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Continue reading →: Make A Fridge Root Cellar
Step by step instructions for making a root cellar for under $10 using a worn out refrigerator from Mark and Anna who homestead in Virginia. You can read more about them and their other projects at their blog thewaldeneffect.org.
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Continue reading →: Preparing Acorns
This Eattheweeds video gives a lot of important information about oaks, acorns and preparing acorns for eating: Topics Green Dean covers: – Choosing a tree (different oaks have different tannin levels) – Selecting for tannin levels using the look of the acorns – How often oaks fruit and how to…
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Continue reading →: Using a Temperature Controller to Save On Kitchen-related Electricity Costs
I was pretty blown away by this project. Mikey and Wendy live on an off-grid, homestead in New Mexico (see their Holy Scrap Homestead blog). As such, they were looking for more efficiency from their appliances. Mikey has come up with a temperature controller that has allowed them convert a…
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Continue reading →: Room Temperature Cultured Yoghurts
These are very easy to make yoghurts because you don’t have to mess around with warming milk or closely monitoring temperatures. Instead, mesophilic yoghurts culture best at around 70 degrees Fahrenheit and all you have to do to start them is to add the culture or already cultured yoghurt to…
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Continue reading →: Making Preserved Lemons
This is an easy process (another lacto-fermented pickle) and a good way to preserve your bounty if you have a lemon tree or to extend your lemon-eating period if you eat seasonally. Re ingredients, at its simplest, you just need lemons (in Morocco a specific kind is used, but any…
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Continue reading →: Raising Rabbits for Meat
The newsurvivalist gives a detailed walk-through of his urban rabbit raising set-up (he houses his Florida white rabbits in his one-car garage). Newsurvivalist recommends Bob Bennett‘s books on rabbit raising and has based a lot of his rabbit raising operation on these books. “Don’t say you can’t grow your own…
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Continue reading →: Building Barrel Root Cellars
DeanLeatherman explains and shows how he built effective root cellars for root vegetables and cabbage from large plastic barrels buried in the ground. He talks a bit fast, but explains his concept and what he did well. I did wonder whether the plastic would be secure enough storage against any…
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Continue reading →: Herbs – How to Make an Infused Oil
Good description of how to make an infused herbal oil by Rickvanman. He stresses the need to get information on particular herbs before using them.
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Continue reading →: Hunting for Jewelweed (Touch-Me-Nots)
Don King of theMushroomHunter.com in Ohio talks jewelweed, a wild plant that is often found near nettle patches. The seed pods taste like sunflower seeds, according to Don, and can be used to stop the itching from insect bites and irritant plants (like the nettles who are often their neighbors).
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Continue reading →: Monitor Your Property’s Health
Learn an easy photo technique to monitor your property’s health. The video is taken on a rural property in Wyoming and is produced by the University of Wyoming. Embedding was disabled on this video, so just click through to watch it directly on YouTube.