Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today we talk about purging the sentimental stuff, from ball gowns and family heirlooms to someday projects that never seem to get done. How do you decide what stays, what goes, and how do you let go of things that carry memories without feeling guilty about it?

Featured Event

Homemade Condiments: The Secret Is in the Sauce Holler Homestead • $75

Learn how to make mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup and homemade salad dressing from scratch, including what I've learned from failing mayonnaise, mushroom ketchup, and how to build your own salad dressing flavor profiles.

LivingFreeInTennessee.com/event/condiments

Sponsors

Strong Roots Resources StrongRootsResources.com

Agorist Tax Advice AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• 49 jars of green beans put up, with four more jars worth coming out of the garden

• Using the Presto electric pressure canner alongside the regular pressure canner to get more done

• Purging old food from the pantry that we simply don't eat anymore

• Cooking with what we grow: squash, pork, homemade tomato sauce, herbs, garlic and onions

• What regenerative soil does for the flavor and nutrition of the food we grow

• Getting a "second flush" of cream by letting the raw milk sit longer before skimming

Frugality Tip

• It's clearance season for gardening and summer supplies

• Look for deals on hoses, sprinklers, connectors, grills, pools and plants

• Back-to-school season also means deals on office supplies

• Stocking up on good journals while prices are low

Operation Independence

• Picking a huge batch of green beans from Trippy Acres

Main Topic: Purging the Sentimental

• How sentimental stuff quietly turns your home into storage for decisions you don't want to make

• Why grief can turn us into repositories for family heirlooms nobody else wants to deal with

• Stuff begets more stuff: once you're the person who says yes, everyone knows where to send the family heirlooms

• The ball gowns I loved, wore, no longer fit into and finally decided to let go

• Giving the original giver the right of refusal when something may still matter to them

• Being grateful for a gift does not mean you have to store it forever

• Letting go of useful things that are no longer the right things

• Why keeping the old thing until you replace it can leave you surrounded by worn-out shoes, furniture and other junk

• Getting rid of something can force you to finally find the solution you actually want

• Looking at what you want to do in a space before deciding what deserves to stay there

• Why boxes of old technology, cables and unused cameras are keeping me from having my sewing table

• If something can easily be replaced for $20–$50 and you haven't used it, consider letting it go

• Trusting that you can get what you need when you actually need it

• Keeping things because Grandpa or Grandma made them, even when you don't particularly like them

• Taking a picture when you want to preserve the memory without preserving the object

• Choosing the sentimental things you genuinely love instead of keeping every sentimental thing

• Keeping Grandpa's ironwood roadrunner instead of every object he made

• Vintage clothing, family glassware, quilts and other inherited things that carry emotional weight

• If another relative will be upset when you get rid of something, give them the opportunity to take it

• Don't transfer your guilt by forcing sentimental things onto someone else

• How physical clutter, financial clutter, paper clutter and mental clutter feed one another

• Clearing things out has created more than physical space—it has created space in my brain and in my day

• Making room for the things I actually want to do: swimming, singing, playing piano and writing songs

• Getting rid of the someday projects

• The broken chair you're someday going to repair

• The supplies you bought for a project six months ago and still haven't used

• Buying supplies for the project you're actually going to do now instead of the one you might someday do

• The emotionally difficult someday projects, including an embroidered pillow cover my grandmother intended for a baby I never had

• Either do the thing or make a decision about the thing—don't let it live forever in a someday pile

• Why centering your identity in old memorabilia can keep you looking backward instead of building your future

• You can appreciate the memories without allowing the objects attached to them to control your space

• It's okay to be ruthless

• Keep the things that genuinely matter. Preserve a picture when that's enough. Give things to people who actually want them. Then move forward.

Reference Links

Living Free in Tennessee LivingFreeInTennessee.com

Holler Roast Coffee

HollerRoast.com

Make It A Great Week!

Today I am joined by Tori the Mom to talk about the wildfires that came within a mile of her home in Spokane, what it was like to watch evacuation zones move toward her neighborhood, and what she learned when preparedness suddenly became real. We talk about evacuation plans, knowing more than one way out, preparing kids and animals, cash, gas, communications, technology that helped her stay ahead of the fire, and the things she plans to do differently next time.

Featured Event

The Art of Containment: How to Contain Small Ruminants with Fencing

Saturday at 10 AM

We will cover how electric fencing works, running stranded wire for small ruminants, rechargeable systems when you don't have power nearby, and our "graveyard of shame" of fencing ideas that didn't work.

LivingFreeInTennessee.com

Sponsors

The Wealthsteading Podcast with John Pugliano InvestableWealth.com

Strong Roots Resources StrongRootsResources.com

Topics Covered

• Meet Tori the Mom and how she became part of the LFTN community
• Tori and her sister's 20 acres of raw land near Loon Lake, Washington
• Her plans to build a retreat for wives and ex-wives of alcoholics
• Why making the big, hard-to-reverse decisions on raw land is different from cutting trails and experimenting
• Watching the Spokane wildfires go from "that's way over there" to evacuation zones within about a mile of Tori's house
• How high winds, dry conditions and flying embers allowed the fire to jump the river and move rapidly toward town
• What happened when Watch Duty and county emergency alerts suddenly started going off
• Knowing when it is time to stop watching and start packing
• Why camping is excellent practice for evacuation
• Teaching kids what to pack and identifying the few irreplaceable things you actually want to grab
• Keeping identification, important documents, cash and small irreplaceable items ready to go
• Why knowing multiple ways out of your neighborhood matters
• Practicing driving without GPS and learning how to navigate when familiar landmarks or street signs are gone
• How Tori's habit of taking different routes around Spokane gave her more options when evacuation traffic became a problem
• Planning meetup locations in multiple directions when family members may be separated
• Why your relatives living nearby doesn't necessarily give you somewhere to evacuate
• Gas, cash and snacks: three simple preps Tori realized she needed to have ready before an emergency
• Starting with some emergency cash instead of getting stuck because you can't immediately set aside the "perfect" amount
• Why Tori needs to practice actually loading her dogs and cats into the cars
• Having enough animal carriers and figuring out what will actually fit in your vehicle before you need it
• Desensitizing yourself to stressed, noisy animals so their reaction doesn't derail you during an emergency
• How Tori turned emergency practice into the "zombies" game when her kids were young—and why they still remembered it when the wildfire came
• Debriefing with kids after an emergency and giving teenagers responsibility for part of the family's preparedness
• Why practicing your plans matters more than simply thinking through them
• How community helped Tori stay calmer, troubleshoot problems and know that people were watching out for her
• The value of having community outside your immediate geographic area when everyone near you may be dealing with the same emergency
• Watch Duty, regional emergency alerts, weather forecasts, FlightRadar, Facebook groups and a police scanner as sources Tori used to follow the fire
• Using wind direction and future wind predictions to decide whether it was safe to sleep or whether conditions might change overnight
• Watching firefighting aircraft and listening to scanner traffic to understand what was actually happening
• Ember guards for attic vents as something to investigate for homes in wildfire country
• Knowing the specific risks where you live and building your preparedness around them
• Why Tori's biggest takeaway is simple: practice packing, practice loading the car and know what absolutely has to go with you

Reference Links

The Wealthsteading Podcast InvestableWealth.com

Strong Roots Resources StrongRootsResources.com

Living Free in Tennessee LivingFreeInTennessee.com

Watch Duty

FlightRadar

HipCamp

Tori's Property

Shielstra Braehaven on HipCamp 20 acres of raw, forested land near Loon Lake, Washington

Holler Roast Coffee

HollerRoast.com

Make It A Great Week!

Today I am joined by the Tactical Redneck for our weekly update from Holler Homestead. We catch up on what's been happening around the farm, share an upcoming class at Basecamp Lodge, answer listener questions, and spend most of the episode talking about fencing. We cover the pressure-tested fencing supplies we've come to trust, the lessons we've learned after building miles of fence in rocky Tennessee soil, and the skills that actually make someone an asset when it's time to build infrastructure on the homestead.

Featured Event

Homemade Condiments Class Friday, August 22 • Holler Homestead

Learn to make your own mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, salad dressings, and more. You'll taste a variety of recipes and head home with a homemade dressing you make in class.

$75 https://livingfreeintennessee.com/event/condiments/

Sponsors

Strong Roots Resources https://StrongRootsResources.com

The Wealthsteading Podcast https://InvestableWealth.com

Topics Covered

• Updates from Holler Homestead

• Nashville duplex project and staging it for sale

• Announcing the Homemade Condiments Class at Basecamp Lodge: https://livingfreeintennessee.com/event/condiments/

• Combining FAMACHA scoring with routine flock maintenance

• Why rotational grazing becomes more challenging with four flocks

• A deep dive into electric fencing on rocky and hilly Tennessee ground

• Lessons learned from building and rebuilding fence

• The pressure-tested fencing products and brands we've come to trust

• Where it's worth spending money on fencing supplies

• The tools that make fencing faster and more reliable

• The skills that make someone genuinely valuable on a fencing crew

• Why careful planning saves far more time than hard work alone

• Building better homestead systems instead of repeating the same mistakes

Reference Links

Strong Roots Resources https://StrongRootsResources.com

The Wealthsteading Podcast https://InvestableWealth.com

Holler Roast Coffee https://HollerRoast.com THE FENCING SUPPLIES LIST FROM TACTICAL

Recommend Companies

American Grazing Lands

https://www.americangrazinglands.com

Farm Fence Solutions

https://www.shopfarmfencesolutions.com

Power Flex Fence

https://powerflexfence.com

Premier 1

https://www.premier1supplies.com

Geared Reels

O'Briens

https://powerflexfence.com/collections/reels/products/ogr-obrien-gear-reel

Speedrite

https://www.premier1supplies.com/p/speedrite-geared-reel?cat_id=49

Strainrite

https://www.shopfarmfencesolutions.com/31-geared-wheel-27897645.html

Taragate

https://www.americangrazinglands.com/collections/portable-fencing-supplies/products/taragate-geared-reel

Gallagher

https://powerflexfence.com/collections/reels/products/gallagher-reel-standard-1320

Wire and Jumper Wire

Poly Wire

Powerflex Fence - 1/2 Mile - 2640ft Super 9 PolyBraid

https://www.americangrazinglands.com/collections/portable-fencing-supplies/products/polybraid-mixed-metals-6-stainless-3-tin-copper-strands-2640

Jumper Wire

https://www.americangrazinglands.com/collections/portable-fencing-supplies/products/jumper-lead

Step In Post

Strainrite - Multi Wire Tread In Post

https://www.shopfarmfencesolutions.com/multi-wire-tread-in-post-pk-10.html

Steel Post, Multiwire Tread In

https://www.shopfarmfencesolutions.com/steel-post-multiwire-tread-in-pk-10.html

O'Brien Tredaline Post - White

https://powerflexfence.com/collections/fence-posts/products/obtp-white-obrien-tredaline-post-white

FenceGard Tread -In Post, White

https://powerflexfence.com/collections/fence-posts/products/powertredin-post-white-box-50

Fence Charger

110 - Cyclops Super, 12 Joule, 110V AC Powered Energizer

https://cyclopsfence.com/collections/ac-mains-powered-energizers/products/cyclops-super-12-joule-110v-ac-powered-energizer

12V - Cyclops Super, 12 Joule, DC Battery Powered Energizer

https://cyclopsfence.com/collections/battery-powered-energizers/products/cyclops-super-12-joule-200-acre-12v-dc-battery-powered-energizer

Fence Tester

Speedrite Digital Fault Finder ST100

https://cyclopsfence.com/collections/fence-testers/products/speedrite-digital-fault-finder-st100-free-usa-shipping

Insolaters

2" Offset Screw-In Ring Insulator (Pack of 25)

https://www.americangrazinglands.com/collections/insulators/products/2-offset-screw-in-ring-insulator

6" Offset Screw-In Ring Insulator

https://www.americangrazinglands.com/collections/insulators/products/6-offset-screw-in-ring-insulator

XL Ring Offset Insulator 6"

https://www.premier1supplies.com/p/xl-ring-offset-insulator?cat_id=46

Make It A Great Week!

What a month! My AUDIO Host cut off the end of this episode. When I replaced the file, the podcastchers did not update. TRY TWO for those of you who did not listen to it on Youtube by now! Today, I want to talk to you about navigating homestead abundance when it feels like everything is happening at once: planting for fall, processing an abundant tomato harvest, livestock needing extra support in the heat, and personal things ramping up in the background. But mostly, today is about 120 pounds of tomatoes that appeared here yesterday during a week when I won't be around. We will also cover our usual Tuesday segments.

Featured Event The Art of Containment: Practical Livestock Fencing, August 8th at 10am at the Holler Homestead in Lancaster, TN. Tickets ar $50, grab yours here All Holler Homestead Events: https://livingfreeintennessee.com/events/

Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com

Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

Tales From The Prepper Pantry

• 120 Pounds of Tomatoes

• Peaches: Final Harvest

• ¼ bushel of green beans off 5 plants

• Time to plant the fall garden if you have not - for real, it is time!

• Moving from paper goods to washables where it makes sense

Frugality Tip

• Say yes, but lean on community

Operation Independence

• Seeking Farm Sponsors for our Farm To Table Dinner in September - how that works.

Tomatoes All At Once

• Geraldines Story from A is For Cod-Wada: https://www.amazon.com/coda-wada-Geraldine-Duncann/dp/B0006YH9M2

• THE MOMENT EVERY HOMESTEADER WAITS FOR: Michelle from Trippy Acres has too many tomatoes this is the day EVERY homesteader waits for - the moment someone says, can you take all this (WHATEVER) off my hands - and that whatever is a thing you love.

• Adjusted Monday schedule to harvest

• Admitted I wasnt processing last night to maintain health, but kept them all cool where? In my livingroom on a fold out table

• Processed them today - 120 pounds or so of tomatoes.

• A FAMILIAR RHYTHM: SORT - CUT - FREEZE - REPEAT

• GOAL is not homestead processing perfection, it is food spoilage stabilization.

• Works well post freezer: canned sauce, ketchup, salsa, stewed, freeze dried

• Must happen from fresh: Sundried, fresh

• Partial processing now helps future winter canning flow well

• Core and cut smaller to make it easier to process later as sauce

• Skins come off easily after freezing for stewed but before thawing, so store tomatoes you plan to skin as a single layer and only cored, not sliced smaller

• Dice the tomatoes you want for salsa in salsa batch sizes so that you can pull tomatoes for salsa straight from the freezer into the salsa pot

• Reducing sauce without heat by freezing and canned tomato water

• Keep Heat Outside

• Dehydrate and crockpot reduce sauces outside under cover (assuming you don't have a bear problem) to save adding heat inside

• Freezing for winter canning lets you heat the house int he winter while processing your tomatoes - win-win

• Prioritize ripest tomatoes first and set aside underripe ones to ripen as you go

• Favorite Tomato recipes

• Canned Salsa (Scaled for how many peppers I have)

• Fresh tomato Basil Soup (Make it and freeze for winter)

• Tomato Cucumber Salad

• Fresh Tomato and Meat Sauce

• Sliced Tomato with, salt and pepper, basil and a balsamic reduction

• Dried tomato in olive oil and garlic

• Freeze dried tomato powder

• Canned tomato sauce

• Canned stewed tomatoes if I am in a hurry

• Tomato cheese fry pies

One of the things that can be hard to communicate to people about living a homesteaders lifestyle is that you will have times where everything seems to be happening at once.

Like for me right now: I need to be in Nashville for a few days managing my rental property, my mobility is coming back so I am working on a backlog from my injury and also setting a foundation for a fall garden, the livestock does best when they are handled daily even though they can sort of go on auto pilot. We just finished a large peach harvest, there are saturday farmers markets to do, our events are happing every other week or so, and then, 120 pounds of tomatoes appeared.

You build the skills over years on a homestead to tap into something like this and run with it.

I used to drop everything for days to do projects like this and that is how I learned a better way. One that preserves the food while preserving the reason I am on the homestead: to live in concert with nature, build abundance from the land, and enjoy the beauty of this place.

So if you are new to homesteading, it may feel like lots of pressure at this time of year with the pest pressure, the weeds and the harvest, but it doesn't have to be. And being frantic all the time isn't why you are doing this, is it? Make It A Great Week

Today, I want to talk to you about navigating homestead abundance when it feels like everything is happening at once: planting for fall, processing an abundant tomato harvest, livestock needing extra support in the heat, and personal things ramping up in the background. But mostly, today is about 120 pounds of tomatoes that appeared here yesterday during a week when I won't be around. We will also cover our usual Tuesday segments.

Featured Event The Art of Containment: Practical Livestock Fencing, August 8th at 10am at the Holler Homestead in Lancaster, TN. Tickets ar $50, grab yours here All Holler Homestead Events: https://livingfreeintennessee.com/events/

Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com

Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

Tales From The Prepper Pantry

• 120 Pounds of Tomatoes

• Peaches: Final Harvest

• ¼ bushel of green beans off 5 plants

• Time to plant the fall garden if you have not - for real, it is time!

• Moving from paper goods to washables where it makes sense

Frugality Tip

• Say yes, but lean on community

Operation Independence

• Seeking Farm Sponsors for our Farm To Table Dinner in September - how that works.

Tomatoes All At Once

• Geraldines Story from A is For Cod-Wada: https://www.amazon.com/coda-wada-Geraldine-Duncann/dp/B0006YH9M2

• THE MOMENT EVERY HOMESTEADER WAITS FOR: Michelle from Trippy Acres has too many tomatoes this is the day EVERY homesteader waits for - the moment someone says, can you take all this (WHATEVER) off my hands - and that whatever is a thing you love.

• Adjusted Monday schedule to harvest

• Admitted I wasnt processing last night to maintain health, but kept them all cool where? In my livingroom on a fold out table

• Processed them today - 120 pounds or so of tomatoes.

• A FAMILIAR RHYTHM: SORT - CUT - FREEZE - REPEAT

• GOAL is not homestead processing perfection, it is food spoilage stabilization.

• Works well post freezer: canned sauce, ketchup, salsa, stewed, freeze dried

• Must happen from fresh: Sundried, fresh

• Partial processing now helps future winter canning flow well

• Core and cut smaller to make it easier to process later as sauce

• Skins come off easily after freezing for stewed but before thawing, so store tomatoes you plan to skin as a single layer and only cored, not sliced smaller

• Dice the tomatoes you want for salsa in salsa batch sizes so that you can pull tomatoes for salsa straight from the freezer into the salsa pot

• Reducing sauce without heat by freezing and canned tomato water

• Keep Heat Outside

• Dehydrate and crockpot reduce sauces outside under cover (assuming you don't have a bear problem) to save adding heat inside

• Freezing for winter canning lets you heat the house int he winter while processing your tomatoes - win-win

• Prioritize ripest tomatoes first and set aside underripe ones to ripen as you go

• Favorite Tomato recipes

• Canned Salsa (Scaled for how many peppers I have)

• Fresh tomato Basil Soup (Make it and freeze for winter)

• Tomato Cucumber Salad

• Fresh Tomato and Meat Sauce

• Sliced Tomato with, salt and pepper, basil and a balsamic reduction

• Dried tomato in olive oil and garlic

• Freeze dried tomato powder

• Canned tomato sauce

• Canned stewed tomatoes if I am in a hurry

• Tomato cheese fry pies

One of the things that can be hard to communicate to people about living a homesteaders lifestyle is that you will have times where everything seems to be happening at once.

Like for me right now: I need to be in Nashville for a few days managing my rental property, my mobility is coming back so I am working on a backlog from my injury and also setting a foundation for a fall garden, the livestock does best when they are handled daily even though they can sort of go on auto pilot. We just finished a large peach harvest, there are saturday farmers markets to do, our events are happing every other week or so, and then, 120 pounds of tomatoes appeared.

You build the skills over years on a homestead to tap into something like this and run with it.

I used to drop everything for days to do projects like this and that is how I learned a better way. One that preserves the food while preserving the reason I am on the homestead: to live in concert with nature, build abundance from the land, and enjoy the beauty of this place.

So if you are new to homesteading, it may feel like lots of pressure at this time of year with the pest pressure, the weeds and the harvest, but it doesn't have to be. And being frantic all the time isn't why you are doing this, is it? Make It A Great Week

Today I am joined by the Tactical Redneck for our weekly update from Holler Homestead. We talk about wrapping up peach season, putting food by before it goes to waste, building a backlog of freezer meals, improving the duck pond, and the latest fencing adventures. We also share what we've been learning from this year's garden, experiments with coffee-dyed aprons for upcoming classes, and why choosing to cultivate steady progress instead of chasing perfection is making a real difference around the homestead.

Featured Event

The Activation Tour with Derrick Broze Franklin, TN https://ActivationTour.org

Sponsors

The Wealthsteading Podcast https://InvestableWealth.com

Discount Mylar Bags https://DiscountMylarBags.com

Topics Covered

• Wrapping up the peach harvest

• Making peach pie filling and preserving the abundance

• Building a freezer meal backlog for busy seasons

• Duck pond improvements and better water flow

• Fencing successes, mistakes, and lessons learned

• Rotational grazing and sheep management updates

• Saving a 140-year-old family tomato seed line

• What worked—and didn't—in this year's garden

• Coffee-dyed aprons for upcoming homestead classes

• Preparing for future events at Basecamp Lodge

• Balancing farm projects with the Nashville duplex sale

• Living out this year's word: Cultivate

Reference Links

Living Free in Tennessee https://LivingFreeInTennessee.com

The Activation Tour https://ActivationTour.org

Discount Mylar Bags https://DiscountMylarBags.com

The Wealthsteading Podcast https://InvestableWealth.com

Holler Roast Coffee https://HollerRoast.com

Make It A Great Week!

iTUNES was running audio as empty so I am reposting this for folks on iTunes and iTunes connected podcatchers. XOXO Today we will discuss my personal ways of letting go of resentment, a question posed by one of our long-time community members toward the end of the show I did with Joel Ryals. That question is a longer answer than something flip like, "I go for a run."

In addition to this topic, we will cover my usual weekly segments.

Featured Event: FENCING CLASS YO - The Art of Containment: Practical Livestock Fencing, August - get tickets here.

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

Sponsor 2: StrongRootsResources.com

LFTN Stocking Exchange Announcement

https://livingfreeintennessee.com/2026/07/21/lftn-stocking-exchange/

Tales From The Prepper Pantry

• Seeking Green Beans For Canning

• Meal Planning With Visitors

• Peach Pie Filling And Sliced Peaches

• Simplification Is Working Well

• Drying and Putting Up Herbs

• Freeze Dryer/ Temperature Matters

Frugality Tip

• Why Be Frugal and What Does That Mean

• FD Hiker Meal (Meatballs)

Operation Independence

• Farmers Market Update and the Network Effect

Main Topic of Today's Show: Letting Go Of Resentment

Make it a Great Week!

Today we will discuss my personal ways of letting go of resentment, a question posed by one of our long-time community members toward the end of the show I did with Joel Ryals. That question is a longer answer than something flip like, "I go for a run."

In addition to this topic, we will cover my usual weekly segments.

Featured Event: FENCING CLASS YO - The Art of Containment: Practical Livestock Fencing, August - get tickets here.

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

Sponsor 2: StrongRootsResources.com

LFTN Stocking Exchange Announcement

https://livingfreeintennessee.com/2026/07/21/lftn-stocking-exchange/

Tales From The Prepper Pantry

• Seeking Green Beans For Canning

• Meal Planning With Visitors

• Peach Pie Filling And Sliced Peaches

• Simplification Is Working Well

• Drying and Putting Up Herbs

• Freeze Dryer/ Temperature Matters

Frugality Tip

• Why Be Frugal and What Does That Mean

• FD Hiker Meal (Meatballs)

Operation Independence

• Farmers Market Update and the Network Effect

Main Topic of Today's Show: Letting Go Of Resentment

Make it a Great Week!

Today, I am joined by the Tactical Redneck to discuss updateds from the Holler Homestead: mud, ducks, peaches, homemade laundry detergent, electric fencing, freezer meals, and a few lessons learned the hard way.

Featured Event

The Activation Tour with Derrick Broze Friday, July 24 • Franklin, TN

An evening focused on freedom, independence, exiting broken systems, and building something better.

Sponsors

Agorist Tax Advice Strategic tax planning and preparation for entrepreneurs and freedom-minded business owners. https://AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

Discount Mylar Bags

DiscountMylarBags.com

• Why Tactical has been covered in mud every day lately
• Duck adventures and other animal updates
• Peach harvest is in full swing—and the freezer is filling up
• Processing abundance before it goes to waste
• Homemade laundry detergent experiments using Fels-Naptha and washing soda
• Why handmade bath soap isn't necessarily the same as laundry soap
• Thoughts on fabric softeners, vinegar, and simplifying laundry
• Tactical's favorite lasagna recipe and freezer meal planning
• New fencing class now open for registration: https://livingfreeintennessee.com/event/fencing/

Holler Roast Coffee https://HollerRoast.com

Make it a Great Week!

Today I am joined by the Tactical Redneck for our weekly update from the Holler Homestead: managing MORE injuries and Airbnb turnovers, infrastructure improvements, upcoming events, and lessons learned from trying to build a sustainable homestead and community at the same time.

Sponsors

• InvestablyWealth.com – The Wealthsteading Podcast with John Pugliano
• StrongRootsResources.com

SHOUT OUT

• OrchardHouseCreamery.com

• Both Tactical and I are dealing with injuries and learning to adjust how we work.
• Getting Basecamp Lodge turned over for Airbnb guests while staying on top of the homestead.
• The "Peeping Tom Ladder" story.
• Why cleaning up after events and projects has become a bigger priority.
• Using Airbnb income to help support Basecamp while building out the broader Holler Homestead vision.
• Working toward systems that require less emergency effort.
• Updates on peaches and what's happening around the orchard.
• Upcoming fencing class, farm tours, and other events.
• Improvements underway around the pond and property.
• Why finishing projects completely matters more than starting new ones
• Building systems that are sustainable when life happens.

• What injuries reveal about weak spots in your homestead systems.
• Why relying on heroics eventually catches up with you.
• Learning to prioritize infrastructure over constant reaction.
• Creating processes that continue to work even when you're not at 100%.
• The importance of finishing one project before creating three more.
• Growing community while also protecting your own capacity.

Make It A Great Week!