Food
Everything about food. Growing, storing, buying, preserving, procuring, hunting, eating, etc.
By Ben on April 30, 2011
Posted in Food, Garden | Tagged cattle, farming, lawn, livestock, Mother Earth News, pest control, pigs, poultry, sheep, sustainable living, weeds |
From Mother Earth News:
Homestead Helpers: Sheep, Cattle, Pigs and Poultry
Livestock aren’t just useful for meat and eggs. They can mow lawns, work garden soil, dig stumps and more!
Lawns first became fashionable in the Middle Ages. Back then, the only alternative to sending flocks of sheep to graze the lawn was hiring men with scythes. Since [...]
By Ben on April 14, 2011
Posted in Food | Tagged barter, beverages, caffeine, coffee, food preservation, James Rawles, roasting, SurvivalBlog |
SurvivalBlog has posted this handy guide to maintaining your caffeine addiction during even the worst of times — but who says you have to wait? The idea of roasting your own coffee sounds rather intriguing on its own. James Rawles lays out the basics below:
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Coffee in a Post-Collapse Society
By James Wesley Rawles
I have read many [...]
By Ben on February 15, 2011
Posted in Food | Tagged Bob, cabbage, fermentaton, food preservation, jarring, sauerkraut |
This is another great how-to from my online buddy, Bob. He is a genuinely self-sufficient soul, living off the grid somewhere on the North American continent.
This time around, Bob shares his favorite methods for making sauerkraut at home.
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So around thanksgiving the snows were getting two feet deep and it was getting cold enough to [...]
By Harold on July 27, 2010
Posted in Food, Les Visible | Tagged diet, Food, Les Visible, spiritual survival in a temporal world |
This is the ninth chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World, for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter again covers diet on multiple levels and how it relates to inner peace and relative harmony.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 9
I’ve been thinking about what’s been said so far and I thought it [...]
By Harold on June 15, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food, Les Visible | Tagged diet, Les Visible, spiritual survival in a temporal world |
This is the eighth chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World, for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter highlights several different diet techniques that could best suit your lifestyle and goals for weight loss.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 8
Now where was I? Diet, right… Today I think we [...]
By Ben on June 1, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food, Gear, Shelter, Tools, Water | Tagged backpacking, Bob, camping, clothing, fire, hiking, off-grid, sleeping gear, stoves, survival, tents, TEOTWAWKI, water purification, wilderness |
This is another great set of tips from my online buddy, Bob. He is a genuinely self-sufficient soul, living off the grid somewhere on the North American continent.
This time around, Bob discusses the optimal backpacking setup.
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My standard list of backpacking gear has changed very little in the past twenty years.
I favor fairly heavy leather boots [...]
By Harold on May 20, 2010
Posted in Food, Les Visible | Tagged diet, gratitude, spiritual survival in a temporal world |
This is the seventh chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World, for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter addresses diet, and the practice of eating with gratitude.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 7
We’ve all heard the phrase, “You are what you eat.” You’ve probably also heard, “As a [...]
By Ben on April 29, 2010
Posted in Finances, Food | Tagged agorism, alcoholic beverages, beer, black market, DIY, homebrewing, Invisible Molotov, Kevin Dean, pamphlet, PDF, Xaq Fixx |
Invisible Molotov offers up this tasty PDF, Black Market Brews: Introductory guide to home brewing for fun and profit by Kevin Dean and Xaq Fixx.
Brewing is a tradition that stems back thousands of years. Some anthropologists suggest that it was beer, and not bread, that led to the birth of agriculture. Homebrewing is the art [...]
By Harold on April 21, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food, Gear | Tagged alternative energy, biolite, invention, off-grid, stoves, sustainability, third world |
A new wood burning stove invention powered by a thermoelectric generator, will have the ability to convert waste heat from fire to electricity. The inventors say their BioLite stove can burn a wide variety of biomass fuels from wood, pine cones and underbrush to pellets, rice husks and even dung. The BioLite burning process performs [...]
By Harold on April 16, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food, Garden | Tagged agriculture, cooperative, farmers markets, farming, sustainability |
A great website LocalHarvest, has tools to find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area. One of the features the site offers is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), which is a great way to find a local farmer to buy seasonal food from.
Here is a basic overview listed on [...]
By Ben on April 8, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food | Tagged apartment, Backwoods Home Magazine, fruit, gardening, Nancy Wolcott, plants, suburban, urban, vegetables |
Nancy Wolcott at Backwoods Home Magazine has written a diverse, practical, and useful set of methods for people living in apartments, condos, or small houses without significant yard-space, to become more self-sufficient in the here-and-now.
You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can [...]
By Harold on April 6, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food, Garden | Tagged anonymity, environmentalist, fruit, guerrilla gardening, plants, urban, vegetables |
Guerrilla Gardening, is a growing method environmental activists are using, in order to take back abandoned pieces of land, and either beautify it or grow food. This is an example of how individuals, without the permission of the state, can take action in a productive manner that benefits the community as a whole. Among the [...]
By Ben on April 5, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food, MacGyver, Physical | Tagged apartment, gardening, herbs, planters, plants, tomatoes, upside-down-planter, urban |
Just because you’re short on space, doesn’t mean you have to be short on home-grown produce. The upside-down planter is a low-maintenance, small-footprint method of growing tomatoes and similar plants.
The links below cover different ways to construct these DIY planters, in different sizes, shapes, and looks. Of course, if you’d rather buy one pre-made, there [...]
By Ben on April 4, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food, Gear, Physical | Tagged backpacking, Bob, camping, canoeing, cooking, cycling, fuel, gear reviews, heat sources, outdoors, stoves, wilderness |
This is another very very useful write-up from my online buddy, Bob. A seasoned adventurer and backpacker; he discusses the pros and cons of various backpacking stoves, fuels, and techniques.
He also does a side-by-side comparison of the time it takes to boil water in various weather conditions, relative to a normal kitchen range.
Very informative [...]
