Monday Meme – “Fat-Free” or “Low-Fat” Foods
Read Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss for an eye opening book about the processed food industry.
Monday Meme – By Gifts One Makes Slaves And By Whips One Makes Dogs
“An Inuit from Greenland made famous in the Danish writer Peter Freuchen’s Book of the Eskimo. Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him profusely. The man objected indignantly: “Up in our
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DIY Shiitake Mushroom Inoculation Using Sawdust Spawn In Logs
My parents bought us a Shiitake sawdust spawn starter kit as a Christmas gift from Field and Forest Products. We had to wait a little bit before we could actually inoculate the logs because they recommend that daytime highs stay consistently above 45 degrees. We had planned to fence in the garden area and cut
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Homemade Clothes Dryer Racks
It is sometimes difficult to get all the washed clothes hung out to dry on the clothesline when the weather won’t cooperate. We have been running the wood stove for months now and it seemed like a no-brainer to use the heat of the wood stove to help dry clothes when mother nature wasn’t cooperating.
Make Your Own Sauerkraut
Eating live, fermented foods like sauerkraut have been proven to be beneficial to your health in many studies. The stuff you buy in the store is heat processed during canning and essentially dead. It is so easy to make your own sauerkraut that I couldn’t believe it when we learned how. So, we had to
Making Poly Tunnels To Extend Our Growing Season
We don’t have a large permanent greenhouse yet or enough space in our little cabin to get seedlings going early. We decided that making little temporary greenhouses (a.k.a poly tunnels) would be the next best thing. We built ours over existing raised beds, but any growing space could be covered with a poly tunnel. The
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Monday Meme – What Is Our Largest Irrigated Crop?
What is the nations largest irrigated crop? Our inedible lawns.Gimme Green is an amusing documentary about our obsession with lawns. You can watch the entire movie at http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/festival/play/7388/
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Winter Weather On the Homestead
We finally had our first (and hopefully last) stretch of bad weather this winter. It started with a good shower of ice pellets, followed by sleet, followed with temperatures in the teens. The next day brought an inch or so of real snow and single-digit temperatures. All of which caused school closures all week for