Today we talk about animals on the homestead, and more particularly training animals on the homestead. This is not the all-successful animal trainer’s view of getting your animals in line telling you how to achieve impossible results with just one week of practice when they have spent a lifetime learning. This will be a discussion of the benefits of training your livestock and some ideas on how to do that, as well as stories and examples of things I have done well here at the Holler Homestead === and not so well.

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What Mother Nature is providing

• Poke Weed
• Tiger lilies - Lilium lancifolium
• Lettuce
• Garlic flowers
• Chard
• Dill
• Basil

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Using up non-pickled beets
• Drying last year’s garlic to make garlic powder

Harvest Bounty

• The 5 foot tomato was really 4 feet. NOW it is 5 feet and the blight begins
• Trellising
• Sweet potato greens are ready

Questions from Listeners:

• What exactly do 'you' do with dandelions. Do you roast the root, dry the leaves for tea, etc. How do you best use the 'weed'?
• What do 'you' do with mullein. Do you simply dry the leaves and then use it for hot tea?
• How do you make your comfrey salve? Do you get the bees wax from your bees or do you buy it?
• Compostable toilets--can it really be as easy as a 5 gallon bucket and sawdust? Operation

Independence

• $50 in the independence fund - rental property faucet and why basic skills are important The hack saw that saved the day

Topic of the day: Training Animals on the Homestead

1. Learn the animal’s perspective. Observe - every day.
2. Find out what motivates them
3. Figure out what you need to train them to do, or not to do
4. Schedule your time to train them

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And with that, go out and Make it a great week!

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