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How To Freeze Fruits and Vegetables

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Food Preservation
11 Comments
...do this you’ll individually quick freeze IQF them. To IQF: Wash, blanch (veggies) and cool . Spread in one layer on a cookie sheet and place in the freezer for four to six hours. Pack in sealed containers or in freezer bags. Label with date to avoid freezer mystery bag phenomenon. Now when the zombie apocalypse arrives and everything goes Beyond Thunderdome, freezing will not be the best option (unless, like Tina Turner, we figure out how to tu...

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How to Keep that Christmas Tree Fresh

Mr. Homegrown
Domesticus, How-to, Trees
2 Comments
Photo from WSU  Washington State horticulture professor Linda Chalker-Scott, has a podcast “Last minute advice about Christmas trees and other fun stuff” that details more than you’ll ever want to know about how to keep a Christmas tree fresh in the house. And, yes, it’s been studied. Apparently WSU has a Christmas Tree expert: Dr. Gary Chastagner, seen above counting dry needles....

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Erik’s New Years Resolutions

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
17 Comments
p on Santa Rosa island again plan out garden ahead of time instead of playing catch-up at the last minute return to biodynamic practices in the garden learn how to sharpen knives and tools improve writin’ skills start a podcast shoot some how-to videos create an iPhone or iPad app check email only twice a day clean up the graphic design on the blog and organize information better take more time to cook keep the kitchen spotless ferment veg...

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Resources

...onsumer World Radical Homemakers The Integral Urban House Made by Hand Farm City The Natural Kitchen Country Wisdom and Know-How Wendell Berry’s essays John Seymore’s many books Jack Spirko’s Survival Podcast Beekeeping Backwards Beekeepers Kirk’s Urban Bees Principles of Backwards Beekeeping Backyard Ecosystem Idiot’s Guide to Beekeeping Biking Urban Velo Streetsblog LA Mikey Wally Westside BIKEside!...

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Comrades

...Potager Poultry Bookstore Blog Practical Parsimony Ramshackle Solid Recycleart Relax Shacks SLC Permaculture Project Smiling Gardener Stale Bread Into French Toast Sucka Pants The Art of Manliness The Big Parade The Survival Podcast The Tangled Nest Theologista Tiny House Blog Tiny House Living Urban Velo Veggie Gardening Whole Health Source Wildest Horse...

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July Linkages

Mr. Homegrown
Miscellaneous
1 Comment
...be available April 2010. The third and fourth books in the series, “Home Dairy” and “Beekeeping”, will be available in April 2011. Hopefully we’ll be having English on our new Homegrown Evolution Podcast that will debut when we can get our computer, seen above, to record audio. A few blog posts ago we answered a question about soil testing. Visiting journalist Michael Tortorello tipped us off to the University of Min...

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Erik’s EDC

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness
12 Comments
...And I’ll admit I have yet to use the fero rod for anything other than a bizarre time killer when I deliver lectures to college students. What’s your EDC? Comments . . .  Many thanks to Jack Spirko of the Survival Podcast for the handy EDC list he put together that turned me on to those pill holders and fero rods. And read an interesting interview with Bernard Capulong, founder of EDC.com, here....

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