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Continue reading →: Make A Tallow Candle
Instead of using wax as its fuel, a tallow candle uses animal fat. In the following video, the tallow used comes from caribou and the wick is made from willow bark. Phreshyr molds the candle in wet sand. He uses a double boiler method to melt the tallow, so that…
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Continue reading →: All About Alpacas
Jill Bergman covers many different aspect of raising alpacas. If you are interested in this topic the full suite (and it is extensive) of alpaca videos is available here.
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Continue reading →: How to Cure Wood
Curing wood you’ve felled or found (drying ‘green’ wood in a controlled fashion) is essential if you want to use it for construction, woodworking, or even just for use in your woodstove or fireplace. You can read Curing Wood in 5 Steps here. Curing the wood keeps it from cracking,…
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Continue reading →: Introduction to Spinning With A Drop Spindle
Drop spindles are an inexpensive (easy to make from materials on hand and you can buy one for as little as $12), portable way to spin — versus using a spinning wheel — and many people find that they also give them more control over the yarn they produce. Abby…
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Continue reading →: Learning to Spin On A Spinning Wheel
Sue MacNiven in the UK shows us how to spin yarn on a spinning wheel: More on using a spinning wheel from the PIPA Project:
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Continue reading →: Useful Plant: Silver Buffalo Berry and Autumn Olives
These berries are known for jelly making. miwilderness in Michigan on the “Autumn Olive” hunt. Both videos are referring to elaeagnus umbellata though Shepherdia argentea is also called “Silver Buffalo Berry.” miwilderness uses the berries to make fruit leather. Wikipedia says of sheperdia argentea (not pictured in these videos): “Buffaloberries…
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Continue reading →: How To Make An Electric Bike/Convert Your Bike to Electric
Dennis shows us how to convert a mountain bike to electric:
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Continue reading →: How to Cook Squirrel
Brian of mountnman shows us how to cook squirrel. He says that often people end up with a squirrel dish that is far too tough and chewy. He’s done a perfect job dressing the squirrels. They look like rabbit that you’d see at a butcher’s. Strangely he didn’t add any…
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Continue reading →: Dressing and Butchering Squirrel
I’d come across this interesting article on the tradition of eating squirrel meat in the US. Apparently, as recently as the 1940s, eating squirrel was very widespread and common. Judging from the many YouTube videos on hunting squirrel for food and cooking squirrel, squirrel eating either never left or has…