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Actually I whittle them from a piece kindling. For the hole in the tap I find the longest drill bit I have and drill the full length of the bit. That is also where I cut the tap for length. The hole in the tree is about a 1/2" across and maybe an 1 1/2" in. When I put the tap in the tree I'll...

We put up 10 to 15 gallons every year. They are the first fresh greens of the year we also dry and pickle some for the winter when we can't get fresh greens. Our fiddlehead season usually starts in late May or early June. We still have lot of snow yet but it is going fast.

Anyone tap birch trees? Every spring we collect enough to drink it is a good change of pace. It is also high in minerals and other goodies.

Concrete poured in water has a higher strength than concrete poured in the open air. I worked as a carpenter for many years one of the tricks we used was to keep test cylinders submerged in a tank of water. They always had a higher crack test than those that weren't submerged.

If it were me I wouldn't trust commercial products I would buy, gather, or raise the raw material and make it myself. You can get most of the stuff from you grocery store. We buy some of our ingredients from Frontier Spice. You can also check seed catalogs and raise a lot of the ingredients...

Here is an alternative to traditional medicine. Living where there are no doctors we have to use what we have. All I can say is it works for us. With this flu thing going round you might want to consider this for a backup plan. Legend has it these thieves were robbing the home of people who...

We live on a remote homestead in the southcentral part of Alaska.