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If your climate is anything like that of Vancouver BC (where we used to live) your food would be best stored underground (root cellar, buried box/barrel, clamp) where the temps fluctuate less than in a building where the temp is not artificially regulated. Being in the South end of Puget...

This is old I remember first seeing it over 13 years ago and just found it again to share here. I think it's just too cute, I love it :love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kAxLN-ww-s&NR=1 (hope I did it right :fl )

DH is in the process of building a shed in the backyard with the intended purpose of extra storage for yard & garden tools, bikes, extra household stuff, etc including a pantry (food storage) & freezer space. The size is 12x12 and is roughly 20ft from the house/garage and gets all day...

With all the other disasters going on around the country, the Texas drought and wildfires have kinda taken a back seat. I've been thinking and wondering about it for awhile now and I'm getting a bit worried & think it's time for a roll call of our SS members in Texas. I'm hoping & praying...

your food grade buckets & special lids, mylar bags & such for storing foods, grains & such? I know alot of people on here have them. I'm just not sure how you've all acquired them. Do you buy them at local brick & mortar stores? or buy them online thru 'prepper' sites? or what? I would like...

I call that the 'aged to perfection' section. :lol:

I don't see why not....it should. Many years ago our power went out just as I had put a frozen pizza in the oven...'oh, what do I do now'.....I ended up putting a cast iron dutch oven inside the firebox of the woodstove upside down with hot coals inside the dutch oven and all around it to get...

I want, I want, I want.......EVERYTHING!!! Let's see...... 1. House with acreage 2. Cows (beef & dairy), horses (transportation & field work), pigs, more chickens, turkeys, more dogs & cats, etc..... 3. Well established fruit & nut orchard 4. 1/4 acre or more sized kitchen garden, plus 1+...

Yay.....we finally get summer!!! :bun Isn't it wonderful? Maybe the garden can be salvaged after all. Come on corn & maters!! Hey....a song comes to mind.....'Here comes the sun'. SD, wanna sing it for us? oh crap...great weather & I have to work this weekend :he :rant

It's just the opposite out here. Blackberries are more invasive than mint. They grow EVERYWHERE & ANYWHERE!!! They are just starting to ripen up. This year I want to make some jam and have plenty for eating & freezing too for some pies, etc. I just have to find the time to pick em. As for...

the good news......Commodity investers are getting rich? :he

ZUCCHINI !!! I made the mistake of letting 3 plants have their way. I tried to keep them picked at smaller size. I'm the only one that eats it at our house. After several meals & freezing I pulled them up. I found several more. Tried to give em to the chickens. They looked at me with that...

Are we ready for winter???? Kinda sorta, kinda not. Firewood........we've got plenty from last year, we just need to cut some to size and put it in the shed to keep dry. Need to enclose chicken coop & start filling with more straw litter (and some extra preps for the chicks) Clean up the yard...

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tanning hides, process critters from field to freezer (not sure why I've been dragging my feet on this one since DH hunts & we've processed his deer, just not elk. Those are too big so we have them done), cheese & soap making, and if we had acreage....livestock husbandry.

Yes I live in a bubble. I've never been 'outside', so I wouldn't really know. I was referring to Americans of which I am familiar. I agree this is a great country with great people......that need a :smack wake up call. :D

I've been to Hardy. My Ma had lived in NE Ark/SE Mo when she was 14 until 29. I went with her for a visit in 1993 and stayed with Ma's foster brother outside Walnut Grove (?) area. I was told Hardy used to be an 'outlaw hangout' hundred or so years before. Is the candy store still there...

I remember right after 9/11, how EVERYONE was so nice, polite, courteous and conversations had more substance & meaning (not all were about terrorists & such), but within about a month (or less) people were falling back into their old ways of being rude, mindless, me me me attitudes. Over the...

Drought in Texas and other states have caused major crop losses and cattlemen to sell off large amounts of their herds which means by next year there will be shortages in supplies coupled with soaring prices. We all may want to stock up our freezers & pantries NOW to hedge those coming price...

Not only petroleum products, but meat (beef especially, also pork, chicken, etc) and grains and other food supplies too. I had seen a story yesterday (sorry I can't find it now to include the link :/ )about higher commodity prices (beef & grain crops) because of the droughts in Texas and other...