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.

Ever have one of those days where you bust ass all day and don't take any photos to show on nostr? #homesteading #lftn

Gm #coffeechain. Morning reading is done. Today, in the book Good Energy by Casey Means, we explored the impact of heat and cold exposure on your body's metabolism. I appreciate that she included gree ideas for getting heat and cold exposure. As a homesteader, I get more heat than cold at this time of year, but perhaps more plunges in the 55 degree creek is in order... Today is a heavy coffee roast ans ship day, a catch up on chores day, and a visitor day. A friend was supposed to meet me for lunch in town and decided to come here for a coffee on the homestead instead. As usual, the days are full! #lftn #homesteading #homesteadstr #hollerroast