Ready for another Friday Homestead Happenings show? Today I am joined by the Tactical Redneck to catch up on all the progress at the Holler Homestead!
12:30PM CT
It's hot today! Even Cycy agrees.
55 degree creek water is the best!
Someone hit this guy with a car. Had to sternly keep my doggos away from it.
Anyone want some fresh roadkill?
#homesteading #lftn
People don't know the sun rises in the east and Sets in the west
Oops. This is the catchy image for the canning class!!
Nervous about canning? Think your pressure canner might explode? You're not alone.
Join me July 26 at The Holler Homestead for a hands-on, no-nonsense class on waterbath and pressure canning. We’ll make salsa, some beans, and talk about the history of canning!
You'll go home with a jar of salsa, a cheat sheet, and maybe even a canning kit (we're giving one away).
Class is capped at 8 people. Lunch included. Lancaster, TN.
https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/product/canning-101/
Nervous about canning? Think your pressure canner might explode? You're not alone.
Join me July 26 at The Holler Homestead for a hands-on, no-nonsense class on waterbath and pressure canning. We’ll make salsa, some beans, and talk about the history of canning!
You'll go home with a jar of salsa, a cheat sheet, and maybe even a canning kit (we're giving one away).
Class is capped at 8 people. Lunch included. Lancaster, TN.
I mean that is really just bad phone holding technique
Behold. The mini split is in the roasting shack.
So much cooler.
There is no need to be mean. I posted a long note. Easy to miss that detail.
Sounds delicious
To anyone who isn’t familiar with her, Nicole is an amazing person who does amazing things. Great inspiration if you want to take charge of your own life.
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Thanks for the share!
Maybe one day :)
Gw nostr!
This year has been both challenging and filled with letting go to make space for things that enrich our lives. I've followed this new path as best I can, received some hard critical feedback, and seen a glimmer of progress lately.
I love to be home in the Holler and to care for this homestead, but to enrich our lives, we must enrich the community around us.
2 weeks ago, I did a cheese making demo at Haven Village. Folks seemed to like the demo and I was once again reminded of how slowing down for a minute allows you to truly connect with nature. Even if is is the microscopic side of it.
This was a chevre made from raw milk from milk from this farmstead. How cool is that?
We will be doing a cheese class, finally, st the Holler Homestead this summer or fall as a result of this demo. Toolbox fallacy has kept me from doing so for years.
I make darn good cheeses. I am by no means an expert. But know what? I know a TON about cheese and can teach folks who know a little less about how to start their own cheese journey.
Time to get to it...
#lftn #homesteading
Today I am joined by Jack Spirko and John Willis for ou First Tuesday Coffee Chat at 9:30am CT. Ask us anything - world events, regenerative ag, building business -- or whatever strikes your fancy!
Squash piling up? This week at 2pm CT on Living Free in Tennessee, I walk through practical ways to use, preserve, and actually enjoy your summer squash — plus a big pantry reset.
Anyone want to come to a meetup potluck followed by a rabbit processing demo. (You can skip the second part if you're not interested in that)
Today we are sipping coffee, and getting all cleaned up and set up for the event! I'll even have some garden veggies for sale.
https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2025/06/02/rabbit-processing/
#lftn #homesteading #homesteadstr
Finally cowboy's together some frames for shade cloth over the raised beds yesterday in the crazy humid and hot weather.
Today, I get to cut and hand the shade cloth throughout the day...
One day at a time!
#homesteading #lftn #grow
To everything, there is a season.
Each year, I eagerly await the time when I can finally enjoy fresh tomatoes again. 🍅
You see, I used to think I didn't like tomatoes but that simply isn't true. I don't like mealy-assed, gross store tomatoes.
Fresh ones kissed by the sun? Bring it.
Today, the 23rd of June, is the 1st ripe tomato on my homestead.
It is a striped snacking tomato that my friend David put in my aquaponics system about 8 years ago.
I've saved seeds from the first ripe tomato ever since.
And this year is the earliest ripe fruit ever.
Which makes me wonder. What will next year's tomato crop look like?
#lftn #homesteading #gardening
Starting last Friday, we kept encountering roadblocks to where we were going and what we were trying to do. Despite the roadblocks, we ended up where we were supposed go about 2 hours late
Better late than never, or better never than late?
We had a great time getting to know the folks ans visitors at Haven Village. I even got to show people how to make chevre.
Things wrapped there by 2pm or so and we made is safely back to the Holler.
I thought the roadblocks were behind us. But not so.
At least this one was fun tp watch.
#grownostr #homesteading #lftn
Sometimes morning coffee geta interrupted.
#coffeechain
Gm to me...
#homesteadstr #homeateading
Accountability photo day. In my good health journey (which has been going on for a long time), I recently had the experience where some lingering lower back pain was eradicated after I went on an overnight backpacking trip to Virgin Falls. Logically, it makes no sense why carring 30 or 40 pounds up and down rocky canyons did this. Was it that my posture got better? Was there lingering toxins in my muscles? Did pushing myself to the brink but not over the line trigger a chemical change in my body? Is the water at Virgin Falls magic?
Idk.
All I know is that since that time, I've walked with a weighted vest each morning and have largely remained lower back pain free.
Sometimes I wimp out for weather though, but not today. Hello rain!
GM #COFFEECHAIN - Headed to SOE today for Amanda Willis's birthday party. But first, watching the morning fog melt off the trees a few hollers down the way. One of my favorite views.
You usually can trace things back to funders of moveon.org. I haven't checked thus one though.
Ever have one of those days where you bust ass all day and don't take any photos to show on nostr?
#homesteading #lftn
I read that one earlier this year. Have been incorporating as much as I can into my world.
Great book
I stopped reading it midway for 2 months but have finally built morning reading space back in and picked it back up