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08. 19. 13

The Seed Power Plant and The Dehydrating Meltdown

Posted in: Dehydrating, Homesteading Tutorials, Storage
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Have you ever looked at a seed of a plant as a power plant? What if it used all of its energy at once? What if your food supply depends on understanding dehydrating a little more? Well it does…. For this example of teaching, I [Read More]

09. 26. 12

The Great Disconnect…. The Propaganda Lie

Posted in: Chat, Dehydrating, Life, Raising Chickens
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I understand that posting and promoting ideas lead people to follow me in many ways. It is also a powerful tool and comes with rules on how to direct people and share with them, in my case it is about living a more self sufficient [Read More]

09. 17. 12

So Your New To This and Your Looking Where To Begin?

Posted in: Dehydrating, Homesteading Tutorials, Life, Projects, Repurposing & Upcycling
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Like Peddlers peddling all sorts of Elixirs for everything that is wrong with you, so are people blogging and giving the information they know or think to believe to be true. Recently a community member said you didn’t need to buy books, everything was on [Read More]

08. 15. 12

Ѽ Modern Pioneer’s Original Apple Chip Recipe Ѽ

Posted in: Dehydrating, Recipes, Videos
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 With all the recent request for my Wonderful recipe, I decided to blog it.. Modern Pioneers   Ѽ Ѽ Apple Chips Ѽ Ѽ1/3 cup Cinnamon1 cup cane sugarnice pinch of Allspice (heavier pinch if you want the taste to lean towards Apple Pie)Pineapple juice7 pounds [Read More]

08. 05. 12

POOW__TAT__TOE Dehydrating

Posted in: Dehydrating, Gardening, Preserving Food, Recipes, Recipes, Seasonal
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This food has long been the staple in many parts of world, and I believe has saved lives as much as ended lives. Stupid people are still building and shooting each other with potato guns. Then there was Black 47 in Ireland, again the source [Read More]

07. 24. 12

The Blah, Blah, Blah’s and the Rewards

Posted in: Canning, Dehydrating, Everyday Stuff, Frugal Living, Gardening, Gathering, Homesteading, Homesteading Tutorials, Life, Off the Land, Preserving Food, Projects, Repurposing & Upcycling, Seasonal
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Some days seem to be harder than most days here on the homestead with life, work, family and putting up your own food. Some days, there isn’t enough hours in a day to get completed what you tend to get done knowing you have many [Read More]

09. 05. 11

Keep’em Coming, I’ll Just Find New Ways To Make’em Into Food

Posted in: Canning, Dehydrating, Gardening, Gardening Tutorials, Preserving Food, Seasonal, Smoking
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Well if the heat wave didn’t destroy your garden, there is a good chance yours’ is producing like mine is. I took a poll to find out what some folks are sick of harvesting, the number answer right now is tomatoes. Everyone has expectations of [Read More]

08. 07. 11

Dehydrating, Dealing W/ Bumper Crops, Secret Tip, The Recipe

Posted in: Canning, Dehydrating, Frugal Living, Gardening, Homesteading, Preserving Food, Seasonal
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This time of year most folks love to share the fruits of their labor with others. So many people bring in food from their gardens and give it to co-workers and such. NOT ME!! If you now suspect that I am just a grumpy old [Read More]

02. 20. 10

Deer Meat Canning, Another Self Sufficient Way To Put Food Up.

Posted in: Dehydrating, Gathering, Homesteading, Off the Land, Preserving Food, Recipes
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Here is some photos of different ways I like to eat my deer. The pictures is the canned deer meat I put up last January, the big tough doe I harvested during muzzle loader season. I like to let the canned meat to sit at [Read More]

02. 20. 10

Homemade bread and indoor root cellar

Posted in: Canning, Dehydrating, Homesteading, Homesteading Tutorials, Life, Off the Land, Preserving Food, Recipes, Smoking, Storage
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Well, other than my crisis in the kitchen over bread making, yesterday and today have been good. You know, if you fail, it means that at least your doing something to progress yourself to do better. Now I finally figured my mistakes out and can [Read More]