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    WHY make your own soap, lotion, etc?

    Perhaps they were referring to public lands? I have found some references to harvesting guidelines in AZ and southern CA but nothing on record for NM and even the references I have found only apply to mojave yucca, not the other subspecies. Besides, it isn't humanly possible to kill a yucca...
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    What would you do?

    Next year tell them you got some old surplus landmines and randomly buried them around the garden;)
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    Pantry stocking ...

    Good read! I have eventual plans for a "root cellar/icehouse", we have no basement but have a hillside I plan to dig into. I would like to use ICF or concrete blocks for the exterior walls and then create a space of about 2-3 feet all the way around and frame wood walls. I can then cut and stack...
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    WHY make your own soap, lotion, etc?

    Actually that is 100% false, just an urban legend. Sure, it is your state flower but as such it is not protected. You can verify this by contacting your DNR, forestry department or whatever version of them you have there.
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    Tool creation/modification for pulling parts, etc

    I often find myself modifying tools, bending, grinding, welding...I see no point in buying "GM part number..." for a single use. This is the only reason I keep lots of off brand crap around the garage. The last one I made was a spanner wrench to hold a dodge crankshaft pulley while I turned the...
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    Tool creation/modification for pulling parts, etc

    Maybe a section of pipe with a washer welded to one end, or a cap with a hole drilled in it...fill it with lead. Or cap and drill both ends and fill it with shot or ball bearings...or just a mild steel rod of sufficient diameter with a hole drilled in it.
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    Make your own spices and spice mixes!

    Tea (I don't care for it hot but iced and sweetened it is like koolaid), medicinally, and to make root beer (we haven't tried the root beer yet but it should be fun).
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    Kitchenaid mixer blades.. which one is better.?

    I know, my families first microwave circa 1976 still works while the one I bought 2 years ago is scrap metal already...
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    Make your own spices and spice mixes!

    When I dry my herbs I usually put them in a brown paper bag like everyone else has said, but I put mine in the refrigerator as it tends to "cure" them as it extracts the moisture. We grow chives, dill, catnip, as many different hot peppers as we have space for, oregano, garlic, onions, sassafras...
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    Kitchenaid mixer blades.. which one is better.?

    You know, I think my mother bought this thing new in like '90 or '91 with every attachment and blade they offered. She used it quite a lot before giving it to my sister about 10-11 years ago, complete. Then my sister beat the heck out of it, never cleaned it, never oiled/greased it, etc and lost...
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    Why not GM?

    Then try focusing on the concerns outlined. Can you disprove them?
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    Why not GM?

    Next you'll be telling us that cooked food isn't treated as a toxin by the human body right? We've only known this fact for about 100 years, why don't they teach it in nursing school? My mother is an internal medicine specialist, I followed her education from the start as a teenager both...
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    Why not GM?

    Again with the strawman distractions, you go ahead. I'll go ahead. When you wake up, too bad.
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    How to question

    Tack weld a nut or even a small bolt to the head of each screw and you should be able to turn them out.
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    Kitchenaid mixer blades.. which one is better.?

    I just want to know if anyone has a meat grinder attachment for my old K45SS that they don't use and would sell me cheap!
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    Why not GM?

    The problem is that you WILL be a statistic. There are no products on your grocers shelf that aren't effected and you'll be hard pressed to find any raised/grown locally that aren't either. People like DC seem to think that unnatural substances need to be proven unsafe before we keep them out of...
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    Why not GM?

    Too bad plants aren't consuming the GM plants, then you might know what your talking about. The last time I checked we were talking about the effects on HUMANS. With such an advanced level of education in the field one would think it would have been a simple task for you to explain the...
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    Why not GM?

    What you ignorantly claim is the equivalent to saying you read the constitution so you know all the laws.
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    Why not GM?

    The GM isn't limited strictly to plants either, animals are also being modified. One example of this is goats that were spliced with spiders in an attempt to get spider silk from goats milk in quantities much larger than spiders could produce. They want to use spider silk to develop bullet proof...
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    Why not GM?

    Correct! dingdingding...
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