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  1. randyt

    Nut oils

    There's been talk of cooking oils. I attended a foragers gathering a few years back. Sam thayer had a demo on hickory nut oil. I was foolish and didn't attend, maybe this year. I bought a bottle of the oil from him to try though. I didn't attend because hickory is not in my area. here's a...
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    Scrounging

    Scrounging. https://www.patreon.com/posts/94392786?utm_campaign=postshare_fan
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    Harbor freight anvil

    Harbour freight has been peddling a doyle 66 pound cast steel anvil. If memory serves it cost around 140 or so dollars. I picked one up. I didn't need it but now have another anvil for a different location. To me a anvil is so handy. I don't know how anyone could live without a gob of steel to...
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    Times are a changing

    Glad I live in the sticks, still not far enough back but got to make do
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    Prep for this

    Crazy times in merica
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    Zero self control

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    Anyone airgun?

    Here's an interesting little story about the use of a pump up air rifle https://survivalblog.com/2010/08/06/pellet-rifle-hunting-by-dm/
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    Marijuana legalized in Michigan

    A while back Marijuana was legalized in michigan. I'm not for or against, doesn't matter to me. I am a service man and have noticed more people using it now in their homes. Again it doesn't matter to me. What I have noticed is the smell. I can smell.it before they open the front door. The...
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    Preserving with tallow

    I came across a method to preserve meat, well known method. I've heard of this with sausage but in this case beef. Take beef tallow and if is available add 25 percent hog lard. Fry your beef patties to well done. Take a food grade bucket and pour a inch of tallow on the bottom. Place your beef...
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    A curious mind

    Found some old handwritten recipes in the family archives for a liniment. One of the ingredients was laudanum. That brought me to the following book. I found it a fascinating read. I love history.
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    Oliver Cameron alaskan homesteader

    Wasn't sure where to.post this but it involves reading so here it is. http://www.olivercameron.org/
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    Herbal book i picked up

    Thick
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    Mead

    So I started dabbling into making mead. I use 3 pounds honey, handful.raisins, yeast and yeast nutrient. Probably some other stuff too All in a gallon jug with an.air lock. I use grolsch flip top.beer bottles for bottling I've only made one gallon so far I have also dabbled with.chokecherry...
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    Museum of appalachia norris tenn

    I was at the museum of appalachia and came across this old herbalist's display
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    After forty years

    My brother sent me some recent pictures of a cabin and barn I built 40 years ago. Still holding up
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    Maple sugar

    Made up some maple sugar. To make get maple syrup up to 265 degrees. Then pull off heat and start stirring with a wooden spoon. It will start to solidify. I then run it through a processor to break down all the lumps. A quart makes about 3 cups Maple sugar was the preferred storage method. The...
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    My latest adventure

    Recently I attended a foragers gathering. It was called the great lakes foragers gathering via Facebook. It wad cool. Learned about making cordials, tinctures, harvesting and processing wild rice. Plus much more Don't mean to make drop but hung out with Sam Thayer a bit. Picked up some maple...
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    Boiling up maple sap

    Tapped a few trees this year. It was a goofy sap season,warm spells then cold spells. I did get some sap. I'm going to build a little sugar shack for my own use.
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    Insta hot

    I was thinking about a insta hot. A insta hot is normally used for tea and coffee. I'm thinking about putting one in to sterilize my neti pot. It could be used for other sterilizing. Probably wouldn't use it to sterilize surgical instruments though. Just rambling
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    It's all.about the flash

    I was thinking about how some folks are dazzled by the flash. For example I will use two YouTube channels. The channel are about building a cabin in the woods. One is a pretty well off gentleman. I assume he is well off, he said he claimed to have paid off 750 thou in debt in a couple years...
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