Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

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Episode 294 - A Side Hustle Approach to Income Apr 13, 2020

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Today at your request, I talk through practical approach to building side hustle income into your life. This is meant to help you get the right frame of mind as you build revenue streams, rather than send you off to try 14,000 new hustles. Because right now, there are opportunities, if just working at Krogers for a month or two, and no need to feel totally hopeless about income if you have lost your job.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

A neighborly Easter Dinner: Fish, Ham, Greens, Devilled Eggs, Mashed Sweet Potatoes and Gravy
Bumped Animal Feed up to a 3 months supply
Still doing well with our one site stores
Have a line on lamb with another friend to restock meat stores
A word on whole animal cooking

What's in Season

Another round of dryad's saddle mushrooms
Vetch is ready to bloom soon
Dandelion flower
Bee swarms

Operation Independence

Almost done with 2019 tax prep - ahead of my usual schedule
Preparing to run 50 meat chickens

Main topic of the Show: A Side Hustle Approach to Income

Take stock of what you have
Take stock of what you can do
Look at technological opportunities
Look at your market opportunities
Choose the easy/most fun ones first and systematize them
Run the numbers regularly.
Add one thing at a time and leave time for recreation

Make it a great week!

Song: Calling my name, by sauce

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

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Episode 293: Feedback From You Apr 10, 2020

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Today, I take questions about making the perfect pot of coffee, growing lettuce, inverters and read what y'all have built in your lives that is making you more stable through this halting of our economy.

I hope this gives you a positive perspective as the weekend comes and we have another couple of days to focus on building our lives the way we want them to be.

Make it a Great Week!

Nicole Sauce

Episode 292 - Three Ways To Kickstart Your Fresh Vegetable Pipeline Apr 08, 2020

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Today, we talk through three ways to kickstart your fresh vegetable pipeline if you are running into grocery store shortages. I have been hearing varied reports of fresh vegetable shortages, or conversely way too many fresh vegetables and thought now would be a good time to talk through some of the faster ways to get something fresh back into your diet in as few as 3-4 days.

#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and what is she doing??

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Thursday Webinar: Introduction to Cheesemaking

Thursday Livestream (Talking about our food production plans)

Stump the Sauce

From Christopher: Got a stump the sauce for you. What to do with coffee grounds that are old and no longer make good coffee

What's Up on the Homestead

A swarm of bees
Weed 1.0
Adding tons of homestead-produced meat and vegetables
Back into beer brewing

Three Ways To Kickstart Your Fresh Vegetable Pipeline

Sprouts

Lids: https://www.amazon.com/OWAY-Sprouting-Screen-Stainless-Canning/dp/B07H1V6973/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=sprouting+lids&qid=1586373569&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUE5N0Y4MURRVzRIUDAmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA0MTI1NjMxQThVWDdIVEVXM0FLJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAwMTAxNjlQQk05Wk0xMU9GN0kmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl

2. Microgreens

Dowie Farms: https://www.dowiefarm.com/

Trueleaf: https://www.trueleafmarket.com/

Kitazawa: https://www.kitazawaseed.com/

3. Seek local growers selling direct

Bonus Webinar next week - Quick starting your spring garden in 2020 with TRN, Thursday at noon.

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

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Episode 291 - Find Your Purpose Apr 06, 2020

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Today we walk through some things to consider as you find or reevaluate your purpose. Because now is a great time to look to the future and find opportunities to get you there.

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Youtube LiveStream Thursday at 7pm: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g/

Introduction to Cheesemaking Webinar - sign up!

Tales From the Prepper Pantry

Reorganizing everything
Update on 4 weeks with no store
Changes in approach for the future

What's Up in The Garden

Holler Food Production Plans

Operation Independence

Reducing need to buy things through good home economics

Main topic of the Show: Find Your Purpose

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

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Episode 290: Decentralized Food with Roy Ramey Apr 03, 2020

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Today, I get the honor of talking to a fella who I have admired for years, who cares about freedom and who understands that food security throughout the country would be vastly improved if we could get the government regulators out of our business and let folks sell food to one another, from the bottom up rather than further a centralized food system that puts us all at risk when deliveries no longer come for whatever reason.

But first

What can you do this weekend to make you life better either now or in the future?
Cheese Making Webinar Thursday, 12pm Central Time - Sign Up Here
What do you want webinars on?

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Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/roy.ramey.94

FB Campaign Page

https://www.facebook.com/RameyforAg/

FB Friends of Roy Ramey for WV FB group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2676899735770937/

FB Minuteman Farmer Page

https://www.facebook.com/MinutemanFarmer/

www.rameyforwv.com (under construction)

Main content of the show

Roy Ramey operates a small family farm in WV. Previous to which, he attended college, worked in construction and engineering, served in the Army, including combat in Iraq. He has served as a college professor, teaching military leadership and currently manages military education. He's married to his wife Fran with an 11-year-old daughter Abby, whom they homeschool. After serving as an Army officer for over 30 years, now in the Army Reserves, after being dissatisfied with government, he has decided to quit complaining and BE the solution, extending his service to run for office as the Commissioner of Agriculture of WV.

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Episode 289: Five Pantry Storage Ideas Apr 01, 2020

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Today we talk about five ideas for storing your pantry items in a way that is easy to access, or at least easy to manage.

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#HollerHatWednesday, Where is she and what is she doing?

Announcements

April 9 at 12pm CST there will be a Webinar: Introduction to Cheesemaking
Thursday, April 2, we will do another livestreamed Q&A from the Holler Neighborhood

Stump the Sauce

BLT With Canned Tomatoes

What's Up in the Garden

Pig
Rabbit
Chicken

Main topic of Today's Show: Five Pantry Storage Ideas

Make it a Great Week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

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Episode 288: This Golden Age We Live In Mar 30, 2020

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This age we live in is so prosperous. We have everything we need if you think about it. And yet, we still complain. So today, I wanted to talk through this golden age we live in and all the opportunities that we have because of it.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

What Reality Looks Like Without Store Augmentation Solution: Freeze or can veggies for next year Homemade Lunch Meat Ideas More cheesemaking, or more advance purchasing (freezing cheese) Redoing short-term and mind-term storage areas, which means my home look slike a burglar got into it

What's in Season

Hairy vetch Wild mustard flower Pea shoots would be had I actually planted them Poke

Operation Independence

Spending less on gas, but more on mailed in supplies (Feminine product fail) Homestead projects are happening quickly, an overall win

Main topic of the Show: The Golden Age

If you look at your situation and let me know what you are lucky to have in your life right now? I would really like to know.

Make it a great week!

Song: Dr. Feeley, Dr. Skinner

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Episode 287: TOTW on Fear and Freedom Mar 27, 2020

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Today is a thought of the walk on fear and freedom. We are seeing so many people call for curtailing the freedoms of people all over the country and expansion of the very government systems that have made this situation worse and that just ain't right.

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

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Episode 286: 4 Home Fermentation Projects Mar 25, 2020

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Today is a how-to day and someone asked me about ways that fermenting from home can be integrated into your lifestyle in a time when store trips are spare. So I decided to share 4 home fermentation projects that are perfect for this moment in time.

#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and why is she so far away from her friend?

Livestream tonight at 7 CT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-PX-bHfC3AEOUPWgJ5d40g

What's Up in the Garden

As expected, spring weeds are here
Getting ready for a round of in-ground planting
Supplies for the outdoor hydro system arrive Friday
Greens galore

Main topic of the Show: 4 Home Fermentation Projects

Homemade Sour Cream
1. Whole milk & sour cream or half and half or cream
2. Buttermilk Starter
Lacto-fermented Vegetables
1. 3 tbsp for every 5 lbs
2. 6 TBSP to 1 gallon water for a light brine (sliding scale)
Kombucha (organic red wine vinegar and red wine, or a commercially produced kombucha)
1. Ratio: 1 gallon, 1 cup sugar, 8 tea bags, 2 cups "starter" an the mother
Beer
1. Kits online: carboy, fermentation lock, ingredients, racking cane, bottles, caps
2. Malt, hops, yeast

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

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Episode 285 - Grow in 2020, an update Mar 23, 2020

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Today, we do a check in on Grow, a quarter 1 update. And more importantly how we can all grow through this year, come what may.

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

We are only eating from the prepper pantry now (What that means: stored goods, frozen goods, grown goods, eggs, foraged food)
Doing a series on youtube called cook with what you have

What's in Season - wild edition