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BEYOND BAND-AIDS: Building a Medical Kit for Serious Emergencies
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Who knows what can happen with the politics of the world being so volatile right now. The globalists want their control back that they had with the insidious Biden and Obama Regimes. What comes next you will want to be totally prepared to deal with.A comprehensive medical emergency kit goes beyond basic first aids supplies, incorporating critical items for personal protection, advanced care, hydration, and psychosocial support. Check into this comprehensive guide that emphasizes preparedness for severe, prolonged emergencies where professional medical help may be unavailable.
- Personal Protection & Environment: N-100 respirators, large commercial trash bags (for waste containment or makeshift protection), reflective cones (for marking safe zones), and a secure triage area for emergency treatment.
- Advanced Tools (Requiring Training): Penrose drain tubes, manual suction devices, Foley catheters, nasogastric tubes, and oropharyngeal airways—only for trained individuals to prevent harm.
- Hydration & Medications: Bouillon cubes (for electrolyte solutions), antibiotics, Pedialyte (superior to sports drinks), water purification supplies, and a stockpile of OTC medications (pain relievers, antihistamines).
- Comfort & Support: Emergency blankets (to prevent hypothermia), comfort items (candy, distractions), and emotional stress treatments (extra prescriptions or calming aids).
Why You Need More Than a First Aid Kit
When disaster strikes—whether a natural catastrophe, civil unrest, or a prolonged power outage—many households find themselves unprepared for medical emergencies beyond minor cuts and scrapes. While basic first aid supplies are essential, experts warn that a well-stocked medical kit should include advanced tools, specialized training, and contingency plans for hygiene, lighting, and infection control. This guide outlines crucial but often-overlooked supplies that could mean the difference between life and death when professional help is delayed or unavailable.
Essential Supplies: From Masks to Makeshift Triage Zones
Personal protection tops the list. An N-100 respirator (more effective than the standard N-95) shields against airborne pathogens, smoke, or dust. Large commercial trash bags serve multiple roles: waste containment, improvised rain gear, or barriers against infectious fluids. Reflective cones help mark a secure triage area—critical during chaos when bystanders or environmental hazards threaten patient safety.
Lighting and power are equally vital. LED headlamps or a 12-volt car light wired to a battery can illuminate procedures in the dark, while a power bank keeps smartphones charged for emergency communication or accessing medical apps.
Advanced Tools: Proceed with Caution
Some items demand professional training. Penrose drain tubes, manual suction devices, and Foley catheters can save lives in skilled hands—but misuse could cause severe harm. "If you're not trained, your main job is to help medical professionals by giving them the supplies they need," the guide emphasizes. Similarly, needles and scalpels require expertise; untrained use risks legal consequences even during crises.
For bleeding control, QuikClot is a game-changer, but courses like Stop the Bleed teach proper application. Hydration supplies like Pedialyte or bouillon-based electrolyte solutions combat dehydration when oral fluids aren’t feasible—knowledge that proved lifesaving during historic disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
Psychological resilience matters too. Blankets prevent hypothermia, while comfort items—candy, familiar toys, or stress-relief medications—calm children and adults alike. Controversial ear candles may offer temporary relief when conventional care is inaccessible, though their efficacy is debated.
The guide recommends prioritizing supplies in three tiers:
- Immediate lifesavers: QuikClot, water purification tablets, N-100 masks.
- Enhanced care: Antibiotics, LED lights, medical reference books.
- Expert-level tools: Reserved for trained responders.
Historically, emergencies like the 1918 flu pandemic or Hurricane Maria underscored the dire consequences of medical unpreparedness. Today, with rising climate-related disasters and global health threats, proactive kits bridge gaps when systems falter. As the guide notes, "A well-trained individual with basic supplies is often more effective than an untrained one with advanced, unused equipment."
Assembling a comprehensive medical kit is a gradual process, but even incremental upgrades bolster resilience. From mastering bleeding control to stockpiling electrolytes, these steps transform households from vulnerable to vigilant—ready to face the unpredictable with confidence.
Hey Moms and Dads, tune your apocalypse dial to preparedness.news for updates on real news about stocking up on ammo, guns, storable food and potable water for the apocalypse that’s coming to a neighborhood near you soon.
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How to print on wood without any weird stuff you have to go to the store for. You need a printer, a piece of unfinished wood and waxed paper. That's it. Maybe a Tom Collins if that's your thing.
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I'm funny. Sometimes ha-ha funny, sometimes left-out-of-the-fridge-too-long funny. But as we all know, there are times for funny and times for seriousness. This is one such time. For seriousness that is.
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So this post will involve no funny. No laughing, no snickering, no coffee spitting. Because the information I'm about to introduce you to deserves a reverence that can't be accomplished when diluted with hilarious jokes or cutting sarcasm. When I first published this post in 2014 it got a bit of attention. Mainly because it takes a simple idea and allows you to do it at home without any special equipment.
I'm going to teach you how to transfer any photograph or picture onto wood.
You don't need mod podge or any other weird thing that you don't have on hand.
You don't know it yet, but this is the greatest day of your life. You get to produce something beautiful without any pain or tearing of your woman bits. Plus it won't turn into a whirling, dangerous ball of hormones in 13 years.
I decided I wanted to try making something but it involved transferring a photo onto wood so I did a little research. Most of the tutorials I came across involved a few specialty materials like matte gel and the backing paper of printer labels. I didn't have any printer label paper handy and don't even know what matte gel is. Like most DIYers I wanted to DIY, NOW. Right this second, NOW.
So I kept looking for a simpler solution. Mid search I suddenly remembered my mother mentioning something Mag Ruffman had done a couple of years back. It was the perfect solution and it works GREAT.
Table of Contents
- Can you transfer a regular photo to wood?
- What kind of paper do you use to transfer pictures to wood?
- How to Print Pictures on Wood
Can you transfer a regular photo to wood?
You bet you can. That's what this is all about. You can use this same technique to transfer photos, text or anything else you can print onto wood.
What kind of paper do you use to transfer pictures to wood?
All you need is regular old waxed paper. And a dream of course.
That's right. All you need is a regular inkjet printer (this one is the newer version of the one I use) and regular waxed paper. I have an HP wireless printer and this technique works with this printer. It's the only printer I can guarantee this works with, although it will work with most as long as it's an ink jet.
(update: since posting this a couple of years, there's been a lot of success stories and a lot of frustration stories, mainly due to the printer you're using. I can only guarantee this works with the kind of printer I have which is a cheap, old HP printer I got at Costco. )
How to Print Pictures on Wood
1. Cut a few sheets of wax paper to the size of a standard piece of printer paper.
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2. Find a smooth, light coloured piece of wood. Actually find a few so you have some to practice on.
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Find a high resolution image you like. Or make your own. The Graphics Fairy is a great place to start for copyright free, high resolution images.
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3. Once you have an image you like, reverse it using whatever photo program you have on your computer. If you're not sure how to do that just Google it.
4. Put a sheet of your waxed paper into the printer and click print.
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5. As the waxed paper comes out of the printer, gently guide it. You have to be careful it doesn't roll under itself or touch itself in any other way because it will smear the ink.
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6. Put your image exactly where you want it on the wood. Remember ... this can be any unfinished wood. A bench, table, box, or anything!
Once you place your image you can't move it. Do not move it. It will smudge. You will be sad. Then you will cry and it will smudge some more.
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When disaster strikes, there’s a pretty good chance your local grocery stores will be stripped bare in a matter of hours. From panicked people trying to stock up on last-minute supplies to those who failed to prepare for even short-term disasters and now find themselves facing the prospect of starving, your local grocery store will look like a battleground in a post-apocalyptic movie.
Most grocery stores have a maximum three-day supply of goods on hand before they run dry. That means even short-term disasters like hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes can cause supply chain problems that will quickly wipe out their inventory. Now throw in a long-term disaster that cuts off supplies for months, and you have a real recipe for disaster.
To be prepared to face an emergency situation where supply chains fail and food deliveries are blocked, you need to invest in a long-term food supply. This supply should be made up of at least six months’ worth of emergency food with a long shelf-life – preferably something that you already eat.
From Supermarket Shelves to Survival Pantry: Building Your Emergency Food Stockpile with Long-Lasting Food From The Grocery Store
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In the face of so many uncertainties, it’s important to ensure you and your loved ones’ survival by stocking an emergency pantry with long-lasting food supplies. While many so-called survival experts try selling commercial ‘survival food’ as the answer, we advocate for building your stockpile with familiar foods you probably already eat – all from your local grocery store or farmer’s markets.
During an emergency situation, the last thing you want to do is eat a bunch of weird survival foods that you’ve never eaten before – from possible allergy concerns to the stuff just downright tasting like crap, now is not the time to start experimenting. On top of that, we don’t like wasting money, so buying foods you already eat and running them on a rotation system that ensures you don’t find yourself years from now with a pantry full of expired food!
With the help of suggestions that have come in from our readers, we have compiled a list of the top food items and emergency supplies that you can buy at the grocery store. The list contains foods with a long shelf-life, items that have multiple uses, and supplies that are great for bartering.
Survival Foods that add flavor & comfort:
Comfort foods can be a huge morale booster during a stressful survival situation, something that needs to be kept in mind when starting to stockpile food. These four things can be stored for over 10 years, and are a great way to add a little bit of flavor to your cooking. If stored properly they will probably last indefinitely.
- Salt: From food preservation to maintaining proper electrolyte balance in the body to enhancing the flavor of your food, salt is an an essential part of your food storage stockpile!
- Sugar: – Brown or White sugars can be stored for quite some time and during emergencies or high-stress situations can help boost energy levels and provide a quick source of fuel. It can also be a huge morale booster when things start getting tough.
- Raw Honey: Honey has an incredibly long shelf life contains numerous vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Honey has also been used for centuries as a natural remedy for wound healing due to its antimicrobial properties.
- Alcohol – Whiskey, Vodka, etc.: From bartering to health and medicinal uses, alcohol is one of those items that should be part of any good preparedness stockpile. Check out our article on which liquors are best to stockpile for preparedness.
Base cooking ingredients with a long shelf life
https://offgridsurvival.com/wp-conte...foodstores.jpgMany people today lack the ability to cook anything from scratch, relying heavily on prepackaged and processed foods. This trend is unhealthy, but it could prove deadly during a long-term survival situation. Learning how to cook from basic ingredients is crucial for successfully preparing for emergencies and ensuring self-sufficiency in food storage.
The following categories of food make up the foundation of most recipes and are all things that store well.
Hard Grains: Stored properly hard grains have a shelf life of around 10 – 12 years.
- Buckwheat
- Dry Corn
- Kamut
- Hard Red Wheat
- Soft White Wheat
- Millet
- Durum wheat
- Spelt
Soft grains: These soft grains will last around 8 years at 70 degrees, sealed without oxygen.
- Barley,
- Oat Groats,
- Quinoa
- Rye
Beans: Sealed and kept away from oxygen the following beans can last for around 8 – 10 years.
- Pinto Beans
- Kidney Beans
- Lentils
- Lima Beans
- Adzuki Beans
- Garbanzo Beans
- Mung Beans
- Black Turtle Beans
- Blackeye Beans
Flours and Mixes and Pastas: 5 – 8 years
- All Purpose Flour
- White Flour
- Whole Wheat Flour
- Cornmeal
- Pasta
- White Rice ( up to 10 years)
Oils: It’s important to include fats in your stockpile. Fats are a concentrated source of energy and are crucial for overall health and well-being.
- Coconut oil – Unrefined, virgin coconut oil has one of the longest shelf lives of any kind of oil. It can last for over 2 years, has numerous health benefits, and is a great item to add to your survival food supply list.
- Clarified butter (Ghee): Clarified butter, also known as ghee, is butter that has been heated to remove moisture and milk solids. The process increases the fats stability and extends its shelf life. Ghee can last for several months to a year when stored in an airtight container in a cool, dark place.
- Olive oil: Extra virgin olive oil has a decent shelf life and can be stored for up to a year or more if kept in a cool, dark location.
For more information on cooking from scratch, check out these articles and books:
- Important Homesteading Preparedness Skills: Learn how to cook from scratch
- Best War Time Recipes: A Look at Preparedness Cooking Skills from the Past
- Fanny Farmer Cookbook
- Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook
- The Pioneer Woman’s Cookbooks
What About Buying Canned Goods for your Survival Pantry?
Proper Storage and Shelf Life of Canned Goods
We get a lot of questions on canned goods and how long they can safely be stored. To ensure the quality and safety of canned goods, it’s important to store them correctly and be aware of how long the manufacturer recommends they be stored. And remember, most best-by dates are placed there to protect the manufacturer from lawsuits, The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that most shelf-stable foods are safe indefinitely. In fact, they say canned goods will last for years and that dating is for quality, not safety.
Here are some guidelines to follow when dealing with store-bought canned goods and most shelf-stable foods:
1. Storage: Keep commercially canned foods and other shelf-stable products in a cool, dry location. Avoid placing them above the stove, under the sink, or in areas prone to high humidity or temperature fluctuations, such as a damp garage or basement.
2. Shelf life: The shelf life of canned goods varies depending on the type of food. High-acid foods like tomatoes and fruits maintain their best quality for up to 18 months, while low-acid foods such as meat and vegetables can maintain their original quality for 2 to 5 years. But again, if cans are undamaged (no dents, swelling, or rust) and have been stored properly in a cool, clean, dry environment, they can remain safe indefinitely.
3. Safety precautions: While extremely rare, the production of toxins by Clostridium botulinum bacteria poses the most significant risk when dealing with canned goods. To minimize the risk, make sure your cans are in good condition and show no signs of damage or contamination. If any cans appear compromised (bulges or leaks), it’s best to get rid of them to avoid any potential health hazards.
For more information on canning your own foods at home, check out our article on Canning your own food!
Survival Foods that are great during short-term disasters
https://offgridsurvival.com/wp-conte...annedfoods.jpgThe following items are great for short-term emergencies, and will stay fresh for a long period of time. During most disasters, you’re going to want to have food that requires very little cooking, or can be eaten without any preparation at all. Make sure some of your stockpile includes these types of food.
Other good survival foods: 2 – 5 years of shelf life
- Canned Fish: Tuna, Salmon, Sardines
- Canned Meats: Chicken, Beef, Pork, Spam & Sausages
- Canned Vegetables & Fruits
- Peanut Butter
- Coffee
- Tea
- Ramen Noodles – not the greatest food in the world but they are very cheap so they made the survival food list.
- Hard Candy
- Powdered milk
- Dried herbs and spices
- Canned soups (a variety of flavors)
- Canned pasta sauces
- Canned broth or stock (chicken, beef, or vegetable)
- Crackers or rice cakes
- Dried fruits (raisins, apricots, cranberries)
- Nuts (almonds, walnuts, peanuts)
- Granola bars or energy bars
- Cereal or granola
Items that can be used for more than cooking:
- Apple Cider Vinegar – Cleaning, cooking and has antibiotic properties
- Baking Soda – Cleaning, cooking, etc…
- Honey – Mentioned again for its antibiotic properties and wound healing.
Nonfood items to stock up on at the grocery store:
- Bic Lighters
- Toilet Paper
- Soaps
- Bottled Water
- Multi-vitamins or supplements
- Medicines
- Bandages
- Peroxide
- Lighter fluid
- Canning Supplies
- Charcoal
More Emergency Food Resources
While we always advise the DIY approach to stockpiling food, this way you have the things that you would normally cook and eat and can then rotate them in and out of your normal life, there are some circumstances where commercially made survival food supplies might make sense. Here are some of the top emergency survival foods that can help you quickly bulk up your emergency supplies.
- The Top Survival Food Supplies to stockpile for long-term survival situations.
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56 Long-Term Survival Foods and Supplies at the Grocery Store
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https://i0.wp.com/www.allselfsustain...size=500%2C282With the help of suggestions that have come in from our readers, we have compiled a list of the top food items and emergency supplies that you can buy at the grocery store. The list contains foods with a long shelf life, items that have multiple uses, and supplies that are great for bartering.
Survival Food that adds flavor & comfort: These four foods can be stored for over 10 years and are a great way to add a little bit of flavor to your cooking.If stored properly they can probably last indefinitely.
- Salt
- Sugar – Brown or White
- Raw Honey
- Alcohol – Whiskey, Vodka, etc…
Hard Grains: Stored properly hard grains have a shelf life of around 10 – 12 years.
- Buckwheat
- Dry Corn
- Kamut
- Hard Red Wheat
- Soft White Wheat
- Millet
- Durum wheat
- Spelt
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Soft grains:These soft grains will last around 8 years at 70 degrees sealed without oxygen.
- Barley,
- Oat Groats,
- Quinoa
- Rye
Beans: Sealed and kept away from oxygen the following beans can last for around 8 – 10 years.
- Pinto Beans
- Kidney Beans
- Lentils
- Lima Beans
- Adzuki Beans
- Garbanzo Beans
- Mung Beans
- Black Turtle Beans
- Blackeye Beans
Flours and Mixes and Pastas: 5 – 8 years
- All Purpose Flour
- White Flour
- Whole Wheat Flour
- Cornmeal
- Pasta
- White Rice ( up to 10 years)
Oils:
- Coconut oil – Coconut oil has one of the longest shelf lives of any kind of oil. It can last for over 2 years and is a great item to add to your survival food supply list.
Other good survival foods: 2 – 5 years of shelf life
- Canned Tuna
- Canned Meats
- Canned Vegetables & Fruits
- Peanut Butter
- Coffee
- Tea
- Ramen Noodles – not the greatest food in the world but they are very cheap so they made the survival food list.
- Hard Candy
- Powdered milk
- Dried herbs and spices
Items that can be used for more than cooking:
- Apple Cider Vinegar – Cleaning, cooking, and has antibiotic properties
- Baking Soda – Cleaning, cooking, etc…
- Honey – Mentioned again for its antibiotic properties and wound healing.
Non Food Items to stock up on at the grocery store:
- Bic Lighters
- Toilet Paper
- Soaps
- Bottled Water
- Vitamins
- Medicines
- Bandages
- Peroxide
- Lighter fluid
- Canning Supplies
- Charcoal
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56 Long-Term Survival Foods and Supplies at the Grocery Store
Smells That Will Get You Killed When SHTFThis may seem like a silly topic to touch on, well you are far from right if you believe that.
https://www.shtfpreparedness.com/wp-...TF-fbcover.jpgOn the article that follows below they have 3 smells that can get you killed if SHTF. One is obvious but you have to think about why people would still use and do things that smell even if SHTF.
I would like to add that just a simple act of lighting a cigarette could make your position known if someone was 100 feet or so away from you. You have to be very serious and knowledgeable about when and how to not produce smells like smoke from a campfire etc.
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Showering will be a thing of the past
When I speak to people about this topic most of them just flat out don’t believe me. I could not be more serious though. During my deployment to Iraq, a country that is pretty much in a constant shtf situation, there was nothing that smelt good. I started noticing scents that were not so strong to me before. Little by little my clean laundry started to smell stronger and richer.
One day I was in need of some caffeine so I went to our nearest Green Bean and got an iced mocha. On the return walk to our CP I caught a whiff of something flowery and fresh. It was almost overwhelming. I thought something had to be nearby that was giving off this pleasant aroma. I looked around and saw nothing but gravel.
Then, I looked ahead of me since the wind was in my face and there it was… We only had two or three females in our battalion and it was her perfume. That being said, there is nothing impressive about that in itself. After all we have smelt a nice perfume when someone walks into a room we are occupying right? The impressive part was that she was about 80 meters ahead of me. In an open desert with swirling winds. I was impressed, but never really thought about it again till later in the deployment.
About one half of the way through our deployment we started doing Air Assault aka TST missions (time sensitive target) for those of you who are military acronym savvy. This is when I connected the dots and realized how important smell is in tactical situations. We would work with Seals, Rangers, and several other sf groups. What did they have in common? Besides being able to kill you 1,001 ways with their bare hands.They all practiced smell management. None of them smelt good but they didn’t really stink either.
Now, I would not compare Iraq to the US in many ways but I think the principle is the same. If shtf here at home then all of our priorities are going to drastically change. Except for those of us who are already prepared, but even ours will change as well whether you realize it or not. People are not going to be worried about showering daily.
#1 Avoid Perfumes.
We have already established that smells are going to be amplified in an apocalyptic scenario. So, what can we do to avoid becoming a statistic in these nightmare situations?
- Avoid using perfumes, or any strong scented body wash’s or soaps.
- Do use unscented soap.
- If you only have scented soap use it lightly.
- Don’t bathe as often.
Most of these only apply when you are traveling so it may not be an issue. Just keep in mind that you never know when you are going to want to go undetected in a post collapse situation. Please keep these things in the back of your mind.
#2 Be Aware of Food Smells.
Something that may be terribly obvious to most people is the smell of food. We have all had those situations where we catch a scent of burgers grilling a whole block away. You may not even see smoke in the air but you know instantly that somewhere remotely nearby someone is preparing a feast. Just think how much this will be amplified after someone hasn’t had a real meal in days or weeks.
- Use MRE meals, still be cautious if you use the built in heater.
- Place all cooked food in scent proof containers, like Tupperware.
- If you need to cook food and feel people may be somewhat close, wait until late night, around 2 or 3 am to cook it. Make sure to hide any flames if cooking over an open fire.
#3 Human Waste Stinks!
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I guarantee the most overlooked topic by new preppers is what they are going to do with human waste. Have you ever smelt a port-a-potty stand from a significant distance? I know I have on several occasions. It is a horrid stench that catchesyour attention immediately. You need to have a plan for what you are going to do with this waste, especially if you are planning on bugging in.
- Dig a deep hole, far far away from your living quarters especially if you have a well for drinking water.
- Make sure the hole has a good seal on it. You should be able to engineer something cheap with some plastic like visqueen.
- Carry the waste there in a 5 gallon bucket. Be sure not to dispose of urine on top of the ground near your living quarters. It may not stink at first but it will smell like male cat urine after a few days.
- You can burn solid waste, but this presents a whole new set of issues because burning poop is very hazardous. I would research this topic thoroughly if you plan on doing it yourself.
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My Mother’s Peasant Bread: The Best Easiest Bread You Will Ever Make
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This is the no-knead bread recipe my mother has been baking for 45 years. Start to finish, it can be ready in three hours. It bakes in well-buttered Pyrex bowls — no need to preheat a baking vessel for this recipe — and it emerges golden and crisp with a soft, tender crumb. 🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞
When I tell you that, if forced, I had to pick one and only one recipe to share with you that this — my mother’s peasant bread — would be it, I am serious. I would almost in fact be OK ending the blog after this very post, retiring altogether from the wonderful world of food blogging, resting assured that you all had this knowledge at hand. This bread might just change your life.
The reason I say this is simple. I whole-heartedly believe that if you know how to make bread you can throw one hell of a dinner party. And the reason for this is because people go insane over homemade bread. Not once have I served this bread to company without being asked, “Did you really make this?” And questioned: “You mean with a bread machine?” But always praised: “Is there anything more special than homemade bread?”
And upon tasting homemade bread, people act as if you’re some sort of culinary magician. I would even go so far as to say that with homemade bread on the table along with a few nice cheeses and a really good salad, the main course almost becomes superfluous. If you nail it, fantastic. If you don’t, you have more than enough treats to keep people happy all night long.
The Magic of the Peasant Bread
So what, you probably are wondering, makes this bread so special when there are so many wonderful homemade bread recipes out there? Again, the answer is simple. For one, it’s a no-knead bread. I know, I know. There are two wildly popular no-knead bread recipes out there.
But unlike the others, this is a no-knead bread that can be started at 4:00 pm and turned out onto the dinner table at 7:00 pm. It bakes in well-buttered Pyrex bowls — there is no pre-heating of the baking vessels in this recipe — and it emerges golden and crisp without any steam pans or water spritzes. This is not artisan bread, nor is it trying to be. It is peasant bread, spongy and moist with a most delectable buttery crust.
Genuinely, I would be proud to serve this bread at a dinner party attended by Jim Lahey, Mark Bittman, Peter Reinhart, Chad Robertson, Jeff Hertzberg, and Zoe Francois. It is a bread I hope you will all give a go, too, and then proudly serve at your next dinner party to guests who might ask where you’ve stashed away your bread machine. And when this happens, I hope you will all just smile and say, “Don’t be silly. This is just a simple peasant bread. Easy as pie. I’ll show you how to make it some day.”
Peasant Bread Variations
Once you master the peasant bread, you can make any bread your heart desires — this simple no-knead bread recipe is the foundation of many of the other bread recipes on this site, namely this hugely popular overnight refrigerator focaccia and this simple homemade pizza dough. It’s even the inspiration behind this simple pita bread recipe and these no-knead dinner rolls.
The below post is organized as follows:
- How to Make Peasant Bread, Step by Step
- The Best Way to Store Bread
- Peasant Bread Dinner Rolls
- Peasant Bread Sandwich Bread
- How to Add Seeds and Nuts to Bread Dough
- How to Make Gluten-Free Peasant Bread
- How to Coat the Loaves in Seeds
- How to use Whole Wheat Flour
- How to Bake the Peasant Bread in a Dutch Oven
Many more variations on the peasant bread can be found in my cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs:
How to Make Peasant Bread, Step by Step
First: You need yeast.
This is the yeast I buy exclusively: SAF Instant Yeast. Instant yeast can be whisked into the flour directly without any blooming or proofing. If you want to stick to active-dry yeast, there are instructions in the recipe notes on how to do so. Red Star yeast is great.
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Whisk together flour, salt, sugar, and instant yeast. Add lukewarm water.
https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...337f99c4_o.jpgMix until you have a sticky dough ball. Let it rise for 1.5 to 2 hours…
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… or until it looks like this:
https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...a3f8604a_o.jpgPunch down the dough using two forks.
https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...77f87836_o.jpgThen split the dough down the middle again using the two forks.
https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...66ac0322_o.jpgBecause this is a very wet dough, it must be baked in an oven-proof bowl. I am partial to the Pyrex 1L 322 size, but any similarly sized oven-proof bowl will work.
https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...c5063ae1_o.jpgButter the bowls well; then transfer half of the dough to each prepared bow.
https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...a3079e2d_o.jpgLet the dough rise again until it crowns the rim of the bowl, about 30 minutes.
https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...a774b98c_o.jpgTransfer the bowls to the oven to bake:
https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...350f6fab_o.jpghttps://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...a42bf80f_o.jpgThis bread is irresistible when it’s freshly baked, but it also makes wonderful toast on subsequent mornings as well as the best grilled cheese and sandwiches of all kinds.
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https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...alvedbread.jpgThe Best Way to Store Bread
If you want to store the bread at room temperature for 3 to 4 days, I think the best method is in a ziplock bag. I’ve tried other eco-friendly options, but nothing seems to keep bread freshest — the crumb the softest — better than a ziplock bag. You can re-use the bags again and again.
If you intend to keep the bread for longer, I would freeze it. I often slice bread as soon as it cools completely, transfer the slices to a ziplock bag, then freeze. This way, I know the bread was frozen at its freshest.
A ziplock bag will not prevent the crust of bread from turning soft, which is why I suggest always reheating day-old bread. I use a toaster at breakfast for slices of bread, and I reheat half or quarter loaves in the oven at 350ºF for 15 to 20 minutes when serving for dinner.
Bread revives so beautifully in the oven or toaster.
No-Knead Dinner Rolls
To use the peasant bread dough to make rolls, simply divide the dough into smaller portions and place in a buttered muffin tin as in these No-Knead Thyme Dinner Rolls (pictured below). This recipe for no-knead buttermilk pull-apart rolls is also based on the peasant bread recipe.
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No-Knead Sandwich Bread
To make sandwich bread, multiply the recipe below by 1.5 and bake the bread in two buttered 8.5×4.5-inch loaf pans. Made with half all-purpose flour and half King Arthur Sprouted Wheat Flour (no longer available unfortunately), these seed-coated sandwich loaves (pictured below) have a soft and light crumb.
https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...hbread_680.jpgHow to Add Nuts and Seeds to Bread Dough
To add seeds and nuts (or dried fruit and cheese), simply stir them into the dry ingredients. This recipe for Quinoa-and-Flax Toasting Bread will offer guidance on how much to add.
https://alexandracooks.com/wp-conten...flaxloaves.jpgHow to Make a Gluten-Free Peasant Bread
Making gluten-free peasant bread (pictured below) isn’t as simple as swapping in gluten-free flour for wheat flour. But the process is still relatively simple — in fact, because there’s only one rise, many people find the gluten-free peasant bread recipe to be even simpler than the original. Find the recipe here: Gluten-Free Peasant Bread
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To coat the peasant bread in seeds, as pictured below, simply coat the bowls with everything bagel seasoning or with dukkah or sesame seeds or whatever seed mix you wish. The seed-coated loaves look so beautiful, and it’s amazing how much the flavor of the coating permeates the loaves. Find the recipe here: Everything Bagel Seasoning Peasant Bread
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To use whole wheat flour in the peasant bread, simply replace as much as 50% of the all-purpose flour with your favorite whole wheat flour: I’ve been loving the Cairnsprings Mill Trailblazer stone-milled flour. With the Trailblazer, I can use up to 75% of it in the peasant bread, and it yields a beautiful, chewy texture as well as a lovely flavor and aroma.
When using whole wheat flour, you may have to use more or less water — there is no rule as to how much more or less, and it will take some trial and error to get right because all flours absorb water differently. When I use the Trailblazer flour, for example, I reduce the water by at least 50 grams.
If you’d like to learn more about whole wheat flour and stone-milled flours, read this: Easy Sourdough Bread (Whole Wheat-ish)
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How to Bake the Peasant Bread in a Dutch Oven
If you’re looking for more of a crackling crusted boule (characteristic of a loaf of sourdough bread) as opposed to the buttery crispness of the peasant bread, you can bake the peasant bread dough in a preheated Dutch oven. I love my Lodge Pre-Seasoned Cast Iron Double Dutch Oven which I’ve been using for years! The Lodge is a great value at around $49, but if you like the idea of making an oblong-shaped peasant loaf, I can’t recommend the Challenger Bread Pan enough, which costs $299. The placement of the handles makes for easy removal and closure of the lid, and it creates beautiful, crusty loaves every time.
There are detailed instructions below the recipe in the notes section, but one thing to keep in mind before you begin is dough hydration. The peasant bread is a very high-hydration dough, meaning there is a lot of water relative to flour. Because baking the peasant bread in a Dutch oven will require some handling of the dough — to shape it into a round and to create some tension — you may want to reduce the water from the start. Consider holding back 20-30 grams of water to make the process more manageable for you.
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My Mother’s Peasant Bread: The Best Easiest Bread You Will Ever Make
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- author: Alexandra Stafford
- total time: 2 hours 27 minutes
- yield: 2 loaves
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Notes:
The bread:
This is a sticky, no-knead dough, so, some sort of baking vessel, such as pyrex bowls (you need two 1-qt bowls) or ramekins for mini loaves is required to bake this bread. See notes below the recipe for sources. You can use a bowl that is about 2 qt or 2 L in size to bake off the whole batch of dough (versus splitting the dough in half) but do not use this size for baking half of the dough — it is too big.
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Peasant Bread Fans! There is a book: Bread Toast Crumbs, a loaf-to-crumb bread-baking book, filled with tips and tricks and answers to the many questions that have been asked over the years. In the book you will find 40 variations of the master peasant bread recipe + 70 recipes for using up the many loaves you will bake. Learn more about the book here or buy it here.
INGREDIENTS
- 4 cups (512 g) unbleached all-purpose or bread flour
- 2 teaspoons (10 g) kosher salt
- 2 cups (454 g) lukewarm water (made by mixing 1.5 cups cold water with 0.5 cup boiling water)
- 2 teaspoons (8 g) sugar
- 2 teaspoons (8 g) instant yeast, I love SAF Instant Yeast, see notes below
- room temperature butter, about 2 tablespoons
INSTRUCTIONS
- Mixing the dough: In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, sugar, and instant yeast (I love SAF Instant Yeast). Add the water. Mix until the flour is absorbed. (If you are using active dry yeast, see notes below.)
- Let it rise. Cover bowl with a tea towel or plastic wrap and set aside in a warm spot to rise for at least an hour. (In the winter or if you are letting the bread rise in a cool place, it might take as long as two hours to rise.) This is how to create a slightly warm spot for your bread to rise in: Turn the oven on at any temperature (350ºF or so) for one minute, then turn it off. Note: Do not allow the oven to get up to 300ºF, for example, and then heat at that setting for 1 minute — this will be too hot. Just let the oven preheat for a total of 1 minute — it likely won’t get above 100ºF. The goal is to just create a slightly warm environment for the bread.
- Preheat the oven to 425ºF. Grease two 1-qt or 1.5-qt oven-safe bowls (see notes below) with about a tablespoon of butter each. Using two forks, punch down your dough, scraping it from the sides of the bowl, which it will be clinging to. As you scrape it down try to pull the dough toward the center (see video below for guidance). You want to loosen the dough entirely from the sides of the bowl, and you want to make sure you’ve punched it down. Then, take your two forks and divide the dough into two equal portions — eye the center of the mass of dough, and starting from the center and working out, pull the dough apart with the two forks. Then scoop up each half and place into your prepared bowls. This part can be a little messy — the dough is very wet and will slip all over the place. Using small forks or forks with short tines makes this easier — my small salad forks work best; my dinner forks make it harder. It’s best to scoop it up fast and plop it in the bowl in one fell swoop. Some people like to use flexible, plastic dough scrapers for this step.
- Let the dough rise again for about 20 to 30 minutes on the countertop near the oven (or near a warm spot) or until it has risen to just below or above (depending on what size bowl you are using) the top of the bowls. (Note: Do not do the warm-oven trick for the second rise, and do not cover your bowls for the second rise. Simply set your bowls on top of your oven, so that they are in a warm spot. Twenty minutes in this spot usually is enough for my loaves.)
- Bake it. Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to 375º and bake for 15 to 17 minutes longer. Remove from the oven and turn the loaves onto cooling racks. If you’ve greased the bowls well, the loaves should fall right out onto the cooling racks. If the loaves look a little pale and soft when you’ve turned them out onto your cooling racks, place the loaves into the oven (outside of their bowls) and let them bake for about 5 minutes longer. Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes before cutting.
NOTES
- The bowls: The cheapest, most widely available 1-qt bowl is the Pyrex 322. Update: These bowls are becoming harder to find and more expensive. As a result, I’m suggesting this cheaper option: the Pyrex 3-piece set. You can split the dough in half as always (see recipe) and bake half in the 1-quart bowl and half in the 1.5 quart bowl. The loaves will not be the same shape, but they will be delicious nonetheless.
- Yeast: I buy SAF Instant Yeast in bulk from Amazon I store it in my fridge or freezer, and it lasts forever. If you are using the packets of yeast (the kind that come in the 3-fold packets), just go ahead and use a whole packet — It’s 2.25 teaspoons. I have made the bread with active dry, rapid rise, and instant yeast, and all varieties work. The beauty of instant yeast is that there is no need to “proof” it — you can add the yeast directly to the flour. I never use active-dry yeast anymore.
- If you have active-dry yeast on hand and want to use it, here’s how: In a small mixing bowl, dissolve the sugar into the water. Sprinkle the yeast over top. There is no need to stir it up. Let it stand for about 10 to 15 minutes or until the mixture is foamy and/or bubbling just a bit — this step will ensure that the yeast is active. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk together the flour and salt. When the yeast-water-sugar mixture is foamy, stir it up, and add it to the flour bowl. Mix until the flour is absorbed.
- Troubleshooting: You can find step-by-step video instruction here.
- Several commenters have had trouble with the second rise, and this seems to be caused by the shape of the bowl they are letting the dough rise in the second time around. Two hours for the second rise is too long. If you don’t have a 1-qt bowl, bake 3/4 of the dough in a loaf pan and bake the rest off in muffin tins or a popover pan. The second rise should take no more than 30 minutes.
- Also, you can use as many as 3 cups of whole wheat flour, but the texture changes considerably. I suggest trying with all all-purpose or bread flour to start and once you get the hang of it, start trying various combinations of whole wheat flour and/or other flours.
- The single most important step you can take to make this bread truly foolproof is to invest in a digital scale. This onecosts under $10. If you are not measuring by weight, do this: scoop flour into the measuring cup using a separate spoon or measuring cup; level off with a knife. The flour should be below the rim of the measuring cup.
- Here’s a printable version of this recipes that’s less wordy: Peasant Bread Recipe, Simplified
- How to Bake the Peasant Bread in a Dutch Oven: Preheat a Dutch Oven for 45 minutes at 450ºF. Dust a clean work surface with flour. After the first rise, turn the dough out onto the floured surface and shape it into a ball: I like to fold it envelope style from top to bottom, then side to side; then I flip it over and use the pinkie edges of my hands to pinch the dough underneath and create some tension. Transfer the dough to a sheet of parchment paper. Let rest for 20 minutes. If you feel your dough is spreading too much you can lift up the sheet of parchment paper, dough and all, and place it in a bowl of a similar size. After the 20 minutes, transfer the dough, parchment paper and all to the Dutch oven. Carefully cover it. Bake 30 minutes. Uncover. Bake 15 minutes more.
- To bake the peasant bread in a loaf pan: If you are using an 8.5×4.5-inch loaf pan or a 9×5-inch loaf pan, you can bake 3/4 of the dough in it; bake off the rest of the dough in ramekins or other small vessels … the mini loaves are so cute. You can also make 1.5x the recipe, and bake the bread in 2 loaf pans. If you have a large loaf pan, such as a 10×6-inch loaf pan, you can bake off the entire batch of dough in it. For loaf pans, bake at 375ºF for 45 minutes.
- How to Bake at Hight Altitude:
- First try the original recipe as written (preferably with a scale). You may not need to make any adjustments. One commenter, who lives at 9200 ft finds the original recipe to work just fine as is.
- If the original recipe doesn’t work, try adding a little bit more water because it rises fast and it is so dry: about a quarter cup for every 512 g of flour.
- Try decreasing the yeast to 1.5 teaspoons.
- If your dough is especially gooey, try decreasing the water by 1/4 cup. But, if you aren’t using a scale, my first suggestion would be to buy a scale and weigh the flour, and make the bread once as directed with the 2 cups water and 512 grams flour, etc.
- Punch the dough down twice before transferring it to the buttered Pyrex bowls. In other words, let it rise for 1-1.5 hours, punch it down, let it rise again for about an hour, punch it down, then transfer it to the buttered bowls.
- Variations:
- #1. Cornmeal. Substitute 1 cup of the flour with 1 cup of cornmeal. Proceed with the recipe as directed.
- #2. Faux focaccia. Instead of spreading butter in two Pyrex bowls in preparation for baking, butter one 9×9-inch glass baking dish and one Pyrex bowl or just butter one large 9×13-inch Pyrex baking dish. If using two vessels, divide the dough in half and place each half in prepared baking pan. If using only one large baking dish, place all of the dough in the dish. Drizzle dough with 1 tablespoon of olive oil (if using the small square pan) and 2 tablespoons of olive oil (if using the large one). Using your fingers, gently spread the dough out so that it fits the shape of the pan. Use your fingers to create dimples in the surface of the dough. Sprinkle surface with chopped rosemary and sea salt. Let rise for 20 to 30 minutes. Bake for 15 minutes at 425ºF and 17 minutes (or longer) at 375ºF. Remove from pan and let cool on cooling rack.
- #3. Thyme Dinner Rolls
- #4 Gluten-free
- #5. Everything Bagel Seasoning Bread. Simply coat the buttered bowls with Everything Bagel Seasoning.
- #6: Whole Wheat Peasant Bread. Use as much as 50% whole wheat flour.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 32 minutes
- Category: Bread
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
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- KATY — MAY 21, 2025 @ 2:41 PM REPLY
I’m a fairly experienced baker but new to the no knead type breads. I made this bread by following your recipe exactly and everything looked exactly like the pictures shown until the second rise. Taste and texture were great but didn’t rise as high as I was expecting and looked nothing like the posted pictures. What could I have done wrong?
17 Genius Ways To Recycle Used Coffee Grounds
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Coffee is good for more than just waking you up in the morning.
Take a look at this list and find the perfect recycling tips and tricks so you can enjoy your coffee again – even after you’ve finished sipping your morning cup of Joe!
You’ll never throw away your used coffee grounds again after seeing just how many things you can do with them!
Quick Tip:
If you find you aren’t drinking enough coffee to be able to utilize the old grounds, then you can often pick up bags of used coffee at your local coffee shop for free.
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How To Use Old Coffee Grounds In the Garden:
1. Pest Repellent
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Sprinkle used coffee grounds around your plants to protect them against destructive garden pests like ants, snails, and slugs. Ants are repulsed by the smell of coffee while the slightly abrasive texture of the coffee grounds can be irritating for soft bellied pests like slugs and snails.
It has even been said that old grounds mixed with dried orange peel will keep away some small mammals like cats (though Felix can be a tough customer. If coffee and orange peel doesn’t work, try rosemary oil instead!)
Similarly, you can also soak your used coffee grounds in water overnight to extract more of that coffee goodness, then strain out the grounds and use the weak coffee liquid as a foliar spray.
The spray will have antimicrobial properties and will help to repel many insects, particularly caterpillars. It is thought the smell or flavor of the coffee acts as a deterrent to many critters.
2. Fertilize Your Garden
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If you grow azaleas, hydrangeas, rhododendrons, camellias, roses, or other acid-loving plants, then used coffee is the fertilizer for you!
Mix your old grounds with dead grass clippings, brown leaves, or dry straw to neutralize some of the acidity, the spread them around your plants.
Used coffee grounds add nitrogen and potassium to the soil (the first and third numbers in the fertilizer formula: N – P – K) as well as a boost of magnesium which all plants need to stay healthy.
Just remember that this fertilizer lacks phosphorus and calcium so it isn’t ideal for encouraging blooms and fruiting. You’ll need to add lime or wood ash to the mix if you want to create a complete fertilizer using old coffee grounds.
3. Change The Color Of Your Hydrangeas
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Hydrangeas are one of the most beautiul plants to grow in your garden, but they can present themselves in many colors from bright blue to bright pink. The color is dependent on the pH of the soil.
Alkaline soil produces pink flowers while acidic soil yields blue hydrangeas. Adding coffee grounds to your soil acidifies your soil and can help to turn your flowers from pink to blue.
4. Compost It for Later
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If you don’t have a use for coffee ground fertilizer right away, go ahead and throw it on the compost heap.
Coffee grounds make excellent “green” matter as they are rich in nitrogen. Also, beneficial worms may be attracted to your compost with the addition of old coffee. Just be sure to limit the amount of grounds that you add to your pile so that you don’t throw off the ratio of “green” to “brown” matter.
Further Reading: Composting 101: How To Create Compost That Works Like Rocket Fuel For Your Garden
5. Caffeine for… Carrots?
If you love carrots and you love coffee, then you’re in business! Your carrots will love you back if you share your old grounds with them at planting time.
Before you sow carrot seeds, mix them with some old dried coffee grounds to give them an energy boost right from the get-go. You’ll get bigger and better produce with the added bonus of deterring pests that want to eat your carrots before you do.
6. Grow Your Own Mushrooms
Five Gallon Ideas presents a brilliant way to grow your own Oyster mushrooms with a five gallon bucket full of coffee grounds.
You’ll need a lot of coffee grounds for this project so you’ll probably want to pick some up from your local coffee shop.
Here are some more brilliant ways to recycle old coffee grounds in your garden.
How To Use Old Coffee Grounds Around the House:
7. Absorb Food Odors
Used coffee grounds can be used much like baking soda for absorbing food odors in the refrigerator and freezer.
Just load up a small open container with your old grounds, place it in the back of the fridge, then forget about it for a couple of weeks while you collect more grounds.
As an added bonus, after you remove smelly old grounds from the refrigerator or freezer, you can then toss them on the compost pile or use them for fertilizer as described above.
8. Natural Abrasive
Sprinkle old coffee grounds onto an old cleaning cloth and use them to scrub away stuck-on food from counters or dishes.
While used grounds are abrasive, they aren’t so harsh that they will damage the surfaces in your kitchen. Just be sure not to accidentally scrub grounds into cracks where they might leave behind stains!
9. Beautiful Golden Dye
If you’ve ever spilled coffee on a white shirt, you know the “Beautiful Golden” color to which I am referring.
Turn that pesky coffee stain around and use it to your advantage. Re-wet old coffee grounds and use it to dye everything from feathers and cloth to Easter eggs.
Used coffee grounds soaked in a bit of water can also be used to turn boring white paper into ‘antique’ parchment. Here’s the How-To. This faux parchment can then be used for all kinds of arts and crafts including some very interesting and beautiful gifts!
10. Homemade Coffee Candles
If you love the smell of coffee, why not turn your old grounds into all-natural homemade candles?
For this fun up-cycling project you will need a small paper coffee cup, a paper towel, about a cup of wax candle ends, a wick, scissors, a small sauce pan for melting the wax, a small glass mixing bowl, and of course some used coffee grounds. (Check out this link for the How-To.)
11. Clean Out the Fireplace
No, used coffee grounds won’t do all of the work for you. However, they will make the process of cleaning out your fireplace much easier and less messy.
Gently scatter old used coffee grounds over the ashes to weight them down and prevent the huge clouds of smoke that often arise when performing this arduous task.
Not only will shovelling the ashes be easier than ever before, you also won’t have to wipe down every horizontal surface in the room when you’re done.
How To Use Old Coffee Grounds For Health & Beauty:
12. Exfoliate Skin
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Coffee grounds make an excellent exfoliating body scrub. Just add used grounds to a bit of warm water or your favorite all natural oil – such as coconut or sweet almond. Then scrub your skin from head to foot to remove all of those dead skin cells.
13. Rejuvenating Facial
Just as it works as a body scrub, coffee makes an excellent facial.
Mix two tablespoons of used coffee grounds with an equal amount of organic cocoa powder. Add three tablespoons of whole milk or heavy cream and top it off with a heaping tablespoon of honey for the perfect all-natural alpha-hydroxy and antioxidant facial.
14. Puffy Eye Reducer
Caffeine, when applied to the skin, is anti-inflammatory which helps to reduce swelling. This makes coffee an effective puffy eye reducer.
Simply mix some used coffee grounds with a teaspoon of coconut oil and a few drops of water and carefully rub below your eye – making sure not to get any in your eyes. Allow to sit for five minutes and then rub away with a soft damp cloth.
Alternatively, try this Homemade Coffee Under Eye Cream recipe.
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15. Cellulite Treatment
Poor diet, frequent or extended periods of sitting, smoking, or genetic predisposition – cellulite has many causes and for every cause there are at least a dozen “cures” which may or may not actually work. Well, here’s one that does: used coffee grounds.
There are hundreds of recipes online for cellulite-reducing coffee scrubs. However, a simple mix of used coffee grounds and warm water will also do the trick. Use this scrub for ten minutes twice per week on any areas affected by cellulite.
A 2008 study in Sao Paulo found that topical application of caffeine reduced cellulite fat cells by 17%.
16. Caffeinated Soap
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Caffeine, when absorbed through the skin, acts as an anti-inflammatory to reduce puffy eyes, it stimulates blood flow which can aid in the production of collagen and it can draw water out of fatty cells, reducing the appearance of cellulite.
The multitude of caffeinated soaps available around the internet are testament to how well it works.
For an all-natural alternative, why not turn your old coffee grounds into homemade soap so you can get one more good caffeine kick in the morning before work? Here’s the recipe.
17. Coffee for Your Hair
If you use a lot of hair styling products, or if you’ve recently switched to a natural shampoo and conditioner, your hair is probably weighted down by residue. Remove that build-up using old coffee grounds to give your hair a lift and restore its natural healthy shine.
Before you shampoo, simply grab a handful of used grounds and massage them into your hair. The coarse texture is enough to break apart the product residue, but it’s also gentle enough that it won’t damage your locks.
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This is a must see floor. It is a diy wood and brick kitchen floor that was done on a 1900 farmhouse kitchen. I think it would look nice in any kitchen that is big enough. I only wish mine was. They used some 2x4s and brick veneer to make this floor and it ended up amazing. It looks like it could have come from a long ago century. This is a one of a kind floor that you can use for inspiration on your own kitchen floor.
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If you like unique flooring, check out this Homemade Penny Floor. It is another diy work of art.
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Remodeling a quaint little farmhouse in Oregon, and getting loads of splinters along the way.
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Kitchen Floor
After 2 weeks and nearly 50 hours of work, the kitchen floor is finally complete.
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In the design stage of the current kitchen remodel, I came across an interesting wood and tile inlay and the thought occured to me to finally utilize those old 2x4s. To give it more of a worn look, I had them sandblasted. Here are some close up shots.
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https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...0/DSC04623.jpgThe next picture is the collection of split 2x4s after coming from the sandblaster. Earlier, I had cut these to size and checked for nails before running through the bandsaw by Kevin Reedy, who would later become the cabinet maker. He was a reference from my dining room table maker, Dennis.
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The kitchen that I'm remodeling was a later addition at the back part of the house. As a result, the floors are at different levels so I had to add some 1/4" plywood to bring it to the same level as the adjacent dining room.
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Before installing the 2x4 halves and bricks, I first laid out the centerlines of the 2x4s based on the location of the sink and range for symmetry.
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Once the 2x4s were nailed in place, I installed Durock as a solid foundation for the brick veneers to be install on.
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Here's a shot of the brick veneer lined up to be installed. I purchased through Holbird Enterprise and the brick is from the Alabama Charcoal Co. in Oklahoma, so lots of character and various colors on the faces.
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Thin setting and brick veneer install. I only worked a small area at a time, since there was a lot of cutting due to the angles. After a section or two, I got a good process down and it went fairly smooth, although I felt it in my back the following day, that's for sure.
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The grouting was a bit more of an unexpected challenge. The grout tended to adhere to the brick face much more than a glossy tile face so clean up was a bit frantic. I ended up taking a day of "vacation" the next morning to scrub the brick faces to get as much grout off as possible. Later, they went through an acid wash by Gary and that made a huge difference.
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More finished shots below.
The two wood "rugs" were strategically placed in front of the sink and the range since a lot of standing is spent there. I figured standing on wood rather than brick would be easier on the body over time.
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August 30, 2014
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This huge collection of the Rules of Cooking Wild Mushrooms and Recipes helps to find delicious ways to eat wild food foraging mushrooms in meals. Mushrooms can be a wonderful addition to your diet but always remember proper identification can mean the difference between life and death.
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Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter
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By Robert L. Williams
Issue #48 • November/December, 1997
My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the early spring. We tried it both ways for many years and our conclusions are that, season after season, fall planting seems to work better for us.
Here’s an illustration: last spring we dutifully planted our potatoes in March, which is about as early as we can work the land successfully. We planted the spuds six inches deep, and then we waited.
And waited. And waited.
In April the first signs of growth appeared, and in the cool spring the plants grew, barely noticeably. When the really warm days of May arrived the potato plants put on a growth spurt that was truly gratifying.
And in June, believe it or not, we had a series of freezes and the plants were killed back by frost. They never made a come-back. The entire potato patch was a total loss of time, energy, and a small amount of money.
Winter or fall planting
Now take a look at winter or fall planting. As soon as all the summer garden crops have been harvested, we till our potato patch and make our winter planting. When the soil is loose and well pulverized, we dig deep rows—eight to ten inches. If you wish, you can use shallow rows and later pile dirt onto the top of the planted taters.
With the deep row open and ready, we fill the bottom of the row with dead leaves (You’ve been raking leaves from the yard anyhow, and this is a fine way to dispose of them), or we use pine needles. It’s good to have at least four or five inches of this dead matter in the bottom of the row.
Then set the potato eyes or cuttings in the row on top of the dead vegetable matter. It works better if you use whole spuds, particularly if you have some small ones that are really too little for good table use. Set the small potatoes a foot apart in the rows.
Now cover the potatoes with another layer of dead leaves, well-rotted sawdust, or other organic mulch material. You can use grass clippings or any other mulch available. Then add the necessary dirt to fill the row and even hill up the row slightly.
Admittedly, this type of gardening is a little harder, takes a little longer, and seems to be a total flop. But wait till spring and see the difference.
During the depths of winter the snows and rains will cause the mulch materials to decay and, as the mulch decays, warmth is generated, just as green hay or green sawdust will generate heat as it decays. The heat is generated for several weeks or even months, depending upon the amount of mulch used, and causes the potato sets to begin their growth cycle so that the roots begin to grow. The second layer of mulch and the dirt on top of it prevents the heat from escaping rapidly, while the soil on top is too cold for the plants to emerge from the soil. Small potatoes start to form very early, and they will grow all winter.
Obviously, the classic manure can be used as well, but this type of material tends to burn the roots of the tender plants. If you use manure, mix it with a generous amount of rotted sawdust or dead leaves.
When the weather is warm enough, the leaves of the plants will shoot forth, and because there is already a great root system the plants will be hardier and will grow faster. We asked a neighbor, a farmer, why the plants grow faster, and he gave us his theory:
The plant when young has a struggle, he says, to provide enough nutrition and growth power for both roots and shoots to grow, and the result is that both are often weak and fragile, more vulnerable to insects and cold snaps.
If the roots are already established, the growth energy can be used by the above-ground plant without robbing the tubers below the soil.
You can add a small amount of commercial fertilizer, if you wish, by sprinkling it along the rows. But the decayed mulch is providing its own fertilizer power by this time. The results are that by very early spring (unless you live in a frigid part of the country) you will have large, sound, beautiful potatoes long before your neighbors have any to harvest.
And this is only part of the beauty of winter potatoes. Because the early growth is done underground in cool weather, the above-ground plants will mature earlier than they would in the usual form of gardening, and you will be ready to harvest before the insects above and below the soil surface appear to devour plants and tubers.
A bonus of this type of planting is that the crop is harvested early enough that you have time to have a second or even a third crop on the same plot of land, especially if you live in an area where the growing seasons are longer.
I confess that I don’t know how this system will work where the winters are brutal. What succeeds in the Piedmont of North Carolina may not be successful in Minnesota or Montana or Maine.
Give it a try this winter, but you may wish to try only a small patch of potatoes until you see how the system works. If you are pleased by the results, then next season try it on your larger potato patches.
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How to Make Powdered Eggs Step by Step
July 18, 2024 by Tom Harkins
If you’re a homesteader, preserving the foods you grow and harvest is very important. Preserved foods enable you to ensure you have enough supplies on hand during the winter, when your homestead will likely be less productive.
While food preservation techniques like root cellars, canning and smoking are popular options to store the food you harvest or hunt, another somewhat less common preserved food is powdered eggs.
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If you have a flock of chickens, you can create a safe, high-protein preserved food that will last for years, is delicious, and is great for bartering with your neighbors and other homesteaders as well.
So, if you want to learn a traditional and very effective food preservation technique, this article will show you how to make your very own powdered eggs step by step!
What Are Powdered Eggs, Anyway?
Powdered eggs are simply fresh eggs that have been cracked, beaten with a blender, then dehydrated to remove moisture into a powder. They should last a really long time, and can be used like you would real eggs.
Commercially, powdered eggs are made via a technique known as spray drying. This is a method involving atomizing liquid eggs into tiny droplets and feeding them through a large drying chamber.
There they are exposed to hot air that evaporates the water content and transforms them into solid particles – creating the powder we know today.
Of course, it’s also possible to make your own powdered eggs – and it’s far easier than you might think!
Powdered Eggs, from Beloved Camp Food to World War II Staple
Powdered eggs, sometimes called dried eggs, or dehydrated eggs, have been in widespread use for well over a century. Because a container of powdered eggs is so light and compact, it became a very popular camp food.
Hunting lodges and fishing camps relied on foods like powdered eggs and beef jerky to keep their clients well-fed while they were on excursions to the more remote parts of the United States.
Because they were so lightweight and packed with nutrients, it was not long before governments saw the utility of powdered eggs as well.
During the Second World War, when food was a critical commodity that governments controlled closely, powdered eggs were adopted widely. In the UK, dried eggs imported from the United States were distributed widely through the Ministry of Food’s ration systems, due in part to the shortage of fresh eggs.
While not as popular as fresh eggs from the farm, powdered eggs no doubt helped to keep the civilian population in the United Kingdom well-fed, so they could continue to fight the Axis Powers and win World War II.
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In the years following the War, powdered eggs fell out of fashion. People were no doubt happy to be free of the ration system, and the end of the War years also coincided with the beginning of mass poultry production as well.Over the years, fresh eggs became mass-produced, inexpensive, and widely available, and powdered eggs slowly faded into obscurity.
Now, however, homesteaders are continuing to discover old skills and crafts that have become lost or obscure, and putting them to work in the 21st Century.
Interest in both homesteading as well as prepping have led many people to give powdered eggs a second look; many people even buy powdered eggs in bulk now to ensure they have a ready supply of protein on hand at all times.
However, as easy as it is to order a can or bag of powdered eggs online, it’s more practical and satisfying to make them yourself.
So, maybe it is time to give powdered eggs a try on your homestead. After all, this preserved food is a great fit for economical, sustainable, and low-cost homestead living.
Why You Should Make Powdered Eggs
If you’re a prepper, powdered eggs are great to have on hand for emergencies or survival situations as well. Here are a few of the benefits of making and using powdered eggs.
They Stay Fresh Longer
While fresh eggs may be delicious, they don’t stay fresh for long. Powdered eggs on the other hand, when stored in airtight containers in cool storage areas, can last for years. To prolong shelf life, you can also put the powder in Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers.
They Let You Make the Most of Boom and Bust Egg Laying Cycles
If your homestead is in a cold weather climate, your chickens may not lay prolifically throughout the winter; here in New England, even my hardiest cold weather hens slow down their egg laying considerably during the colder parts of the year.
Making powdered eggs during the peak egg-laying months of summer will ensure you have a steady supply of eggs for your breakfast and baking needs all year long.
They’re Easy to Store
Powdered eggs are also easier to store when space is an issue, or you are hiking and want to travel light. A dozen fresh eggs take up about 122 cubic inches of space; however, their powdered equivalent only requires about 22 cubic inches.
The drying process, which we’ll discuss later, helps to kill bacteria that could have possibly contaminated eggs during handling and shipping.
Are Powdered Eggs Good For You?
Powdered eggs are also highly nutritious. A tablespoon of powdered eggs – the equivalent of one whole egg – contains over 5 grams of protein, and other essential vitamins and minerals as well.
So, now that you know a bit about the history and benefits of powdered eggs, let’s take a close look at how you can make them on your homestead.
Equipment and Ingredients
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Making powdered eggs is surprisingly simple, but you will need some basic equipment, including:
- Blender. Any standard blender will do; you’re only using the blender to mix your eggs and then ground the dried eggs into a fine powder, so it won’t get much of a workout! If you choose to do so, you can use a whisk and mixing bowl for both of these steps. However, a blender or food processor does a much more thorough job of mixing your raw eggs and rendering the dried eggs into a fine powder.
- Dehydrator. You’ll need a dehydrator to actually dry your eggs. While you could use a standard oven to dry them, a dehydrator will be much more effective and consistent. Additionally, your dehydrator can do many other important and tasty food preservation tasks as well, so it is a good tool to have on a homestead. Your dehydrator will need solid trays for you to spread out your mixed raw eggs to draw upon; these are the same types of trays used to prepare fruit leather.
- Large Mixing Bowl. You’ll need a large mixing bowl to transfer your eggs into after they’ve been dehydrated. Also, you’ll want to crack your eggs open into a bowl as well, so that you can easily remove any stray eggshells or other debris that happens to get mixed in with them.
- Storage. You’ll need something to store your powdered eggs once you make them. If you plan to consume them relatively quickly, then simple plastic locking bags or containers may suffice. However, if you intend to store your powdered eggs for months or years on end, you will need more sophisticated procedures to ensure they are packed airtight. We will discuss powdered egg storage options for your consideration later.
- Ladle or Spoon. You will use a ladle or spoon to carefully transfer your eggs from your blender onto your dehydrator trays.
- Eggs! Of course, in order to make powdered eggs, you’ll need fresh eggs to start with. This particular recipe calls for two dozen fresh eggs.
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- Ladle or Spoon
Ingredients
- Eggs
Instructions
- Prepare Your Equipment.
As always, ensure the equipment you are going to use is as clean as possible; after all, you are working with a food product you are preparing for potentially long-term storage. Wash and sanitize your dehydrator, dehydrator trays, your blender, and any bowls or utensils you expect to use.
- Prepare Your Eggs.
Try to obtain the freshest eggs you can for this recipe. Ideally, you should gather your eggs from your homestead and prepare your powdered eggs as soon as possible. If you don’t have enough chickens to produce two dozen eggs quickly, get some more from a fellow farmer or homesteader, or buy some from a local store. Prior to proceeding to the next steps, wash any eggs you’ve gathered under warm water and wipe them off with a clean towel.
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Crack your eggs into a large mixing bowl, yolks and all. Take care not to get eggshells or other materials into the bowl. If you do, use a fork to carefully fish any debris out, working the material out along the side of the bowl. Once all two dozen of your eggs are in the mixing bowl, transfer them to your blender. Then, thoroughly wash and dry your mixing bowl, and set it aside for use later.
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- Mixing Your Eggs.
Once your eggs are in the blender, blend them at medium speed for approximately two minutes. If you have a smaller blender, you may need to blend them in two separate batches, since the egg mixture fills with air and expands a bit as you blend it all together. Once your eggs are fully mixed, you will be ready to transfer them over to your dehydrator racks.
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I use a magic mill dehydrator, and this recipe requires me to use three to four drying racks, depending on the size of my eggs. Set out your drying racks on a table or counter and move your blender alongside them. Using your ladle, carefully transfer your egg mixture from the blender to your drying trays, taking care not to spill any in the transfer or to overfill the trays.
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- Dehydrate Your Egg Mixture.
Consult your dehydrator manual to determine exactly how long it takes to dehydrate your egg mixture. I dry my egg mixture at a temperature of 149 degrees Fahrenheit (65 Celsius) in the dehydrator for 5 to 7 hours. However, each brand of dehydrator is considerably different, so consult your manual for the proper settings.
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- Once they are fully dried out, scrape your eggs off of each tray with a fork or butter knife carefully into your mixing bowl.
- Rendering your Dried Eggs into Powder
Once you’ve removed all of your dried eggs from your blender into your mixing bowl, load them all into your blender. Then, on a medium setting, blend the dried eggs until they are completely rendered into a fine powder. Once the blending is complete, you are ready to store or use your powdered eggs!
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Notes
- If you have a compost pile, you should collect up all of the eggshells, smash them up, and then add them to the pile.
Packing and Storing Powdered Eggs
If you plan to use your powdered eggs relatively quickly, you can simply store them in a locking plastic bag in your refrigerator. However, if you intend to store powdered eggs for months or years at a time, you should definitely take additional measures.
One great option to safely store your powdered eggs for the long term is to use a vacuum seal machine to pack your powdered eggs into an airtight plastic bag.
Once you have vacuum packed your eggs, store them in a cool dry place that is out of direct sunlight. Once you’ve opened any of your vacuum-packed powdered egg bags, ensure you store them in a refrigerator.
Another option for storing powdered eggs is in mason jars. Not only do they offer a neat and tidy way to store them, but they provide you with an airtight seal that will help to keep them fresh for longer periods of time. It’s easy to see what’s inside so you can use up your powdered eggs ASAP.
You can learn more about powdered eggs and food safety from the USDA website. Additionally, here is a great video that demonstrates how vacuum packing is used for food preservation and storage, especially for powdered goods:
Cooking with Powdered Eggs
Once you have plenty of powdered eggs on hand, you will be ready to start using them for breakfast and for recipes that call for eggs.
To cook your powdered eggs into scrambled eggs, one tablespoon of powder and two tablespoons of water approximates one egg. Simply mix the egg powder and water together, then add to a skillet and cook the mixture over medium heat for a plate of scrambled eggs.
Here is a video demonstrating how to cook reconstituted powdered eggs in a skillet:
You can also use your powdered eggs in lieu of fresh eggs for recipes requiring eggs, such as cake. Simply use the 1:2 powder-to-water ratio to add the appropriate amount of powder and water for any given recipe.
Of course, dried eggs will make a tasty omelet every time…
You DO NOT have to mix the egg powder and water prior to adding them to a given recipe, either. Simply add the proper amount of egg powder and water separately to a mixing bowl with the other ingredients the recipe calls for, so that you approximate the amount of eggs the recipe calls for.
Parting Thoughts
If you’re looking for innovative ways to preserve food on your homestead, you should definitely consider making powdered eggs.
Powdered eggs are packed with protein and other nutrients and are easy to make and store. Plus, they are absolutely delicious as well. So, follow the directions here, and add some powdered eggs to your pantry today!
Powdered Eggs FAQ
How long do powdered eggs typically last? If stored properly, powdered eggs will last anywhere between 5 and 10 years.
Do powdered eggs taste like real eggs? Most people agree that powdered eggs have their own unique flavor that is pleasantly close to the look and feel of cooked-down real eggs (when simmered with some oil or butter).
Are powdered eggs OK to use in baking? Yes, powdered eggs are an excellent substitute to fresh eggs to bake cakes, bread, biscuits and, oh, so much more!
Are powdered eggs real eggs? Of course, powdered eggs are real eggs! That’s what they’re made of, and fresh eggs are their one and only ingredient!
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When Tom Harkins is not busy doing emergency repairs to his 200 year-old New England home, he tries to send all of his time gardening, home brewing, foraging, and taking care of his ever-growing flock of chickens, turkey and geese.
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This step by step tutorial of how to recycle and re purpose an clean empty plastic 2 liter soda pop bottle into a funnel minnow trap to catch free fishing bait. Once inside, the fish cannot find the funnel shaped entrance to escape so they are trapped. A tiny handful 4 – 8 pieces of dry cat food lasts longer than bread and works well to bait the minnow trap.
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To use your trap, add some bread or cracker bits through the funnel (B). Sink the trap in your favorite pond or lake for a few hours, preferably overnight. Tie it securely to a dock or tree. The minnows will go in the trap but aren’t smart enough to get out. Next morning, simply open the bottle cap and pour the minnows into your bait bucket. You’re all set for a day of fishing!
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How to Train a Heifer to Become a Family Milk Cow
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We all have that dream of having our own milk cow, she would give us gallons of milk each day. We would make yogurt, sour cream, butter, mozzarella cheese, and still have extra for the other barnyard animals.
While that was certainly my vision when I purchased my family cow, it didn’t quite turn out that way. We had trouble getting her bred and she didn’t give much milk. But she calved easily and was a gentle cow and terrific mother. So we decided to buy a few more milk cows: HEIFERS.
Today I’m welcoming Ashley from The Browning Homestead to the blog! Not all of us are fortunate to start off with a quiet, trained milk cow (I wasn’t!), so Ashley is sharing her expertise on how to train a heifer, and end up with a quiet family cow!
Training a heifer (a young female cow) to become a family milk cow can be a bit tricky sometimes. Following these few simple guidelines can set you and your milk cow up for a long, productive relationship together!
How to Train a Heifer Practices for Pre-Calving
1. Bring Your Heifer (or Cow) to Your Homestead Before She Calves.
This will help her to become familiar with YOUR set-up. She’ll become comfortable and less nervous about where she will calve and who will most likely be around (kids, dogs, chickens, and other barnyard friends)
2. Practice Your Milking Routine (without actually milking her).
Tie her up to a post or put her in your milking stanchion. Give her a flake of good hay and practice your routine. Spray her down with fly spray and brush her all over. Don’t forget to tell her sweet nothings into her ear: what a good cow she is and how she’ll be a great mama cow! This goes a LONG way. And it really helps her to know what to expect after she calves. (Click this video to see my milking routine on The Prairie Homestead)
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3. Train a Heifer by Touching Her All Over.
Let her become accustomed to your hands. Scratch her neck, her belly, her udders, and her back legs. Practice lifting her legs (this helps her not to kick when you start milking).
4. Practice with a Restraining Device if You Are Using One
Now is the time to get your heifer used to a restraining device if you plan to use one. Whether you use hobbles or a Kow Kan’t Kick, practice about 5 minutes with the device on so she can get used to it. I highly recommend having one of these around just in case. If you don’t need it, great! If you do need it, it is sure handy to have around and have your cow familiar with it.
How to Train a Heifer Practices for Post-calving:
1. Once She has Calved, Her Mama Instincts Will Kick In!
If calving has gone easily, she’ll eat the afterbirth and start mooing and licking her sweet calf. But oxytocin (the relaxing hormone) won’t kick in until the calf starts to nurse in a heifer. So be sure to be safe around her at all times. Mama cows are very, VERY protective of their calves. Their hormones and emotions can go either way: calm and patient or nervous and dangerous to others.
2. Make Sure the Calf is Up and Nursing Within the First Hour
If not, you’ll need to help the calf nurse. With the utmost regard for your safety, tie your cow up to a post and help him/her nurse. I went in with a shovel and used the handle for protection. Cows, while they are sweet, will try to kill you. Especially a newly freshened cow. Please, be careful.
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3. Once the Calf is Up and Nursing, It’s Time to Slowly Bring Her into Milk
- The first few days after calving: milk her a couple of times a day. She’ll have lots of milk! Tie the calf up right next to her or put it in an area where she can see it. Milk out only a pint from each quarter and save the colostrum. You’ll be tempted to milk her completely out because she is so full but don’t!
- On the fourth day: milk her once in the morning. Milk out about a half gallon total and save the colostrum.
- After the fourth day: continue to milk her once in the morning and slowly take more milk each morning.
- At A week and a half post calving: Start to separate the calf a few hours before milking. The calf will really start to drink all the milk and you’ll find there is not much milk in her udder to take. After milking her (leave some for the calf), reunite cow and calf. The calf will most likely empty her out.
- Around 1 1/2 months post calving: Now the calf is really starting to grow and naturally goes longer between nursing sessions. Now you can separate the calf before you go to bed and reunite cow and calf after your morning milking!
- Dairy cows are very smart and can hold their milk back for their calf (instead of for you!). If that is the case, simply have the calf nurse for a minute and then take him/her off again. The cow now will let her milk down for you. I’ve had to do this several times during one milking.
Are You Ready to Train a Heifer to Be Your Family Milk Cow?
It may take up to 6 weeks for you and your new cow to figure everything out. She will most likely get impatient and try to move around during milking. Have some patience with her (that will teach her patience too) and don’t give up. I have spent up to an hour milking one cow that has just freshened for the first time. After many weeks of practice, everything should start to go more smoothly!
Following these guidelines for bringing your heifer into milk will surely set you two up to have a beautiful, working relationship for many years to come!
Remember the three keys to training a heifer to become a milk cow are familiarity, routine, and everyone’s safety.
Ashley can be found at The Browning Homestead where she writes about life on a homestead, farming, raising farm kids, and enjoying the good life.
More Dairy Cow Articles:
- Caring for a Cow and Calf After Delivery
- Breeding Your Cow with Artificial Insemination
- 10 Tricks to Stop Your Milk Cow From Kicking
- Owning a Family Milk Cow: Your Questions Answered
- How to Milk a Cow
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- 6 cups diced peeled apples (1/8-inch cubes)
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 1⁄2 teaspoon butter
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- In large pot combine apples, water and butter. Cook and stir over low heat until apples are soft.
- Stir in pectin and bring to a rolling boil, stirring constantly. Add the sugars, cinnamon, and nutmeg; return to rolling boil. Boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
- Remove from the heat and skim off any foam. Ladle hot jam into hot sterilized jars, leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Process for 10 min in boiling water bath.
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How to Start a Survival Garden: A Complete Guide
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If you want to start growing your own food and have a backyard that can be put to use, then you should start right away.
With the current situation of the economy, it wouldn’t hurt to become self-sufficient. We know that it is hard to grow your own food, but you will be thankful for it when the system collapses.
Use this guide to learn how to start a survival garden that will feed your family even when disaster strikes.
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Once you’ve grown your own food and have it in abundance, you’ll want to learn how you can store it to create an emergency food supply for your family.
A traditional garden requires prepping the soil every year and then planting the seeds, watering them, and weeding out the garden at least twice a week. You have to keep the pests from ruining the plants and take care of them.
After the economy collapses there will be a shortage of resources and gardeners will find it a challenge to garden since soil, fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides are going to become scarce.
Survival Gardening Books
These days, you can find a lot of gardening information online. But it’s always a good idea to have a book or two written by people who’ve been there, done that!
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Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening
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Managing Natural Nutrients for Your Survival Garden
No matter what you want to grow in your backyard, whether it’s in a container or a greenhouse, you have to supply the plant with the necessary nutrients. Plants need the right conditions to grow and there are certain minerals that they require.
Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and other photosynthesis-derived products are a few examples of the nutrition that plants require.
There are other minerals that are required by a plant that gardeners should provide. Every nutrient is essential to the plant’s health, regardless of the quantity it requires.
If a plant is not provided with proper nutrition, it will not grow to be a healthy plant. A good environment for the plant includes a combination of nutrients.
Once disaster strikes, do not expect to be able to run to the nearest DIY store and buy a bag of soil nutrients.
If you want to manage a prepper garden in a post-apocalyptic world, then you have to learn how to provide the right nutrients yourself.
Composting, vermicomposting and free-range poultry are three fantastic ways to provide the necessary nutrients needed to start your survival garden.
Composting
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To ensure your plants are healthy, make sure to always have a compost pile ready.
You can add organic material to the garden soil using compost. It increases the ability of the soil to hold moisture, battle diseases, and fight off pests. This will also help the plants survive through cold spells and droughts since it increases their immunity.
Traditionally, composting is the collection of carbon (brown material) and nitrogen (green material) in a bin that is two square feet. The carbon-containing materials that can be added include:
- newspaper
- paper towels
- dried corn stalks
- cardboard
- old leaves
- hay and straw
- some people even add the dead plants to their compost bins at the end of the spring season (just make sure you don’t add diseased plants to your compost pile).
Nitrogen can be obtained from:
- fresh lawn clippings
- manure droppings
- kitchen waste
Coffee filters contain magnesium and calcium, while eggshells have calcium. And banana are a source of potassium that is necessary for plant growth.
Tips for Compost Management:
- If the compost bin starts to smell, that means you have added too much green material or water to it
- If the compost is not getting hot enough, then there are too many brown materials in it
- Water should only be added once the compost gets hot or if it is too dry
- Animal manure can also be added to the compost
- The composting process can be sped up by flipping the heap with a shovel or pitchfork
Vermicomposting
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Vermicomposting is the process of using worms to convert the organic compost waste into nutrient-rich black earth that is necessary for plant growth.
The process is also called worm castings, vermicast, worm humus, or worm manure. Research shows that the average U.S. household wastes almost a third of the food they purchase.
An eight-inch-deep and two-foot-square box can be used for vermicomposting. The box can be kept under the kitchen sink or even outside in the garden.
Once the worm bin is ready, bedding is required, which can be made using leaves, manure, newspaper, or unwaxed cardboard.
Once this step has been completed, you can add worms and then empty the kitchen waste in it every week to allow the worms to do the composting.
Tips for Vermicomposting:
- There are many different types of worm bins that can be constructed, depending on the requirements
- You should use wood to construct the bin
- Red earthworms are the best for composting since they reproduce quickly and can convert a large amount of organic waste into compost.
- The worm beds should not be kept in direct sunlight or they will dry out and harden.
- Worms can convert up to half their body weight into compost. New food should be added once the old one have been used up. Once the worms have settled in, they can convert their body weight in kitchen waste to compost every day.
- To prevent small rodents and insects from ruining the compost, use a closed bed and do not include meat scraps in the waste.
You can start the survival garden you need in a post-apocalyptic world with the help of the nutrient-rich soil that vermicomposting produces. It helps provide an essential mix of nutrients to the soil.
Free-Range Poultry
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Poultry such as guinea fowl and chickens can be used to help garden and manage the soil. The bird droppings are great for developing the earth and providing the necessary nutrients.
Chickens usually go back to their coops at night and roam around the gardens during the daytime, which is why they are easy to manage.
Chickens also scratch the ground with their claws and get rid of any insects and pests that can be ruining your garden. You can let birds loose in the backyard and they will clean up the leftovers and also prepare the ground for planting.
A guinea fowl is a great way to keep the ticks under control and they can also alert the owners of any intruders on the property.
How to Start a Survival Garden—Methods of Gardening
As a survivalist, you must always be prepared for the time when things go south and you and your family will need to bug out.
In order to do that, many survival experts suggest tips for setting up a perfect bug out location.
And even if you decide on a great bug out site, you will still need to start a survival garden right alongside it. The presence of a steady food supply is necessary.
Your garden should not only house edible plants but also essential herbs. There are several aspects to consider when starting your own prepper garden.
The first question that arises when you start up a survival garden is: what method of gardening should you adopt? This greatly depends on the kind of land that you will use for your garden.
For example, if there is fertile, nutrient-filled soil present, you may not need to make any special arrangements for the garden.
However, if the soil is damaged permanently due to its chemical nature, climate, or any other reason, you must consider some alternatives.
Hydroponics
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A good substitute for natural soil is hydroponics. In this method, you do not need soil for growing plants.
Instead, you can stir up a mixture of water and certain chemicals. This gives you a nutrient-rich solution in which your plants can grow. This completely eliminates the need for soil.
Another advantage of this system of gardening is that you can easily control and monitor the type and quantity of nutrients that your survival garden plants receive.
This kind of environment is strictly man-made. It has been observed that plants that are grown hydroponically exhibit a higher rate of development than those grown in natural soil.
If you manage the nutrient levels in the water efficiently, the amount of waste produced can also be kept to a minimum. This will help you lessen the amount of pollution that is usually associated with hydroponic gardening.
The best part is that the water that enters the system once can often be reused. There is no need to replace it with fresh water very frequently.
Aquaponics
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Aquaponics is an even better option than hydroponics. It involves the use of cheaper nutrients that are obtained from fish feed instead of industrially manufactured chemicals.
The issue of toxicity of water is also eliminated. Also, the amount of nitrogen is balanced naturally. Aquaponic systems are also easier to maintain and monitor. They only require weekly or monthly checkups.
Research has also revealed that aquaponic plants show a better yield and quality than hydroponically-grown plants. The chances of plants getting infected by diseases are also much lower in aquaponic systems.
What to Plant to Start Your Survival Garden
The type of plants that you grow depends on your family’s needs. However, you must also consider what will grow in your climate without any difficulty.
You need to observe the average temperature and rainfall level trends in your area before deciding. Once you have decided on the plants, you need to pick the type of seeds you will sow.
GMO Versus Non-GMO Seeds
The debate of GMO versus non-GMO seeds has been going on since the advent of genetic modification.
Both types of seeds have their own pros and cons. While genetically modified seeds bear better-looking fruit, this should not be your main concern when setting up a prepper garden.
Pretty fruit is of no use when you are dependent on it for your survival. The nutritional value of your plants is a far more important factor. A healthier fruit can be obtained from seeds that have not been genetically modified.
Many experts in the field have also revealed that the produce from genetically modified seeds reduces every year. On the other hand, you can save a higher number of seeds every year from plants that are non-GMO.
Seeds that are obtained from organic plants or plants which have not been exposed to artificial pest control are also highly recommended.
You can easily buy organic seeds from small-scale farmers or people who have their own family gardens. Hybrid seeds are also preferred. These are often thought to be GMO, but they can also be obtained from naturally cross-pollinated plants.
Make sure that you do not choose plants that inhibit each other’s growth. For example, if you pick broccoli and tomato for your garden, make sure you place them far apart since broccoli hinders the growth of tomatoes.
System of Irrigation
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Water is an absolute necessity for plant growth. There is no substitute for it. Therefore, you need to make sure that you have a steady, reliable supply of water near your garden.
It is also recommended to locate your prepper garden near a tap or water source so that you can connect a hosepipe to it if needed.
The method you use for supplying water to your plants is also critical. When using off-grid irrigation methods, there may also be some legal issues that you need to take care of.
The easiest and simplest way to provide water to your plants is by using rainwater. You can easily collect rainwater by placing basins or large containers under the roofs of your house or garden.
Since this water will not be used for human consumption, there is no need to bother with the filtration process. You can supply this water directly to your plants.
However, in some climates, it does not rain very often or very heavily. Therefore, it would be impossible to rely entirely on rainwater in such climates.
In this case, you can use greywater instead. This includes all the used water that is produced as waste in your house. Toilet water is not a viable option; therefore, it is excluded.
You can collect the water draining out of your house by preventing it from flowing into the gutters. Instead, you can divert the route of the drainage pipes and let the water flow out into a different location.
This can act as your collection point from where you can lead the water to the location of your garden.
Pest Control
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There are many artificial pesticides and insecticides available in the market which can be used to keep your plants safe.
However, when times are difficult, there may be a restricted supply of resources. You must, therefore, rely on natural means of protection for your plants.
One way to do that is companion planting. This is when you place your plants in such a manner that they mutually benefit from each other.
For example, you can grow carrots next to your plant in order to get rid of caterpillars. This will be beneficial because carrots grow flowers that attract wasps.
Wasps are known for hunting down caterpillars. Another natural pest control method is using homemade chemicals.
For example, in order to protect your plants from fungal diseases, you can spray them with a mixture of baking soda and water. This is a very effective form of defense against fungus in plants.
Unique Ways to Start a Survival Garden No Matter Where You Live
If you are growing grass in your garden, then it’s not going to help you in a crisis situation and isn’t going to benefit you in any way.
Whereas, a survival garden is one that is designed to offer enough vegetable crops, to allow you and your family to survive for an indefinite amount of time.
No one is certain about the economic situation in any country and it can deteriorate at any time. Therefore, having a well thought out and planned prepper garden design will save you from chaos.
Sustainable gardening is not just a trend, but a way of life. So, in planning a sustainable prepper garden, there are few rules you should follow.
Forget About the Conventional Way of Gardening
The first thing is to grow plants in garden beds rather than in rows. Growing plants in a garden bed enable better use of limited space. It allows you to separate your garden into smaller portions and do gardening in various places around your land.
Keep the observable food plants away, like behind the barn or hidden in the woods so that people can’t view them from the road. This way, you can make your prepper garden area more productive.
Also, the other benefit is it allows you to plant on several locations instead of a single location. Therefore, if one location gets taken or destroyed, then you and your family members would be able to get your food supply from alternative sources.
Adopt the Camouflage Technique
Your survival garden design needs a camouflage tactic. There are various ways to camouflage your prepper garden to protect it from intruders that may happen upon it.
In any SHTF situation, once other people’s food runs out, they are most certainly going to be looking for yours. Thus, a camouflage method will help you to protect your prepper garden, without being an obvious target for people.
Camouflage Netting
You can use some camouflage netting such as the intermingling of plants in such a way that people will not able to identify that you are growing crops in there. Camouflage netting is used to disguise your food plants as well as the greenhouse from sight.
You can grow many plants of medicinal and nutritional benefits in a natural landscaping manner to shield them from any offender.
Bushes, ferns, hedges, flowers, vines, trees, or ivy all act as a natural physical barrier to your survival garden. You can plant goldenrod around your land or near the road to keep people away due to its ability to cause allergies.
Also, use the deadliest plants or thorny bushes in your survival garden to make it tough for intruders to pick away the food.
You can also use other unpleasant plants like poison ivy or stinging nettles to stop intruders from penetrating into your prepper garden.
Additionally, you can consider defensive plants such as Lisbon-lemon (with large green thorns) or varieties that contain plenty of spine branches such as Gooseberry, Choisya Trifoliate, or Japanese Barberry.
Edible Landscaping
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Bushes, trees, and ground cover all work together to provide edible landscaping. This is also one of the methods to hide your food from the sight of others.
For this purpose, you should consider planting edible perennial herbs around your land. You can incorporate those plants in your survival garden that are not easily detectable as food.
Some examples are:
Prickly Pear
An edible cactus fruit that has many medicinal benefits as well as high in nutritional value.
‘Scarlet Emperor’ Runner Bean
The Scarlet Emperor is known to attract bees and hummingbirds due to their appealing look. But, you need to cook them to eat their pods and beans.
Siberian Pea
You can also consider growing peas when you start your survival garden. Siberian Pea shrubs are known to grow in a wide range of conditions.
And, they are able to fix nitrogen in the soil and thus increase its availability to other plants. They also help bring beneficial insects and are edible too for people as well as livestock.
Day Lillies
Disease-tolerant Day Lilies are very easy to grow. This food crop is not only edible but also tastes so spectacular. Their root tubers and florae are edible in nature.
Garden Sorrel
Garden sorrel or spinach dock, a look-alike to spinach, is a dense form of nutrients. While making soup and stews in your kitchen, you can use this from your survival garden to give your meal a tantalizing flavor.
Berries
You can also consider other kinds of edibles such as Serviceberries, Aronia Berries, Booseberries, and Currants.
Introduce Edible Weeds
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To grow a nutritious weed in your backyard is also a good option. Dandelion, probably the most well-known of all weeds, has been in use to treat literally everything.
This weed can treat many diseases: from kidney disease to heartburn and appendicitis. Every part of this weed is edible from its roots to the blossoms. You can use its leaves while making sandwiches and its roots are good to make an herbal tea.
Your Survival Garden Could Be a “Food Forest”
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Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops
Even though your survival garden is beautiful and helps in maintaining ecology and the whole planet, its main purpose is to sustain you and your family. Growing a food forest doesn’t just limit you to food, but it can be used to create medicines as well.
It’s a style of gardening that mimics a natural forest environment. Requiring many stages, growing a food forest implies selecting and preparing the land, the actual plantation, and constant maintenance
Usually, food forests are centered around one medium or large-sized fruit tree. In temperate climates, it might be an apple or a nut tree. You can use avocado and lime trees as focal trees too.
Around the avocado tree, you need to include a great diversity of different plants that not only help avocado to grow but will also yield you some glorious foods.
The way these plants help avocado (or the focal tree) to grow is by producing organic matter to the soil and by providing a habitat that is beneficial for insects and animals.
It also prevents weeds from growing and maintains the humidity level of the soil. All together, this system works.
Year after year, you will get a successful result in the form of fruits as your reward. You need to re-plant every year for the first few years until the system gets established.
Companion Planting
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We all know that some plants hurt each other while others help each other. This is historically being called “Companion Planting”.
Some examples of plants that chemically alter their environment are legumes. Lupines, peas, beans, etc. take nitrogen from the air and then put it into the soil.
They act as fertilizer for other green plants. So, for beans and peas, the companion planting would be green varieties such as kale, lettuce, and spinach.
Allium family is a family of plants that includes onions and garlic. These types of plants are great because they repel or distract many pests including rabbits and mice, from chewing the bark and damaging the trees.
You can leverage this by doing inter-cropping. So, avoid planting all the same variety in one place, and instead plant in companion groups.
In Conclusion
We live in a very fragile society and we need to be prepared in case of any disruption. Bottom line, we need to be more self-reliant. There is surely a need to grow your own food for yourself and your family.
Being a prepper and starting a survival garden means you are preparing yourself for any kind of crisis that could occur. Survival gardening is all about sensible preparation for food in the event of a collapse of the global food supply.
You will hopefully have all the information you need to start a survival garden. Once you have made your choice wisely, your garden will be ready to grow, thrive, and provide you with the fruit of your labor.
Make sure you monitor your garden carefully and regularly if you want to reap long-term benefits from it.
Since food is a valuable asset in bad times, it may attract unwanted attention or even put your life in danger. That is why it is also important to keep your garden secure, secret, and, above all, hidden.
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The Survival Garden You Need to Start Today
What if I told you about a garden that needs no digging, no watering, and no weeding AND it can grow in the most extreme places on earth?
This type of “food forest” grows on auto-pilot with minimal energy because it mimics how nature works. No one is watering the woods, yet every plant has managed to survive for thousands of years there.
Start your very own survival garden that’s 100% concealed from prying eyes and stay well-fed in case of any kind of long-term disaster.
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How to Start a Survival Garden: A Complete Guide
How to Make Echinacea Tincture (it’s easy)
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Echinacea is excellent for supporting the immune system during a cold.
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As a teenager I was involved in dancing, acting and singing and went to auditions every now and again. The day before a very important (to me) audition I came down with a severe cold and could barely breathe through my nose! I felt terrible. Singing at an audition the next day seemed out of the question.
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The local health food store suggested Echinacea. I took Echinacea tincture throughout the day and woke up well in the morning! This was my first experience with Echinacea and I was sold.
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I was a little disheartened each time I became ill and wanted to buy more tincture. While it is not exorbitantly expensive, it is not cheap either. (Especially for a struggling artist.)
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Thankfully I’ve discovered that takes very little time and money to make my own. It’s about as easy as preparing a cup of tea. Most anyone can do it.
Today I’m going to share the simple steps for making a traditional tincture with Echinacea. You can also make it with glycerin, for those who wish to avoid alcohol.
It is probably more beneficial to make a tincture with fresh Echinacea, but it is often easier (and still highly effective) to make it with dried material since not everyone grows or has access to fresh flowers and roots. When using dried Echinacea try to find some that has been dried recently and as always, organic is preferred.
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How to Make Echinacea Tincture
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You will need:
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Wide mouth canning jar (make sure it is clean and sanitized)
dried Echinacea – (where to buy)
Vodka (with at least 40% alcohol – 80 proof)
Note: if using fresh herbs, you will need a higher percentage of alcohol (95%)
Method:
Place dried Echinacea in the jar until the jar is about half full.
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Pour vodka over the top. Fill to the shoulder of the jar so there is a little room at the top. The dried herbs will swell over the coming weeks.
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Seal tightly with lid.
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Label jar with the date and the expected date your tincture will be ready. Also, include the ingredients on your label. You probably think you will remember, but trust me, that doesn’t always happen!
You have now created a menstruum. Leave menstruum at room temperature for four to six weeks. Shake every few days.
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(The above picture is of some tincture I started this morning. It begins to turn brown very quickly)
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After the four to six weeks has passed, strain the herbs out of the vodka.
To strain the herbs:
Place a layer of cheesecloth over a mesh strainer and set over a large measuring cup or bowl. Pour menstruum slowly into the cheesecloth and allow to drain for a few minutes. Then use your hands to wrap the cheesecloth around the herbs and squeeze out the excess liquid.
Discard the herbs.
You now have Echinacea tincture! Woo hoo! (Isn’t this fun?)
Pour tincture into dark, glass bottles for storage. Don’t forget to label them.
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To use:
At the first sign of a cold or throughout a cold take ½ to ¾ of a teaspoon 3 to 4 times a day. per day.
Important note About when to use echinacea:
Echinacea has shown to be most beneficial at the beginning and for the duration of a cold. It is not intended as a long-term preventative.
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Please remember I am not a certified Herbalist, just someone who is crazy about herbs and natural living. It is important you do your own research.
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30 Survival Tips From Les Stroud
13Thursday Mar 2014
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30 Survival Tips From Les Stroud
01* In cold or freezing conditions, the worst thing you can do is let yourself get sweaty. He constantly mentions that if you get sweaty, you should let the sweat dry (he mentions this tip in almost every episode).
02* Use a lens from a camcorder to start a fire (as if it is a Magnifying Glass)
03* Always carry a good multitool (eg. Leatherman Wave or Swiss Army Explorer Plus).
04* Break wood between two trees to keep from hurting yourself.
05* Cut water-vine in swamps and jungles and place a cup at the opening to collect water.
06* Wipe mud over your skin to protect against mosquitoes.
07* If you catch lean food eat as much of the animal as possible, except the entrails. Certain wild animals have extremely low levels of body fat, which may lead to death by rabbit starvation.
08* To start a fire with a lighter that has no fluid, use a piece of tissue formed into a cone at one end with a ball of sock lint stuffed into the cone to catch the spark that comes off the lighter. This only works if the socks are manufactured from 100% cotton. He refers to this as a prison match (and tells viewers not to ask him why he knows how to make it).
09* Use a snowmobile seat cover to melt snow in the sunlight.
10* Don’t play the harmonica when polar bears are possibly around because they are attracted to strange noises.
11* Use corn chips to hold a flame in a manner similar to a candle wick.
12* Boil water by placing heated rocks in it. This is done when a water container cannot be held directly over a fire.
13* Heat rocks over fire and place them around the body as heating packs while sleeping or resting.
14* Use an emptied coconut shell filled with coconut fibers to carry a smoldering coal. This prevents the need to light another fire from scratch.
15* Use cow dung to keep a fire smoldering while away. This prevents the need to light another fire from scratch.
16* Use the elastic strap from a pair of boxers as a slingshot to fire a fishing spear.
17* Soak the foam cushion of a broken snowmobile in gasoline to use as fire fuel in the Canadian Arctic.
18* Determine the time until sunset by measuring the distance between the sun and horizon, wherein each width of your hand equals one hour.
19* Use moss from the north side of a tree to gain bearings without a compass (though he added that this method, though accurate in his case, is often unreliable).
20* When opening a conch shell, crack the point on the back and scrape out the meat inside.
21* To get fresh water on an island build a solar still by finding a box (or something similar) and put seawater and plants inside, along with a smaller container in the direct center, and cover it tightly with a plastic sheet. Then put a rock in the center of the plastic. The plants will sweat fresh water which will evaporate, condense onto the plastic and drip into the container.
22* Too much coconut milk causes diarrhea.
23* The Five “W’s” of Survival: o Weather: Temperature of the area, know what kind of shelter you need. o Wood: How much wood is around for both fire and shelter. o Wigglies: spiders, scorpions, snakes, anything that can bite you or poison you. o Widowmakers: rocks, trees, large animals, anything that can fall on you or attack you. o Water: Where will you get water, how will you obtain it.
24* Use a potato peeler on thin branches to create very curly wood shavings. These are great for getting very small flames turned into big ones.
25* Always check your boots for “Wigglies.”
26* Use large rock pieces and twigs to setup trap for small animals by placing an edible bait to the supporting twig (Les caught a squirrel in the Utah canyonlands once, he cooked it over fire for a long time to burn off parasites before eating)
27* Set up a trap in the swamp or river bank by sticking wood sticks in a pattern that looks like a square with the top side slightly open in a v-shape , place a bait inside to wait for a turtle or other animals.
28* To create smoke signal, burn damp wood chips over fire. 29* Before sleep pee so your body isn’t trying to keep the water inside you warm.
30* Eat Something before you sleep helps insides get warmer.
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Essential survival skills: The importance of water treatment methods for survival
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- Stored water is unreliable — municipal systems can fail, and stored water has shelf-life and maintenance limitations.
- Urban scavenging options include draining water heaters, using rain barrels or accessing external faucets with a sillcock key—but supplies are limited.
- Retention ponds are risky — they often contain pollutants (oil, pesticides ands ewage) requiring rigorous purification (boiling alone isn’t enough).
- Water treatment methods preppers can employ include boiling, filtration and purification, but layered methods are often necessary.
- Skills outweigh storage — long-term survival hinges on knowing how to purify water from any source, not just stockpiling.
Most people assume clean water will always flow from their faucets. Yet time and time again, disasters have proven this is not true. Municipal systems are vulnerable to power outages, pipe ruptures or pollution. Even stored water has limits: plastic bottles degrade and water tanks require maintenance.
For survival experts, the message is clear: Relying solely on stored water is insufficient. The ability to locate, purify and conserve water is a fundamental skill that could determine survival in an emergency.
Here's what you can do when you run out of stored water and the tap has run dry. (h/t to ReadyYourFuture.com)
Urban water scavenging
For city dwellers, options shrink fast. You can drain water heaters or toilet tanks, but that will only last you days. Rain barrels can help, but water collection mainly depends on weather. A "sillcock key" can help you access outside faucets around commercial buildings like schools and churches, but these sources are finite.
In extreme situations, you might have to turn to suburban retention ponds. These are permanent constructions meant to hold water flow for a limited duration. But suburban retention ponds are often contaminated with oil, pesticides and sewage, so water from this source demands rigorous purification to be useable. You’re not just going to be filtering bacteria, you'll also be battling chemicals and heavy metals. Boiling alone won't cut it.
The key to solving this problem is understanding water treatment methods:
- Boiling – easiest method for killing microorganisms, such as viruses, bacteria and parasites, in water; does not get rid of chemical contaminants.
- Filtration – removes visible contaminants (dirt, bacteria) via physical barriers like microporous filters or makeshift sand layers.
- Purification – kills viruses and neutralizes chemicals through boiling, distillation or UV treatment.
While water filtration removes larger impurities like sediment, purification goes further by eliminating or neutralizing microscopic pathogens. But multiple treatment methods, such as pre-filtering, distilling and chemical treatment, may be necessary to make water truly safe for drinking.
In cases when water is contaminated with biological waste, experts recommend using a disinfectant like iodine or chlorine (or chlorine dioxide) after filtering to kill any remaining viruses and bacteria. Only use fresh, unscented household liquid chlorine bleach that is less than one year old. To disinfect one gallon of water, add six drops of chlorine using a medicine dropper. Two gallons will require 12 drops (about 1/8 teaspoon) and so on.
Making water from suburban retention ponds potable is a labor-intensive process, which is why in a true survival situation, someone will have to be on water duty full-time. The water would've to go through pre-filtering multiple times, then boiling or distilling, plus another round of filtering — or possibly more — before it can be used for anything. Having a WAPI (Water Pasteurization Indicator) on hand can make confirming the safety of your treated water much easier.
Mastering water treatment isn't just practical — it's indispensable. Equipping yourself with this knowledge ensures you're prepared when safe water isn't readily available. Whether you're stranded in the wild or facing a disaster, mastering these techniques could mean the difference between life and death. (Related: The golden rule of water conservation in an emergency: Never waste a drop.)
Water storage tips
Federal guidelines recommend storing one gallon of water per person daily — but you'll find that's barely enough for drinking and hygiene when SHTF. A family of four needs 120 gallons for a 30-day supply, a volume rarely stockpiled. Preparedness advocates recommend stocking bottled water, adding collapsible jugs and investing in portable water filters and/or purifiers as extra precautions.
But the ultimate solution is skill-building. While storage delays the inevitable, knowing how to make water safe — no matter the source — can ensure your long-term survival. (Related: Prepping basics: Essential tips on how to prepare for a long-term water supply disruption.)
For more tips on how to ensure sufficient water supply in times of emergencies, visit Survival.news.
Watch the following “how to” video on self-reliance (prepping) with water.
This video is from the Flyover Conservatives channel on Brighteon.com.
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Natural remedies for itchy skin: Time-tested solutions for lasting relief
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Itchy skin is more than a temporary nuisance — it can disrupt sleep, lower quality of life, and even signal deeper health imbalances. While antihistamines are needed in acute situations requiring instant relief, it's important to find natural alternatives that can help the skin over the long haul. From the anti-inflammatory power of coconut oil and aloe vera gel to the cooling relief of peppermint and oatmeal baths, nature offers solutions that address both the cause and discomfort of itching without harsh side effects. These remedies not only relieve irritation but also nourish the skin, preventing future flare-ups.Key Points:
- Coconut and olive oil provide antibacterial, antifungal, and deeply moisturizing benefits for dry or irritated skin. Their fatty acids repair the skin barrier, reducing sensitivity to environmental triggers.
- Oatmeal baths soothe inflammation, particularly from sunburn or allergic reactions, by calming skin at a cellular level. Colloidal oatmeal forms a protective film, locking in moisture and preventing further irritation.
- Aloe vera and peppermint oil offer immediate cooling relief while promoting long-term healing. Peppermint’s antimicrobial properties also help prevent infections in broken skin.
- Vitamin D and omega-3 deficiencies may contribute to chronic itching; dietary adjustments can restore skin health. Low levels of these nutrients weaken skin resilience, making it more prone to irritation.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) emphasizes internal balance, using herbs like Perilla leaf to treat itching at its source. TCM practitioners often pair Perilla leaf with acupuncture to enhance detoxification and circulation.
The science behind natural anti-itch remedies
Research published in Dermatologic Therapy (2023) found colloidal oatmeal reduced itch severity by 30% in eczema patients within days. Meanwhile, coconut oil’s lauric acid combats bacterial overgrowth — a common trigger for conditions like atopic dermatitis. Neuroscience studies also confirm peppermint oil’s ability to disrupt itch-signaling pathways by activating the TRPM8 receptor, which tricks the brain into perceiving cold instead of irritation.
“Perilla leaf has been used for centuries to neutralize allergic reactions,” notes TCM practitioner Dr. Li Ke, author of Herbal Solutions for Modern Skin Disorders. “Its flavonoids act as natural antihistamines, making it ideal for food-related itching.” Modern research supports this, showing Perilla extract significantly reduces histamine release in allergic skin conditions.
Apple cider vinegar
Apple cider vinegar (ACV) is a highly effective natural remedy for relieving itchy, dry skin due to its antimicrobial and pH-balancing properties. Its acidic nature helps restore the skin’s natural acid mantle, soothing irritation and reducing inflammation. The acetic acid in ACV exfoliates dead skin cells, while its antifungal and antibacterial properties combat underlying infections that may be causing itchiness, such as eczema or fungal conditions. Additionally, by alkalizing the body internally, ACV reduces systemic acidity, further promoting healthier skin. When diluted with water and applied topically, ACV can provide immediate relief from itching while supporting long-term skin hydration and detoxification. This makes it a versatile, chemical-free solution for managing stubborn skin conditions.
Aloe vera
Aloe vera is highly effective in relieving itchy skin due to its powerful anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, and antihistamine-blocking properties. The gel contains active compounds, including magnesium lactate, which work together to soothe irritation and reduce itching. A 1996 study published in Ethnopharmacology confirmed aloe’s ability to combat inflammation, making it a natural remedy for conditions like psoriasis or dry, itchy patches. By breaking a fresh aloe vera stem and applying the gel directly to affected areas several times a day, the skin absorbs its soothing compounds, providing fast relief and promoting healing. Its cooling effect further calms discomfort, making aloe vera a go-to solution for inflamed, itchy skin.
When to use antihistamines, and five lesser-known natural antihistamines
If the itching is caused by histamine reaction, then an over-the counter antihistamine can help tremendously. Antihistamines work by blocking the effects of histamine, a chemical released by the immune system during allergic reactions. Histamine binds to H1 receptors, causing symptoms like sneezing, itching, and nasal congestion. Over-the-counter (OTC) antihistamines, such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl) or loratadine (Claritin), competitively inhibit these receptors, preventing histamine from triggering inflammation and allergy symptoms. First-generation antihistamines (e.g., diphenhydramine) cross the blood-brain barrier, often causing drowsiness by affecting central nervous system receptors, while second-generation options (e.g., loratadine, cetirizine) are designed to minimize sedation by staying mostly outside the brain. These medications provide relief by reducing allergic response symptoms but do not cure the underlying allergy. Diphenhydramine is a critical medicine during "hell's itch" which is a strong histamine reaction that occurs in a small percentage of people who have a severe sunburn.
Here are some more natural dietary anti-histamines that can help when the issue is not acute:
- Quercetin (found in apples, onions): Blocks histamine release at the cellular level. It also stabilizes mast cells, which are overactive in chronic hives and eczema.
- Vitamin C: Reduces inflammation while strengthening skin barriers. Topical application can also neutralize irritants from insect bites or chemical exposure.
- Nettles (brewed as tea) or ground powder: Contains compounds that inhibit itch-signaling pathways. Nettle’s silica content also promotes collagen repair for damaged skin.
- Butterbur (herbal supplement): Studied for its effectiveness comparable to pharmaceutical antihistamines. Unlike drowsiness-inducing medications, butterbur has no sedative side effects.
- Honey (raw, local): Applied topically, its enzymes reduce histamine-driven swelling. Manuka honey, in particular, has potent antimicrobial effects on infected eczema patches.
When heat strikes: Cooling solutions for sunburn relief
Sunburn transforms skin into an itchy battlefield where water loss and inflammation collide. Peppermint oil’s menthol activates cold-sensitive nerve endings, providing an instant cooling sensation. A 2022 Journal of Ethnopharmacology study showed aloe vera accelerated burn healing by 72 hours compared to untreated skin. Even better, aloe’s polysaccharides stimulate fibroblast activity, encouraging faster tissue repair.
Pro tip: For severe burns, mix aloe gel with a few drops of peppermint oil and refrigerate before application. The combination enhances penetration while preventing freezer burn on delicate skin. Adding a teaspoon of colloidal oatmeal to the mix can further reduce redness and peeling.
Prevention: hydration and beyond
Dry skin accounts for 60% of chronic itching cases, yet most sufferers overlook internal hydration. “Drinking water isn’t enough — essential fatty acids rebuild skin’s lipid layer,” explains nutritional therapist Maria Gonzalez. Omega-3s from wild salmon or flaxseeds reduce inflammatory prostaglandins linked to eczema flare-ups. Boosting hyaluronic acid intake — via bone broth or supplements—also helps skin retain moisture from within.
Winter demands extra vigilance. Vitamin D levels plummet in colder months, correlating with increased itchy dermatitis cases. Safe sun exposure or high-quality supplements — tested regularly — can restore balance without resorting to immunosuppressants. Pairing vitamin D with zinc supports optimal skin regeneration and reduces inflammation-related itching.
Why you should never peel skin forcibly
Damaged skin often forms a dry, peeling layer as part of the healing process — but peeling it prematurely can worsen irritation and invite infection. The dead outer layer acts as a natural bandage, shielding vulnerable new skin underneath. Instead, gently moisturize with coconut oil or aloe vera to soften peeling edges. If flakes are bothersome, exfoliate lightly with a wet oatmeal scrub, letting loose skin come away naturally.
For stubborn peeling — like after sunburn — soak in an oatmeal bath with a tablespoon of honey to dissolve dead cells without abrasion. Resist the urge to pick, as this disrupts healing and can lead to scarring or hyper-pigmentation. Patience ensures healthier, itch-free skin in the long run.
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Top 10 DIY Projects that Harness the Power of the Sun
Kevin Purdy
July 18, 2009 18 Comments
Cheap, powerful, and available almost everywhere—solar energy is a truly great thing. With these 10 sun-powered projects, you can turn a sunny day off into some brag-worthy, possibly money-saving backyard tech.
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10. Engrave wood with a "sun laser"
Leave them alone long enough, and nearly every kid will investigate, or at least hear about, the devastating effects of magnifying glasses and clear, sunny weather on insects. Route that fascination with concentrated sunlight into some wood engraving. Aluminum foil (or, preferably, foil tape), sunglasses, a razor blade, and a magnifying glass are all you need to get creative with an old piece of wood or other dark objects. You'll need to provide supervision, lest bad aim turn into a kindling incident, but it's a great project for kids, as well as a unique way to leave your mark with style. (Original post)
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9. Heat water in your backyard
It's not an efficient way to keep your hot tub filled, but the kind of solar-powered water heater detailed at the Instructables link above can get a big batch of water up to 170F without requiring any work from your water heater, and the kit costs around $5 with the right parts suppliers. Even if you pay a bit more, think about how often the backyard grill, deck, or pool could use a little cleaning with some hot, soapy water. This project gets you a free source of ever-ready cleaning water, and at a pretty neat price. (Original post)
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8. Start a fire with a soda can and chocolate
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Chocolate and a can of coke
This little project is the most reliant on a strong bit of sunlight, but totally worth the effort when you pull it off. The chocolate polishes the bottom of a soda can, which better focuses and intensifies sunlight reflections, creating a cone of fire-starting power that leaves your fellow campers impressed—or the other attendees at the park picnic grateful you were there when they forgot the matches. (Original post)
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7. Convert a lawnmower to solar power
If you've got a small-ish lawn, a battery-powered mower is much easier on your and your neighbors' ears, and it saves you the hassle and cost of gas refills. Take those eco-benefits to the next level by converting a gas-guzzling push mower to use a solar-charged battery. Appropedia's version is a definite weekend project for an older model, but if you've got a newer battery mower, it's not too hard to simply start charging it with a solar panel instead of your wall socket, and this guide will help get you there. (Original post)
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6. Estimate your home's solar potential
A solar-powered house sounds like a neat idea in abstract, but how would you know if your house's roof could really sustain worthwhile energy? Luckily, a big search company has overhead images of just about every house out there, and mashup tool RoofRay can use that image, plus your location's average sunlight and some roof details, to get a starting estimate on whether you can use the sun to push back on your power meter a bit. (Original post)
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5. Extend Wi-Fi to your backyard
Probably the least practical and most expensive of the projects listed here, the solar-powered Wi-Fi extender is definitely the most rewarding from a geek cred and green power perspective. Popular Science explains in great detail how to solder and network together a semi-standard Linksys Wi-Fi router, range extender, solar panel, battery, and higher-powered antenna, and then set it up to grab Wi-Fi from your household's main network and expand it to the great outdoors—or, at least, the outdoors behind your house. That leaves you with regular web access anywhere around your property, without having to worry about running cables across the lawn. (Original post)
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4. Cook with a cardboard box
There's an entire realm of recipes and cookbooks that purport to help you get cooking done in the summer without turning on your oven. Skip the gazpacho and the house-warming heat with an oven built from aluminum foil, construction paper, plastic, and a few other household items, including a firm cardboard box. It's great for saving energy, saving time, and feeling like you really made the most of a warm, sunny day. Want to get a bit more efficient and physics-y with your outdoor oven? Try a parabolic solar cooker. Photo by thescarletmanuka. (Original post)
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3. Build a greenhouse for $50
If you're lucky enough to live where plants and food grow all year, you already know the power of photosynthesis. For those who could use a little more prep time for their seedlings, a longer growing season, or just a buffer against the occasional plant-punching dry spell, The Door Garden explains how to take some light construction materials—$50 if you happen to have most of it lying around, about $150 purchased new—and build a greenhouse that will withstand most winters and thrive in every other season. Just got a few plants you want to get started with condensed solar power? Try the mini-greenhouse made from a window. (Original post)
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2. Charge an iPhone/iPod with the sun
We're big fans of the MintyBoost DIY USB charger kit, a great project for electronic beginners and pros alike. It was only a matter of time, then, until someone switched the power source from AA batteries in an Altoids case to a lithium-ion battery with solar charging capabilities. Completing the modified kit isn't a great leap more difficult than the original, and once you do, you'll be glad to get a lot more use out of your windowsills, and hand over a lot less money at the grocery store every few weeks. It's not necessarily the most effective method of charging, but it's undeniably cool. (Original post)
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1. Sun jar garden light
The solar-powered outdoor lights they sell at your local garden/home improvement store can be subtle or original-looking—if you want to pay a premium. Otherwise, you're stuck with painted plastic and models that hold a pretty weak charge. The sun jars constructed by our own Jason, on the other hand, cost only about $11 each—less if you have jars or batteries on hand—and give off a pretty neat glow, powered entirely by solar energy from earlier that day.
What sun-powered projects are in your mental queue for some sunny weekend? What great solar hacks have you pulled off already? Tell us all about them in the comments.
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Must Have Gear for Successful Wilderness Survival
The wilderness is Mother Nature’s home. If a situation forces you to end up in the wilderness, you must try to conquer it.
If you can’t take an experienced survivalist with you, take the next thing – his stuff. There are a few things that will ensure successful wilderness survival. Let’s look at them.
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10 Things You Need For Wilderness Survival
These essential items should be able to keep you alive and comfortable. But stuffing everything you need in a small pack can be a daunting task.
However, with the right information and experience, you can make it. Just 10 essential things can allow you to actually survive in the wilderness for close to two months. Amazing right?
Well, here is our survival gear checklist of items you will need to survive in the wilderness.
This list is in no way exhaustive. Feel free to change or replace any item to suit your specific needs. What is sure is that you will know the most vital stuff to pack as you gain more experience. You can then adjust as you deem fit.
1. Survival Knife
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A survival knife or just any knife can prove life-saving in the wilderness. This item has so many applications in everyday camp activities as well as life in general.
The versatility of a knife is why many people (me included) carry a pocket knife on them for everyday use.
When it comes to survival, the ideal type of knife is a fixed blade. They tend to be more resilient and durable than folding knives.
It is because they lack any mechanical parts that move. Besides, they can cut tree branches and other large objects.
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2. Personal Water Filter or Water Purification System
Experts say a physiological human should drink about 8-ounce glasses of water a day. Given that over 70 percent of our body is water, going three days without hydration is a recipe for disaster.
Thus a critical skill to learn for wilderness survival is how to purify water. Along with this skill, you will need a water bottle or a hydration system.
A water bottle is great, but it may carry only limited water. This is not good if you are not sure how long the emergency will last. On the other hand, a personal water filter or purification system will help you make more clean water in the wilderness.
Again, it’s crucial to learn different water purification methods: they will save your life many times over.
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3. Raincoat or Rain Jacket
Staying dry might be the difference between being safe and being in danger. Rain jackets are light and easy to fit into your survival backpack: no reason to skip this one. Take a look at these raincoats and choose one for each member of the family.
If you want to be even better prepared, this one was designed for NASA and it has some extras: (a reusable waterproof thermal raincoat and 2 reusable extra large size authentic Mylar blankets).
4. Sunscreen or Sunblock
The summer heat can have serious effects on your skin. Thus sunburn is a real risk in the wilderness. Sunblock can be as simple as a lip balm with SPF. For instance, if you do not protect your lips from the scorching summer sun, it will burn and crust.
Pack some sunscreen to protect your body from sunburn in order to protect your skin. Do you know exposure to severe ultraviolet rays from the sun for a long time can cause skin cancer? Stay safe even when in the wilderness.
5. Cordage (Rope)
Rope or cordage is very important when you are in a survival situation.
The best cord, if you were to ask me is 550-parachute cord (paracord). It is one of the strongest cordages a survivor can ever get. Besides, it is very light and made to take the smallest space. You can simply wear it as a bracelet and pack an extra one for survival.
Cordage will help you hoist food to keep it out of reach of wild animals. You can also use it to build an emergency shelter or to make a splint for broken bones. An amazing property of 550- paracord is how it lengthens when wet. The property is great especially if you need a tight hold on a particular thing.
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6. Signaling Device
If you go camping and an emergency ensues, a signaling device would be invaluable. This is because establishing contact in the wilderness may prove futile. A cell phone with service is not a survival situation. Thus, you will need alternative signaling equipment.
A good signaling device is a flash from a signaling mirror. Such a signal can be seen from miles away by aircraft and catch the pilot’s attention. You can then get quick help out of danger.
It is better if you know how to flash S.O.S. Other great signaling devices are whistles, matches, and lighters.
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7. Shelter-Building Equipment and Materials
Shelter-building equipment can be as simple as a large garbage bag or a tarp. In a survival situation, you must get a safe place to shelter your body from the elements. Only then can you stay warmer and drier.
A simple way to build a shelter is to use a rope (or cordage), some tree branches, and a tarp. It will take you a very short time to build such a shelter.
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8. First Aid Kit
Injuries such as minor to moderate cuts can heal much faster with the help of a First Aid Kit. Any dangling skin or gushing blood can complicate things.
For instance, an open wound left for long can attract pathogenic agents. Such agents can cause nasty infections. A continuous gush of blood can lead to anemia due to blood loss.
However, you do not have to go for big, fully equipped first aid kits. Smaller first aid kits are available for survivalists.
At the very least, a good kit should have bandages, gauze, hand gloves, alcohol cleaning wipes, and OTC antibiotics. You can even improvise one to cut costs.
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9. Change of Clothing
At least one change of clothing is necessary for any survival situation. If the one you wear gets wet due to a downpour, it is important that it dries.
Severe moisture pulls a lot of heat from your body. This is because your body needs to focus the energy reserves on creating excess heat. Such heat is necessary to compensate for lost energy reserves.
As a result, you will experience fatigue and loss of brain performance. In other words, it makes you dopey and prone to mistakes that can cost you dearly in a survival scenario.
Wet socks and shoes will predispose you to fungal infections of the toes and nails. Besides, your feet will tend to slide around. The result is a painful blister.
You cannot beat around the bush to gather supplies. These are good reasons for you to include extra socks. Also, remember to buy only synthetic clothing. Cotton will maintain moisture for too long.
10. Camping Pack
Where will you carry the essential items for your wilderness survival if not a good camping pack? Or you intend to cram them in your pocket? Obviously, that’s not possible because doing so will impede the movement of your legs.
A camping pack can take more than the above 9 things you need to survive in the wilderness. It will allow you to carry other extras to make your survival more comfortable. Be careful not to pack too much as to impede your movement. Include those things you cannot do without first and other necessary items later.
Conclusion
I could make the list of wilderness survival gear longer, by adding two things that can save your life. The first is a friend. The second thing is your brain. They are not strictly items but they are vital if you were to make it out of a survival situation.
It is not possible to overemphasize the importance of an extra person. This way, you can keep each other from a hams way. Try to look for someone responsible and agile.
For instance, how would you survive with a broken leg if no one is near enough to help you out? Your own brain is important because you may need to make smart decisions in a split second.
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How to Start a Survival Garden: A Complete Guide
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If you want to start growing your own food and have a backyard that can be put to use, then you should start right away.
With the current situation of the economy, it wouldn’t hurt to become self-sufficient. We know that it is hard to grow your own food, but you will be thankful for it when the system collapses.
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Once you’ve grown your own food and have it in abundance, you’ll want to learn how you can store it to create an emergency food supply for your family.
A traditional garden requires prepping the soil every year and then planting the seeds, watering them, and weeding out the garden at least twice a week. You have to keep the pests from ruining the plants and take care of them.
After the economy collapses there will be a shortage of resources and gardeners will find it a challenge to garden since soil, fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides are going to become scarce.
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Managing Natural Nutrients for Your Survival Garden
No matter what you want to grow in your backyard, whether it’s in a container or a greenhouse, you have to supply the plant with the necessary nutrients. Plants need the right conditions to grow and there are certain minerals that they require.
Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and other photosynthesis-derived products are a few examples of the nutrition that plants require.
There are other minerals that are required by a plant that gardeners should provide. Every nutrient is essential to the plant’s health, regardless of the quantity it requires.
If a plant is not provided with proper nutrition, it will not grow to be a healthy plant. A good environment for the plant includes a combination of nutrients.
Once disaster strikes, do not expect to be able to run to the nearest DIY store and buy a bag of soil nutrients.
If you want to manage a prepper garden in a post-apocalyptic world, then you have to learn how to provide the right nutrients yourself.
Composting, vermicomposting and free-range poultry are three fantastic ways to provide the necessary nutrients needed to start your survival garden.
Composting
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To ensure your plants are healthy, make sure to always have a compost pile ready.
You can add organic material to the garden soil using compost. It increases the ability of the soil to hold moisture, battle diseases, and fight off pests. This will also help the plants survive through cold spells and droughts since it increases their immunity.
Traditionally, composting is the collection of carbon (brown material) and nitrogen (green material) in a bin that is two square feet. The carbon-containing materials that can be added include:
- newspaper
- paper towels
- dried corn stalks
- cardboard
- old leaves
- hay and straw
- some people even add the dead plants to their compost bins at the end of the spring season (just make sure you don’t add diseased plants to your compost pile).
Nitrogen can be obtained from:
- fresh lawn clippings
- manure droppings
- kitchen waste
Coffee filters contain magnesium and calcium, while eggshells have calcium. And banana are a source of potassium that is necessary for plant growth.
Tips for Compost Management:
- If the compost bin starts to smell, that means you have added too much green material or water to it
- If the compost is not getting hot enough, then there are too many brown materials in it
- Water should only be added once the compost gets hot or if it is too dry
- Animal manure can also be added to the compost
- The composting process can be sped up by flipping the heap with a shovel or pitchfork
Vermicomposting
https://www.shtfpreparedness.com/wp-...wormy-soil.jpgVermicomposting is the process of using worms to convert the organic compost waste into nutrient-rich black earth that is necessary for plant growth.
The process is also called worm castings, vermicast, worm humus, or worm manure. Research shows that the average U.S. household wastes almost a third of the food they purchase.
An eight-inch-deep and two-foot-square box can be used for vermicomposting. The box can be kept under the kitchen sink or even outside in the garden.
Once the worm bin is ready, bedding is required, which can be made using leaves, manure, newspaper, or unwaxed cardboard.
Once this step has been completed, you can add worms and then empty the kitchen waste in it every week to allow the worms to do the composting.
Tips for Vermicomposting:
- There are many different types of worm bins that can be constructed, depending on the requirements
- You should use wood to construct the bin
- Red earthworms are the best for composting since they reproduce quickly and can convert a large amount of organic waste into compost.
- The worm beds should not be kept in direct sunlight or they will dry out and harden.
- Worms can convert up to half their body weight into compost. New food should be added once the old one have been used up. Once the worms have settled in, they can convert their body weight in kitchen waste to compost every day.
- To prevent small rodents and insects from ruining the compost, use a closed bed and do not include meat scraps in the waste.
You can start the survival garden you need in a post-apocalyptic world with the help of the nutrient-rich soil that vermicomposting produces. It helps provide an essential mix of nutrients to the soil.
Free-Range Poultry
https://www.shtfpreparedness.com/wp-...02/chicken.jpgPoultry such as guinea fowl and chickens can be used to help garden and manage the soil. The bird droppings are great for developing the earth and providing the necessary nutrients.
Chickens usually go back to their coops at night and roam around the gardens during the daytime, which is why they are easy to manage.
Chickens also scratch the ground with their claws and get rid of any insects and pests that can be ruining your garden. You can let birds loose in the backyard and they will clean up the leftovers and also prepare the ground for planting.
A guinea fowl is a great way to keep the ticks under control and they can also alert the owners of any intruders on the property.
How to Start a Survival Garden—Methods of Gardening
As a survivalist, you must always be prepared for the time when things go south and you and your family will need to bug out.
In order to do that, many survival experts suggest tips for setting up a perfect bug out location.
And even if you decide on a great bug out site, you will still need to start a survival garden right alongside it. The presence of a steady food supply is necessary.
Your garden should not only house edible plants but also essential herbs. There are several aspects to consider when starting your own prepper garden.
The first question that arises when you start up a survival garden is: what method of gardening should you adopt? This greatly depends on the kind of land that you will use for your garden.
For example, if there is fertile, nutrient-filled soil present, you may not need to make any special arrangements for the garden.
However, if the soil is damaged permanently due to its chemical nature, climate, or any other reason, you must consider some alternatives.
Hydroponics
https://www.shtfpreparedness.com/wp-...02/e-cover.jpgA good substitute for natural soil is hydroponics. In this method, you do not need soil for growing plants.
Instead, you can stir up a mixture of water and certain chemicals. This gives you a nutrient-rich solution in which your plants can grow. This completely eliminates the need for soil.
Another advantage of this system of gardening is that you can easily control and monitor the type and quantity of nutrients that your survival garden plants receive.
This kind of environment is strictly man-made. It has been observed that plants that are grown hydroponically exhibit a higher rate of development than those grown in natural soil.
If you manage the nutrient levels in the water efficiently, the amount of waste produced can also be kept to a minimum. This will help you lessen the amount of pollution that is usually associated with hydroponic gardening.
The best part is that the water that enters the system once can often be reused. There is no need to replace it with fresh water very frequently.
Aquaponics
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Aquaponics is an even better option than hydroponics. It involves the use of cheaper nutrients that are obtained from fish feed instead of industrially manufactured chemicals.
The issue of toxicity of water is also eliminated. Also, the amount of nitrogen is balanced naturally. Aquaponic systems are also easier to maintain and monitor. They only require weekly or monthly checkups.
Research has also revealed that aquaponic plants show a better yield and quality than hydroponically-grown plants. The chances of plants getting infected by diseases are also much lower in aquaponic systems.
What to Plant to Start Your Survival Garden
The type of plants that you grow depends on your family’s needs. However, you must also consider what will grow in your climate without any difficulty.You need to observe the average temperature and rainfall level trends in your area before deciding. Once you have decided on the plants, you need to pick the type of seeds you will sow.
GMO Versus Non-GMO Seeds
The debate of GMO versus non-GMO seeds has been going on since the advent of genetic modification.
Both types of seeds have their own pros and cons. While genetically modified seeds bear better-looking fruit, this should not be your main concern when setting up a prepper garden.
Pretty fruit is of no use when you are dependent on it for your survival. The nutritional value of your plants is a far more important factor. A healthier fruit can be obtained from seeds that have not been genetically modified.
Many experts in the field have also revealed that the produce from genetically modified seeds reduces every year. On the other hand, you can save a higher number of seeds every year from plants that are non-GMO.
Seeds that are obtained from organic plants or plants which have not been exposed to artificial pest control are also highly recommended.
You can easily buy organic seeds from small-scale farmers or people who have their own family gardens. Hybrid seeds are also preferred. These are often thought to be GMO, but they can also be obtained from naturally cross-pollinated plants.
Make sure that you do not choose plants that inhibit each other’s growth. For example, if you pick broccoli and tomato for your garden, make sure you place them far apart since broccoli hinders the growth of tomatoes.
System of Irrigation
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It is also recommended to locate your prepper garden near a tap or water source so that you can connect a hosepipe to it if needed.
The method you use for supplying water to your plants is also critical. When using off-grid irrigation methods, there may also be some legal issues that you need to take care of.
The easiest and simplest way to provide water to your plants is by using rainwater. You can easily collect rainwater by placing basins or large containers under the roofs of your house or garden.
Since this water will not be used for human consumption, there is no need to bother with the filtration process. You can supply this water directly to your plants.
However, in some climates, it does not rain very often or very heavily. Therefore, it would be impossible to rely entirely on rainwater in such climates.
In this case, you can use greywater instead. This includes all the used water that is produced as waste in your house. Toilet water is not a viable option; therefore, it is excluded.
You can collect the water draining out of your house by preventing it from flowing into the gutters. Instead, you can divert the route of the drainage pipes and let the water flow out into a different location.
This can act as your collection point from where you can lead the water to the location of your garden.
Pest Control
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However, when times are difficult, there may be a restricted supply of resources. You must, therefore, rely on natural means of protection for your plants.
One way to do that is companion planting. This is when you place your plants in such a manner that they mutually benefit from each other.
For example, you can grow carrots next to your plant in order to get rid of caterpillars. This will be beneficial because carrots grow flowers that attract wasps.
Wasps are known for hunting down caterpillars. Another natural pest control method is using homemade chemicals.
For example, in order to protect your plants from fungal diseases, you can spray them with a mixture of baking soda and water. This is a very effective form of defense against fungus in plants.
Unique Ways to Start a Survival Garden No Matter Where You Live
If you are growing grass in your garden, then it’s not going to help you in a crisis situation and isn’t going to benefit you in any way.
Whereas, a survival garden is one that is designed to offer enough vegetable crops, to allow you and your family to survive for an indefinite amount of time.
No one is certain about the economic situation in any country and it can deteriorate at any time. Therefore, having a well thought out and planned prepper garden design will save you from chaos.
Sustainable gardening is not just a trend, but a way of life. So, in planning a sustainable prepper garden, there are few rules you should follow.
Forget About the Conventional Way of Gardening
The first thing is to grow plants in garden beds rather than in rows. Growing plants in a garden bed enable better use of limited space. It allows you to separate your garden into smaller portions and do gardening in various places around your land.
Keep the observable food plants away, like behind the barn or hidden in the woods so that people can’t view them from the road. This way, you can make your prepper garden area more productive.
Also, the other benefit is it allows you to plant on several locations instead of a single location. Therefore, if one location gets taken or destroyed, then you and your family members would be able to get your food supply from alternative sources.
Adopt the Camouflage Technique
Your survival garden design needs a camouflage tactic. There are various ways to camouflage your prepper garden to protect it from intruders that may happen upon it.
In any SHTF situation, once other people’s food runs out, they are most certainly going to be looking for yours. Thus, a camouflage method will help you to protect your prepper garden, without being an obvious target for people.
Camouflage Netting
You can use some camouflage netting such as the intermingling of plants in such a way that people will not able to identify that you are growing crops in there. Camouflage netting is used to disguise your food plants as well as the greenhouse from sight.
You can grow many plants of medicinal and nutritional benefits in a natural landscaping manner to shield them from any offender.
Bushes, ferns, hedges, flowers, vines, trees, or ivy all act as a natural physical barrier to your survival garden. You can plant goldenrod around your land or near the road to keep people away due to its ability to cause allergies.
Also, use the deadliest plants or thorny bushes in your survival garden to make it tough for intruders to pick away the food.
You can also use other unpleasant plants like poison ivy or stinging nettles to stop intruders from penetrating into your prepper garden.
Additionally, you can consider defensive plants such as Lisbon-lemon (with large green thorns) or varieties that contain plenty of spine branches such as Gooseberry, Choisya Trifoliate, or Japanese Barberry.
Edible Landscaping
https://www.shtfpreparedness.com/wp-...pe-berries.jpgBushes, trees, and ground cover all work together to provide edible landscaping. This is also one of the methods to hide your food from the sight of others.
For this purpose, you should consider planting edible perennial herbs around your land. You can incorporate those plants in your survival garden that are not easily detectable as food.
Some examples are:
Prickly Pear
An edible cactus fruit that has many medicinal benefits as well as high in nutritional value.
‘Scarlet Emperor’ Runner Bean
The Scarlet Emperor is known to attract bees and hummingbirds due to their appealing look. But, you need to cook them to eat their pods and beans.
Siberian Pea
You can also consider growing peas when you start your survival garden. Siberian Pea shrubs are known to grow in a wide range of conditions.
And, they are able to fix nitrogen in the soil and thus increase its availability to other plants. They also help bring beneficial insects and are edible too for people as well as livestock.
Day Lillies
Disease-tolerant Day Lilies are very easy to grow. This food crop is not only edible but also tastes so spectacular. Their root tubers and florae are edible in nature.
Garden Sorrel
Garden sorrel or spinach dock, a look-alike to spinach, is a dense form of nutrients. While making soup and stews in your kitchen, you can use this from your survival garden to give your meal a tantalizing flavor.
Berries
You can also consider other kinds of edibles such as Serviceberries, Aronia Berries, Booseberries, and Currants.
Introduce Edible Weeds
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This weed can treat many diseases: from kidney disease to heartburn and appendicitis. Every part of this weed is edible from its roots to the blossoms. You can use its leaves while making sandwiches and its roots are good to make an herbal tea.
Your Survival Garden Could Be a “Food Forest”
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Even though your survival garden is beautiful and helps in maintaining ecology and the whole planet, its main purpose is to sustain you and your family. Growing a food forest doesn’t just limit you to food, but it can be used to create medicines as well.
It’s a style of gardening that mimics a natural forest environment. Requiring many stages, growing a food forest implies selecting and preparing the land, the actual plantation, and constant maintenance
Usually, food forests are centered around one medium or large-sized fruit tree. In temperate climates, it might be an apple or a nut tree. You can use avocado and lime trees as focal trees too.
Around the avocado tree, you need to include a great diversity of different plants that not only help avocado to grow but will also yield you some glorious foods.
The way these plants help avocado (or the focal tree) to grow is by producing organic matter to the soil and by providing a habitat that is beneficial for insects and animals.
It also prevents weeds from growing and maintains the humidity level of the soil. All together, this system works.
Year after year, you will get a successful result in the form of fruits as your reward. You need to re-plant every year for the first few years until the system gets established.
Companion Planting
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We all know that some plants hurt each other while others help each other. This is historically being called “Companion Planting”.
Some examples of plants that chemically alter their environment are legumes. Lupines, peas, beans, etc. take nitrogen from the air and then put it into the soil.
They act as fertilizer for other green plants. So, for beans and peas, the companion planting would be green varieties such as kale, lettuce, and spinach.
Allium family is a family of plants that includes onions and garlic. These types of plants are great because they repel or distract many pests including rabbits and mice, from chewing the bark and damaging the trees.
You can leverage this by doing inter-cropping. So, avoid planting all the same variety in one place, and instead plant in companion groups.
In Conclusion
We live in a very fragile society and we need to be prepared in case of any disruption. Bottom line, we need to be more self-reliant. There is surely a need to grow your own food for yourself and your family.
Being a prepper and starting a survival garden means you are preparing yourself for any kind of crisis that could occur. Survival gardening is all about sensible preparation for food in the event of a collapse of the global food supply.
You will hopefully have all the information you need to start a survival garden. Once you have made your choice wisely, your garden will be ready to grow, thrive, and provide you with the fruit of your labor.
Make sure you monitor your garden carefully and regularly if you want to reap long-term benefits from it.
Since food is a valuable asset in bad times, it may attract unwanted attention or even put your life in danger. That is why it is also important to keep your garden secure, secret, and, above all, hidden.
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What if I told you about a garden that needs no digging, no watering, and no weeding AND it can grow in the most extreme places on earth?
This type of “food forest” grows on auto-pilot with minimal energy because it mimics how nature works. No one is watering the woods, yet every plant has managed to survive for thousands of years there.
Start your very own survival garden that’s 100% concealed from prying eyes and stay well-fed in case of any kind of long-term disaster.
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How to Make a Forge and Start Hammering Metal
If SHTF and the world went to pot, having skills will definitely help you out in the world of barter and survival.
Blacksmithing is one of the oldest still used skill s there is and it’s sad to say that not many of us actually know how to do it.
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All you need is a forge, a hammer, and something flat and heavy to hammer your metal. This tutorial over at popular-mechanics shows you how to build a forge from items you may have lying around or could easily find on Craigslist for cheap.
They also show you how to fire the coal and have some basic metal skills you will need to know like bending, twisting, upsetting, flattening, and choosing the right steel.
Remember this will be a very valuable skill to know for a barter trade world. With blacksmithing knowledge, you could make weapons and fix metal for people that may have food and water.
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COMMON SENSE DISCLAIMER: This mini heater can easily reach 300F in a very short period of time, like ANY emergency heat source, it is inadvisable to leave it unattended in a room with children or pets.
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Now that we got the common sense disclaimer out of the way, check this out! This simple heat source would work fantastic in a small greenhouse to keep the chill off plants overnight! Follow the directions carefully, do not substitute items, do not use LARGER candles or votive candles.
Do not use a glass loaf pan or an aluminum foil loaf pan.
DIY Flower Pot Heater
You’ll Need:
2 Un-Glazed Terra Cotta (Clay) Flowerpots
a metal loaf pan
4 tealight candles– unscented, 4 hour burn time
a cooling rack (like you use when you bake cookies, seriously)
a couple of basic landscaping bricks (optional, but HIGHLY recommended, and btw- these are not fire bricks.)
a nickel or a small piece of tinfoil
When I first met a fellow who made one of these, he made me nervous. He balanced the clay pots on the loaf pan, which seriously made me wonder how he dared to leave it in his house at all. So, I’ve revamped the directions I’ve seen to make this topple proof.
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First, place the tea lights in the loaf pan and light them. Place a brick on either side of the loaf pan.
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Set the cooling rack on top of the bricks. This is to provide stability so the pots won’t tip over
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Place the Smaller Clay pot upside down on the cooling rack, directly over the lit candles in the loaf pan.
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Place a Nickel over the hole on the bottom of the plant pot to completely cover it. Failure to do so will result in very little heat. Alternatively, you could use a piece of aluminum foil to cover the hole.
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Place the Large plant pot Over the small plant pot, creating a Heat Hut.
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Here’s what the temperature looked like in 3 minutes:
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at 5 Minutes:
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at 10 minutes:
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after 35 minutes: it has reached full heat. At this point, you should NOT attempt to touch the plant pots with your bare hands as you will get badly burned.
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Depending on the brand of your candles, they should continue to burn for about 3 hours.
To replace the candles simply slide out the loaf pan, replace the spent tealight with a new Lit tealight and return it to the spot beneath the pots.
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Some Notes: While this does generate quite a bit of heat, this is obviously NOT going to heat a 2500 square foot house. You can, however, use 2 of these setups to keep a 10×12 room fairly comfortable if you light it as soon as the power goes out and avoid opening and closing doors, etc.
Common Sense- Shouldn’t have to say it but we will:
- DO NOT Use Larger Candles, the tea lights are more than sufficient. Use of larger candles COULD result in the pot overheating and cracking
- Do not use more than 4 candles at a time (see above)
- Do not “Balance” the Pots on the Loaf Pan – use a cooling rack for stability
- Do Not Use Scented Candles- Seriously, you’ll just get a massive headache from them.
- Make sure the Terra Cotta pot is UNGLAZED – otherwise it will give off fumes (imagine that!)
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