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Addendum to the previous post: Nasal irrigation and pressure points

Mrs. Homegrown
Domesticus
7 Comments
[I'm going to spare you an illustration on this one] Mrs. Homegrown here, again: While I credit my recovery from this nasty cold/sinus thing largely to the herbal steams of my previous post, I also used a bit of nasal irrigation and pressure point therapy, so I thought I’d cover them too, real quick. Nasal irrigation is the practice of cleaning out the nasal cavities with a saline solution. This dislodges gunk, and feels really good on d...

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Revised and Expanded

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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...can stove• How to make a Viet Nam light• How to make a Euell Gibbon’s crock• How to make L’hamd markad, or preserved, salted lemons• How to make a bike light “The Urban Homestead… touches on vegetable gardening, poultry, DIY cleaning products and beer making — all outlined with a sense of play and fun. “—Whole Life Times “… a delightfully readable and very useful guide to front and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, c...

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Lessons In Beekeeping: Remember To Wear Boots

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Bees
4 Comments
...box. We filled up ten frames of a “deep” hive box with brood comb. Once the comb was in the box, we sprayed the remaining bees, still clinging to the wall cavity, with sugar water. The sugar water keeps them busy cleaning themselves, temporarily immobilizing them and allowing us to scoop them up and pour them into the deep box. We took a couple of breaks to allow worker bees in the field to return to the hive. As they returned we spr...

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Emergency water storage

Mrs. Homegrown
Preparedness, Water and Power
24 Comments
...7;t seal well. Glass jars are nice because they’re not plastic, but they are heavy and must be carefully stored. You can just store commercially bottled water. If you do this, change it out according to the expiry date. Cleaning the container: Whatever container you use, clean it first by washing with soap and water if necessary, then rinsing it out with a mild bleach solution (1 tsp in a quart of water). Bleach is what The Authorities alwa...

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Reasons and Resources for Growing Your Own Grains at Home

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Resources
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...oth and sweep the grain into a kitchen trash can. Then you dump the grain in front of a fan to separate the wheat from the chaff. Several passes are necessary. An optional last step is to pass the grain through special seed cleaning screens. It works great, but the screens are expensive.The alternative is more passes in front of the fan. I’ve done this process with flax and it worked just fine. If you’ve grown grain tell us how it w...

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Heavy-duty disinfecting the non-toxic way with hydrogen peroxide and vinegar

Mrs. Homegrown
Cleaning, Domesticus
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...nd as such it does kill wee beasties, though not as many wee beasties as the nuclear options such as bleach or Lysol will. For everyday use, I think vinegar does a fine job. But I admit there are times, like when you’re cleaning chicken juice off a cutting board, where you might want something stronger. Here’s a safe, super-strong way to disinfect. We covered it in The Urban Homestead, and it floats around the interwebs, too, so it m...

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Tree Care Disasters

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Trees
16 Comments
...route and hire the first idiot with a chainsaw they can find. A local blog I just discovered Weeding Wild Suburbia, has a nice summary of things you can do to prevent trees from falling down in the next storm. See her posts, Cleaning Up After the Storm, Tree Care Part 2, and Selecting and Planting Trees for Long Term Success. One things I noticed after the storm were huge trees with shallow root systems that topled over. It’s the result of...

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In the Gutter

Mr. Homegrown
rainwater harvesting
1 Comment
...e attempting this task, as we have on several occasions, during a downpour at midnight, after the downspouts have clogged up sending a cascade of water over the damned up gutters. Two simple bits of technology can make gutter cleaning easier. We have inexpensive strainer baskets made out of 1/4 inch hardware cloth in each of the downspouts to keep them from clogging up. Some may wish to consider leaf guards which run along the top of the gutter t...

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