{"podcast":{"title":"Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce","slug":"living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875","podcast_index_feed_id":1045875,"rss_url":"https://nicolesauce.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://LivingFreeInTennessee.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/2/c/5/a2c5678b2fa7a7bad959afa2a1bf1c87/lftnlogo3.jpg","author":"S. Nicole Williams","episode_count":1194,"summary":"Helping you live the live you life you choose on your terms. Living Free in Tennessee chronicles how we build our homestead, develop independence, plan and manage time and grow and preserve food sustainably - from a woman's point of view.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T14:22:16.847053+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875"},"episode":{"title":"From Home To Homestead - the beginning - EP 1160","slug":"from-home-to-homestead-the-beginning-ep-1160","published_at":"2026-08-27T01:07:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875/from-home-to-homestead-the-beginning-ep-1160","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875","url":"https://nicolesauce.libsyn.com/from-home-to-homestead-the-beginning-ep-1160","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/nicolesauce/Episode_1160_-_Living_Free_in_Tennessee.mp3?dest-id=371392","summary":"Today we're talking about what it really looks like to go from a home to a homestead, and I get to answer a question I've been asked for years in real time: If I had it all to do over again, what would I do differently? LFTN Stocking Exchange Reminder that the LFTN Stocking Exchange is coming up. Get it on your radar! Featured Event: Soil Microscopy Class Soil and Microscopy Intensive Learn to look at what is actually happening in your soil and better understand the biology that makes healthy soil work. LivingFreeInTennessee.com Sponsors Above Phone AbovePhone.com Strong Roots Resources StrongRootsResources.com Tales from the Prepper Pantry Building new shelves Consolidating freezer fat Meatloaf is the big project of the week Processed all peppers for salsa futures Frugality Tip: 100% Cotton Throws Buy a cotton blanket at Aldi for $15 Sew it in half and you get two throws for the price of one No unnatural plastic yuck in your throws Operation Independence SRF sponsorship has really come through! Holler Roast is up 20% since the weeks of the fair Thanks, y'all! Main Topic: From Home To Homestead One of the questions I get when on panels and suck is \"If you had it to do all over again, how would you build your homestead?\" Or \"What are the 2 or 3 biggest mistakes you made early on in building your homestead?\" As homestead advising types we tend to tell people to build things one at a time and go slowly so that you can get your systems working. Or we say get a permaculture plan in place first. Or we have more practical advice like infrastructure before livestock, get your zone 0 in place before you do anything else, etc All these things are true and not true at the same time What is homesteading? The eternal question, more controversial than what is off grid? (Reminds me o…","meta_description":"Today we're talking about what it really looks like to go from a home to a homestead, and I get to answer a question I've been asked for years in real tim…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4262,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875/episodes/from-home-to-homestead-the-beginning-ep-1160/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-free-in-tennessee-nicole-sauce-1045875/from-home-to-homestead-the-beginning-ep-1160.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}