Don’t Store Honey in Metal Cans
[/caption] The other day we found a very old can of honey in my storage. Somehow, it had gotten pushed into a corner. Anyway, it was a metal can, now metal cans have a bad …
Hats, What Kind do You Wear?
In today’s sociality when the weather is to hot or to cold or any other adverse condition most of us run from our air conditioned house to our air conditioned car and simply avoid the …
The Best Medical Kit I Have Seen
There are first aid kits and then there are medical kits. Most of the premade first aid kits I see on the market are merely collections of a few bandaids and a little antiseptic with …
Foraging for Wild Amaranth: What You Need to Do
Amaranth refers to a wide variety of species in the genus Amaranthus — such as green amaranth, palmer amaranth, and spiny pigweed — many of which are often referred to colloquially as pigweed. Like quinoa, …
Improvising a Still from a Steam Juicer
Yesterday a friend and I got to looking at a steam juicer and realized that they can be used as an improvised small still. The size we have would distill somewhere around a ½ gallon …
Shelf Life of Prescription Medications.
The shelf life of drugs is a question for many of us. This is something I have been attempting to research for some time. In the whole I have found a lot of anecdotal information but …
Learn about the Squeezo Strainer
Easy to use A while back, we obtained a Squeezo that came from a garage sale. Now I know that some of you may be asking what’s a Squeezo? A Squeezo looks like a big …
Upright vs Chest Type Freezers
My wife wants to get a new freezer and she and I are having a disagreement over the type. I want her to get a box type freezer, she wants an upright model. Her reasons …
A Simple Way to Charge Your Homemade 12 Volt Battery Packs.
Simple and easy. A couple of weeks ago I showed how to make a simple 12 volt battery pack. Today I am showing how simple it is to charge the battery packs. I use these …
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Rendering Lard
[/caption] The other day my wife was given a large amount of pig fat to render. She chose to use her crock-pot, but you could do it over an open fire without any problems. …