Monday, December 23, 2024

Tag: self sufficiency

Sweet and spicy beef jerky recipe

Here's a beef jerky recipe I like to use, a little heat and a little sweet. We normally use hanging tenders but we had received a case of flank steak by accident, by the...

Square Foot Garden : How to prepare your beds for planting

We decided to get our Square Foot Garden ready for planting yesterday, we figured better sooner than later.  A couple of weeks ago my wife and I had set up a cheap cold frame...

An Easy Way To Make Pineapple Wine

We are big fans of pineapple and pineapple wine. If there was only one fruit I could eat everyday; it would be pineapple. One afternoon I decided to dehydrate some; so I went to...

Our Earth Sheltered Greenhouse

Here is how we built a earth sheltered greenhouse. After our fiasco with our pit greenhouse my wife and I were looking for a plan B. My wife's father had spent several weeks with...

Our Little Solar Cabin Project

We had built a little solar cabin for our father and I decided to make it "off the grid". Since our long term goal is to take our house off the grid, it would...