Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today, we explore how following the basic concepts put forth through developing your life strategic plan, continually moving your big picture goals forward, and remembering that we are here to live our lives, not have them lived for us. Or something like that...

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Raiding the prepper pantry under times of durres
• Wonderful pork roast with green chilies

Stump the Sauce

• Too many eggs from Andy in Chattanooga
• Using and Storing an Abundance of Eggs
• Pickling Beets

What Mother Nature is Providing

• Basic veggies for the daily sautee
• The dog egg story
• Late season mint, jewel weed
• Paw Paw update

Independence Fund Update

• Boat repair
• Goat repair
• Deck repair
• Keep Nicole Sane Repair

Resources

• Tactical Redneck Equipment

Today, we have a special guest in the house: Shawn Mills. Remember way back when almost a year and a half ago when I had someone come look at my home to help me understand better what it might take to go off grid? Well, that was Shawn. Today we are going to talk about his off-grid lifestyle, as well as focus on things all of us can do to move that direction without committing to a 10k solar panel installation.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• I did not can tomato sauce because of a HUGE web project I am focused on. (The sauce trick)
• OMG THERE IS SO MUCH STUFF IN THERE IT IS OVERWHELMING
• That venison loin we cooked

What Mother Nature is providing

• Persimmons
• Paw paws are about done
• Watercress
• Still have late summer medicinals: jewelweed, goldenrod, etc…

Stump the Sauce

• Lemongrass

Operation Independence

• Traded for a kayak - stoked about it!
• Put in 6 hours on taxes. Still. not. Done.
• Landed a new deal for digital coaching that should be great for our ongoing stability and can be done from here.

Main topic of the show: Off-Grid Mentality Can Improve Your Homestead with Shawn Mills

Make it a great week!

Song: The Flood by Sauce

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Resources

• Hack My Solar: Hackmysolar.com
• Tomato Sauce Making Cone
• Self Reliance Ministries
  • Green Curry
  • Tom Yum Soup
• Membership Sign Up
• CAC Team

Today, we will take a walk through the benefits of simply living. Simply living - as in simply living your life, not letting others live it for you. Why Simply living and not simple living? You gotta listen to find out!

Tales from the Prepper Pantry 38 jars of salsa are canned Putting up tomato sauce this week Need to do an shelving overhaul in there The mud room is mostly full of jars, but some will go to our chili loving friends who put in on the chillies this year

What Mother Nature is providing Goldenrod Beans beans beans and funny beans Damn the electrical company for spraying on my land PAW PAWS ARE READY -

Stump the Sauce Rattle Snake Recipe

Operation Independence Put up 39 pints of salsa for winter August was a record month for the airbnb Sticking to my guns on the weekly finance review Need to get taxes done

The Bounty of Simply Living .... not having your life lived for you.

Song: Strange Child, by Sauce

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Resources

• • Membership Sign Up
  • The Keychain CPR Masks
  • Change Your Narrative, Change Your Life

Today we talk about preparing for winter, Christmas gift ideas, decision making with emotions, green chilipalooza and more!

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Tomato canning
• Drying red runners
• Green chili weekend is this weekend: Salsa, canning chilies, roasting chilies, eating chilies

What Mother Nature is providing

• A word on the fall garden
• Okra okra okra
• Jerusalem Artichokes are blooming -
• Lotsa tomatoes
• A final mullein, mint, lemon balm and comfrey sweep
• Jewelweed

Stump the Sauce

• Coffee in soup

Tales from the Booze Whisperer

• Using all the tomato water when canning

Operation Independence

• Put up 26.5 quarts of tomatoes - $2 a quart including propane and lids (but not my time).
• Fridge win for the duplex

Christmas is coming - gift ideas

1. 1. Custom bitters
   2. Coffee air freshener
   3. Jams and jellies
   4. Rustic Walking stick
   5. Elderberry Syrup kit: dried elderberries, cinnamon, ginger, cayenne pepper, honey

The newly adopted family that visited and an update on Airbnb

Making decisions by emotion

Fall on the homestead = prepare for winter

Song: Feed My Hunger by Sauce

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Resources

• Membership Sign Up
• Amish Coffee Soup
• 2016 Christmas Gift Ideas
• 2017 Christmas Gift Ideas
• 5 ways to prepare hatch chilies

And today, I have a fun interview to share with you. I talked to a friend, John Moody who boasts a background at the Farm to Table legal defense fund, has built a high tunnel on his land, and approaches homesteading with the simple idea that: don't make it harder than it has to be. He is about to release his book, the frugal homestead, and is an all-around fun guy to talk with!

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What Mother Nature is providing

• Watercress is starting to come back
• Creek Mint
• Lots of veggies
• Fall Garden Time is Now

What we are preserving this week

• Beans and corn.
• Lesson learned from canning sauerkraut

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Scored another bushel of corn and canned it
• Need to insulate the exterior wall in the prepper pantry to see if temperature regulates better

Ideas from the Booze Whisperer

• Hickory Smoked Bourbon and Lavender Simple Syrup

Operation Independence

• We relaxed with friends this weekend and what started as a quiet visit expanded into a fun gathering
• What do do when you have people to feed and not enough eggs (Crepes)
• Conquered paper mountain!!! (Taxes are almost done because of this)

Interview with John Moody, Author of Frugal Homesteading

Song: Learning What Leaving Is, Sauce

Resources

• Pre-order form for the frugal homesteader: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFqfumN4cWkjv3RMuuBuHZLivLgaFYJJRdPkuNjvUsxNSvCw/viewform
• Homesteader Handbook: https://homesteaderhandbook.com/
• Booze Whisperer: BiltongForBreakfast.com
• Membership Sign Up: https://livingfreeintennessee.com/iump-subscription-plan/

Today, we will take a look at what it means to change your narrative into something that helps move you where you want to go.

Resources

Membership Sign Up

What Mother Nature is providing

Hot weather AND rain - perfect for fall garden if you can keep things going Tomatoes, beans and okra Swiss chard is ramping up Dill weed and other herbs More elderberries - still seeking 1 gallon Early season apples

What we are preserving this week

Canning tomatoes Sauerkraut canning

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

Canned jars are stacking up Garlic is ready to be stored - so it is inside It's hot in there - still haven't defrosted the freezer

Tales from the booze whisperer

What to do with canned peaches

Operation Independence

Change Your Narrative, Change Your Life

1. Learn about frame or perspective: This is what those annoying people who love lemonade do.
2. Define what is really important to your success and frame your personal narrative toward that.
3. Learn how your behavior impacts those around you - and use that.

Make it a great week.

Song: Feed My Hunger, by Nicole Sauce

Today, I talk through the two types of canning and the 8 projects you can do to slowly build up your canning skills.

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Resources:

• Resource for canning times and recipes
• Negroni Cocktail
• Brine recipe
• Carey Pressure Canner (It is $140 today -- keep your eye out for a sale)
• Membership Sign Up

Make it a great week!

Song: Mr Clammy by Sauce

Today, we will do a Holler Homestead roundup review and look into fall. That's right, it has been a few months since we took a look at my homestead here, how it is doing, and where we are going as we move into fall. Right now is when you should be readying your fall beds. Now is when you should be at least half wat finished canning your winter stores. Now is when you should be thinking – Christmas is coming, what will I make for gifts? And now is a great time for the quarterly assessment of your lifestyle goals.

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Membership Sign Up: https://livingfreeintennessee.com/iump-subscription-plan/

What Mother Nature is Providing

This is where we talk about what is coming off the land around us to enrich our lives.

• Passion flower: Goats have unearthed passionflower which will turn into passion fruit this fall
• Elderberries are coming on fast and I will miss harvesting some due to my business trip this week.
• All the vegetables: squash, beans, corn, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, swiss chard
• Sweet potato greens: Recipe and processing and the sifference from potatoes
• A tale of the megadill plants at Cider Hollow Farm

What we are preserving this week

This is where we talk about what we preserve, when we preserve it, and how we process it.

• Drying herbs
• On the road
• A word on recovering from Pneumonia and the relative level of activity a person can sustain (It's like altitude sickness)

An aquaponics update

• A word on pests
• Balancing the system and what we did to fix it
• Funky germination
• Volume of food and what I will do differently next year
  • Trellising
  • Prune and layer things differently
  • More purposeful layering
  • More beds and not all the things in all the beds

Tales from the prepper pantry

• Bee update: Wax moths and the related cleanup
• It's official, we are 1/3 ready for winter. 1 room is full of jars.
• Still pushing slowly forward on the reset for fall storage

Operation Independence

• Three new ducks and a chicken
• Campground expansion in process
• #my3things is growing
• Headed to Houston for the week to earn money

Summer at the Holler Homestead.

Song: Every Way, by Sauce

Today, we have an exploration topic: Navigating tough communications and interpersonal relationships. What does that have to do with homesteading or independence? Well it turns out it has a lot to do with both those things.

What Mother Nature is providing

• Squash bugs and vine borers have won yet again - the early heat wave.
• Tomatoes, green beans, okra, corn
• Elderberry, sumac berries, lemon balm
• Mimosa flowers are still going strong
• Still haven't seen blueberries
• Confession on garlic: You can't dig when you have pneumonia

What we are preserving this week

• Buch update
• Drying sage, lemonbalm and peppermint
• Canning corn and beans

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• From last week: It's about time to re-organize all the canned goods and take an assessment
• Operation prepper pantry fury as Brian would say
• Defrosting the chest freezer will happen soon - as soon as I am well

Listener Feedback

• Phone consultation question
• Listening twice

Operation Independence

• Refined focus has helped despite losing weeks to illness.
• Increased the debt payoff allocation (emergency fund is back in place, had a good month with our Airbnb, paper sold the most ads ever this edition)
• Taxes are getting closer

Topic: Navigating Tough Communication

Song: Cilly Song

Today, we have a chat with the Tactical Redneck about the MBTI personality types and how he has learned from this way of categorizing people to improve his interpersonal skills at work. It is a fast interview paired with an update from Samantha the Savings Ninja.