Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today is a Friday so we have an interview show today and I think you are going to love this one - Especially all of you who have been dabbling in or dreaming of installing your own Aquaponics system! We will hear about Aquaponics on a large scale, lessons learned and how it integrates with a permaculture approach to homesteading from Richard Hasting.

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EastTexasAquaponics.com

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I got a question in about ducks and it was involved enough that I thought it would make a great Wednesday topic. And indeed, I find it easier to brood ducks on the summer than the early spring, so today we will go through a bunch of stuff, from brooding, to caring for, to why you might want ducks or chickens or chicken over ducks.

#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with?

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Stump the Sauce

• What to do with 12 dozen eggs - decide if you really want to eat that many eggs (8 week plan) Scramble and freeze in 2 egg sets

Tales from the Booze Whisperer

• Variation on Julep by Derek

What's Up in the Garden

• No rain - have had to water starter plants some more
• Tossing leftover sweet potato slips in a place where I always fight weeds to see what happens - and starting some organo there (need drip irrigation for that)
• Frankentomato should ripen soon
• Lots of volunteer tomatoes in one bed
• Keep thinking it is the last salad, and getting another salad ($.75 salad)
• Squash blooms
• Malabar spinach is finally up!

Main Topic: Introduction to Ducks

Brooding, feeding, water, diseases, training and more!

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Originally, I was going to talk about eating frogs, but then I looked at something interesting. Y'all know I love to do CrossFit but that I injured my back moving a clothes dryer and have taken some time off right? But like all CrossFitters, I do tend to keep up on what is going on there. Well today, CrossFit corporate pulled out of Facebook and Instagram - and better yet, they published why. So we will talk about opting out or Orwellian manipulation.

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• CrossFit Article You Need to Read!

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Today, I talk through elements of an aquaponics system, bed styles and some things to think about when you start with aquaponics.

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Stump the Sauce

• What to serve if you want a totally foraged side dish

What's Up in the Garden

• germination
• all the greens
• tomato and mexican sauergurken set

Main topic of the Show: Basic Mechanics of an Aquaponics System

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Today, we have an important topic for many of us - what to do when your time is not yours. Because there are times in almost everyone's life where you end up in a situation where for one reason or another, your time is not yours. The expectations or agreements you have made put you in a position where you do not want to be. I know I feel choked whenever I end up in this position. Like I literally cannot breathe. So I thought it would be a good time to walk through ways to bear it, and ways to avoid it.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• I am so bad - the reorganization is still not done
• Using up green beans and corn and pickled things
• Researching green chili salsa recipes in advance of Green Chili Fest this fall
• A word on dry good storage

What's in Season

• Day lilies
• Vetch flowers
• Clover flower, Bee balm, Sage, Berry leaves, Lemon balm, Peppermint
• Thistle

Operation Independence

• Dutch Buckets and gleaning soil from old grow beds

Main topic of the Show: What to Do When Your Time Isn't Yours

• Walk away
• Reset your expectations
• Retraining
• Seek the middle ground (Reduce times of pull)
• Accept that this is a tradeoff (I get to go to work vs I have to go to work)

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Song: Thanks Dave by Sauce

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Today is a Friday so we have an interview and this interview is great. Local farmer and listener Jason Smith of Smith Family Farm joins me today to talk about how they built their 10 acre paradise into something that both brings them high quality food and supplies locals and restaurants with awesome produce. You also get a booze whisperer segment today.

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• www.smithfamilyfarmtn.com (includes a blog)
• On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Smith-Family-Farm-255557241224922/
• Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH_6SzCMTTkjNDS8qU2TzEg?view_as=subscriber

Tales from the Booze Whisperer

• Red kryptonite

Interview with Jason Smith of Smith Family Farm

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Today will be the first in a series of shows on Aquaponics - and today is the most basic of overviews - from the perspective of a user, not an installer, not a designer, but someone who has been hands on with an Aquaponics system for a year.

#HollerHatWednesday: Whose floor is she on and who or what threw her there?

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Stump the Sauce

• How would you season your perfect bacon cheeseburger?
• Buy this paprika!

Tidings from the Garden

• $.95 salad will be served this evening (some lettuces are starting to bolt)
• Potatoes are looking great
• Peas are going strong
• Swiss chard is coming into its own
• Need to add nutrient - probably mg and calcium, though it could be iron, though that would be really odd
• Some beans are climbing their poles
• Tomatoes are blooming but have not set fruit
• Parsley and cilantro are going to seed
• More variety than last year
• Thai water spinach has germinated, malabar spinach has not - may put some in pots under heat mats
• Spent my June liquor budget on lava rock for AP expansion

Main topic of the Show: Introduction to Aquaponics - a user's view

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Today, I talk through something kind of personal - the thought process on whether to push through the hard time in my business or to pull the plug. This is a place everyone seems to come to when starting a micro business (under 5 employees) and I am right there. But more on that in the main section of today's show.

Show Links

• Mewe morning Chat Tuesday and Thursday: https://mewe.com/join/living_free_in_tennessee
• Kurt's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eF7NSGkVf8

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Drying herbs: Oregano and sage - comfrey
• Still in the massive reorganization
• Used the final onion
• Pulling out pork to grind rather than buy it ground to use up the meat in the freezer

What's in Season

• All the greens
• Strawberries
• Comfrey and vetch
• Bee balm, lemon balm, berry leaves
• No mushrooms this week

Operation Independence

• Spike in web work

Main topic of the Show: Business Decision Time - Push Through or Pull Out?

• Did your hustle turn out to be what you love?
• Will pushing through yield the financial results you want?
• If you add side income, is it the best use of your time?
• Are you actually set up to make a profit?
• Will you always have to have side income, or is this temporary? (VERY IMPORTANT)
• What are your alternative options and do any look more appealing than what you are doing now?
• Do you have the support you need to go for it?

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Song: Tripped Out by Sauce

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Today, we have a thought of the walk for Friday about Doers versus Takers. It really is amazing what happens when you gather a group of doers together and the become friends. Perhaps this is why the communities that work the best are based on doers, not takers. More on that in the show today.

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Today, I talk about how to begin implementing a permaculture approach to your homestead. This has been at the front of my mind this year as I started taking a PDC. I will share with you how I stumble across permaculture, what it is, and some steps we have taken here to begin adjusting our homestead to be more functional through permaculture design. Don't get me wrong: I am a student of permaculture sharing my journey with you, not an expert.

#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with? @nicolesauce1 on Instagram...

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From Christie: What to do with too many onions

Tales from the Booze Whisperer

Update

Getting the Gardens Ready

• Potatoes are looking awesome - need to fill in with wood chips or straw to encourage more potatoes
• Time to look for Garlic scapes
• Building Dutch Pots for last of the peppers and tomatoes
• Filled in herbs, water plant seeds, and other warm weather plants this week
• Onion starts going in the ground
• Sweet potatoes going in when dutch pots are done so we do not lose all the real estate in the ap like we did last year

Main topic of the Show: Beginning the Permaculture Approach to Homesteading

Show Links

Zones simplified: https://www.permaculturevisions.com/getting-permaculture-zone/

Gaias Garden: https://amzn.to/2H9DpxP

Onion Recipes: https://www.onions-usa.org/recipes

Jack Spirko's New-ish Episodes on Permaculture

• http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/permaculture-part-one
• http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/permaculture-part-two
• http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/permaculture-part-three
• http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/permaculture-part-four

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• Instagram: @nicolesauce1

• Twitter: @nicolesauce