Foraging for Freedom with Nicki Lynne – 016

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This week on Homesteads and Homeschools, the Liberty Hippie welcomes Nicki Lynne to the show. Nicki is a mother of two and the curator and creator of Foraging for Freedom. Nicki is an author and homeschooling mother of two from Florida who does a bit of homesteading and is hoping to do even more in the future. During the show we talk about her experiences homeschooling and what they do on the homestead. We talk about how she manages to take her kids across country, plant vegetables, write countless words, and make it all educational. Go check out her books on amazon, and dig into all the content she produces on her website!

Nicki’s Links

• Foraging for Freedom
• Academia Amiss
• The Game is Rigged
• The Breast Cake Book Ever
• EdX

After the show, the Liberty Hippie delves into some mycology stuff, and examines a few of the different uses for mycellium based projects from Ecovative Designs. (Unfortunately, in 2017, despite being concerned about climate change, Ecovative took a $9.1 million grant from the worlds largest producer of CO₂, the US Dept. of Defense’s DARPA, but the technology is out there!) After talking mushrooms, again, the Liberty Hippie announces his participation in Agorafest 2020 along with today’s guest Nicki Lynne, Sherry Voluntary, Derrick Broze, and Gary Chatier. Stay tuned for more details.

Today’s Links

• Ecovative Designs
• Ecovative Sells out to DARPA
• Using Mushrooms to Build Homes
• Mushroom Based Modeling Kits

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Link to show notes for episode 15 with The Mt. Troll.

Getting Down with the Poultry Queen on Sadie-Girl Farm – 009

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This week the Liberty Hippie had the chance to talk with Julie Kirchner of Sadie-Girl Farm in Western North Carolina. Julie is enthralled with poultry and has made a thriving little side business selling some pretty fantastic chickens and quails. We talked about what varieties she focuses on – Black and Blue Copper Marans, Lavender Ameraucanas, Olive Eggers, Silkies, and Celedon Quail – and how she came to pick those varieties. We got into some of the details of her set up and how she is able to run so many flocks congruently while maintaining variety purity. These are all skills that Julie has learned later in life through non-conventional means, and it’s worth noting that the community is one of superb helpfulness. You can purchase chicks or hatching eggs from Sadie-Girl farm by accessing their website.

All The Links

• How I make a $1000 a Month from Chickens! – Lisa Murano
• Making Money With Chickens – Lisa Murano’s Book
• Sadie-Girl Farms
• Sadie-Gril Farm on Instagram
• Sadie-Girl Farm on Facebook

After the interview, the Liberty Hippie gets into the recent spat of Tim Tebow Bills that have been pushed into Statehouses as well as a bill in Iowa that proposes to distribute public school funds to private and homeschooled children. He looks at some of the pros, but also the overwhelming cons.

All the Articles

• ‘School Choice’ Bill Gets Initial OK in Iowa Senate
• ‘Tim Tebow Bill’ Sparks Controversy in State Legislature
• Alabama’s Tim Tebow Bill

And the Facebook Group!

• The Homesteaded Homeschool Forum Facebook Group

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Link to show notes for episode 008 with Steve Kemp.

Schooling in a Corn Crib with Steve Kemp – 008

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This week the Liberty Hippie sits down with Steve Kemp and discusses a key event in his public education that he still remembers 25 years later, and how it shaped his outlook and the choices he is making as a father concerning education. We also talked about how it was not all bad once he started his homeschooling career. This was another great interview with a wonderful family man, talking about homeschooling, child rearing, and life in general.

After the interview, the Liberty Hippie looks at the EPA’s recent banning of paint strippers that contain methylene chloride. It isn’t just the act of prohibition that gets him fired up, but the fact that it is a government agency making laws without going through the proper channels laid out in the constitution.

All the Articles

• The EPA Planned to Ban a Deadly Paint Stripping Chemical. Will It Follow Through
• Retailers Remove Common Paint Removers With Deadly Chemicals from Shelves
• EPA Bans Deadly Chemical Used Paint Strippers – But Provides Loophole for Commercial Operators
• EPA Bans Consumer Sales of Methylene Chloride Paint Removers
• Trump’s Methylene Chloride Rule Leaves Workers Exposed to Deadly Chemical

And the Facebook Group!

• The Homesteaded Homeschool Forum Facebook Group

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Link to show notes for episode 007 with Tamlynn Clyde of Clyde’s Dale Homestead.

Voluntary Exchanges on the Homesteader’s Co-op – 005

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Episode 2 opened with a discussion of the Homesteader’s Co-op, a pretty sweet little website that provides store fronts for homesteaders to sell their wares. In this episode, the Liberty Hippie has the privilege of interviewing Noel, the guy behind the Homesteader’s Co-op. We discuss a bit about his present homestead set-up and then get into what the Homesteader’s Co-op currently is, and what Noel’s vision is for the future of the Homesteader’s Co-op.

All The Things We Talked About and More:

• Masanobu Fukuoka – The One Straw Revolution
• The Homesteader’s Co-op
• Introducing the Homesteader’s Co-op
• Support the Homesteader’s Co-op on Fundition.io
• The Homesteader’s Co-op Discord Channel
• The Homesteader’s Co-op on SteemIt
• Noel on SteemIt

After the interview with Noel, the Liberty Hippie takes a look at some recent news items and state bills from around the country that will be quite problematic to homeschoolers and eventually, everyone.

All the Articles Discussed:

• Experts Say Homeschooling Ripe for Abuse
• Five Arrested in Death of Siblings
• Santa Charged After His Kids Are Found Buried in the Backyard
• A Discussion of Two Bills from Iowa
• The Illinois Bill
• Oregon Could Require Mandated Well-Checks of Children Under Six
• Disturbing Audio Recording Made Inside an Elementary School Classroom in West Virginia

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Link to show notes for episode 004 with Sherry Voluntary.

Harold Thornbro of The Modern Homesteading Podcast – 003

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The Liberty Hippie opens the show bringing homeschoolers attention to the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, a fantastic resource when trying to figure out the legal aspects of homeschooling. He then starts chatting today with one Harold Thornbro. Harold has been running the Modern Homesteading podcast for almost four years and has an incredible backlog of content which you can check out at The Small Town Homestead. (He also runs the Modern Homestead facebook group which runs some 21,000 deep!) We talk about how cancer at 39 gave Harold the push he needed to get back to doing things a little more naturally and how his homestead has grown over the past few years to include a wide variety of practices from permaculture to meat rabbits to a new foray into aquaponics.

Harold is a wealth of information and it was an honor to get him on the show so early on. Check out his website to sign up for his free course “How to Get Started Homesteading, Right Where You Are, Right Now” and sign up for his newsletter to get a free PDF “21 Tips for Homesteading on a Budget.”

Things We Talked About

• The Homeschool Legal Defense Association
• Mel Bartholomew’s book: All New Square Foot Gardening
• The Dervaes’ in California

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Link to show notes for episode 002 with Lizzie Pecone.

Lizzie P. of the Sounds Like Liberty Podcast – 002

Welcome back to Episode 2! Today’s episode opens with an brief exploration of the Homesteaders Co-op, which is essentially a hub for trading or purchasing homemade paper goods, seeds, hand crafted textiles, and a slew of other things. Go check it out and help the little guy.

From there we delve into a conversation with Lizzie Pecone the co-host (with her husband) of Year Round Tree and the Sounds Like Liberty podcasts. Lizzie spent her first couple of years in the public education system and was then removed by her mother to finish the rest of her educational career.

Things We Talked About

• Homesteaders Co-op
• Year Round Tree
• Sounds Like Liberty
• Go With The Fro Records

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Elizabeth Melton of Sixpence Farm CSA – 001

I’ve been wanting to get a podcast going for sometime now, but haven’t had the gumption until recently. Presently there are only two episodes available – and the first is just a pilot so… – but new episodes will be released on Tuesdays.

As you might imagine, the podcast will interview individuals involved in the homesteading and homeschooling movements in an attempt to gain insight into how others run their micro-programs so that we can all learn from each other. I have recorded a good number of episodes and I can tell already that my interviewing skills have started to get better, so stick with me and give them a listen.

Each episode will start out discussing an article from the internet, or some sort of interesting, unique, informative website or program that homesteaders and homeschoolers might find useful or informative. After that we will get into an interview. My first interview was with Miss Elizabeth Melton of Sixpence Farm. Check out the show notes for all the details, and put the rss feed into your podcatcher to subscribe to all future shows. (The show will be on iTunes soon, but as of writing, Apple is still in the reviewing process.)

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