal planning around the pantry: fresh salads, stew, meatloaf this week Using up butternut squash: roasted May find a moment to head up to the nettle patch to gather some for winter teas What's in Season Stinging nettle Hairy vetch- what an unfortunate name Dryad's saddle mushrooms Lettuces, greens, pea shoots Carrots are up and looking good Transplanting tomatoes into the aquaponics system, 100 year old timmy is still hardening off Operation Independence Seeking 100 old bricks - the kind without holes in them. Email me if you know of a decent source in TN Main topic of the Show: Personal progress, business development and focus Make it a great week! Song: Tripped Out by Sauce Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce1 Twitter: @nicolesauce

Today is Friday and that means we have a guest interview and today is another great one. We will hear from Salima Singletary about designing a life you want to live, specifically how she has set things up to be the way she and her husband wish to live in the long term --- and along the way she has learned skills, started a new business, and generally had fun adventures. Direct Download Salima's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Homestead-Glamour-1526103667698847/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homesteadglamour/ Body Butter Order Form Salima is a stay-at-home mom who enjoys various arts and crafts when she isn't doing laundry and hauling kids to practices and games. In a previous life she worked as a copy editor at a university press and an advertising proofreader in one of the nation's oldest newspapers. She expected to end up a magazine editor, but life is full of surprises. Make it a Great Week! Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/

Travel teaches some great lessons that apply to normal home life and side hustle living. Today, I will talk through 6 things that occurred to me this week. 2 tickets left for the spring workshop! Direct Download Tales from the Prepper Pantry Balancing on the road with pantry practices Almost out of Salsa What's in Season Getting loads of salad greens from the aquaponics Watercress is at peak harvestability right now Dandelion flowers Transplanting tomatoes this coming weekend Operation Independence Sales - because it is important Collections - because it is even more important Main topic of the show: What We Can Learn From Travel Daniel from the coffee break group and logo design Make it a great week! Song: Dr Feeley, Dr Skinner by Sauce Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce1 Twitter: @nicolesauce

Today is Friday so it is a Thought of the Walk day and I got a little weird this week. I started thinking about social networks, censorship and the Bonfire of the Vanities. So we will discuss how social networks are behaving much like Friar Savonarola's rein of terror is mich like what is starting to happen now on what have become major publishing platforms. Direct Download Image licensed for reuse - original Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Filippo_Dolciati_(1443_-_1519)_Execution_of_Girolamo_Savonarola._1498,_Florence,_Museo_di_San_Marco.jpg Source: Museum of San Marco [Public domain] Make it a great week!

Today, I thought I would talk about something all of us in Tennessee have been doing for a few weeks and that many of you will soon need to do: helping your plants through morning frosts that happen in the spring as the earth embraces spring, gets warm, then spikes down below the freezing point at night. I've got 5 things you can do without spending a ton of cash - and these are especially important if you are playing early spring plant roulette as I am. #HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with? Direct Download BrettChef on Hard Boiled Eggs Getting the Gardens Ready The year of taming the weeds by my house - transplanted day lillies, elderberry, comfrey, potatoes Added rose bush and rosa ragusa Need to fence out the chickens and do regular weed hoeing sessions, ground cover What I would be doing in sunshine plot: cutting weeds in the pathways, cleanup and mulching Stump the Sauce FROM Tom on pickled carrots Main topic of the Show: 5 ways to save your plants from frost Prepare the ground: Mulch Water them well Heat their feet Cover them Heat under the cover Bring plants inside... Make it a great week! Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce1 Twitter: @nicolesauce

Today, I want to examine gratitude and how being grateful for what you can do, what you have and what being grateful for others are in your life can do to help you find a pathway toward growth and success - and ultimately build the life you want to live rather than fall back into old habits of living up to everyone else's expectations. Direct Download We are 3 seats away from being sold out for the Spring Workshop! Tales from the Prepper Pantry Set up the composting area for kitchen scraps in Garbage grove A person cannot put up too much salsa Sweet potatoes are starting to think about turning - making sweet potato chips Pickled quail eggs for the workshop What's in Season Ap salad and pea shoots Chickweed Wild mustard flowers All the other greens All the eggs Operation Independence Focused on renting the duplex, finishing the recipe book and starting another 2 salads from the ap = $10 each :) Tomatoes and pepper transplants are up and free from seed from previous years Main topic of the Show: Gratitude 1: Perspective is everything 2: Find the good in the bad things 3: Add purpose to being grateful 4: Break bad habits of ingratitude And how does being grateful help you build the life you want to live? I think that it does in a few ways: Redefines what is important and where to focus Puts you in a positive frame of mind, which leads you toward solutions rather than critiques Reminds you to be the one responsible for your happiness, success and life Brings graciousness and politeness back into the habit - and this is a habit fast disappearing Make it a great week! Song: Anonymous Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce1 Twitter: @nicolesauce

Today is Friday so we have a guest interview. When I got to know Jessica Mills, AKA "Dixie" from Homemade Wanderlust, I was impressed with her no nonsense, friendly and empowering approach to everything. She was fun to talk with, eager to share information, and genuinely interested in seeing everyone around her do well. This, paired with her ability to get things done well no matter what, made her a great person to interview. Join me today as I talk with Jessica about building your dream job, establishing a personal brand, backpacking, self-reliance and more!

Today we run through things to thing through for the transition from winter into spring on the homestead. And not just for the homestead, but really, with a few minor tweaks for any household that is looking toward ongoing, steady management instead of the "on demand" approach to living and lifestyle. #HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with? Stump the Sauce Using up the last of your canned goods before a move Getting the Gardens Ready Potatoes are in the stepped area near the AP - hope is that I will keep up better on weeds Spring greens are doing well Tomatoes and peppers are up in the seedling trays Setting up a new mulching system since we are sans pigs Need to ground cover seed the pig pasture - clover and daikon radish Main topic of the Show: Spring on the Homestead Make it a great week! Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce1 Twitter: @nicolesauce

Today, we will talk about My3Things - and more specifically - how to use it to balance your long term success with short term needs. As the group that shares accountability online grows, subtleties are beginning to appear in the approach - as well as some confusion on what #my3things is and how it works. So I will quickly review the basics as well as talk about your long term success strategy and how to build it into your daily and weekly life. Direct Download Tales from the Prepper Pantry Fed a crew of 12 this weekend from the pantry Sweet potato chili Smoked butt, greens, corn and beans Bacon and eggs Holler Stew: Leftovers plus venison and tomatoes The Blackstone Cooktop What's in Season All the early spring greens - though I have not seen wild mustard yet. Lettuce, leeks, peas from the AP Operation Independence GSD Weekend Happened and we now have a second composting outhouse Tore down the building in front of our workshop and cleared the area to prepare for the slab pour Did the earth works for the slab pour on Monday Main topic of the Show: #My3things - covering your long term bases in a short term environment Identify why: short term push (Das Website); overcommitted; poor prioritization; wasting time on something like social media, tv, etc (tracking app). Block time to focus on the long term at least 3 days a week for a full hour. (Monday choir story) Reprogram expectations away from always available, always responsive, both from yourself and from others. How to attack different roadblocks TN GSD Crew Classic Rock List: (Bryan Young) Make it a great week! Song: Thanks Dave, performed by Sauce Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce1 Twitter: @nicolesauce

Because today is a Wednesday, we will be talking about a homesteading topic - and one that is near and dear to many a heart. At the request of Victoria from the LFTN Coffee break group, I thought I would share with you 5 tools that I think every homestead should have - even the off-grid ones. But remember - if you ONLY can have 5 tools on your homestead, these are not they. Rather - these are 5 I truly wanted to highlight and each for a different reason. #HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with? Listener Feedback White Coffee Getting the Gardens Ready Potatoes ready to plant Seedlings on the heat mats Peas are up, which means pea shoot salads are coming soon Main topic of the Show: 5 Tools to Keep on Your Homestead Coffee Make it a great week! Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce1 Twitter: @nicolesauce