Episode 906 Why Homesteading and coffee?

Episode 906 - Why Homesteading and Coffee?

Today we celebrate eight years of Living Free in Tennessee with a look back at where we started and why homesteading, why coffee, why community.

Direct Download for episode 1: https://traffic.libsyn.com/nicolesauce/NicoleSauce_Podcast_May_20_2016_-_52016_6.52_PM.mp3

Featured Event: Haven Earth Trade School Homesteading Bootcamp, June 14-16 in Old Fort Tennessee (Nearish Cleveland and the Ocoee River).https://www.havenearthtradeschool.net/homestead-bootcamp-haven-village

Live we did yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwreK9qPVKI

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Livestream Schedule

BIG Week This week! Spicy Sisters are Back This Wednesday at 2pm, Joel Ryals will share his story about moving from Florida to Ohio on the Tuesday Live and we have our usual Homestead Happenings episode this Friday.

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Harvest Right Freeze Drier is back up and running and helping with a plethora of eggs

• Affiliate Link For Harvest Right: https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1095.html

• Designing the final part of the house to include pantry storage, a pool, and an outdoor kitchen

• Ground Beef Discussion

• Time to finish curing the SRF Pork

• Garden is finally coming together

Operation Independence

• Reduced projects that I am focusing on and as a result finds have also reduced. We are assessing the homestead in terms of what brings value now more than ever. With the extra time, the home is almost back to a source of support rather than a drain. There is a lesson in this.

Main topic of the Show: Why Homesteading and Coffee

May 20, 2016 - an excerpt

Nine years ago, we started on an adventure in the country. What began as a weekend getaway quickly changed into a small homestead with chickens, gardens, laughter, neighbors, and sometimes the opposite of laughter.

The Holler Homestead is known in our area for our home roasted coffee (it takes less time to roast your own than drive to the store), elephant garlic, stone ground flour and hand rolled oats. We also help people learn how to preserve food and are keenly interested in self sufficient living.

Y'all, I have not listened to episode one since about a week after recording it to figure out how I could be a better podcaster. It feels like so much has changed, and it has. But the core, the mission, the motivation is still the same as it was on day one. Do you know how good that makes me feel? Also a bit surprised.

Back in 2016, this podcast was my only creative outlet. It was an attempt to reach more people who were interested not only on homesteading but it taking whatever steps in their life that they could to build something for them, outside the system, to live as they saw fit, without buying into the societal expectaitons - and without asking permission.

>>GexX on Tiktok and the FIFO approach to life

• Fearlessness

• Hypothesis, test, conclusion

• Culture to support others who take that same approach

We live in a time where everything is at your fingertips and some people think that is the problem, but it isnt. The problem is that because everything is at our fingertips, people mistakenly think that theoretical learning replaces practical application. And as we like to say around here: Sheep don't read books.

The book learning is helpful. In fact, I am 1 lesson in on Spirko's composting course and that theoretical knowledge will greatly impact how we make compost at the Holler Homestead, but just nerding out on bacteria and fungi on the internet will not make the plants outside my back window thrive.

Today, in celebration of eight years, i wanted to look at some of the reasons why LFTN, and the Holler Homestead have become what they are today -

Why homesteading?

• Homesteading Mindset teaches us to create value with what we have so that we set a foundation of bringing value to others and can tap into the value that others bring to us. It is NOT a piece of land.

• The threat of our society and economy - Back to the land and preserving heritage skills.

• Homesteading's natural offspring is freedom - like the true kind of freedom you build by no longer GAF about what you used to think you could not live without (which creates weakness)

• Your health is the biggest gift you were given and the commercial food system is poison

• Heals your spirit through seasonal connection, sun light, bacterial connection and more

As I think back on the past eight years of this podcast, I started out by wanting to share my personal planner with yall. That was the beginnings of My3Things. And the most surprising thing that happened was the community that we have become and that grows as we share episodes, help one another, get together to do GSD weekends and so much more.

8 years ago, I did not think we would become a counter economy and underground network (Explain more about this).

8 years ago, I was lucky if one person would come to Chicken day and new we fill event venues, sell out a spring workshop every year, and keep finding more people who want to opt out of the current "normal" and create a better life for themselves and their families.

Eight years ago, I had no idea I would talk this long, and I only have because of yall.

Why Community

• Homesteaders were never alone

• It is easy to attack one, but hard to attack many and remain in power (Raw milk story)

• We all need to learn to keep building and we cannot do that without one another

Health | Community | Wealth

8 years.

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WHY COFFEE

The biggest surprise I had when listening to that