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• Q and A: Brooding chicks off-grid and pickled okra

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Brooding chicks off-grid Years ago I raised lots of day-old chicks using a heat lamp to brood them. I want to get back to poultry now that I am retired but my homestead is off grid. Any Ideas other than running the generator many hours and charging batteries to provide heat during the night. Solar is in the future ...
  6 hours ago

• Q and A: Garden seeds and acorn bread

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Garden seeds I have a question about your garden seeds. I’m trying to have almost everything heirloom, but it’s almost impossible isn’t it if you don’t want your squash, cucumbers and other plants to cross pollinate? Do you plant some hybrids for this reason? Also do hybrids store better in a root cellar ...
  1 day ago

• Q and A: Baking mixes, storing dry pasta, and root cellar

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Baking mixes After looking at the Bisquick type recipes in your new book am wondering, other than shelf life, is there any difference in how these mixes work? Shortening compared to dehydrated shortening. Betty Anderson Berryville, Arkansas No differences other than possibly having to add a bit more liquid ...
  2 days ago

• Q and A: Preserving juice, growing tomatoes, and preserving by confiting

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Preserving juice What would be the best way to preserve juice in wine/sparkling cider bottles? I’ve been a winemaker for several years, and would like to be able to make non-alcoholic juices to share with my non-drinking friends. I’m assuming it would have to be processed in a water bath. Would pop bottle crown ...
  3 days ago

• Quick Fix: Homemade Mayonnaise

  
  Granny Sue's News and Reviews — Authority: 109
  Its one of those days when you seem to be out of everything you need. Like mayo. Chances are, though, that you have everything you need to make it right in your cabinet. When I was a new housewife, lo those many years ago (about 40 or so, to be more precise) I found the recipe for mayonnaise on the side of a can of ...
  5 days ago

• Q and A: Rendering lard, canning recipe for the fair, and canning hominy

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Rendering lard I have searched your site and the internet, but cannot find an answer to my question. I have a side of pork belly I want to render for lard. It has quite a bit of meat interlaced through it (just like bacon, of course), so do I need to try to cut out the meat and only use the fat or do I cut the ...
  1 week ago

• Q and A: Making corned beef and preserving potatoes

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Making corned beef We are butchering our beef in a few weeks and I would like to make corned beef from the brisket using your recipe from the book Recession Proof Your Pantry . My question is, can I use a plastic bucket with an airtight lid instead of a crock? (I don’t have a crock.) And can you tell me what the ...
  1 week ago

• I will be speaking at the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Conference

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  This great event will be held at Aberdeen, South Dakota, January 27th and 28th at the Ramkota Inn. On Friday, I’ll be speaking on backyard fruit production. Saturday will be a full one for me, as I’ll be speaking on canning meat, meals-in-a-jars, and then, later on, herbs. I’d love to meet you there! Here’s ...
  1 week ago

• Q and A: Highbush cranberries and butchering a goat

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Highbush cranberries Have you ever experimented with ‘Highbush’ cranberries? I have several of these large shrubs in my yard and every autumn, they are loaded with gorgeous clusters of berries. Even though they don’t smell very nice, there must be some use for this fruit other than feeding the birds. If they ...
  1 week ago

• hedging window closes

  
  colour it green diary — Authority: 103
  Since Autumn we have been hedging in earnest.  And we are not talking a bit of clipping here, but small tree felling.  The hedges had been let go for some years before we came here, and we are slowly working our way around, cutting out the overgrown trees, laying the smaller stuff, and trying to get the hedge ...
  1 week ago

• Self-sufficient heating - my reality

  
  The (d)evolutionary — Authority: 98
  Once again I find myself at a crisis point when it comes to wood for the burners. In our first winter it was understandable. We’d moved onto the land in July, didn’t have a woodburner until December and I then spent my time finding dead-standing wood that was dry enough to burn straight away. For one reason or ...
  1 week ago

• Q and A: Cloudy canned fruit juice and My canned soup smells like kraut!

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Cloudy canned fruit juice A few years ago I canned several kinds of fruit juice to use to make jelly. Now the juice has become cloudy. I know I should not have waited so long to use the juice. I would like to know if it is still ok to use the juice for jelly? Is there any way I can get the juice clear again? ...
  1 week ago

• Ten low-tech gadgets

  
  Off-Grid - life unplugged: solar, wind, hydro, architecture, smallholdings, free stuff — Authority: 414
  Base camp for gadgets The yearly International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), has seen off another round of headlines about lust-inducing gadgets soon to be on store shelves. Some survival gadgets are on display at CES, and a handful of them are surveyed in this report from outdoor website Gear Junkie. I love a ...
  1 week ago

• Q and A: Homestead water and Re-canning from #10 cans

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Homestead water My husband and I are looking for retirement property. Somewhat of a survival retreat for now then converting to a homestead when we retire. We of course are concerned first and foremost with water. What is the recommended gpm for a family of 4? Do we need a separate water source for critters and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Knitting: ETTA again…

  
  Sticks and Stones — Authority: 101
  Here is the latest gift knitting that I began a few days ago – ETTA again!  This one needs to be posted by next Friday which is not a guarantee considering my other SIL’s gift has been knitted for over a month and I have forgotten to post it to make it by her birthday (I do have a very good excuse but ...
  2 weeks ago

• Q and A: Canning soup with meat and canning sauce for pork and beans

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Canning soup with meat Is it possible to can vegetable soup with ground beef or beef stew meat added? Also can beef stew be canned? Amanda Fondren Columbus, Mississippi Yes, provided that you process your pint jars for 75 minutes and quarts for 90 minutes at 10 pounds pressure. If you live at an altitude ...
  2 weeks ago

• Q and A: Wood-fired stock tank heater and pickled quail eggs

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  Wood-fired stock tank heater I love the wood fired stock tank heater, and I hope you write up a more detailed article about it for the magazine. How long do you leave the heater in the tank? How do you get the fire going? I am so tired of hauling water down to the critters while the big tank is just a huge ice ...
  2 weeks ago

• sowing, planting and harvesting w/e 13/1

  
  colour it green diary — Authority: 103
  harvesting : leeks savoy cabbage PSB
  2 weeks ago

• Gardening – Wasting Time On Vegie Garden Planning….

  
  Sticks and Stones — Authority: 101
  Two days ago I sat down to do a vegie patch plan after looking at Kellysveg and getting inspired to be organised.  It was the biggest waste of time but did give me some ideas for the next month or two.  I pulled out my books and started to make a list of the vegies due to go in during February and March.  Drew up ...
  2 weeks ago

• We’re bartering breeding services

  
  Ask Jackie — Authority: 109
  For our pigs, that is! We have two gilts that need to be bred and we have no boar. Friends of ours, Tiffany and her husband, Nate, had a boar they could spare but needed their three goats bred. So we traded breeding services and we brought all the animals home. Two of their goats are in with our Boer buck, Thor, and ...
  2 weeks ago

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