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Food Storage – Methods, systems, and practices for storing food to maintain long-term availability, stability, and emergency preparedness.
editor’s note: first written in 2016 but just found it unpublished when updating the website. Once again a very misleading article headline…there is no choice between a happy wife, and food storage. One always, always has the higher priority…period! Do I still have you wondering? Oh come on, I shouldn’t, you know how much I…
editor’s note: first written in 2016 but just found it unpublished when updating the website. Get caught up and read Part #1 to see what all the fun is about! < Click here to read Part #1 > Step #8 – Lay in your cross-member. It should fit snugly into the notches on each side…
“Food Fatigue” is real and I have experienced it…you probably have too. Food Fatigue is simply when you get tired of eating the same food day after day to the point where you want to slit your wrists. Okay, maybe not bad enough to do physical damage to yourself, but you get the idea. As…
About two weeks ago we had a really bad hail storm hit us. Two miles away…nothing. Here…really bad. So to make it simple to understand…we lost our entire garden…everything! The hail was the size of marbles and came down with such a velocity that it punched holes in the leaves of plants such as our…
This is kinda like an “update” to the article Last Minute Food Shopping List. Then again it is really more like a response to Ron’s great information that he posted in a comment to the article. His information needed more exposure for everyone to benefit from. I hope this article is found worthy of your…
So…my wife and I were sitting watching TV the other night. We decided to get up to speed on a couple of issues and watched a number of reports on the food supply chain, food production (i.e. farming), and food availability outlook for next year. Yeah, call it a date night! I wrote some time…
I have been busy as heck lately! The last two days I have been cutting and stacking firewood for this coming winter. Sunday I was spending time with my wife, going to church, baking bread for my neighbor, watered the garden, checked on the solar system, took a walk, talked to my oldest boy, and…
As most of you know by now we’ve moved into our new home that I built. It is a modest home, small, functional, and perfect for us. I am behind schedule…as is normal when building. The house is by no means done…there remains a long list of smallish items to take care of. However, I…
5/1/2020 – 1100 Food With the recent alarming developments in the current and potential food distribution chain I am issuing an Immediate Action Warning – Food. I am warning against the increasing scarcity of some foods in the US. Of current specific concern is meat (i.e. pork and poultry). I have personally confirmed that there…
note: article first appeared in March 2016 So here’s what I am thinking…Something happens, anything, doesn’t matter really. The question stands…How fast could you leave your house and be prepared to do whatever was required of you? Yeah, I know, you want to ask me, “Prepared for what?” I am saying, it doesn’t matter. I…