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We've begun ebaying more. Also Craigslist; the plus to CL is there are no fees. The big plus for Ebay is you're reaching a global market. I have done well shopping seasonal clearances at Wal-Mart and Target; both will sell things for pennies on the dollar when the season shifts. One example...

We sold some chickens. 18 of 42, leaving us with 24. We will save a gallon to a gallon and a half of feed a day, plus we made enough from the sale to pay for about 6 months of feed for the remaining chickens. We will sell some more tomorrow, but just 3 or 4. This also allowed us to turn off...

You're a true Michigander if: 1. you wonder WHY anyone would want to move back to Alaska? 2. You live on a pontoon boat. 3. Won't eat a pastie without rutabegga in it. 4. You know what a pastie is.

I reclaimed a huge amount of fiberglass insulation that I intend to use in the chicken coop to make them cozier this winter. I also picked up a new burn barrel ($15 value) with which we'll burn our paper trash. Between eating mostly naturally raised foods, burning the burnables, and...

Today was sort of a tough day for picking. Didn't seem to be very much there; but as I dug, more and more stuff emerged. I managed to get a new burn barrel, a bike that needs a new deraileur and will work fine, a set of wheels for a chicken tractor, some plywood pieces and two by four studs, ...

Of course! "Wrasslin's" one of the finest joys in marriage! :D

Lots of questions! First; preparing bear; Mrs B has written a bunch on this, I believe. Use a meat thermometer for roasts, take it out of oven when internal temp hits 150. That will have killed off any possible uglies and still leaves a delicious roast. Moose is very lean; one of the leanest...

Thanks, all. Dourness sounds like a fine word. Hope it doesn't infect this forum too badly; seems to be going in that direction of late.

Here's a picture from a few years back of some meat to be: Moose are a vital meat source to many of us here in Alaska. They are steroid, hormone, and GMO free meat, and about 98% lean! Bears are our favorite meat; here is one being prepared in the field to be taken home and processed...

We can get grass fed organic beef for $5.00 a pound hanging weight. The trim weight- bones and fat is about 20%. I helped the farmer butcher 10 cows and had a choice of cash or beef- so I chose both!

I am thankful to live in an area where we can still participate in this traditional lifestyle of hunting and gathering! Also, thank you moderators for creating a section where we can post hunting pictures as part of our sufficient selves!

Interesting. I'll have to see if its available to Alaskans! Being between jobs, cheap is good!

Wow. The taxes on my house are nearly $3,000 a year! I'll have to check out the book though- sounds good! We have a copy of Handbook of Rural Skills and Technology, "Cloudburst 1 and 2." Very good book with blueprints of all sorts of do it yourself industrial objects and buildings around the...

Put a sheet of metal roofing to use covering up a walkway to the chicken coop. I found the roofing at the dump, along with the studs, so the only thing I bought were the handful of nails and screws. They were all purchased months and years ago, so it didn't cost me a thing today! Also picked...

Use them to roof and re-sell: Dog houses. Bird houses. Chicken coops. If slate, build wood borders and sell as writing slates or memo boards- use a barn wood type frame.

I'm not going to be very creative with the 15 various size trees our goats killed this spring. A few hours with the chainsaw, and we'll have a couple weeks worth of firewood. And the goats get to nibble the tops! (they were small trees)

Good idea! At the rate our dehydrator is running, it would take us 2 weeks to fill that with carrots!

It's time for me to go picking again! Have about used up all the building materials I've scavenged. Today I covered up a 4' by 14' walkway between two sheds for about 50 cents worth of nails and screws; the sheet metal and studs were all dump finds.

Hi Wife bubblingbrooks! :D Wanna, I'd just add that in our lives, God has a way of putting His stamp on things; sometimes things go wayyy rougher than we feel they should, or in a totally different direction, just so its made very plain that its God's doings, not ours. Just keep on keeping on.

Hello. This is my introduction to this forum's membership. My wife is known to many of you, as bubblingbrooks. Thus my handle. I decided to begin posting here because once in a while a topic fires me up, or I feel I have something valid to add to a post. There is more to this post in my...