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wow, what happened to the forum? I’m looking around and its about dead silent around here. Folks done given up on becoming more self reliant or what?

That’s why I went the way I went Ice. The more “items” one can create for themselves without having to rely on any sort of commercial purchase, the better. That’s the whole point of it all. The garden, learning to seed save, cloning plants, raising critters, learning to butcher, learning to render the fats for soap. Learning to turn wood ash…[Read more]

Actually, most of the dazeys you find now are reproductions and why spend the money for something you really don’t need. Why is it so hard to believe that all you need to make butter is a canning jar?

Yes Rabid, that will work for the cream in small amounts unless you’ve got that huge one (wish I could find a bigun myself). Ice cream ball, never seen that one but it should work. Just let the cream warm to room temperature ( around 70F) and it will turn into butter almost instantly.

@loftisindustries wrote:

for a butter churn try a hand mixer (the old hand crank one found in a number of places ross, target, second hand ect), as far as a milk separator start with a linen cloth (most cloth napkins are made from this for reference) set it in a strainer set the strainer over a bowl, make sure the milk is chilled (helps the fat…

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One thing I’ve noticed over the years making soap- the cheaper quality the olive oil, the better the bubbles. Virgin olive oil is nice(expensive too) but the bubbles from it are a bit weak. Not that it doesnt clean your skin just as well tho.

LOL, when you’re ready, I give cheese making classes. But seriously, cheese making is an art, it doesn’t work like baking a cake so as long as you realize that the recipe is just a guideline, you’ll get it figured out!

Time for talkin is over, I got my local preppers meet up coming out to the farm next weekend so we can do some hands on stuff…[Read more]

D Loki, havent seen you in a while. Your statement on AP flour is a bit deceptive and not necessarily correct. AP flour makes perfectly good bread, even 5 yr old, generic AP flour that’s been sitting in a bucket without an O2 absorber. I have taught plenty of people in the past 3 years how to make themselves bread and every time have used…[Read more]

I tried the full spectrum lights too and they did not impress me. I get better growth from south facing windows. Of course you have to turn the plants so they grow straight but that’s hardly a big thing.

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