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Just add a bit of sugar to that fermenting corn and your on your way to make some Moon Shine o_O

Awe shucks stop it FEM your inflating my ego IDK i purchased two varieties of garlic at a local produce auction 4 or 5 years ago and used them as seed garlic. Every year I sort out the largest 20% of each variety to use as next years seed and plant them in late Oct. In the spring time I feed...

Mini you ferment regular garlic . Ive been growing more garlic each year this year i harvested 500-600 heads and im planning on planting 1000 for next year. So ive been making garlic powder , tried scape powder this year and this is the second year making black garlic.

Planted my mustard greens two weeks ago in the bed where my garlic was. The mustard greens sprouted a week ago and are doing well ill need to thin them soon. This weekend im preparing the bed where i harvested my Yukon golds and I'm planting kale, Swiss chard and collards im hoping its not to...

Sumi my DW loves it in salads it has a sweet taste it doesn't taste like traditional garlic at all. There are many recipes on line here is just a sample http://blackgarlic.com/category/category/recipes. The thing that intrigues me about black garlic is the health benefits. Ive read that helps...

Almost complete yesterday took the garlic out of rice cooker after 9 days on warm. I had the rice cooker in my detached garage during fermentation, the garlic smell gets very very very strong. For maximum flavor I've read to air dry for another 7 days ( my next step ) . When complete you can...

Ok so I was at camp this weekend finished the enclosure, the shower door has an old time screen door spring so it SNAPS closed like an old wooden screen door. Next camp weekend ill work on the floor and building up a gravel base for drainage.

Myrth Ive been thinking about a solar oven for camp,tell a little about how long it takes to cook in it and what you cook in it. I start looking at them and kind of stoped when I saw the gosun a vacuum tube type solar cooker.

Mini that's crazy my cabin is on the Ritchie / Wirt county line. Its amazing to me that the avg population density of the area is only 23 people / sq mile and declining. I absolutely love the beauty and the people. From talking to the locals there were 37-39 families that lived in the holler...

Wow Mini it must be near where you were born its in Ritchie county

Critter, I need to keep reminding myself of the KISS principle because my mind keeps on wanting to get more complex and better. Once I get gutters and and cistern and then a small 12v solar system installed I really can start dreaming and improving maybe something like a 12v RV water pump a...

Ok back to the shower what do you think if I add a shelf inside the shower for a Zodi Extreme will it work ? Its SS holds 3 gals of water and can be heated on my propane stove or camp fire seems to have good reviews. Or maybe some better ideas remembering I have limited electric and no running...

Critter I love your wife's style and dream cabin its beautiful. I bet you have a 3D rendering I would love to see it. I understand exactly what you mean regarding insurance. My full time home is a small log cabin that I moved into 8 years ago. It was built in 1986 I'm the third owner. When I...

Critter its a split tie. Thanks for the compliment but I live in a Old Order Amish community and had a kit made less expensive than a home depot shed kit of similar size. He milled the timber crafted all the mortise and tenons by hand and constructed the bones in his barn. The main beams are 8...

CR I cant wait for camp weekends the best part is my DW loves it as much as I do. Its been a long journey to get it to the state that its currently at. Ive had the property for 10 years and had to get a road excavated into the bottom land that the cabin sits. I started with restoring a 1963...

the cabin after I stained it the bones post and beam Its really just my off grid camp where I spend a couple w/e per month love to ride the hollers and ridge-tops in the SXS No utilities no cell service for 5 miles 1 mile from black top road 1/2 mile from gravel rd. Wish I had your sawmill...

Thank You Bay Snazzy makes me smile as its my 13 year old grand daughters favorite expression of the summer :)

Working on a 4 x 8 out door shower currently we hang a shower bag in a sycamore tree using a pallet platform behind our cabin. I used some 4" x 6" x 8' pine dunage for post and pickets from home depot. Ill use 3-4" gravel for drainage and work on some kind of flooring. I'm thinking of utilizing...

Tis the season for chaterelle mushrooms they look like wild flowers on the mountain side. We harvested 4 buckets full this weekend. They have an apricot smell and taste great. Be careful of the chaterelle look alike the jack o lantern its poisonous and glows in the dark. mountainside of chats...

The thing that stands out in the article is in the 70's the avg. milk consumption was 30 gals / person and now its 18 gals /person. By 2020 nut milks sales will grow by 50 %. We have so many choices when we go to grocery store how many people really understand what they are purchasing ? Organic...