I love a good preparedness fair, and Honeyville Food Products is hosting one next Friday and Saturday August 5-6, 2011 at their Salt Lake City retail store location. The store address is 635 N. Billy Mitchell Rd. They’ve got some fabulous classes lined up plus they’ll have demonstrations, samples, and giveaways going on during the […]
Archives for July 2011
Food Storage Saves Dinner
This is not the first time food storage has saved dinner. Just the most recent time. It was Sunday (you know, when I avoid shopping and all the stores around here are closed anyway). We had been visiting friends and I needed a quick dinner, so I went to the food storage room and pulled […]
Hurry Up and Grow Seed Experiment Fail
We put our garden in late. I mean really late. The corn was planted on July 4th and the rest of the garden went in on the 5th. So I thought I’d test out a seed starting method recommended by my grandma and the folks down at the local co-op where I picked up a […]
Borage
One of the herbs in my new herb garden is Borage. Borage is an annual so if I like it I’ll need to plant it again next year. I planted the seeds right in the ground after the danger of frost had passed (okay, it had long passed–they were planted around the end of May) […]
Country Living Mill Price Increase Coming
Just a quick post today. I got a notification from Country Living that they are raising the price of their mill, so beginning August 1st 2011 the mill will be $429.00 instead of the $395.00 that it is now. So if you’ve been wanting to purchase one, you may consider getting it done in the […]
Shelf Stable Recipe: Bottled Meat Chili
Remember bottled meat? Well, here’s another fantastic way to put it to use in a delicious, filling meal that goes together in minutes and can all be stored on the shelf! Doesn’t get much better than that. One of my favorite bottled meat recipes: Bottled meat chili. Here’s the recipe: 2 cans of beans of […]
Happy Independence Day Weekend!
It’s Independence Day weekend here in the United States. As John Adams said in a letter to his dear wife Abigail dated July 3rd, 1776: The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, […]