Homestead Happenings for August 18, 2023 - Ep 782

Today we talk about the great duck reset of 2023, a new way to do green curry, community fun and more.

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Weather has been awesome - nice and cool relatively speaking.

Forage

• Elderberries are ripe

Livestock

• New baby ducks
• The hatches are all meat birds
• Teenagers are integrated with old flock and the other babies are learning to
• Need to check sheep for work pressure - flokie's ears are hanging down
• Sheep love box elder

Harvest meals

• Green curry turkey - roasted the leg quarter first and it tasted good
• Tomato, cucumber, basil mozzarella salad

Grow

• Ts peppers are coming on
• Swimming in tomatoes
• Green beans, harvest 3 this week
• Reseeding beets, top watering each day
• Swiss chard looks sad
• Malabar spinach and forever spinach doing very well
• Deciding if I feel like direct seeding lettuces, etc before my secret trip next week

Holler Neighbors/Community

• Island Mt Pat is back in town, bonfire with the whole neighborhood this weekend

Infrastructure

• Shocking gutter
• Seconds away from all cabin wiring being complete
• Getting ready to fix the rest of my home joist problem

Finances

• Sending another round to the auction

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