Recent content by Alik Pelman

After much trial and error, managed to make hard soap out of wood ash and olive oil (aka potash lye soap) - https://youtu.be/c2Ka0jrOa6A

Yeh, I guess what applies here in the middle east does not necessarily apply to Canada..

if you can afford irrigation over summer you can grow corn in the summer and mill it, and thus double your grain harvest from the same plot (winter grain - wheat/barley and then summer grain corn/rice). this would by rather intensive in terms of using the nutrients in the soil so you'll have to...

A relatively conservative estimate is something between 0.8-1 ton of grain per acre. if wheat is not your only source of grains/carb, i guess two medium loaves a week would do for two adults, which means about 1kg (2lbs) a week (i.e., ±50kg a year). So you'd need to saw about 1/15 of an acre in...

thanks! it took me a while to come up with the idea, and I'm rather pleased with the results. Although I could use a better lid (have some idea, yet to be tried).

happy to share a short video a made showing step by step growing my own wheat and making flour - from seed to loaf - all done on site with very simple methods (third year in a row) - great fun!. (Western Galilee, Israel):