This was what got me thinking about all this Self Reliance stuff in the first place. I have very fond memories of my grandmother coming over with her canning supplies, jars, lids, and her favorites to can, peaches, grapes, green beans, and more. The afternoons that we sat and snapped green beans, or got the [...]
Not everyone is going to be able to have an Aquaponics System working for them. In fact, even for those who have a robust system of Fish and grow medium cycling working for them, we at ThatAquaponicsGuy recommend you also have permaculture environments designed for those plants, bushes, and trees that cannot be done well [...]
Yes, Reclaim Your Food Independence Today! Over the last four decades, we as Americans have been conditioned to a point of haplessly giving away our Food Independence How dare you say? Let me clarify... over the course of those decades, we have little by little stopped doing those things that kept us less reliant on [...]
Home Canned Foods – When you can your own food production its shelf life depends on the type of food that you can. According to the USDA An important point for those who are looking to be more self-reliant is to build their food storage stores. And a huge part of that is the [...]
Long-Lasting Recipes from Grandma Now my Grandma Collins was a prolific cook. And a few of those recipes are found here. But I have also gathered other recipes from the past that other grandmas have passed along. They are not fancy. But, most of them also don’t require hard to obtain and expensive ingredients either. [...]
[Original Article can be found here] From the State of Virginia When the summer harvest comes in, Rachel Hamman typically cans tomatoes, tomato juice, green beans, and sweet relish. She’s been canning for 25 years and some years have even canned deer meat. “With the canning process and the seasoning I use, it makes the deer [...]
Many of us have seen the green grass, the rose bushes and the trees with their nuts or pine cones laying about in the ideal backyard. For those of us Sub-Urbian Farmers who have one, we spend a lot of time mowing, trimming and cultivating what has been set as the American ideal backyard. What we [...]
Sugar cane is hard to grow even in those climates it does. And if you aren't in a tropical area where the rain and soil content are conducive to sugar cane, there isn't anything you can do to get that sweet taste of sunshine. Save that you get a Stevia plant. Yes, stevia is [...]
Yeah, some of the bark-eaters out here have long patted themselves on the back with the idea of recycling of plastics and glass. And although we can't use either of those readily to grow our wonderful and bountiful harvests, the natural form of these plants we cultivate is one of recycling. When you see that the [...]
Any aquaponics system starts with a good seedling. As you probably know growing in the expanded shale or lava rock is hard for a poor little seed to do, you need to first get them started in some seedling beds by doing the below number of actions. Make sure the place you are keeping the [...]
