Storing herbs is a great way to add flavor variety to your stored foods. Growing herbs in an herb garden can provide fabulous fresh herbs during growing season. Usually, there is plenty of herb left at the end of the season. These fresh herbs can be preserved easily by drying them, and one way […]
Extracting Honey from Our Bee Hives
After three years of trying bees, we are finally extracting honey from the hives this fall! It’s not too hard (read: I had sweet husband do most of it), and quite fascinating. And since I didn’t know exactly how I would be presenting this to you while it was happening, I took some video and […]
How To Can Green Beans: The Illustrated Guide
Canning green beans in all their varieties is one of the easiest pressure canning projects you can do. Beans are a super-producer most gardening years, and canning them is one of the best ways to preserve them. Once beans are ripe on the plant, they will continue to produce more beans if the ripe ones […]
Edible and Non-Edible Berries
Guest Post by Kent Page McGroarty Should you ever find yourself stranded in the wilderness and are looking for food, it’s important to already have a working knowledge of what you can and cannot consume. The bottom line with emergency meals is if you aren’t sure, do not eat it! After all, it’s always better […]
How to Cook Dandelion Roots
Dandelion is one of the most recognizable and widespread edible plants. You know that weed that pops up in your yard every spring with its sunny yellow flowers? That lovely yellow flower that then turns into a ball of fluff attached to seeds that get blown across the yard/town/nation by the wind and small children? […]
How To Can Chicken or Pork
Want to know how to can chicken or pork? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Today we have a step by step, illustrated guide to canning pork and chicken! Canning meat might sound a little intimidating, but it is actually easier than many fruits or vegetables. Bottled meat is fully cooked when it is […]
Kindle Cook Kit Flameless Cooker Review
There are quite a few ways to heat food and water that require a flame. But did you know there are also flameless heaters? MRE’s have used this technology for years with their specially designed MRE heaters. Those heaters consist of a chemical in a pouch that produces heat when it is exposed to water. […]
Using Honey as a Topical Antibiotic: The Honey Bandage
Honey is one of the more versatile foods you can store. You know it tastes good on toast and in your tea, but did you know honey also has healing properties? We recently got to experiment with honey as a topical antibiotic when our adventurous little dog, Huck, decided to go get his foot caught […]
Honey and Onion Natural Cough Remedy
Here’s an easy homemade cough remedy that you probably already have the ingredients for. It’s a honey onion syrup–before you get grossed out, it doesn’t taste like onions when it’s done. Really. And you just use the honey syrup, you don’t actually eat the onion pieces (although you could if you love onions). We’ve been […]
7 Ways to Get Meat in Your Food Storage
Meat is not a necessary component of your food storage. There are other sources of protein like beans, peanut butter, nuts, and even broccoli. However, I like meat. My family likes meat. If you like meat also, here are 7 ways to get it in your food storage. 1. Freeze it. Meat in the freezer […]