# What To Do With All These Tomatoes Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875/what-to-do-with-all-these-tomatoes Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875/what-to-do-with-all-these-tomatoes.md Podcast: [Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce](https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875) Published: 2026-07-29T14:10:00+00:00 Episode link: https://nicolesauce.libsyn.com/what-to-do-with-all-these-tomatoes Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/nicolesauce/Episode_1152_-_Living_Free_in_Tennessee.mp3?dest-id=371392 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875/episodes/what-to-do-with-all-these-tomatoes Duration seconds: 3732 ## Resource Today, I want to talk to you about navigating homestead abundance when it feels like everything is happening at once: planting for fall, processing an abundant tomato harvest, livestock needing extra support in the heat, and personal things ramping up in the background. But mostly, today is about 120 pounds of tomatoes that appeared here yesterday during a week when I won't be around. We will also cover our usual Tuesday segments. Featured Event The Art of Containment: Practical Livestock Fencing, August 8th at 10am at the Holler Homestead in Lancaster, TN. Tickets ar $50, grab yours here All Holler Homestead Events: https://livingfreeintennessee.com/events/ Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN Tales From The Prepper Pantry 120 Pounds of Tomatoes Peaches: Final Harvest ¼ bushel of green beans off 5 plants Time to plant the fall garden if you have not - for real, it is time! Moving from paper goods to washables where it makes sense Frugality Tip Say yes, but lean on community Operation Independence Seeking Farm Sponsors for our Farm To Table Dinner in September - how that works. Tomatoes All At Once Geraldines Story from A is For Cod-Wada: https://www.amazon.com/coda-wada-Geraldine-Duncann/dp/B0006YH9M2 THE MOMENT EVERY HOMESTEADER WAITS FOR: Michelle from Trippy Acres has too many tomatoes this is the day EVERY homesteader waits for - the moment someone says, can you take all this (WHATEVER) off my hands - and that whatever is a thing you love. Adjusted Monday schedule to harvest Admitted I wasnt processing last night to maintain health, but kept them all cool where? In my livingroom on a fold out table Processed them today - 120 pounds or so of tomatoes. A FAMILIAR RHYTHM: SORT - CUT - FREEZE - REPEAT GOAL is not homestead processing p… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875/episodes/what-to-do-with-all-these-tomatoes/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875/what-to-do-with-all-these-tomatoes.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.