Many of us have stored various amounts of grains and legumes, but do not rotate grains or legumes into our regular diet. So they sit somewhere until we need them or they go bad. Now suddenly […]
A Method to Rotate Grains and Legumes in Your Food Storage Read More »
What if we told you there was a wilderness survival technique that was easy to use, efficient, and produced very little smoke? Would you be interested? This technique is called the Dakota fire hole, and
Making a Dakota Fire Hole: The Ultimate Survival Technique Read More »
Except for heating, mine is an all-electric home. I heat part of the house in the winter with a 21-year-old Avalon brand wood-fired, air-tight, high-efficiency, non-catalytic home heating stove. Three years ago I modified this
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Pemmican is something that we have all heard about, but probably have not encountered. It was used extensively by the Native Americans, but there seems to be some confusion over exactly how they made it.
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Bulgur (also Burghul, bulghur, burghul or bulgar) is a cereal made from whole wheat. It is common in European, Middle Eastern, and Indian cuisine. The advantage of bulgur wheat is that is shortens your cooking times because it only needs to be re-hydrated rather than
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Here is another good entry by Darlene in our writing contest highlighting a practical skill. Howard “Waste Not, Want Not” is one of my mama’s old sayings, and women from generations past were great at
Making Tallow Candles Read More »
Many of us store large amounts of whole wheat, what today people call wheat berries. Now most of us don’t cook with this on a regular basis. So today, I want to talk about cooking
Cook With the Whole Wheat in Your Storage Read More »
One thing that I try to do periodically is tell you when I find a good buy on something. Well yesterday, a friend was over and showed me his new 1000 lumen Durabeam Ultra flashlight.
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In my preps I have some sealed lead acid batteries, both 100 amp gel cells and some 7.5 amp batteries made into 12-volt battery packs. Each pack contains two 7.5 amp 12 volt batteries. These
Charging and Maintaining Sealed Lead Acid Batteries Read More »
Here is another article by a friend. Howard Just about everyone knows about the zucchini curse. Plant even a single zucchini seed in the spring and by midsummer you’re getting so many zucchinis you don’t
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