Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

And you know what Wednesday - er I mean Thursday means: We have a homestead focused episode today and I thought it was about time to have the second in our cheese series. Why? Because last week, I was on the road and one of my favorite things to do to eat well is to make a plate with veggies, pickled things hard yummy cheeses and meats in place of a heavy dinner meal. This is even more fun when you can grab a nice cheddar you have been aging and add some slices of that to the mix.

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

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Stump the Sauce

How to tap into what you have on hand to feed a work crew (easy meals)

Getting the Gardens Ready

• Tomatoes are all out minus Timmy which will go out tonight
• Banana plants are going out
• New holly plant from Brand
• Volunteer squash has germinated so I am seeding squash and cukes to see if I can beat the dreaded supersonic SVB that I am convinced David transported here (it must be all his fault)
• Buying peppers at the market Saturday - I hope
• Potatoes are up

Main topic of the Show: Cheddar Cheese

• Don't let the perfect get in the way of the good.

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Today we have a replay episode. The cement pad has been poured and people are still on site putting in the final touches on it and I am just dying to have a DANCE PARTY. But the episode on making hard cheeses is a bit much to jump into at this late hour, so I bring you a replay of an episode from one year ago. We were getting ready for the first spring workshop ever. I got completely publicly reamed by someone in a board meeting in a very inappropriate way. And it got me to thinking about ways to deescalate tense situations. Something we can all use a reminder about, right?

SO, enjoy the episode formerly knows as 76.

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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.

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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

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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.

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• 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.

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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!

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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

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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.

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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?

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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

1. Prepare the ground: Mulch
2. Water them well
3. Heat their feet
4. Cover them
5. Heat under the cover

Bring plants inside...

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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.

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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:

1. Redefines what is important and where to focus
2. Puts you in a positive frame of mind, which leads you toward solutions rather than critiques
3. Reminds you to be the one responsible for your happiness, success and life
4. Brings graciousness and politeness back into the habit - and this is a habit fast disappearing

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Song: Anonymous

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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!

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