Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today, we discuss story and how in strongly influences our success or failure.

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Join us for an update on the sheep, all the sheep, milking sheep, bottle babies, sleep deprivation.

Featured Event: Foraging on the Farm at Blueberry Hill Farm in Knoxville, March 22

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Today, we talk about lessons learned after four (or five?) seasons of birthing lambs at the Holler Homestead. We will also cover all our usual Tuesday segments like Tales from the Prepper Pantry, Seasonal Forage and more.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

Used up beef from the been canning webinar of 2022 (Beef stew)

Will be harvesting the first lettuces soon from the outside gardens

Giving all storage here a big facelift with the help of Opalyn

Cutting up 3 Eyes of Round

RIP Claire the Fridge (The freezer/fridge combo)

Frugality Tip From Nicole

Freeze dried meals with a thermos, OR lunch pail thermos

Operation Independence

3 Beef Rounds for the workshop

Main topic: Lessons learned from 5 birthing seasons

Make a management decision

>rotation vs single pasture and medications

>Interventions vs survival of the fittest

>Hair vs wool

Finding strong Stock

Pasture Birthing Bag

>gloves

>Lube

>thermometer

>towels

>Alcohol or other sterilizer

(Basiic first aid is already at the pasture)

Home Lamb Support Kit

>Colostrum

>Bottles

>Milk Replacer

>Pee pads from Sam's club

>Dog crate

>Diapers if you will go this route

>Lamb-dedicated towels

>Hair dryer or heat lamp

>Temperature probes

>Heating box

>Sous Vide

>Mason jars

>Funnel

>thermometer

>more gloves

>lamb probiotics

Things to prepare for in birthing

>Stuck lamb

>Breach Lamb

>Sideways lamb

>Cold Lamb

>Dopey lamb

>Low milk production from mom

>Lamb not breathing

>prolapse

Great resources

>All Creatures Great and Small, etc

>Laura Lawson Lamb Problems another references

>get a sheep mentor

BACON CLASS

Today, I am joined by The Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead: Looking for lamb births, getting rapid forward progress on the homestead, and more. Featured Event: March 14 Makin' Bacon from 10am-12pm - LivingFreeinTennessee.com

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Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!

Community

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee
• Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Want to come to the Holler Homestead and learn to make bacon? Makin' Bacon is March 14th at 10 am and space is limited.

Join us for a First Tuesday Coffee with John Willis of Special Operations Equipment, Nicole Sauce of The Living Free in Tennessee Podcast, and Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast.

Connect with us!

• SOETacticalGear.com
• LivingFreeinTennessee.com
• TheSurvivalPodcast.com

We are going to talk today about what happens when your project, your homestead, your business — whatever you are building — hits the point where it can't grow unless you step into leadership. Not louder. Not bossier. Just clearer.

And what it costs when you avoid that moment.

We'll also cover our usual Monday segments.

Featured Event

Monthly Meetup at Basecamp Lodge Saturday, 12pm–3pm Potluck + Seed Exchange (bring seeds if you've got them)

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1246004124202741

Bring a dish. Bring seeds. Bring yourself.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Considering a community lard pig buy – Kune Kunes available
• Breaking the bad habit of buying vegetables at the store — diving back into freezer and canned goods
• Seeking wet cat food by the pallet — anyone?
• Gardens getting up and running
• Recipe Favorite: Dutch Oven Chicken Root Bake

Forage Update

• Watercress
• Dandelion
• Stinging Nettle
• Dead Nettle
• Chickweed
• Comfrey

Everything is waking up.

Frugality Tip

Buying at the right time of year makes a big difference.

Before the Super Bowl: buy a TV on sale. After the Super Bowl: buy the returned open-box TVs on clearance.

Last year we snagged a small smart TV originally priced at $125 for $37. Brand new. Open box.

Check your local clearance sections for open-box returns. Often brand new.

Happy savings, y'all.

Operation Independence

Turkey Tail season is upon us.

There may be real opportunity there. We're going to find out.

Main Topic of the Day

From Personality-Driven to Framework-Driven

Yesterday I sat down and drilled into every project and business I run.

Income-generating. Money-costing. Even things like helping when someone in the community is ill — and yes, we should mention the Jeffrey Dheeres fundraiser.

Everything fit into three buckets:

• Nicole Sauce centered
• Holler Homestead centered
• Weird outliers

The outliers go on the chopping block first.

But the bigger realization was this:

I have been avoiding a leadership vacuum.

I kept waiting for consensus. Waiting for another leader to step forward. Waiting for clarity to magically appear.

And while I waited, I tried to just do more myself.

That cost me peace. It led to burnout. It stalled momentum.

Here's the lesson:

If I don't accept my role as leader — meaning I walk in front instead of pushing from behind — we stay in one place.

Not because people aren't good. Not because they don't care. Because without structure, everything becomes personality-driven.

And personality-driven systems stall when the personality gets tired.

What we're building now at Holler Homestead is a framework.

• Basecamp Lodge is functional.
• Classes are being scheduled (like the March 14 bacon class).
• The basement classroom is moving forward.
• Homestead systems are being documented.
• The buying club is poised for its first test.
• We're looking at additional acreage.

Long-term vision:

Expanded land. Commons effort. Cabins for temporary stays. People coming to experience regenerative community, food, skill-building, and reset. Membership options for non-residents.

Not a massive intentional community.

An example.

Something that can be learned from and replicated elsewhere.

And here's the key:

Structure allows generosity.

When more people in the community have needs, chaos doesn't scale — structure does.

If you don't build framework, your generosity burns you out.

If you build framework, your generosity becomes sustainable.

So here's the question for you:

Where are you avoiding stepping into leadership?

Where are you burning out because you won't build structure?

Is your project personality-driven when it needs to become framework-driven?

Sometimes growth doesn't require more effort.

It requires clarity.

And someone willing to walk in front.

Today, we will explore the concept of building community, but not from a pure numbers standpoint. Many people measure community in numbers, not quality. We will discuss a better way to create community around you that makes the whole network mightier.

Featured Event: Spence MAG Meetup: This Sunday. Contact Brad for information. [email protected]

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Tales From The Prepper Pantry

>11 years ago, crepe night for Fat Tuesday and we were snowed in

>Rebuilding the pantry system after working through the "stuff" this winter (Why I did this)

>Scaling from 2 to 5 - growing pains

>Audit your canning supplies

>German Food Day

Frugality Tip From Margo

I have a friend up North whose library has passes you can check out for discounted admission to museums. So check out your local library and see what they have to offer.

Operation Independence

Barrels for sale, grocery club update

Main Topic

We talk about community all the time with some of you saying there is no one around you, and others seeking to start your own community. Often, communities fail because they have the wrong goal.

How do you know your community is successful?

>number of people

>length of community

>etc

I like to think about the goals differently: How many surface relationships do we house versus inner circle trust.

>>explain this

Total participants is meaningless if you don't house quality relationships.

Singular selfishness versus selfish community

Why I think we got off course (TOP DOWN COMMUNITY)

Why do I support other networks? What then should our goals be?

Does the community do what it says and say what it does? Does the community have a high number of quality, close relationships?

Does the community refrain from bad-mouthing other similar communities AND each other?

What makes a series of small pods mighty?

So ask yourself, WHO is in my inner circle and, in the words of Brad, would I leave a car at the base of my driveway with $1000 cash in there if they asked without needing to know why?

Today, I am joined by The Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead: The season has become warmer but we are not out of the winter woods yet! Learn what we are doing to get ready for growing season.

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Sponsor 2: TheWealthsteadingPodcast.com

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!

Community

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee
• Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today, I am joined by The Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead: Friends, spring, and what we are experimenting with on the homestead.

Featured Event: Farm Freedom Summit, February 7

Sponsor 1: StrongRootsResources.com

Sponsor 2: DiscountMylarBags.com

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!

Community

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
• Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee
• Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Join us for a First Tuesday Coffee with John Willis of Special Operations Equipment, Nicole Sauce of The Living Free in Tennessee Podcast, and Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast.

Connect with us!

• SOETacticalGear.com
• LivingFreeinTennessee.com
• TheSurvivalPodcast.com