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Surviving Armaggedon. It starts with a pandemic that kills off whatever % of the population and follows this one family as they try to become SS all at once. I have my SO watching it and thinking about things. :D

OK, my bees are really mad at me :( I was feeding them and a couple of them stung me on the thumb of my right hand yesterday (after I had opened up the hive and closed it again I realized I needed to feed them). This morning it is swollen through the thumb and across the back of my hand and down...

OK, some background. We have this chicken fortress. Heavy posts with wire, buried wire mesh into the coop, electric on the bottom and several strands on the top, covered with nylon bird netting. SO is very attached to all our animals, and each predator that came along got a solution. Now we...

Help! I know I have seen a recipe for the salts that go into a neti-pot solution here before, but I can't find it. It is a mixture of table salt and sodium bicarbonate. I made a baggie full of the mixture, but can't find (and of course I didn't write it down!) how much to mix into 8 ounces of...

OK, I am never going to live anywhere I can grow food type trees outside. I have sort of accepted that- I am in New England until I die. I like New England, but it has almost no growing season. So, I sprout every avocado pit I eat and I have 2 large-ish trees and one sproutling. Can you...

The only message I can take away from this is buy local from your farmer, or grow it yourself. The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now? By Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, Jan 27, 2011 Straight to the Source "The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide...

Or rather lye and oil... My in-laws were visiting today, and today is my soaping day. I melted my coconut, shea, and crisco, mixed my lye, then breakfast interrupted. When I got back to the soap, all of it was cool, and instead of thinking what I was doing, I mixed the lye in and started...

I didn't realize that sugar beets were now roundup ready genetically modified! I heard today on VPR that a judge has said that GM beets can't be planted next year.

I just found out about pickled eggs. :lol:What a concept! My oriental boss (grew up in China) brought in her version- raw eggs, soaked in brine and spices, then hardboil after 3 or 4 weeks. She leaves them in the shells, and says they keep longer than they take to get eaten. Delicious! Then...

I have a couople of those microwaveable hot packs that are just wonderful for my back (which went out last week. :barnie They work well, but I want to make one that will go over my sore back muscles and tie around me. Right now I have a long one that fits nicely across my back, but I have to...

I am growing my own apple cider vinegar- I used about a cup of unpasturized, unfiltered ACV from the co-op and added unfiltered (but pasturized- all I could find) apple cider. It has been sitting almost 2 months, and I tasted it this morning, it is still a bit sweet, but getting vinegar-y! :D My...

I just got my soapwort in the mail! :weee Along with lots of other seeds, including Brandywine tomatoes and pumpkin seeds she saved herself and a packet of soapwort seeds (which I have never seen up here in the stores). Way cool, and way beyond expectations. Thank you, sooo much! I am off to get...

Question for those who process their own maple syrup. This is my second year trying it, and I do small batches- that's all I have time for actually. So, for filtering the finished syrup in a small batch, what can I use? The real filters for big operations would soak up my entire night's take of...

I have been on this board awhile now, maybe it's time to introduce myself while I have time off from work and the internet is actually working! I'm not good at blogging, and I have never journaled, so it should be interesting. 01. Name? Valerie 02. Gender? Female 03. Disneyworld or Disneyland...

Well, I still don't know what to call it, but it is delicious! I cooked down some Macoun apples, used a pectin that doesn't need sugar, and used honey instead of sugar. So, it is sort of hard apple sauce? Sort of apple honey jam? It tastes good, anyway. Next batch I am going to do with my home...

I don't want to hijack the solar oven thread, so I thought I'd pick brains about dehydrating. So, what about solar dehydrators? I want to dehydrate or sun dry tomatoes this year instead of canning them- we're eating less spaghetti sauce than I thought we would:/, but sun dried can go in soups...