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You know how I keep mentioning that you should identify your preparedness goals, consider back-up ways to make a living, and get training now while it’s available?  Well, I took my own advice recently. I have long been a fan of Green Deane Jordan of EatTheWeeds.  He has fantastic videos on YouTube (a million views […]

If you’ve read this blog long, you know I enjoy practicing cooking using storage-friendly foods while also improving our overall diet with less processed, healthier ingredients.  Beans are one of my favorite things to re-invent in unexpected ways. So, we’ve had beans for many main courses and a couple of desserts now.  What’s left?  Oh […]

Some months back, we began raising Californian rabbits with the plan to replace the protein source we had been getting from our meat chickens. The Hutch We bought a great 3-cage hutch that a grandpa close by had made for his granddaughter’s pets.  She had outgrown her interest and we were the fortunate beneficiaries.  I […]

I feel so out-of-touch!  Please forgive me for my tardiness in replying to comments and for not getting over to many of your blogs lately. The pinkeye/cold epidemic went on and on.  I got it too, of course.  Joe was gone several days throughout the plague so he managed to escape it, and then I […]

I have been canning for a number of years now.  I enjoy doing it and it does my heart good to see wholesome homemade food lining our cupboards.  I’ve tried to pick up more cases of canning jars every year hoping to fill every one with healthful produce from our garden.  From a preparedness standpoint, […]

If you have a television and ever turn it on, you are inundated with ads for new & improved household cleaners and “wonderdrugs.”  This one will really deep clean and that one will prevent a pesky build-up, and it hardly matters whether we’re talking about ovens or arteries. I eye all those commercials with skepticism […]

In the previous installment, I listed the items I feel are truly essential for feeding a baby in the uncertain world ahead.  In this posting, I want to focus more on what a child really needs for clothing. The most basic item that most people think of is the diaper.  That topic is at least […]

You have probably noticed that Joe and I tend to write about different topics.  What interests me the most, I absorb more quickly, have a greater depth of knowledge, and am more passionate to share with others.  The same is true for Joe.  Our complementary hobbies have given us the opportunities to focus on different […]

Never heard of a maypop?  How about a passionflower? Well, in many areas of the US, there is a wild fruit in season and ready to harvest.  You may have seen it and never realized it was an edible plant. What is it like? Passiflora incarnata is a very common “weed” and a North American […]

Recently, we had an anniversary that no one wants to remember.  Six years ago, I delivered a stillborn baby.  He was our second son and we grieved as all parents would. There was nothing evidently wrong with our dear child and the doctors had no explanation for his death.  This side of heaven, we will […]